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Comment · 11 months ago
Agreed and it's frustrating that people don't admit this.

I recently started dual booting Linux again and tried both Arch and CachyOS. Former with Hyprland, the latter with Gnome just to see how well the games run. I knew going in that tiling window managers don't behave well with games and that was indeed the case. With Gnome, even some native games made by Valve had terrible performance issues where I have none on Windows. There are also cases, and I wouldn't even describe them as edge cases, that you have to tinker to get things to work properly.

I have a very basic dual monitor setup, but yesterday I spent an hour trying to fix a problem where my cursor would escape the game's window into the second monitor. The obvious solutions (gamescope) didn't work for some reason. Did I end up fixing it? Yes. But that's only because I know my way around Linux. That's an hour I'm never getting back.

I'm not making an argument for Windows, I very much dislike using it but Linux folks need to accept reality. A reality which isn't fair, but reality nonetheless. That's when you start to make progress. (Which, to be fair, they have. Tremendously so. But there's still a long road ahead!)

Comment · 2 years ago
None of these features seem to be coming to Vision Pro, which I think is quite baffling. Arguably it's the device that can use them the most.
Comment · 2 years ago
Github works well for me.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is awesome! I'll definitely use it.

It'd be a one time stop for me if it supported definitions (similar to Collins Dictionary) but beggars can't be choosers.

Comment · 4 years ago
That's too bad. I wish there was an alternative App Store version that used another dictionary because I really like its design choices. At least I did, when I tried it on my iPhone, but I don't imagine they had drastic changes since then. I didn't stick with it because of weird limitations Apple has with sideloading apps. (IIRC, that 7 day limit was the deal breaker.)
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I tried to give this a shot as the blog post resonated with me but I simply couldn't get the app to work on my iPhone (13, iOS 15.6). When I first launched it I waited the database to setup ("Loading language database...") for more than two minutes. Knowing for sure it couldn't take that long, I restarted the app but it was the same issue. I then re-installed the app but then the app just gave me a blank white screen.

It's a new app, shit happens, and if there's a way I can do to help you diagnose the issue on my end, I'd be happy to.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I'll echo this as well. Not only the development pace is ridiculous for such a small team, they're very responsive to support requests via mail and Discord as well.

I had a small problem with the app once. I contacted them via email and it was resolved in a couple of hours and they were kind enough to offer different solutions -- solutions that didn't fill their pockets. (Needless to say, I'm sticking with their services.)

The fact that they can manage all that is almost a testament to how useful the app they're creating must be for them.

I too am just a happy user/customer and wish them nothing but success.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I used to scroll through the streaming services and my Plex library to pick something to watch, but I ended up creating a Shortcut on iOS in an attempt to take myself out of the decision process. The manual process was not only not random, but there was still a lot of indecisiveness on my part that would make me waste time. So now I have a plaintext file filled with movie titles available to me, and whenever I want to watch something, I tell Siri to recommend me a movie, and the Shortcut app just picks a random title.

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