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Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by yboris »

skydhash wrote: post #47
yboris wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a simplistic (and I think erroneous) view of Electron! You can't spare 40mb of RAM?

It's more like 400MB due to how they're packaged. And when you could have it run with 10x to 20x less RAM, it just scream "we don't care about you". Not everyone have 64GB RAM and 22 cores of CPU in their laptop. It's like using a semi-truck (with the trailer attached) to go buy groceries 100 meters away.

I'm unsure where I'm supposed to look. In the Task Manager, the app I created (Video Hub App), when running, is routinely between 40MB and 120MB under the "Memory" column. Are you saying there is RAM use tucked away under different row than the app name?

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by layoric »

result2vino wrote: post #35
politelemon wrote: post #28

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It's disappointing that these companies are perfectly happy to use it for their own wealth creation strategy, but have no interest in giving back and furthering the ecosystem.

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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.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by gdhkgdhkvff »

entropicdrifter wrote: post #3
kennethwolters wrote: post #2

can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.

Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.

I swear if all the ai chat apps started as fat apps and then Claude just released the first port to the web, I would be reading this exact same comment on hacker news except complaining that there was nothing wrong with the fat app.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by becquerel »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #49

I was surprised that simple things like sharing a chat in Claude doesn't seem to be there. I read somewhere that it was a feature that was disabled later.

It's annoying, I'd really love to export my chats. Any Anthropic PMs reading this, as a paying subscriber I command you to prioritise this feature, on pain of failed training runs

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by vunderba »

Lots of people are correctly suggesting this could function just as equally well as a PWA, but I will point out that (all things being equal) there are some valid use-cases when strictly choosing between Electron vs PWA that a LOT OF PEOPLE seem to be oblivious of:

- Electron apps don’t rely on a web server to function, so as long as you archive the app’s installer, you can install it on future computers even if the original website goes down. This assumes that the PWA/Electron App in question doesn't need server features, for example Photopea, Obsidian, etc.

- A bit easier to block network traffic to/from a dedicated application from a privacy perspective. Still can be done on a PWA, but it's trickier to set up.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by entropicdrifter »

result2vino wrote: post #41
entropicdrifter wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.

You aren’t as wise and smart as you think you are. Perhaps people just have different preferences to you?

I have no issue with others having differing preferences, just making an observation about the continual reinvention of this particular wheel

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by squeaky-clean »

Wissenschafter wrote: post #50
skydhash wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more like 400MB due to how they're packaged. And when you could have it run with 10x to 20x less RAM, it just scream "we don't care about you". Not everyone have 64GB RAM and 22 cores of CPU in their laptop. It's like using a semi-truck (with the trailer attached) to go buy groceries 100 meters away.

The fact people prefer webapps over native locally run software because of '400MB' honestly pisses me off it's so stupidly trivial.

It's not native though. It's just a webapp in a second browser without any of the usual browser features, and reduced sandboxing.

It's all the negatives of a webapp and all the negatives of a native app with none of the positives.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by entropicdrifter »

zarmin wrote: post #26
entropicdrifter wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.

Dinosaurs these days insist that there's only one way to do things, even when most apps are literally designed to accommodate different workflows.

Please, tell me where I said there's only one way to do things.

My question was not meant as a critique of people who know what they're doing. I'm not talking about engineers or sys-admins like the typical HN crowd, I'm talking about the population at large. The average person understands their devices just enough to get them to work the way they want. It stands to reason that a fairly large percentage of the modern population, used to using apps for every individual service, may never have had a use for browser bookmarks and may therefore never have even attempted to use them.

I have a few friends who work as professors and tell me stories about how their students don't know how to navigate a filesystem in Windows. Why would a person like that, for instance, have bothered to learn what a bookmark is vs just keeping a tab open?

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