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Wait, you don't feel so?

I have maintained a Nextcloud server for a small business for the last 6 years. I agree when I started using it early 2020 that the ui felt less modern, but after some updates down the road up until now it looks completely like it is from this era. Am I missing something? However, I never complained about the UI neither then nor now.


NextCloud's macOS app is implemented in a way that completely disregards any UI guidelines or just common sense for the platform.

Developers either don't use macOS at all, or don't care.

But functionally it works for our small team.


NextCloud generally appears to use their own design system everywhere, Android apps are also not in Material or on iOS (iirc) in Cupertino. It makes for a subpar experience in general but is consistent.


Love reading these posts where a person implement their own solution to communicate with devices that have proprietary software that only support Windows. Thanks for sharing.


I agree so so so much. This is such a virtue: when humankind can access their systems.

I got downvoted to -4 for my rather strong worded praise of this virtue, one that the media & politicians seem to directly hate & be opposed to. There's a great Battlemesh presentation on FCC rule changes in 2014 that made it illegal to ship devices that users could modify, and since then OpenWRT has been in deep woes, has been having incredibly hard time supporting routers, for one example, with the Table of Hardware for support barely growing. https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8/Agenda?action=Attach...

I'm pretty sad to see so many people so quietly hating, blasting a piece that is as close to my heart on the right to hack as it gets. No one even replied, to something I obviously care so much about, just downvoted me out. It is a very over the top piece, but does it really deserve to be un-seen like this? I hope not. I hope it has some food for thought, even if you don't agree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486657


> No one even replied

it reads like an overexcited infant


> No one even replied, to something I obviously care so much about, just downvoted me out.

There are a lot of people on HN whose salaries depend on the status quo. Think of all Apple, Microsoft and Google "engineers" for example.


Unless you are on Apple silicon, then im not sure the ARM cpu and hardware is powerful enough for you to get a decent experience. It is heavy software, after all. Still, I would expect them to release Linux ARM builds when we inevitably move over to ARM as the common arch. :)


The NVIDIA DGX Spark that I use has a fairly decent ARM CPU that's roughly on par with the M3 Pro and AMD AI Max 395+ according to Geekbench, plus a GPU that's very powerful (RTX 5070 level). I'm sure it will be more than powerful enough for me to get a decent experience.

I also have a Macbook Air M2 running Asahi Linux.


Ampere make some big 32-128 core server ARM chips that are somewhere around Zen4c ish in performance, although they aren't commonly used outside of the server context. But they do at least exist.


Looks neat! As someone who also did a barplot library with SVG output, I can tell you that this sort of program is really fun to write.

https://crates.io/crates/eb_bars


In 2012, that would be true! :)


I have been waiting... so many years for this. Like, I figured it would never come. So happy to be wrong. Wonder if it will work well on Raspberry Pi and also if it will come with Hardware Video Acceleration out of the box.


There's always Firefox.


Me too. Trying to get Chrome to run in Docker on an ARM Mac was a battle that I didn't win (I didn't want to fight the battle to start with but I had to use a Mac rather than Linux).


I would have more faith in Raspberry Pi's own patched build of Chromium to do hardware acceleration properly on the Pi than I would have in Google's generic Chrome build.


But as far as i know, there has never been working HW accelerated video in their build of Chromium. But yeah, I guess you have point.


If enough people ask Broadcom to do VA-API on their platforms getting that enabled on Chromium shouldn't be too hard. The caveat is that codec support is limited (no VP8/VP9/AV1).


App is slow. It plays music video content as default. Gui has many non interesting parts. I just want a list of albums and songs. I guess I just want it to be "boring but functional. :)


and messaging etc. making it a social network


And “commercially promoted” songs in playlists


Still rocking M1 air, still a great machine and Im still happy. :-)


M1 Pro Max has held up surprisingly well, and I’m finding justifying the M5 Max over the M5 Pro quite hard to do.


Same! but looking around at when I should upgrade


This is what I upgraded from. Adored it - but wanted the 128gb.


About to watch the film now. I know there are controversial aspects to this, but in my opinion this is something I myself need to allow happen. Alex know it himself, that there is a risk of ending it, but most people will not understand the feelings he get before, during and after a climb. So who am I to judge from my couch in my livingroom whether he should be allowed to pursue his lifestyle or not. He is not actively hurting anyone.


The issue with moralistic people is that they feel they have a duty to preach their opinions unto everybody else.

One should be free to do whatever they want with their own life, provided they don’t hurt anyone else.


He has a young child.


Many people do.

He mentioned he considers partying more dangerous than climbing. I can't tell how dangerous his stunts are, but he's still alive, so perhaps he knows what he's doing?


I find it refreshing that a webpage can give such joy, to the point of having people talk about it in the same way you talk about books and movies. You know, being able to enjoy it for the first time and so and so.


Absolutely agree, it's one of the modern internet's gems.

I can't wait until one of my kids, who seems very interested in physics-adjacent topics, is old enough to go through these pages with me.


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