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IMO Audacity has never been particularly native-feeling, and I don't buy the McDonalds analogy - this release is still lightweight. It'd be a fair comment if they'd e.g. move to Electron, but Qt 6 is hardly that.
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The whole purpose of Raycast is to improve productivity and UX, be that under macOS or Windows. It'd be a pretty shitty launch announcement if the blog post didn't mention the problem that they're trying to solve.
Edit: I'm not sure if the post was edited after my reply, but ATM there's no mention of BSODs - the closest I can see to a dig at Windows is:
> You know the feeling. Search that can't find your files. Apps buried in menus. Simple tasks that take too many clicks. Your computer should be faster than this. It should feel like everything is at your fingertips. That’s why we built Raycast.
That really winds me up too - it shows such contempt for legitimate customers.
The docs for the toolchain he implemented (https://github.com/taviso/rarvmtools) allude to a number of bugs, but doesn't sound (??) like they're related to this vulnerability.
The summary is pretty funny:
> "After trying four methods, I got so tired of this problem that it was time just to choose something, make it into a usable tool, and announce the solution"
Aspects of the post seem to borrow quite heavily from the original write-ups, which are worth a read.
It was far more basic than what's described in this blog post, but really good fun to poke around at.
I'd imagine it's way less efficient and way more polluting than using the national grid, too.
The drive appears as a network share, but it's not bidirectional, in that you can read/write from/to the target device, but the target device do the same to you.