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QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by pentagrama »

I was going to comment that the page video is a GIF and was going to be huge, around 10MB, but surprisingly is 4.28 MB. Still huge, I converted the GIF to MP4 with https://cloudconvert.com/gif-to-mp4 and is 575 KB and the quality is great. It should be more common just use instead of a GIF for many cases.

I noticed that was a GIF because I have an extension to not autoplay GIFs [1], it is great to don't have to see moving stuff without consent. Actually, the extension can be better, I would prefer to have a play button to GIFs/see a "GIF" label on the image, now I have to change the setting of the extension and reload the page. I'm not a developer and try to do the extension with Claude but didn't work, if someone knows an extension with that feature let me know! I looked for it and can't find it, it may be a great opportunity to create one, devs!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gifpuase/

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by tpurves »

pentagrama wrote: post #71

I was going to comment that the page video is a GIF and was going to be huge, around 10MB, but surprisingly is 4.28 MB. Still huge, I converted the GIF to MP4 with https://cloudconvert.com/gif-to-mp4 and is 575 KB and the quality is great. It should be more common just use instead of a GIF for many cases. I noticed that was a GIF because I have an extension to not autoplay GIFs [1], it is great to don't have to see m…

No you were right to be disappointed! I was similarly in a state of excited awe to see someone play actual quake inside the notch of a mac. Much like the noble hacker tradition of getting Doom to run on the most unexpected devices possible. So yes, ID Software games running in weird places is an entirely reasonable expectation!

'just a terminal' is maybe also a legit term of art and entirely useful for somebody out there. But much less cool that we were hoping for!

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by paulryanrogers »

pentagrama wrote: post #71

I was going to comment that the page video is a GIF and was going to be huge, around 10MB, but surprisingly is 4.28 MB. Still huge, I converted the GIF to MP4 with https://cloudconvert.com/gif-to-mp4 and is 575 KB and the quality is great. It should be more common just use instead of a GIF for many cases. I noticed that was a GIF because I have an extension to not autoplay GIFs [1], it is great to don't have to see m…

Felt this pain last week. The sad fact is that auto-play with looping is only reliable with `` and its formats. WebP can do a bit better than GIF but not nearly as well as MP4.

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by int_19h »

1oooqooq wrote: post #57
asdff wrote: post #41

It makes the notch bigger ? No thanks.

it took me a while... i had to search. macs have notches now? and people think that's ok?

Consider the other options:

1. Have a bezel instead. This reduces the overall screen height and pixel count.

2. Have the camera stick above the screen instead. Lenovo did that on some Thinkpads recently. The problem is that it is still sticking out when closed.

2a. Fold the camera somehow. Requires the display to be thick enough to allow that, at least in that one area.

3. Don't have the camera at all.

Given that Macs normally always have the menu bar on top except when the app is completely fullscreen, the first approach makes the most sense - it allows the menu bar to be placed into the space reclaimed by removing the bezel.

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by DrewRWx »

naoru wrote: post #60
DrewRWx wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is incredibly constructive feedback! When working on projects that meld digital and physical realities, ergonomics and aesthetics become a hyperfocus and observations like this are vital for course correcting.

Thanks, ChatGPT.

Bruh, that's all me.

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by jjani »

naoru wrote: post #60
DrewRWx wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is incredibly constructive feedback! When working on projects that meld digital and physical realities, ergonomics and aesthetics become a hyperfocus and observations like this are vital for course correcting.

Thanks, ChatGPT.

ChatGPT wouldn't have mismatched the singular/plural of "observations" and "this"

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

tanepiper wrote: post #26

$7 for something that can be done for free in iTerm

The iTerm version of the feature is buggy, in my experience. The old haxie[0] Visor/TotalTerminal[1] which patched it into the Apple terminal produced a better result, somehow despite being literal hack.

I wouldn’t be opposed to paying for a dropdown terminal that worked as well as or better than TotalTerminal did.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsanity [1]: https://totalterminal.binaryage.com/

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

asdff wrote: post #43
tanepiper wrote: post #26

$7 for something that can be done for free in iTerm

Or just a keyboard shortcut to bring up the terminal

A dropdown is a bit nicer than a simple foregrounding key shortcut is. It never has to be window managed, floats on top of everything else as long as it’s toggled open (even as you’re shuffling through other windows), and makes for a better drop target that benefits from Fitts’ Law.
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