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Worse, when I try to select text from whatever note with important data I have, the first option is "Cut", which means losing data (i.e., data is deleted from the source). "Copy" is hidden behind a hamburger menu. Who was the stupid person at Google who thought this would be good UX??

Looks nice, I installed it and will test it to see how it fares.

I don't buy the hype on these vibecoded apps, but I think an interesting use of this methodology would be to revive proprietary applications that were axed by their owners.

For example, what about a new clone of Macromedia's Free Hand? or Adobe's Page Maker? Or MS Front Page, vibecoded to be compliant with the latest W3C standards?

Lawyer, translator and professor here. I have an Office 365 subscription and I got native Word and other MS Office apps installed on my windows partition. But, since I use Linux on the desktop, and MS chose not to offer their office suite as Linux native apps, and they make it near impossible to use the Windows apps under Wine, I use LibreOffice.

And it works really well. I can use it and exchange documents with people using Word without problem in the enormous majority of the cases.

And the fact that LibreOffice is a real GUI app built using the WIMP paradigm instead of that stupid ribbon interface that forces me to use the mouse, is a very significant net positive for me.

People who say that LibreOffice has a bad UI or that is a bad piece of software are just more vocal.

Looks nice. The C-64 had an excellent keyboard typeface

I think peak keycaps font were the ones used in the Epson QX-10, Epson HX-20, Tandy 100, and the common C-64.

I have a 13K+ karma account on reddit that was banned from a subreddit of a very well known desktop environment, because I pointed out things that were happening and they just didn't like the fact that I was pointing them out. This, after having a history of contributing to said desktop environment for 10 years.

I messaged the moderators asking for a reinstatement, and not only the ban was not lifted; the mods taunted me via DMs.

Well, no problem. I just was helping people use Linux and that desktop environment better, and also helping to clarify many myths and misconceptions that were formed over the years in that desktop environment. I just left the subreddit and as someone here said, the only winning move is not to play.

Some people are just idiots and whatever power they have gets to their head. It's human nature.

A big letdown for me is the lack of a headphone jack.

I guess this is not exactly "cost", but also lifetime spans. A nuclear reactor can sustain a ship for about 20+ years, and that lifetime is too long for many ships, who would be headed out to the scrap yard in less time than that.

I'm 55, about to turn 56, and I did hobby programming back in the 80s, mainly in a C64 and C128, so I fit the bill, although I'm no developer and right now all my programming is reduced to some shell scripts aimed to automate repetitive or tedious tasks.

And no, I'm not "overwhelmingly" pro-AI. Especially since many of us know that the AI concept is storied and goes a long time even before our generation, and this LLM-based AI isn't really AI in a proper sense.

This "AI" has some good uses, granted, but the cost-benefit ratio is stupidly bad. For all the benefits that I can see with AI, if this means that I have to put up with scrapers aggressively ruining the Web, data centers gobsmacking available resources, and getting GPU and memory prices gouged to death on me, I'd rather pass. It's not an attractive proposition, simply stated.

Worse yet, I teach; and AI-enabled cheating is making my work much harder.

So, pardon me if I'm a little unenthusiastic about this newfangled artificial intelligence that isn't.

I'm an user; I have zero or near zero development and programming knowledge, so this take of mine might be complete nonsense.

But I think this is perhaps one of the first AI developments I actually like. Transitioning an app from React Native or any web technology to native code has the distinct advantage that the native version should be much more economical in its use of resources.

I'm tired of hearing about RAM and other components hiking their prices while at the same time RAM sizes of ~8 GB are considered too small because things like Electron apps are wasteful in their consumption of resources. Now, with more native apps, we might get full circle: leaner apps thanks to agentic development. Maybe someday 8 GB of RAM could be considered enough once again. Truly interesting.

Right. I should have said "comply with copyleft licenses".

The convenience (?) of not having to comply with GPL terms. Some people really hate copyleft.

Thanks!