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by palata 2mo ago
> Just enable the debug mode to see what portion of your screen refreshes and repaints and stand back in awe while nothing changes and you still get hundreds of repaints. And you are positive that this hasn't change in almost a deca
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by palata 2mo ago
I don't have issues with my Pixel running GrapheneOS in that regard. I have issues with goddamn banks doing that at the app level.
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by palata 2mo ago
> Developing and maintaining a mobile operating system is a hugely expensive endeavor. I agree, it feels like trying to write a new browser from scratch. > The best option would be to use /e/OS or GrapheneOS I would highly r
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by palata 2mo ago
> I developed for android for a long time When was that?
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by palata 2mo ago
Well microg is just the client side, but it still communicates with the Google servers, right?
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by palata 2mo ago
I find it very weird that a free app coming from a university would not be open source...
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by palata 2mo ago
Thanks for all the insights! To be clear, I didn't want to say that developing for Apple is impossible, right? I totally trust that once you know how to deal with it, it's fine. But it is extremely frustrating to me as compared to
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by palata 2mo ago
Because "The Android of ..." is out of fashion?
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by palata 2mo ago
I would have suggested CloudStorm :-). Or "COSIOS": CloudflareOS Is Not an OS.
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by palata 2mo ago
I am confused... it's not an OS, is it?
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by palata 2mo ago
At this point, this is just misinformation. There are interesting discussions to have about websites vs native apps. Not whether one is evil and not the other, but rather when it should be a website and when it should be a native app (and w
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by palata 2mo ago
To be very generous with the article, I would call it "confusing".
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by palata 2mo ago
Dude, I build Linux distros from scratch. I know what the kernel is. I also know that natural languages are ambiguous, and that when people say "I use Linux" they mean "I use a Linux distribution". When it gets ambiguous
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by palata 2mo ago
Right. For me I think it is a bit more general than "just" the IDE. For a start, it's painful to install the apps I develop on Apple devices: it's limited in number, so once in a while I have to delete the sample apps I
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by palata 2mo ago
I guess it makes sense: it was helping them convert people to Gmail back then ("you can keep your current emails and handle them from Gmail"), but Gmail has been a quasi-monopoly for long enough, they don't need that anymore.
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by palata 2mo ago
Genuinely curious: do you have experience with other environments, or mostly Apple?
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by palata 2mo ago
Can we talk about SwiftPM still not having a proper package registry? I just don't get it.
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by palata 2mo ago
> I can see that a lot of technical people have ambivalent to negative feelings towards AI My negative feelings towards AI are about energy use and inequalities, that kind of stuff. It undeniably works well, but whether or not it is bett
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by palata 2mo ago
> I'm still cleaning up multi-GB model weights floating around in hidden subdirectories under my user profile from months ago when I was experimenting with local models! Are you trying to say that local models are hard to use becaus
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by palata 2mo ago
But then I would have to endure the Apple developer experience...
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by palata 2mo ago
Maybe unrelated, but as an Android dev, a few years ago I wanted to look into SwiftUI. But now I feel like for most apps, I should be fine with Compose Multiplatform and Kotlin Multiplatform. I don't see the point of learning SwiftUI a
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by palata 2mo ago
Apple seems to be loved by users, but hated by developers (and for good reasons). They just seem to not give a shit about the developer experience. You mention some examples, I have experience with lower-level stuff: terrible. Poorly docume
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by palata 2mo ago
I have been involved in two non-trivial Qt mobile apps. Never again. I don't know what your experience is, and I mean no offence or anything, but the only people I have seen who were happy with Qt for mobile development were people who
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by palata 2mo ago
What I like about Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) vs Flutter is that KMP is not a framework. For instance, I can write a KMP library and a "pure" Android or iOS app can pretend it is a "pure" Android/iOS library. That is
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by palata 2mo ago
It's never "just working", you'll still have to debug the vibe-ported apps. And you won't be good at it if your devs don't actually know the target platform. All that to say, I don't think that vibe-portin
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by palata 2mo ago
The "A" in "AOSP" stands for "Android". Your examples are preposterous. It's closer to the difference between "Linux" and "GNU/Linux", which is often used by trolls like you to der
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by palata 2mo ago
You don't get my point. "Everyone is making progress, in a world largely dominated by fossil fuels". Renewables are making progress with the help of fossil fuels. We don't know how it will be without it, because we hav
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by palata 2mo ago
Again, you conveniently forget the important part. Before we invented writing, we were not remotely transporting as much stuff as we are today. I mean, before fossil fuels, the world ran on renewables. But that's not at all a proof tha
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by palata 2mo ago
> imo, Google is just slowing dying. Too big to die, IMO. They can just buy everything they want and abuse everybody.
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by palata 2mo ago
The joys of monopolies, I guess. I think that the only solution is to break them, and that goes through regulations.

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