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lol just unplug the computer and go outside

AverMedia makes decent ones. I think Magewell makes "professional" ones that give you the best image quality (4:4:4), but I haven't personally used them so can't attest to their quality.

Then there are all kinds of USB cards from dubiously named manufacturers, most being some white label chip that everyone uses. Some can work decently, some have a terrible capture rate like you mentioned. Due to the nature of these sellers popping up and disappearing, I can't really make a recommendation.

This guy can't even be bothered to type his own thoughts out, but expects us to read what claude dumped out? Typing your own thoughts is just not hard at all, I don't get it.

What product do you make?

So are we just letting go and having clankers write everything now while we have other clankers "explain" it to us? Just collectively, "fuck it" ?

The software I use day to day is just getting worse and worse, and I can only guess that AI is accelerating that problem. Like I can barely convince spotify to play a full album anymore without it "failing to play a song", crashing, or play without audio underruns. We're so screwed if we can't even play audio smoothly in 2026.

Sorry, just ranting. But I see tools like this that are basically encouraging people to "let go" of understanding what exactly your code is doing, and continue to let the robot pile more and more code on top of the bad abstractions we already have.

This drives me crazy. Sometimes I'll just put the phone down and move to a proper keyboard to type what I want. It definitely makes me use my phone less, maybe that's a good thing overall.

We absolutely must discuss SVGs of animals riding vehicles, that is the only compelling topic these days.

Oof, that screenshot is pretty dire UI.

Do we really need a "next-generation living room web engine"? These smart TV OSes almost always suck ass, I wish all the TV manufacturers would just give up and ship simple panels with just basic volume and input selection control.

Or if you absolutely _must_ insist on shipping "smart" features, why do you still need to ship a full browser engine to show some text, rectangles, and images?

How many microphones does it have on it?

I wish more people knew how nice it is! And the toilet is in a completely separate room so there's no contention among one person who wants to take a bath and another who needs to use the toilet.

I just wish dish washers and dryers were more common in Japanese households. I'm in Okinawa where dryers are a lot more "standard", but dish washers are relatively rare.

Yep, this form factor was the peak. Like others said, if you run your life on your smartphone I guess it might not be sufficient. I just feel sorry for the people actually ruining their lives on their phones though. What shitty typing and multitasking experiences they must have...

This took me 24 minutes to compile on an M1 macbook pro. Is there just an absolutely enormous amount of code in here, or is the project hitting some pathological compiler slowdowns?

Goddamnit, I have an LG TV. The panel panel itself is beautiful, but the software is complete shit and I only use an apple TV on it.

The snakes in charge of this should be thrown in jail. They talk about "owning the glass and the living room" and you can just tell they've sold out their soul long ago.

I grew up in the suburbs in Ohio, the majority of my family and friends took their shoes off at the door.

I can't imagine feet in socks would be dirtier than the bottom of a shoe, but I guess it depends on where you walk, and how nasty you let your feet get. Like if you use a public restroom and then walk on carpets in your home, that's just gross. Maybe you walked in a park where dogs play. Good chance of tracking some dog shit into the house.

Similarly for how things feel, like animations, physics, controls, etc. That's one reason I don't think agents will be creating games anyone wants to play, any time soon (unless they just straight up copy an existing good game)

> but you could implement it on top of native widgets if you wanted to

Is there an immediate mode GUI API that uses native widgets? I don't think I've ever seen that but would be curious to try it out. Does it work well in practice? If it doesn't exist, then it's kind of a moot point, isn't it?

I sympathize with wanting "consistent behavior across multiple platforms", but that usually just results in "consistently kneecapped behavior across multiple platforms".

The classic one is "should have" or "should've" to "should of" because when spoken, it really does sound similar. I don't know what the fuck people are learning in English classes these days though, or if they even still have them.

Alright I downloaded the thing, just for you.

* Right off the bat in the login screen, if you resize the window, it flickers

* I logged in. Double clicking the top part of the window doesn't maximize it, like I expect on basically all other windows. I'm using MacOS, btw

* Resizing the main home screen is also a flickery mess. Though I'll give credit, it's a fast flickery mess, because the official spotify app resizes like ass

* Okay, here's one more specific to egui and why I think its approach is not good outside of the app types I listed in my original comment: I type some text in the search bar. Let's say I want to highlight the last word after I've typed it, in order to delete it or type something else. On every other app on my system, I can hold Option + Shift + Left Arrow Key. Or perhaps Cmd + Arrow Keys to move the cursor to the start or end of the line. The egui app just doesn't work, because egui misses so many fine details about text manipulation on a given OS.

* In general, text handling just sucks

* Scrolling doesn't have the inertial bounce when it hits the ends of a scroll action

* It's very easy to create overlapping UI elements by resizing panels and/or the window itself.

Anyway, those are just some of the things from a few minutes of trying this specific app out.

In general, if it's an egui app, I already know there will be weird resizing glitches/flickers, a poor text editing experience, and it will typically not follow the platform's idioms and built-in gestures, scroll physics, behaviors, etc. In this case, the app is decent since it mostly just needs to play music, and you mercifully don't need to interact with it much when it comes to text and such.

But saying "It's a GUI like any other" is like saying "wonderbread is a bread like any other". Maybe it's a curse of knowledge? Similar things happen with coffee. One person says "tastes like coffee" while another can pick out individual flavor notes. Maybe I'm shouting into the void and no one gives a shit anymore, I dunno. But to me, these things matter and are a mark of quality.

If we have LLMs that can shit out whatever code now, why aren't people having them output truly "native" GUIs that use the UI framework of the OS so they can get all the expected behaviors by default?

If you haven't been using the latest NanoQwen27B-5.2.10-Turbo-KimiGLM-Pro-10.4 in the past 13 hours, your information on what LLMs can do is outdated and you're falling behind. Check your priors.

Devs are constantly making the mistake of falling in love with immediate mode GUIs... because it's convenient for them, the developer. For the user, it's almost always a worse experience as things don't behave in the same way as the rest of the platform they're on.

egui is great for video game debug UI overlays and internal tools, and maybe some specialized graphical tools. Otherwise its quirks are too annoying for general purpose app usage. Sure, you banged out a UI quickly with it, at the expense of your users.

I can't tell if this is performance art or not.

"Think outside the box and dream!"

"Here's a world clock widget."

Oh yeah Half Life for sure! It's been so long since I played them.

I never tried Command and Conquer, I should give it a spin. Thanks for the list!

Some developers treat their software like a baby when they test it or show it to others. Tapping cleanly and slowly, giving animations time to finish, scrolling slow and smooth, etc.

I like to beat the shit out of my software when testing. Constant erratic scrolling and zooming, multi-touch shenanigans, pressing multiple buttons as fast as I can, using back gestures and the browser back button (if it's a web app), changing the window size and orientation frantically, and just all kinds of rough usage.

If your software can't cope with these things then you're doing a disservice to your users.

What are some games in various genres that you consider to have good gameplay mechanics? For me, I'd have to say Resident Evil 4 (original, haven't played the new one yet), Smash Bros. Ultimate, Rocket League, and, weirdly, Pikmin 3's mission mode.

The mouse is better for precise pointing, and the trackpad is better for scrolling (especially horizontal), and multi-touch gestures.

That's like, your opinion man.

The trackpad is a fantastic input device. I use it exclusively when on a laptop, and on a desktop I'll use both a mouse and a trackpad.

> Non-inverted-T arrow keys

Disgusting.

Just hold your breath, bro, no reason to perish, bro.

I've got one - I bought a macbook from apple so I don't have to replace it for a decade. My 2014 one still works fine, aside from a distorted right speaker. And you know what? I'd do it again!

Not that I don't believe you, but don't take that to be a common occurrence in Japan at all. By and large, Japan is a safe haven of clean and comfortable public restrooms. There are always exceptions, of course.