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if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as a
by notatoad 2y ago
if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app.
i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.
- pants2 2y agoOn the flip side, the ChatGPT desktop app is native on Mac and it's buggy and feature-incomplete compared to the web version.
- dzhiurgis 2y ago100% - amazing this crap get released when "Add to Dock" is far better - zoom, copy/paste, search, font size - all works just like in normal browser. Amazingly both implementations burn 100% CPU when rendering text, which is just bonkers. Claude's web app crashes after few days and uses 30% on idle.
- ec109685 2y agoWhen rendering text, what would you expect CPU to be? For however long it takes to render, you’d expect it to max out.
- timrichard 2y agoAnd doesn't work on Intel Macs. :-/
- caseyy 2y agoWhat are some of the bugs? I’ve not noticed any. The feature lag is real, still no canvas.
- cromka 2y agoAlso search is unavailable, regarding missing features.
- zippergz 2y agoHave you updated? Mine has search, in 1.2024.289.
- pants2 2y agoFor me the window is laggy and takes a few seconds to resize or move. It's also not reliable when prompting sometimes it just sits there with no output and I have to quit and restart. I've since uninstalled the desktop app and I'm happier with the "Add to Dock" web version.
- tempaccount420 2y agoA desktop app that renders a website can still be useful if it exposes native APIs to the website.
- notatoad 2y agodoes this do that?
- bergheim 2y agoUuuh.. so take all my data, as long as it's native?
- adamhartenz 2y agoDesktop apps can store what they like. There is no EU law preventing desktop apps from storing anything, unlike websites.
- moooo99 2y agoThat’s not entirely true. GDPR covers all forms of storing and processing PII. Wether that is a website or a desktop application, you will need to get opt in from your user to share PII with third parties.
- troupo 2y agoWhich part of General Data Protection Regulation in GDPR don't you understand?
- buildfocus 2y agoThis is not true - both GDPR & ePrivacy rules apply to any software, none of it is specific to websites (although obviously that's where it's most easily abused, and where most of the attention is).