jxdxbx

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by jxdxbx 2mo ago
No, because I used a computer before web apps took over and native software is a better experience.
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by jxdxbx 3mo ago
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 point is that icons pop out so putting them on EVERY
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by jxdxbx 4mo ago
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 energy drinks thinking they get to control how others use t
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by jxdxbx 4mo ago
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 it from being so. Obviously if you let
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by jxdxbx 4mo ago
I want the opposite: something like https://infinitemac.org/ but 100% downloaded and local.
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by jxdxbx 6mo ago
It's hard to use in so many apps unless you lock the keyboard.
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by jxdxbx 6mo ago
I am hardy a fan of these processes but they are not "extraterritorial" in the same way, since the registrars were generally US-based.
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by jxdxbx 6mo ago
I have a Neo and 16GB Thinkpad and the Neo smokes it.
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 apps that I see using QT on Mac or whatever would provabl
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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/whatever. Understandable decisions given
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 little is in there -- but it makes apps more usabl
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 standard native platform conventions is better for users and
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 stopped using 1Password when it became an Electron app and be
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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. The best approaches I've found are Tauri (+Svelte
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
Well I think the iOS version is better! I don't like Liquid Glass on Mac though.
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 trying to re-invent the wheel with custom GUI, and taking
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 from every angle)
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 frequencies other than blue), this is equivalent to saying that bird
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 it, it would experience rayleigh scattering—-meaning that a
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by jxdxbx 7mo ago
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 structures and how light interacts with them, rather tha
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
WebView on Windows is pretty good, and Chromium-based, so I think that something like Tauri is preferable to Electron.
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
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 Wine).
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
This is an excellent compromise
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
Yes I am literally a member of the dozenal society
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
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.
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
If tech companies implemented real, e2e encryption for all user data, there would be a huge outcry, as the most notable effect would be lots of people losing access to their data irrevocably. I'm all for criticizing tech companies but
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
The metric systems's worse flaw was doubling down on base 10 instead of the plainly superior base 12.
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by jxdxbx 8mo ago
Icons should not be a uniform shape.
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by jxdxbx 9mo ago
I would like to know more about this. I love the resurgence of TUI apps but there is a samey-ness to them.
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Apple's IP Pretext(bergmayer.net)
4 points by jxdxbx 9mo ago|0 comments

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