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by roryisok 8y ago
That looks like a great foobar replacement, why couldn't I find that when searching for mac music player, macos mp3 player, osx itunes alternative etc?
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by roryisok 8y ago
I'm going to try your app, despite my post, because I also believe in giving things a chance and leaving my mind open to change.
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by roryisok 8y ago
Yeah it's not as good as the windows version, but I'll take half baked foobar over itunes any day.
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by roryisok 8y ago
As a kid I desperately wanted a CDi, and then an Amiga CD32 and then a 3DO. I never got any of them. Having saved enough to finally buy a 3DO I was derailed at the last minute by my dad who didn't want me spending so much on a games ma
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by roryisok 8y ago
> However, one mum pointed out that her teenagers were just as bad, often choosing their phone over family time. What a stupid comment. She's basically excusing her own behaviour because her teenagers do it.
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by roryisok 8y ago
I'm typically the defender of electron on these threads. I think its a great way for devs to get an MVP out there quickly. But there is a time and a place for electron. electron good - IDEs, markdown editors, visual git clients, thin
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by roryisok 8y ago
Who cares? I like feedly because it filled the hole left by Google reader and it does what I need. I've never been cool.
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by roryisok 8y ago
Three space stories on the front page today. Makes me happy
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by roryisok 8y ago
Agreed that's definitely a drawback. Mozilla had an experimental project called qbrt that was like electron but used the locally installed Firefox, exactly like you're describing. Hasn't been updated in quite a while though
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by roryisok 8y ago
That would be cool. It's sort of like the idea behind Firefox OS
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by roryisok 8y ago
I think you're failing to include the firefox memory usage in that second example. the 200+MB memory of electron is because it includes the browser. Your 8MB file also needs firefox to run, so in a naked desktop environment the user fi
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by roryisok 8y ago
100x now? You're saying there are electron apps in the wild using 10GB of memory? I was trying to argue that the 10x claim was an exaggeration but you've just leapfrogged that.
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by roryisok 8y ago
> Slack is essentially a fancy IRC The keyword here is fancy. Hexchat is an IRC client, sure, but it is minimalist. That would be like comparing a text file to a PDF and asking why the PDF needs so much more RAM when they're basical
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by roryisok 8y ago
Have you sources for this 10x claim? Do you actually have a native slack client that uses 100mb because I'd love to see it.
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by roryisok 8y ago
There's this https://github.com/zserge/webview Basically a webview which can use a c++ backend and a js/html front-end, cross platform
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by roryisok 8y ago
> manufacturers who realised that current CPUs have more than enough power for everyday tasks, and needed a way to create demand for even faster CPUs Lol. It's a common trend across software. Try comparing office 2003 to office 2013
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by roryisok 8y ago
Exactly. What did you win with out of interest?
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by roryisok 8y ago
The right tool for the job is very opinionated. Clearly an awful lot of desktop devs think js is the right tool for the job because electron is everywhere and projects like this very one we're commenting on exist. My opinionated view o
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by roryisok 8y ago
Why do you speak English when you could be speaking French? Because it's what you know, and lucky for you it's everywhere and you don't need to learn French. I'm making some assumptions about you as a person but you take
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by roryisok 8y ago
This is a cool project, although I'm starting to not like the look of native apps anymore. This will hopefully appease the electron haters but I suspect someone will still complain about this being JavaScript
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by roryisok 8y ago
I'm thinking you didn't read the post because the first two sentences are about this being based on Proton Native
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by roryisok 8y ago
Nah they can do full windows on arm now, no need to go the hobbled route
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by roryisok 8y ago
I thought pay tv in the US had no ads?? Is that not the whole point of it? Are there ad breaks in game of thrones and silicon valley and all the other hbo shows??
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've said it already on this thread but both MI and PotC, while influenced by each other (yes, MI is also influenced by the original pirates of the Caribbean ride) both have more in common with On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Ron Gi
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by roryisok 8y ago
And this is exactly why Disney will not give the rights or even sell the rights to monkey island. Potc is a massive cash cow for them, I think they're up to six movies at this point. Giving away the rights to something that ties in s
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by roryisok 8y ago
I don't understand why this deserves a class action lawsuit. Sure, it's not a great design, but is it bad enough to sue over? All companies release flawed products all the time
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by roryisok 8y ago
That's great to hear because I'm about to buy a T480s and my main reason is I've heard such great things about the keyboard!
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by roryisok 8y ago
Is it just me, or have medium article gotten very clickbaity lately?
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by roryisok 8y ago
Medium headlines are increasingly starting to read like click bait these days.
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by roryisok 8y ago
How about this? https://github.com/zserge/webview C/C++/Golang webview. Build your UI in html/js and offload any heavy tasks to compiled languages. There's also a rust binding on github. The sample

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