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No, because I used a computer before web apps took over and native software is a better experience.

It's one for one or two items to have icons. The vegetarian dishes on a restaurant can have the leaf icon for instance. But it would be stupid if every single dish did. The whole p…

Yeah, but there are a TON of things that trademark lawyers do that are counter-productive. I put vaguely aggressive letters from trademark owners in that category, such as Monster …

The top comment there is not correct. You do not have to "defend" trademarks or they "expire." You lose a trademark if it becomes generic, regardless of how hard you tried to keep …

I want the opposite: something like https://infinitemac.org/ but 100% downloaded and local.

It's hard to use in so many apps unless you lock the keyboard.

I am hardy a fan of these processes but they are not "extraterritorial" in the same way, since the registrars were generally US-based.

I have a Neo and 16GB Thinkpad and the Neo smokes it.

When I complain about a lack of “native” software I pretty much always mean the platform-provided defaults. Not some cross-plaform UI toolkit that happens to be “native” code. Most…

I like the 32 bit era because it's the only time we had symmetrical data and address buses. 32 bit data bus on chip. 32 bit addressable RAM, 4 GB. Used to be 8/16 and now it's 64/w…

No. Good TUI apps are predictable and fast, like good native GUI apps. They follow set patterns. Familiarity and following standard conventions is not just "nostalgia" -- maybe a l…

Yes, because it means that as Liquid Glass improves with Alan Dye out the door, NNW will automatically benefit from the improvements. Having an app that just follows the current st…

A TUI app feels like a native terminal app like I have used for my entire computing life, in DOS and then Linux. Electron apps feel like web apps no matter how good they are. I sto…

I've use Claude to make myself a number of little tools and weird apps that only I would want lately. They need to be cross-platform between Linux and Mac and sometimes Windows. Th…

Well I think the iOS version is better! I don't like Liquid Glass on Mac though.

I think it looks better (on Mac and iOS) than any other Liquid Glass app. And I can’t blame Brent for adopting it. One of the standout features of the app is just being native, not…

Ok, so the air would be red from one angle, blue from another. In each case, that is what color the air “really” is, in the same sense that a butterfly’s wings are blue (but not fr…

If you say that air isn’t “really” blue because the reason it is blue is different than the reason that other things are blue (e.g. most blue things in daily life absorb frequencie…

If something appears blue, it is blue. That’s all color is. Also, if you took a sufficiently large quantity of air and put it into empty space and shined very bright white through …

Yes, I came here to say this. The whole topic drives me crazy. Air is just blue. Everything is a color because of some physics reason. Some birds have blue wings due to microscopic…

WebView on Windows is pretty good, and Chromium-based, so I think that something like Tauri is preferable to Electron.

The only thing keeping my secondary / gaming / file-server computer on Windows is Backblaze. The main obstacle to me switching from macOS to Linux is Office 365 (doesn't work on Wi…

This is an excellent compromise

Yes I am literally a member of the dozenal society

Yes, I think we should be all in on base 12. 10 is just the arbitrary number of fingers we have. Poor choice! 12 is much more composite.