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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • What do you mean? This is perfectly modern. Material UI and minimal, outline style icon theme. That’s all the rage with web devs nowadays. Amazing.

    (Not that there’s anything wrong with that in this case, that’s the Android style after all. But personally I heavily dislike Material UI.)

    I would say that this UI is ugly though. Spacing is all over the place, the icons don’t look cohesive at all apart from the colors used (for example, rounded vs sharp corners), the yellowed paper looking background color, overuse of bold/italic/colored text (especially multiple of those at the same time), inconsistent display of the same thing (in one screenshot the mailbox name is displayed as “Gmail”, in the other as “[Gmail]”). And so on.

    But that doesn’t mean it’s “outdated”, this would have been equally as bad 10 years ago.

    (I just have a knee jerk reaction to people saying “outdated UI” because usually it’s used as a justification to replacing perfectly well designed UI with a worse version just so that it follows contemporary design trends. Cf the Windows Settings app.)


  • Apple

    I’ve submitted at least 8 bug reports to them since Oct 2023 (and also many suggestions) through their feedback app. No response to any of them until now. The only closed bugs I closed myself because the problem went away in an update.

    I’m pretty sure they don’t have any bug triager whatsoever.

    I’ll keep doing it out of spite and because it’s what I do for open-source as well, but I’m really not sure if it has any effect at all.








  • my right index finger expects a shutter button to be located near the top right corner. But the center of Camera Control is 2 inches (5 cm) from the corner.

    Oooh, I just know that’s going to massively bother me too. 5cm is a lot. I’d have to try it myself but it already sounds uncomfortable.












  • It’s very funny you say MOV and HEIC are proprietary and then list MP4 considering

    • HEIC is just H.265, the video codec, used to encode images
    • H.264, the codec used for most mp4 files has the same license as H.265 with patent bullshit license fees going on
    • MP4 container is pretty similar to MOV, and is also not an open standard
    • this also means MOV and MP4 can be losslessly converted
    • Apple provides documentation for MOV format free of charge while ISO really wants you to pay to get official standard PDF
    • All this doesn’t matter anyway because ffmpeg can decode everything (though I guess it might matter in bizarro land where software patents are a thing)

    Also Android can totally read at least HEIC images. Not sure about MOV. Any of this is also not related to the problem the OP has.