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Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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yes if ls is installed on the remote host and if it is not, the command should fail this appears to be about telemetry, pure and simple

absolutely no telemetry in the helper, full stop. you can inspect the code yourself. we do hear the feedback though and are working on a popup/notification that will prompt you before we push the helper program for the next release.

Does it, or will it ever fetch waveshell over the network on demand?

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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The biggest difference is that I install and execute salt and ansible in order to remotely install software, and I had no expectation that establishing an SSH connection would do that.

you install it locally, but not remote. then you run commands that get executed remotely by way of some tools that get automatically copied to the remote machine via ssh.

I do. And I do it in expectation that this is what will happen, because that's the whole point. Installing software on remote machines is normal for provisioning tools, but decidedly not normal for SSH clients.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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mosh is also dropping frames if it needs to. only happens when the network speed can't keep up with the data being sent through

Yeah exactly. That's meant to make a laggy remote session feel a little less stuttery, which in many cases improves the experience. It's not the same as doing that between 2 local layers.

well, i have had local sessions hang because they had to much output, so i kind of see the benefit locally too.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Honest question, why does everyone uses discord for community space nowadays? What happened to product forums that could be easily found in a web search?

As an open-source maintainer, the simple answer is because that's what the majority of users want. The barrier to join a discord server and ask a question is very low, compared to signing up for a forum, posting, and hoping that somebody looks at it.

The only negative feedback I've gotten is from users in China, where Discord is blocked.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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As macOS uses zsh by default, does waveterm do this too? As you ask for the bash files instead of the zsh files.

Zsh is not yet supported, it's very high on our list of priorities!

Hi, I commented on the github issue, but maybe no zsh support is the problem. When I `echo $SHELL` I get back `/bin/zsh` in Wave.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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post #85

Honest question, why does everyone uses discord for community space nowadays? What happened to product forums that could be easily found in a web search?

As an open-source maintainer, the simple answer is because that's what the majority of users want. The barrier to join a discord server and ask a question is very low, compared to signing up for a forum, posting, and hoping that somebody looks at it. The only negative feedback I've gotten is from users in China, where Discord is blocked.

If I see discord, I move on. You chose how to run your community, and I'm not going to complain -- I'm not that entitled. I'm just not going to participate.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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The ui looks extremely cluttered when all I want is a terminal. I am not using most of the features most of the time.

Also, this is a frontend for bash, which I don't use. So it's pretty much useless for me right now. zsh support is coming, but again this is a frontend for specific shells. What happens if I switch to fish, for example? I don't want to have to change terminals is I use a different shell.

Also, electron. Yuck.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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post #84

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Yeah exactly. That's meant to make a laggy remote session feel a little less stuttery, which in many cases improves the experience. It's not the same as doing that between 2 local layers.

well, i have had local sessions hang because they had to much output, so i kind of see the benefit locally too.

One terminal emulator with a bad implementation of buffering and outputting text doesn't make a different bad one good.
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