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While we await proper details about the "on device" #AI models that #Apple mentioned during the macOS segment of the #WWDC keynote, here is what I am most excited about from Apple's 2026 operating systems.

Cross-OS features:
- #LiveTranslation (finally)
- #Polls in the #Messages!
- #HoldAssist? TBD

#macOS
- #Spotlight actions (with #QuickKeys)
- #Clipboard history
- New #Shortcuts (and "Intelligent actions")
- Custom folder colors!
- Now with the #Phone app!
- More control center customization

#iPadOS
- See post above
- Mac's red-yellow-green window control buttons
- Also getting the Phone app!

#watchOS
- The #WristFlick gesture? We'll see.
- Configurable #widgets? Maybe.

My current workflows probably won't benefit from
- the "liquid" or "glass" aesthetic
- a #WorkoutBuddy (no more voices talking to me during workouts, please)
- the #Games app
- anything #tvOS, #visionOS, #emoji

What excited you?

What disappointed you?

What surprised you?

What was missing from your wish list?

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@ai6yr @briankrebs OFC this targets #TechIlliterates and the only effective means here are:

  1. Teach #TechLiteracy instead of consumerism.
  2. Mandate #confirmation & #notification - #PopUp|s for every use of #Clipboard (similar to #webcam use by websites)...
  3. Ban #JavaScript - seriously!
  4. Ban #Windows, because it's a #Govware, espechally since #Windows10 and even more so on #Windows11 that is *insecure in every configuration!
  5. Put #TechIlliterates before a system they can't feck up. I.e. @tails_live @tails / #Tails for that reason alone (can't run such commands if they neither got #root nor any #persistent #storage to target).
  6. Normalize the use of @torproject #TorBrowser!
  7. #Teach #tech #literacy instead of #consumerism!
  8. Ban #GAFAMs and their shitty products!
  9. Migrate every #TechIlliterate to #Linux and don't give them administrative privilegues.
  10. Teach tech literacy instead of consumerism!

If any of you are using Helix Editor and wondering why copying/pasting from the system clipboard (space+y) isn’t working as it should, make sure you have wl-clipboard installed if you’re running Wayland.

(You’re running Wayland if your Linux distribution is Fedora or Ubuntu or Suse, etc.)

If running Fedora Silverblue-esque distributions:

rpm-ostree install wl-clipboard

(This includes Universal Blue, it’s not available under brew, you have to layer it.)

#Privacy tip:

Your #Android phone may have a device #clipboard, which is separate from your keyboard's clipboard. ✍️

Remember to clear the device's clipboard once in a while, as they don't auto-clear. ✅

I use Google keyboard, which auto-clears the clipboard contents after a while. However, the device clipboard doesn't do that. 😑

If there is one absolute truth to my career in IT:

I have wasted far more of my life clicking the stupid "What do you want to do with the #clipboard" prompts from #Microsoft apps when quitting the apps than I'd have ever spent having the app just close and take a couple of seconds longer to deal with the clipboard.