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> apps that are phone only are letterboxed, but still entirely usable

How is that possible? iPhones have had varying screen sizes for more than a decade, how could any app still have a fixed size?


There are many. We have an online supermarket with an app (Picnic) who don't support iPad, don't support landscape, don't support dark mode, etc.

I bet it's due to product managers not caring about those.


Because despite Apple having clear guidelines a huge number of developers think their 'custom UI' is what customers really want. When they don't. The best apps use system components and follow the HIG. Always have, always will. Your custom tab bar is stupid.

I'd love to rub my nose on their belly. I don't care about my ears anyway

How do you expect things to be popular without a company with self-interest? Producing a linux phone that people want requires immense capital, they're not just spending that and then releasing as open source forever.

By the time the product becomes "popular", it's then just one more platform that needs to follow investor interest and laws.


Valve is kinda doing that with SteamOS ? It's primarily made for their own hardware, but they also use work time to add features for installs on non valve hardware, and all of their components are open source.

Yikes. I had to stop using JetBrains software for similar reason (their autosave effectively conflicted with external git usage). This is inexcusable to me but to each their own.

Don't they have an auto-save setting that you can turn off?

Yes, but I think it still behaved weirdly with external changes. It's been a few years now, maybe it discarded any unsaved changes and just re-read the version from disk, or maybe it auto closed any editors for files that didn't exist after a branch change. Awkward behavior like that. VSCode and Sublime Text are much better in this regard.

As someone who uses a single password manager on my computer and phone, I don't see the problem with passkeys. I use Safari on both and I never even had to "set up" anything.

I can see why they would be problematic for people who otherwise live life with a single love2025 password though.


Imagine you lose your computer and phone. How do you recover your digital accounts? This happens every day to someone. The most common scenario being a house fire or robbery.

If only smart people didn't already have a solution to this https://support.apple.com/en-us/102641

The same way you recover your account when you lose a password.

I don't get it. I recover an account at ticketmaster by receiving an email. I recover an account at google by???

Receiving an email at your backup email address? Getting a text message? It’s whatever you have decided to set up in your account, the same as with a password.

I think the point with a passkey is that those very loose backup methods are required, since just knowing the password is not a thing. Everyone gets a new phone and is at risk of the previous one being unavailable. So passkeys mean that there's no way to deal with that reality, and also be truly secure.

What benefit does your 128-bits authentication schema gain when anybody can just clone a phone number?

Or do you demand that the user has an email with that 128-bits authn too, with a key on the same phone that was lost?


It's a key, what else do non-technical people need to know?

Ironically on macOS we used to have an app called Keychain which unfortunately was effectively renamed to Passwords for non-technical users.


It's a digital key.

Unlike physical objects they may reside in a TPM, a software vault, an export/backup, or any combination thereof. You may or may not be able to recover or migrate them, depending on where/how they were made.

Therefore you may need multiple per service, or maybe not. Services which only allow one may end up locking you out with no recourse. You get to find out.

None of this is obvious or self explanatory to normies.


That's false. It's a digital key and it doesn't matter where it's stored. My key is on iCloud and it can be unlocked with my many recovery methods and contacts https://support.apple.com/en-us/102641

As for normies, passkeys or passwords it doesn't make a difference. Either you have people who use love1969 everywhere or those who constantly lose their passwords.

All passkeys accounts for normies require an email or phone number, which is what you can use to recover a password or passkey exactly the same way.


Where passkeys are stored is as important as where physical keys are stored.

People must understand security controls, at least at a surface level, in order to effectively manage and trust them. Passkeys fail that test.


Probably because these caveats and weird behaviours are platform-dependent, not really the passkey’s fault.

Passkeys really are not any more difficult to explain than 2-factor authentication. Anyone who’s currently been able to actually create an Apple or Google account and successfully navigate their devices up to a passkey screen will be able to grok how it works.

People around here really ought to stop thinking users are complete idiots. Hell, you don’t even to scroll that far to read people calling users “normies” for crying out loud. What is this? High school?


I don't care about the theoretical sufficiently advanced keypass implementation that works perfectly. I want to know about the half baked ones in the real world that I'll have to deal with.

Do you know how many Google and Apple accounts my boomer parents have?

Roughly one per smart-phone that they've ever used. They don't know the passwords or even the email address of any of them, not even the latest.


Tell me how passkeys makes this any worse. If one's digital life is a mess, there's no magic solution to it.

Arguably Yubikey and similar are better. Even vanilla passwords are at least understood by my parents, despite their confusion over account proliferation. Passkeys are a step backward for them, even more so in light of account confusion.

You obviously dont have to deal with anybody who doesnt know how or want to use computers.

The keychain and passwords app are separate and keychain still exists

I always operated under the assumption that the passwords app was just a more casual view into the keychain

Maybe that's a bad assumption


They're separate stores. I was under the same assumption until I tried to use `security` to get a saved password. It doesn't work, and as far as I know there is no CLI for the Passwords app's store.

The iPhone Pros do have a depth sensor, I don’t think it's exported but it does stay in Photos' library.

It’s stored in the exif data on the photos

Crashed within 10 seconds on iPhone 17 Pro. Love the vibes

You have to turn on airplane mode

underrated comment

Looks amazing for the 2 seconds before it implodes on iPhone though.

It's slow in FF, too. Cool for a flight simulator to crash, but it should simulate a plane crash. Not crash the simulator itself :)

Immediately crashes my FF on Windows 11.

ahhh your phone crashed! I was a bit confused for a moment... Could you imagine if the airplane crashed like 1 in every million plays?! :O

It uses too much RAM, it’s vibe coded so makes sense

well, actually I had tested in iphone and did some things to but back on mesh size & also streaming terrain so that I'm not overrendering textures. I have not tested on all devices as I only have one mobile device. The tradeoff is render quality - maybe I'll make a lower triangle or 2K texture mode?

Yeah same here.

"Better" is subjective. I've been using iOS 27 beta and other than a few bugs it hasn't been that bad. I only had some minor downgrades in Safari UI, but those are minor and personal.

One thing I hated was a downgrade in Photos app on iOS 26 though, that hasn't improved in 27. Unfortunately it seems I was the only one loving Photos on iOS 18.

I did jump from macOS 18 to macOS 27 beta though and Safari's UI is abhorrent.


Did you see 26? Is it even worse than on 26? It is so bad it got me off from binge browsing... so Nice work Apple I guess.

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