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Re: Claude for Desktop

#101

Post by moffkalast »

stephencoyner wrote: post #31
lambdaba wrote: post #25

I only use the chatgpt desktop app for quick throwaway interactions. For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL. Perfect use case for a webapp, native is pointless for this, especially if it's just a webview.

Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for... - Voice dictation / interactions - Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year

Hmm yes, I don't see any issues giving a corporate controlled model with the operational precision of a coin toss full access to my entire system. There is absolutely nothing that could ever go wrong.

Nah but seriously, can we start a counter of how many times a chatbot agent has deleted someone's system32 because it was trained on data of the average tech forum?

Re: Claude for Desktop

#102

Post by freedomben »

stephencoyner wrote: post #31
lambdaba wrote: post #25

I only use the chatgpt desktop app for quick throwaway interactions. For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL. Perfect use case for a webapp, native is pointless for this, especially if it's just a webview.

Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for... - Voice dictation / interactions - Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year

You're not wrong, but I'm willing to guess the biggest reason is: Analytics

Re: Claude for Desktop

#103

Post by freedomben »

sdoering wrote: post #82
layoric wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hardly a dumpster fire, moving to Linux from Windows is by far the best thing I’ve done for my work and sanity using a computer. For macOS users might be less of a reason, but aside from video editing workflow, has been a smooth process, and highly recommended for devs to give it another go.

I'd argue, that given the right hardware (I'd go with a Framework anytime again) and the right setup in terms ox *nix, I am happy to never touch a MB Pro (or any Mac) again in my life.

Absolutely. Framework laptop and a custom-built desktop each running Fedora, has been a wonderful experience. If I could have any setup I wanted with no consideration of cost, I would choose this one.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#105

Post by alwayslikethis »

freedomben wrote: post #102
stephencoyner wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for... - Voice dictation / interactions - Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year

You're not wrong, but I'm willing to guess the biggest reason is: Analytics

You can also do a filesystem scan pretty easily. Both for useful features, as well as spying.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#106

Post by notatoad »

if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app.

i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#107

Post by notatoad »

Nesco wrote: post #37
Nesco wrote: post #30

On macOS, why have an electron app when you can add the webpage to the dock as a PWA?

Here is the comparison: Claude Electron app vs Claude Safari PWA Pros: * Can be opened with a customizable shortcut * Takes less RAM (400 MiB Cons: * Needs to be downloaded * Weight 150 MiB * Slower to start * Loose language localisation * Loose Safari's capabilities: - Printing the content of the current page - Speech2Text - Accessibility - ...

as a chrome PWA it's 259MB for me, vs ~700MB for the electron app.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#108

Post by YetAnotherNick »

adhamsalama wrote: post #99
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Distributing for linux sucks. There are dozen different ways to install applications and not a single format could be installed by say top 5 distro. I was hopeful for Snap, but it is awful in my experience. Unless the package is managed by the distribution itself, installing it sucks. e.g. Here is link for chromium binaries for linux[1]. [1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

Flatpak?

Flatpak is sandboxed, which is both a good thing and bad thing. e.g. Claude won't be able to provide spotlight like interface, or have computer control.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#109

Post by frogperson »

Claude requires a phone nu.ber to sign up and the won't accept a Google number so they are completely un-usable.

I would love to try their services, but they refuse to take my money.

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