• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    Anyone using Electron to build any greenfield app is a fucking moron, full stop.

    When you have to consume 300+Mb of memory just to display 15Kb of text, when the exact same thing can be done in native code for less than 2Mb of memory, “moron” is the kind and gentle word to use.

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    LOL, just turning on Windows will blow that up. Then, opening Chrome… LMAO. Can you even run on 4GB of RAM anymore? Like, Raspberry Pis have over 4GB now.

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      Up until very recently (its system drive blew up) I was running a server (raspberry pi zero 2 w) with 512MB of RAM. It werked fine. At any moment I had ~1/4 of the RAM free. And I was running a bunch of services, like ssh, unbound, pi-hole, opentracker and a test website.

      I also have another machine with 2GB of RAM running bookstack, an ssh gateway, opentracker, a KMS for activating windows machines, another website, naemon with the thruk frontend and probably something else I’m forgetting abt.

  • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
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    CSS files shouldn’t be heavier than HTML, that’s literally form over substance.

    All JS code should require pressing a button to run.

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    gotta get rid of their fast internet, too. 128kbps max (like 2 channel bonded isdn).

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    around 75% of the project lifecycle, All developers should be moved to the min spec hardware they plan to support at launch.

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    …and they should not have a GPU either, so they can feel the cost of full-motion parallax-scrolling fade-in backgrounds.

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    As a mobile developer, I got an email from google saying they’re going to be adding new memory restrictions in apps and it’ll crash if you exceed them.

    Thanks google, for buying all the ram, and then punishing us for it.

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      They need this to compete with Apple, apple runs on a lot less Ram because it imposes such limits already, simply by not having as much RAM to begin with

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      i can see how this might evolve… someone, the app developer or the user, will end up having to pay google to let an app use more ram than google allows it to for ‘free’.

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        So, the restrictions are set by the devices OEM and can be based around how much ram the device has, so I think the microtransaction would be with them, not google.

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      What are the limits? There’s no way this could be done correctly without applying different limits to games vs some compass app or whatever.

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        Its not explicitly mentioned. Just that itll be variable by the device and how much ram it has and be controlled by the device OEM.

        It did talk about how you might get throttled before it crashes as well.

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    The one thing that the Fediverse wanted to destroy: not being able to cross post across social media software.

    What people do: 📸

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      I fucking LOVE things breaking when the other node inevitably goes down, or the person deletes there post.

      The URL to the originating instance is right there.

      Edit: the microblogging quote post standard is just a URL as well.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        Look, that water is complicated. Cross-post a Peertube video in a response to this comment. Lemmy and mbin and piefed etc. do mostly inter-operate transparently, I even see folks from Mastodon occasionally, they’re the ones that relentlessly @ people, but that’s about as far as this anus will distend.

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    No monitors above 1920x1200 and they must code in bright sunlight at least 8 hours a day. I’m convinced some websites look like ass because the developers haven’t look at anything below 4k. Maybe ever. Some may not have seen sunlight in years. Not everything needs to be made for dark viewing with white text everywhere.

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      I’ve found most websites that look like ass on a 24" 1920x1200 screen (or really any desktop monitor) is because they are designed for a 5-6" cell phone screen.

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        My horizontal screens have this exact resolution.

        My natively-vertical screens (EIZO RadiForce RX320) fuck things up even more with a 1536×2048 resolution. And yes, natively vertical, so sub-pixel rendering works exactly as intended.

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      I have 4k screen and half of the websites are cellphone-like column in the middle. WTF is this shit?

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      Oh god, yes, I wish they had to work in a bright environment. Every other website (and even some desktop applications) feel like it was coded by someone who hasn’t left their basement since Obama was still in office.

      I mean, seriously, how can people unironically say stuff like ‘black text on a white background hurts my eyes’? Turn on the fricking lights damn it. Staying in badly lit environments is bad for your eyesight anyway.

      Also, while we’re at it, I am also not a fan of grey text on a grey background. Okay, rant over.

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        It’s you! You’re the bugger who replaced all the mild amber streetlights with harsh blue-pumped mini-suns!

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          Gross. I posted that from a MacBook Pro on two 4k screens and I turn those shits vertical and shape my windows on normal 16:9 or 4:3 ratios like a decent human being.

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            Oh, so you’re one of those fake MacBook Pro users who actually care about their productivity, not the real ones who care about looking productive in coffee shops and open plan offices. 😉

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          Even the ones that don’t are following designers, just not ones they work with.

          Those giant JavaScript frameworks, and more importantly for design, CSS frameworks don’t pop out of thin air. .

          The entire world was and still is in material design because it was the blessed Google design.

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          “I can build my website in 5 minutes using SquirtSpace or Bro-Daddy! Who needs IT anymore.”

          “I asked ChatGPT to prompt Claude to build my site.”

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    2GB? Barely enough for the VM of the Docker of the flatpack for the cloud mouse driver’s DRM!

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    If it makes you feel better, Chrome has a limit of 4GB.

    (Source: I work on a very large enterprise webapp and we have OOMed many times)

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      Jesus. So now chrome is eating all your mana too? Ffs Google.

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    Another idea: ban all public-userspace devs from have more than 2GB ram on their dev systems.

    If it’s going on the market for joe-schmoe, ya gotta make it work on a complete shitbox before shipping.