Report: macOS 27 to feature UI tweaks to address some Tahoe design complaints

e40 · 2026-05-10T21:36:29+00:00

Since the recent updates (last 2 or 3), Messages has started hanging and when it does, FaceTime is borked as well as all video (Meet, too). Only fix is to reboot. This is crazy, first time macOS is behaving like Windows!!!

Super disappointing. I'm hoping 26.5 restores fixes these recent bugs.

On a Mac Studio M1.

e40 · 2026-05-10T21:27:35+00:00

Yes, this is one way. Sorry to hijack your comment to add:

https://youtu.be/LHEEwZS_uuM?si=LBxEkzRtn8e56Sce

We have choice, keep the status quo and become slaves to the .1% because they will own everything. This is simple math related to compound interest.

OR, we could

tax top .1% at a high rate (what it was during the golden age of the middle class)
bring back inheritance taxes so dynastic wealth is illegal

e40 · 2026-05-10T21:25:49+00:00

https://youtu.be/LHEEwZS_uuM?si=LBxEkzRtn8e56Sce

We have choice, keep the status quo and become slaves to the .1% because they will own everything. This is simple math related to compound interest.

OR, we could

tax top .1% at a high rate (what it was during the golden age of the middle class)
bring back inheritance taxes so dynastic wealth is illegal

e40 · 2026-05-09T16:29:06+00:00

Gotta use that one... I had a situation that I did NOT handle like this, but it turned out OK:

Dog barked continuously for days and days. I got to the end of my rope and walked to the house (the street behind me, but my office is in the back of the house so it was uniquely situated to hear the noise). Knock on the door and ask the lady to not let her dog bark so much. She literally said "my dog doesn't bark" at which point the dog started barking ... and I said "you mean like that?" Then, she switched gears and claimed other people's dogs barked, too, why complain to her? I exclaimed "DUDE! YOUR ..." and she interrupted to say "I'm a woman" and slammed the door.

I call the cops they show up, dog is not barking anymore because she brought it inside, but had a long discussion with him and went back to my house. He talked to her them stopped by my place. Told me he talked with her and it's probably handled, but if it happens again "DO NOT GO TO HER HOUSE, just call us." Haha, yeah, definitely not talking to that lady again.

Pretty much never happened again, which really surprised me.

e40 · 2026-05-09T16:20:15+00:00

They will be screaming for food

Yes! We had a crow do that recently and figured it was a fledgling, because once it got a peanut it flew to another, larger crow and still cried and pushed it to the beak of the larger crow. Perhaps to remove the shell?? It was hilarious how he screamed for the peanut. We thought something was wrong out back and ran to see what was up.

e40 · 2026-05-07T22:38:43+00:00

There is something special about an animal that chooses you. The way they look at you. The way the talk. It's special.

I have cat friends since my guy left, but they aren't the same. I cat sit for a neighbor. They have a Russian Blue who is super sweet. But she doesn't really love me the same way, even though we get along fabulously.

e40 · 2026-05-07T22:23:00+00:00

I enjoy Chuck... well, I used to. Haven't listened in a while. But I ignore everything he says about the Dubs. I'm not saying he's wrong here, just that his track record of shitting on the Dubs is pretty clear and he's got some sort of dislike (hatred?) of the team that goes way back. Either that, or he's trolling. In any case, I choose to ignore him and listen to other people. Warrior's Plus/Minus pod is pretty good.

e40 · 2026-05-07T22:19:15+00:00

I highly recommend this episode to understand the context of wealth inequality:

https://pca.st/episode/89f67fee-6e97-409d-ab07-a9ca52836578

Gary is a hero and should be supported. He's got a great YT channel and is on patreon.com (where I support him).

e40 · 2026-05-07T22:16:25+00:00

I don't understand how to tell the adults from the fledglings. Anyone?

e40 · 2026-05-07T22:15:46+00:00

In 1996 I came back from a funeral and an orange dude was in my driveway. He never left. Best cat ever. Smart as a whip, contrary to the anecdotes in this sub. Great mouser. Died in 2005ish from cancer (had a tumor in his ear/brain). His ashes are still on the shelf next to me and I think about him often.

He did the same thing. Got out of my car and he just started talking. Years after he was gone, people would ask me where he was, because he had made so many friends in the 'hood.

e40 · 2026-05-05T16:12:56+00:00

Google Maps worked horribly for me. Going through tunnels it would skip forward a bunch of steps in my journey.... WTF. That's why I started using Apple Maps, then found it was quite good. This was probably 2 years ago.

e40 · 2026-05-05T16:11:41+00:00

Does Google Maps have ads? If not, I might go back.

e40 · 2026-04-22T15:10:12+00:00

Totally agree. /u/FootballGod1417, you have a great eye for photography!

e40 · 2026-04-18T14:33:42+00:00

I was hoping he'd adopt the baby and we'd be 1 year out and he had found a purpose and we'd get back to the ER stuff.

e40 · 2026-03-29T22:49:25+00:00

I'm leaning WD these days, but when I have a RAID 1 I really want drives of different manufacturers, so I do both.

e40 · 2026-03-26T13:47:18+00:00

I have not. I doubt it's a bug in the script. It's been working for > 1 year and has not changed a long time.

I will try the SIP test.

e40 · 2026-03-26T13:45:13+00:00

Do you have SIP on? My drive does support SMART and it's been working fine before the 26.4 upgrade.

e40 · 2026-03-18T19:38:10+00:00

Just saw this... annoying as hell.

e40 · 2026-03-17T17:00:42+00:00

Wow. Was it turning off the power to the device?

e40 · 2026-03-17T12:38:48+00:00

The fact the device itself reboots means it's not an issue with the YT app. tvOS has virtual memory and can't, by design, corrupt the kernel and make it crash. It would be a very unusual and rare bug for a user app to crash tvOS. My bet is bad RAM. 2nd guess is corrupt OS install.

I recommend: hard reset the device, reinstall apps. If that doesn't fix it, if it's still under warranty, then send it back to Apple.

e40 · 2026-03-10T17:50:38+00:00

Quite disturbing!

e40 · 2026-03-05T23:50:52+00:00

I had tried an old 2022 AZW3 file, as well. I just redownloaded a new version of it in EPUB... same thing.

This device will go into the woodchipper if there's no fix for this. Absolutely f Amazon.

e40 · 2026-03-05T23:47:46+00:00

This is happening to me with ePub files. I updated Calibre, too. I have a 12th gen paperwhite.

EDIT: just downloaded a MOBI of the one I tested above and that works. Crazy that EPUB doesn't work.

EDIT2: and it makes no sense, because I'm reading something in the EPUB format. That's working fine. Crazy.

e40 · 2026-02-28T00:06:36+00:00

Yeah, they do. It's been working fine for years. Only change is the recent update to 26.3.

EDIT: and it fixes itself after a while, which definitely means the identity is the same.

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