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> Brave Software is also considering taking things one step further. The company is planning to intercept Windows Search/Cortana links to Bing and redirect them to its users’ default search engine instead.

Yes! THANK YOU! OH MY GOD THANK YOU BRAVE!! FINALLY!

on android, apple music:

* crashes frequently

* freezes

* fails to start playing songs

* fails to cache artwork

Their competitors, Spotify and deezer, always work.

Use QT, with no web views, and native context menus and tooltips that can be shown and modified outside of the DOM.

In the telecom business, low latency is viewed as a competitive advantage!

Bonus points if your competitor pays their employee's in US Dollars! Means we can make a BETTER product, for cheaper!

[1]: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/telecommun...

How is it going for the Nylas Email Client? Does it still exist?

Also very importantly: Are users paying premium for the Nylas Electron Qwality, or is it cheaper to just use Office 365/AWS/Google?

Java programmer:

Instantiates an array cus' it's faster!

Use case: random access to list elements.

Github is getting more and more chilly and creepy as time passes.

Yeah, but the vscode team is actively trying to break vscodium.

It's been slow like this (and with lots of user complaints!) since always!

Perhaps you guys should borrow some of those Microsoft research phd folks to improve terminal performance[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dKzubvpKE

Notice the lag when dragging the tooltip!

It takes seconds for the tooltip to appear!

Being microsoft, wouldn't be surprised if they started deleting negative feedback.

Yes! Thank you! This reminded example reminded me why I hated working with node!

on other news, is the onedrive app also electron as well? because I noticed it doubled the memory usage and slows my machine

What's your industry?

I've seen this trend in other places too:

For example, Microsoft routinely deletes negative feedback from GitHub issue for vs code.

I used to like vs code, and it made me productive. These days, every day that passes, I find something that surprises me. Things go from annoying changes to to grab "beginners" attention, to finding out hidden states or configuration where the developers say they purposefully designed something to make it difficult for users to change and understand.

Today I'm outraged when I needed to change my terminal in a workspace setting, and I found out they had a prompt that is designed for people to not notice, and the code is obfuscated to prevent people from understanding it.

DO I HEAR THE WORDS ORGANIZATION-WIDE BAN????

Does it really have INSTANT startup time (i.e. Sublime Text)?

If it has, I'm interested.

Was not able to find the trial though.

It's a very promising project.

Unfortunately, I was not able to successfully install it following the Getting Started install instructions.

Why do they use > instead of /?

It's Horrible.

They also do not indicate when the result is a .pdf or a document.

The best feature that google killed was advanced filtering. If instead of privacy brave gave me that, I'll sell my soul in a heartbeat!

Anecdotally, this holds out for me.

There's a calculator discussion now that calc is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/209

All other UWP apps that do not get GitHub attention are 100x worse. Microsoft Photos, for instance...

4GB RAM is plenty of common.

Source: junior enterprise machine on german multinational in a third world country.

It gets worse if you have a retail machine...

So... UWP is a tenbagger: It got 10x slower in 5 years.

I always like to remind folks that it takes longer to open calculator - or windows terminal - than to open excel.

> Under Windows, the rule has been that basically anything goes

Those rules were set by example by microsoft.

What about me? I don't care about backwards compatibility - but I don't want "UWP" because it's impossible to make great apps following the guidelines.

Well... your problem is solved... disk management has no UI anymore...

The trick is, these newer UWP apps, they all take fewer clicks, because they barely have any features!

Startup time is stable though: windows calculator has the same startup time as excel. Don't get me started on microsoft photos...

Modern UI quickly breaks down when you need to have complex software - software that needs a menubar, for example.

The Windows Terminal is just awful! Slow! Bad UI, feels like a touch-based UWP app. Has absolutely no concept of Windowing, everything just feels awful because they follow the UWP design guidelines!

And extremely buggy as well!

Yuck the file explorer.

Not only whitespace, but also look at the size of the search, and path!