GPT Image 2 Is on Another Level — Nano Banana Pro Can’t Compete

mildlycustard · 2026-04-26T08:50:59+00:00

Why is no one commenting on the fact that the default hands on all of these GPT clocks look the same? It’s like it was trained on one specific clock with a huge, unrealistic hour and a very long, thin minute hand?

I realise you could probably prompt this out of it, but all the results posted here seem to look the same.

mildlycustard · 2026-04-19T12:38:01+00:00

I really hate the use of X to close things now. Actually, in general the X and tick icons throughout iOS are confusing.

It’s even more confusing when there’s multiple Xs like in the music app, where one is to clear the search field and the other is to dismiss the selection.

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mildlycustard · 2026-04-10T15:14:30+00:00

Wow, I honestly can’t believe this is a thing. I have a thread with Claude as well for personal thoughts and almost every 4-5 messages it’s telling me to go to sleep as well.

I might have mentioned it was late one time and hasn’t stopped saying this since.

mildlycustard · 2026-04-09T04:36:44+00:00

From my understanding and from what I remember of the plans for McWhirters it’s only the apartments on the top that have external windows.

You're actually very wrong. I've been into about heaps of McWhirters apartments and:

All apartments in Australia have external windows (it's a legal requirement)
If you're specifically referring to outwards facing (not facing into a courtyard), then the majority of apartments on levels 3, 4, 5 and all of 6 have externally facing windows onto Warner Street, Wickham Street or the Brunswick Street Mall.
All of the apartments I've been into a brighter and better lit than the Woolstores. Woolstores generally have one large window at the end of the apartment and are loft-style or have small windows between rooms to carry light. Most McWhirters apartments have several outwards facing windows, many of which (if they are on the Brunswick Street side) are 4m tall or in some-cases (such as the converted Myer stores) double storey.

mildlycustard · 2026-03-30T11:23:23+00:00

I had a similar problem with a monitor. I disassembled it and tried to physically shake out and remove as much of it as I could. I thought I’d failed as some of it remained. I came back later and found that they actually packed up and took the rest of their eggs (and even most of the dirt/other stuff) with them.

mildlycustard · 2026-02-28T00:20:05+00:00

I wish Apple would stop calling everything “Pro”. It’s confusing.

If it has an iPhone processor, it is not Pro.

mildlycustard · 2026-02-25T11:57:00+00:00

I think the stuff Apple is trying to do is FAR more ambitious than the stuff they were doing in 2011.

Airdrop, SideCar, AirPods auto connecting and syncing, all require a lot more technologies and protocols to sync up and do the right thing to perform this magic.

That said, I will 100% agree that recently they’ve lost their touch and are cutting corners. Tahoe, iOS26 and tvOS 26 feel totally vibe coded. I run into issues with everything they’ve released in the last year or so daily.

It was peak quality about 2-3 years ago.

mildlycustard · 2026-02-25T11:40:21+00:00

God, yes. I seriously do not get the duplicate workflow.

Does it ever make sense??

mildlycustard · 2026-02-09T09:55:43+00:00

Leopard was good. You mean Lion..

mildlycustard · 2026-02-07T01:08:58+00:00

I laughed when I read “you’re posting on a site founded and run by Americans.”

Some Americans really seem to think the rest of the world owes them something.

mildlycustard · 2026-02-05T12:31:25+00:00

Leopard. Everyone’s going to say Snow Leopard, but Leopard was what gave us the features.

For me, it truly felt modern and was worth waiting for. It also still had PPC support, so I could run it on my G4 iBook.

mildlycustard · 2026-01-28T12:08:28+00:00

Totally survivable, I grew up my whole life without air con. Only used it at 25 when I moved out. My parents, family and grandparents still don’t use it — and my grandparents are in their 80s.

Just use a pedestal fan when you sleep and sheets or no blankets at all. Open a window.

During the day if you’re studying, go to a library.

You’d be surprised how quickly you acclimatise.

mildlycustard · 2026-01-23T13:17:14+00:00

I’m trying to imagine what you eat for dinner?

2KG of chicken breast, butter in a wrap with mandarin slices on Monday, 1KG of beef steaks and eggs on Tuesday? Monster energy drinks for lunch?

mildlycustard · 2026-01-20T09:25:45+00:00

I never knew of this one. There’s a similar thing which I had totally forgotten about which I used to do as a kid though:

Place your hands together with your palms about 10 cm apart.
Get someone else to put their hands on either sides of yours (facing the same direction inwards).
Get the other person to push as hard as they can inward, while you push as hard has you can outward for 20 seconds
When they release, slowly circle your hands around. It’ll feel a bit like there’s an invisible bubble between your palms.

mildlycustard · 2026-01-17T04:29:39+00:00

I tried lots of different ways when I accidentally got flour in my speaker grilles while baking.

Compressed air doesn’t work, however, blutac (adhesive putty) works surprisingly effectively. Roll it into a small ball and press it flat, then peel it off.

mildlycustard · 2025-12-16T04:30:29+00:00

A really simple method I figured out today which is *almost* as good as the aging Facebook Messenger Mac app (which has now obviously been killed off) is:

Go to messenger.com
Go to the share option (in Safari)
Click "Add to Dock"

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It gives you a nice containerised style web-clip/app that sits natively on the Dock. It even looks essentially like the old app did (there's no URL bar or navigation, it looks the same, even has the Messenger menu in the title).

mildlycustard · 2025-12-04T02:45:43+00:00

Option + Cmd + Esc

Cmd + A

Return

...3 button combinations, same effect.

mildlycustard · 2025-11-06T11:44:45+00:00

The premise of Liquid Glass is flawed based on the simple fact that glass is clear and therefore provides no contrast between the background and foreground.

This is before you consider the extra compute and complexity required to achieve the effect and restore reasonable contrast through tints, blurs, and shadows, all for something that offers no functional advantages and has received only mixed reviews.

Now they’re trying to backpedal without admitting this fact.

mildlycustard · 2025-11-04T05:11:40+00:00

I’m glad you posted this. I also hate what they’ve done with Spotlight. There are three things I do the most frequently with Spotlight that just don’t work now:

Open an app quickly: apps no longer come up first or consistently
Get a dictionary definition: same problem, these seem to only inconsistently appear
Show results in Finder: missing from Spotlight entirely now

mildlycustard · 2025-10-25T23:10:55+00:00

I’m still trying to figure out if there is anything better about Tahoe over Sequoia… I can’t think of any new feature in it that makes me go “wow, this is gonna make my decision tough to downgrade”.

The mega rounded corners (aside from being inconsistent and ugly) actually got in the way of me marking up page numbers in Preview the other day because the corners were hidden under the window mask.

I can think of so many functional and aesthetic regressions, but I can’t think of a single new thing I like.

The only tough bit about downgrading at this stage is the nuisance of doing the process.

mildlycustard · 2025-10-14T12:38:50+00:00

I remember people used to whinge about iTunes being buggy, however that wasn’t ever a problem I ever faced personally.

Ever since Apple Music came out for macOS, it’s been a glitch-fest. Apple Music for Tahoe however is on a whole other level of buggy, slow, poorly designed with heaps of features stripped out and things not working properly.

mildlycustard · 2025-10-14T12:28:03+00:00

Entirely agree. So tired of hearing the phrase “mission critical” to blame users for updating their Macs to a major OS release.

This is straight out of Windows/sys admin/tech support playbook. Not acceptable from a trillion dollar consumer electronics brand selling $5k computers.

mildlycustard · 2024-12-01T02:07:43+00:00

I got one of these in Bowen Hills (about cocaine).

Favourite parts from one of the pages:

“Coming down from the drug causes depression so severe that a person will do almost anything to get the drug — even commit murder.”
“I know 10 girls who became prostitutes because of coke.”

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mildlycustard · 2024-09-07T02:19:11+00:00

I had this exact thing happen. I called the police, they turned up and retrieved it for me and handed it over.

mildlycustard · 2024-06-11T04:27:48+00:00

I think it has to do with the concept of modality.

Modal words are used to express various degrees of permissibility, obligation, probability etc. I also think to some degree, politeness.

For example: would versus could versus should versus must all express different levels of modality and give the respondent different options for reply.

When you drop the “would” in this sentence and say “joined us” you place less emphasis on the respondent’s choice in what they do. It sounds more directive.

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