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All the llm providers are rushing to create desktop apps while File > Add to Dock is superior - you can change font size, pinch to zoom, cmd+f to search, your e

All the llm providers are rushing to create desktop apps while File > Add to Dock is superior - you can change font size, pinch to zoom, cmd+f to search, your extensions work, you can open multiple windows... Both implementations somehow manage to suck up 100% of cpu when rendering fucking text tho.

jauntywundrkind 2y ago
It's wild to me that such a safe, pro-user-agency, extensible system is hated by so many for delivering rich experiences. I get that there are plenty of bad webapps too, that performance can be bad. And there's not enough highly visible open source efforts on local first & off-main-thread javascript to form the backbone of knowledge to inform mainstream webdev how to stay fast, responsive, adaptable, yet (I thought we would be so much further along at using these amazing capabilities by now!). But wow, it's still so wild to me that apps are so beloved by some. PWAs are also wild to me because they are "just" the web but without half the web's superpowers. No extensions, address bar, history, bookmarks, tabs (unless built specifically for it; wildly weird.