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by jwells89 3y ago
Something else that’s hurting Meta is how compared to Apple, it doesn’t have as robust of a platform (SDK, UI paradigms, etc). Quests run plain old Android in 3D with some AR bits bolted on, which is fine for games but not as compelling for
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The cost is more or less the standard price of admission for early adopter stuff. Not worth it for everybody clearly, but worth considering for those who like riding the wave as a platform matures from the start. I don’t think I’d take it o
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I’m still experimenting but thus far I’ve found it to be nice for lounging usage (couch, bed, etc) because it lets me keep my head up and eyes focused several feet away instead of down and a few inches away. It does need more apps but those
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by jwells89 3y ago
Traditional model car distribution (dealerships) is something Apple would likely be very unhappy with. Aside from the control of user experience being ceded in that model, nobody likes dealers anyway and bad dealers can stain the reputation
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If nothing else, basic logs of everything an extension does should be kept so that technically knowledgable users can take a look at the logs periodically (and maybe have them watched automatically by tools) to make sure everything checks o
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Similarly every browser should have the capability to report to sites that the user has notifications enabled when they actually don’t to end those annoying in-site “pre-prompts” which bait you into saying no to the pre-prompts so they can
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> iOS does offer options for "read selected photos" and "add-only photos". The annoying thing here is how apps insist on either requiring full album access so they can implement their own photo picker or don’t provide
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> Why do I still have 5 app packages "mounted" on my desktop after 3 years that I eject every few weeks and come right back? This sounds like apps are being run directly from disk images. Make sure the apps are copied to /
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by jwells89 3y ago
There’s plenty of people in the Apple ecosystem that still use normal-DPI monitors. 2560x1440 27” monitors are very commonly used with Macs for example, and it’s not unusual for iOS devices to get hooked up to 1080p TVs. I’d say the investm
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There’s also cases where by far and away the best version of a given piece of media is the recording of an HDTV broadcast from somewhere in southeast Asia or something because the rightsholders never bothered to produce a physical release i
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Delayed availability also bolsters piracy. In the age of the internet, people don’t want to watch foreign shows weeks or months after they’ve aired in their country of origin, but within mere hours of original airing so they can ride the gl
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I’m talking about community vetting. It’s usually easier to find discussions on the internet where people have discussed and scrutinized desktop apps (e.g. “this app phones home”) than it is to find the same for most browser extensions (whi
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Maybe we’ve just been writing very different types of software but as noted earlier, it’s been very unusual for there to not be built in or third party solutions to problems I’ve encountered in UIKit/AppKit. The ceremony involved seems
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Absolutely, but the short and long terms risk posed to most by installing random browser extensions willy-nilly is still almost certainly higher than that of instead opting for vetted desktop apps, especially if using PWAs in place of Elect
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Even static pages can get to be too large with a certain number of rows and would benefit from a variant of HTML’s table element that automatically recycles rows while displaying static data. The problem isn’t the size of the transmitted da
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> For Apple, often there is no good library. Do you have examples? I’ve not often run into this in my projects. These days there’s Swift packages for most things, and in the worst case I’ll have to write a simple wrapper around some C or
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It also doesn’t help that Xcode will make random little edits to storyboards/XIBs by simply viewing them. It conditions developers to commit minor changes to these files without looking closely which leads to unintentional changes find
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It’d be rinse-and-repeat until browsers had a decent toolkit out of the box, yes. That doesn’t strike me as a bad thing.
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Storyboards are indeed terrible. XIBs are notably better due to not bogging the editor down with N screens but still not great. Both suck for version control being gigantic blobs of machine generated XML. This is why I abandoned storyboards
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Something that’d help here is if extension galleries displayed price tags and let you filter by paid (bonus points for being able to distinguish between one-time and subscription).
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> How locked down are desktop apps now on Mac, Windows and Linux? It’s hit or miss. There have been advancements on macOS and Linux where there are mobile-style permissions and sandboxing in some cases, but one needs to be aware of how a
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It’s not JS itself that’s the problem, it’s the need to write it to fill gaps in browser facilities. Rather than there be 10k different implementations of a scrolling recycler list of wildly varying quality, there could just be one in each
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It’s too bad that Swift → JS compiler projects are all stalled. Swift syntax is similar and I think it’d be a nice step up for people who don’t care for compatibility with legacy JS and want uncompromised static typing on the web.
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Really depends on development style and what you’re used to, IMO. Xcode doesn’t bother me at all while Android Studio, which is built around the vaunted IntelliJ, is constantly getting on my nerves. Visual Studio (the IDE, not the editor)
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The web is great in theory, but the bare-bonesness of the browser environment makes it an exceedingly unappealing platform for apps specifically when you’re used to developing with a throughly batteries-included experience like you get on
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Yes. Because of this and the lack of fine-grained permissions mentioned by a sibling comment, I tend to use desktop apps where I can instead of extensions, keeping my extensions list quite slim — basically all I install are FOSS extensions
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That isn’t really a problem so long as as it delivers a more capable product more quickly and cheaply than the old method of rockets remaining mostly paper for the better part of two decades.
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Would anybody happen to know if color palette plugins for the macOS system color picker exist for HSLuv or Oklab? That’d make them easier to use across software.
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Particularly if you’re not living in Tokyo, Fukuoka for instance is significantly cheaper despite also being a densely populated city with the usual amenities.
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Assuming it’s legal to do so I imagine that some will use this visa as a springboard to access other visas. 180 days is long enough to hunt for a work-visa-furnishing job or a school to attend for an education visa for example. That may hav

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