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Are you rooted? Have you ever tried restoring a backup in this way?

Backup on android (without Google Services' online) is awful, SeedVault exists but has issues.

`Waiting for fonts.googleapis...`, pax website was blank for a couple of minutes, might want to reconsider making third-party fonts non blocking on your website so it doesn't appear broken/empty when a third-party CDN edge is slow.

ITerm has window splitting btw

I wish I could bind applications to slide out from left and right, I use slidepad on Mac which is a slide out web browser, and TotalFinder which has a visor feature for the bottom. Little things like this keep me on Mac to be honest

In Quake, the video game, a console would slide down from the top of the screen when you pressed tilde. Combined with splitting terminals its incredibly convenient to have 4 or 5 terminals toggle on a hotkey

iTerm's quake-style visor mode bound to a hotkey is too good to give up...

line-height: 28px !important

It's not very readable with line-height set to the x-height, ironically. Cool font though.

Find some old demoscene / warez ansi headers and show it put some on the homepage perhaps?

You're not alone with this desire, and I still haven't found a good solution. I want to bookmark all apps and windows when working on something and recall them all later when I resume work. How is this not yet a thing when do much real work involves using so many different applications?.

There is an app, Workspaces, I think, but it's not useful enough to bother using.

Probably should be a macos feature one day

I tried it out and it seems clear that vertical tabs without titles create too much friction for daily driving a browser where you have many tabs open, hover thumbnails or not.

For a few years I have thought that Firefox could gain market share by doing more with the browser UI, steal a few ideas from Arc Browser for instance. There's a lot of value to be added in the UI for sure.

Asking users what they want and then building it ends up with solutions like these. I really hope this gets a lot more iteration before landing in stable.

I currently use SlidePad on Mac which allows touching the left side of the screen to pop out a vertically tabbed browser, for IMs and most used AI chat but would rather keep everything in Firefox with some kind of panel system. I think most of us have pinned tabs for communication channels, email, socials, etc.

Vertical tabs on left with titles works if you can also configure a useful slide out panel on right, mixing the two feels odd to me.

But really good to see something happening finally, so good news overall.

I agree, file access via upload/download concept is friction on the user experience. I'd love to see serverless offline HTML applications with permission based file system access, because you can do so much very quickly in the browser with access to GPU, bluetooth, USB even, but I'm not holding my breath because of the security implications

Redbean looks good, I didn't know about the APE format, but unfortunately doesn't solve the file system access problem without presumably rewriting a backend in Lua. Docker, reluctantly, is better than nothing.

You can do a lot of things by dragging folders onto file inputs, but it is somewhat rubbish for user experience with the friction of getting files in and out of your app. Obviously it depends on what you want to do, but it seems a limiting factor. Allowing HTML application permanent permissions to file system without user input makes apps a lot more useful and portable.

Recently. I wanted to organize around a thousand short videos. I looked into software and the solutions were really integrated, media library etc. MacOS has tagging in the filesystem, but that ties me to an operating system, and didn't give me the explore related function. I wanted something that could let me browser a folder with added metadata, explore related clips etc.

After looking at all the options I could find, I realized it was easier to just build myself a little Node.JS app using sqlite for metadata, it worked great. I plugged in local ollama and whisper for transcriptions and automatic tagging, which worked suprisingly well. It's annoying needing to run a server for such a simple app, packaging it is just so heavy ... and I thought, it's really not that far off being something I could do in a single HTML file, it was pretty much just the filesystem access - then my app/content is just a folder that does what I want to on any platform without installations or configuration.

Thanks for linking the Joe Armstrong lecture, I've watched half and its wonderful.

I also like single-file offline web applications, I'm hoping they become more popular with the FileSystem/FileWriter APIs now available in Chromiums (waiting on Safari/Firefox still however).

I made a really simple offline HTML app for generating EFF dice passphrases: https://github.com/replete/effindice

Only thing missing really is a CLI interface. I wonder if there's a way to make HTML files executable on the command line, pass through arguments as qs params.

The amount of times I make a little nodeJS app to do something with a set of files, the webserver bit seems so overkill sometimes..

Does anyone know of a way to do this locally with Ollama? The 'chat with documentation' thing is something I was thinking of a week ago when dealing with hallucinating cloud AI. I think it'd be worth the energy to embed a set of documentation locally to help with development

I was referring to baremetal, but the same applies if virtualized on an AMD host

It mostly works, but virtualisation (even on baremetal) isn't possible at the moment, some applications need special patches, and weird issues here and there for some situations. AMD hacks are a hobby for a lot of people

Proxmox uses QEMU and boots opencore, so its the same set of problems. It's great to see NootedRed progress but its currently limited to RDNA2 AFAIK and there are lots of weird graphical issues in some configurations. Intel is unquestionably a lot simpler.

Yes but the host he's using is Apple Silicon, I think what he's talking about is QEMU using Apple's Hypervisor Framework, which is what vmware Parallels, etc also use nowadays. Booting an apple silicon version of MacOS on non-Apple hardware probably isn't going to possible for a while as it would require emulation.

In 2021 Blackberry, surprisingly, wrote this article about getting emulating the XNU kernel and getting it running on non-apple hardware, but its just a terminal:

https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2021/05/strong-arming-with-m...

Someone would have to write something that can emulate/abstract the apple iGPU to get anywhere near a usable GUI - I'm no expert but I don't think this is going to happen anytime soon, so when Intel releases of MacOS stop happening apple hardware might be the only way to virtualize MacOS for a while

No apple silicon emulators exist yet, and probably wont for years

AMD is far more complicated than Intel based machines in this regard. There's never been an apple computer with an AMD CPU...

Nope. There's only ever been Intel x86 apple computers so x86 mac software is Intel specific. Most things work fine on AMD, but some things don't work without hacks, such as digital audio workstations, some adobe applications etc. And you can't run hypervisors on an AMD hackintosh, the work around for docker is to install an old version of virtualbox and make it emulate instead.

Oh this looks pretty cool. I started using Docker a while ago for dev projects to avoid package/language version hell, but sometimes its a bit overkill

All I wanted to know in that article was the depth and distance to shore

Depends on whether you have plugins requiring GPU acceleration, as there is none

The only chance at GPU acceleration is passing through a supported dGPU (>= AMD RX 6xxx @ 14.x, no chance modern nvidia) with PCI passthrough. Intel iGPUs work up to Comet lake, and some Ice Lake, but anything newer will not work.

Apple Silicon build of MacOS probably not going to be emulatable any time soon, though there is some early work in booting ARM darwin

Also Intel VT-x is missing on AMD, so virtualization is busted on AMD hosts although some crazy hacks with old versions of virtualbox can make docker kind of work through emulation

Have you heard about Windows? People don't even know about 'dir' anymore, they just click things with a mouse. It's horrific.

Awesome I've wanted this exact kind of thing for many years - a code editor that lets me create funnels of code sections/functions for flow through an app - because you're often working through a particular flow in an application spanning many files. Definitely trying this out

I've been building websites for over 20 years and I've come back to frontend after a few years out of the industry recently, horrified to see what developers are doing with current trend tailwindcss trend, but understand why you'd want it. I pity whoever picks up those legacy projects

I thought about using custom tags before for components (not web components, which have a few gotchas) but it came down to SEO. If there were more certainty on the impact of custom tag on SEO I'd already be doing this.

This is good news, I set this up once and then realized it was a 30-day self-hosted trial and abandoned it as it was for a tiny site with no budget for SaaS

This does not work (as expected) on `ungoogled-chromium`.

My account got banned after using it a couple of times. Not sure why, as I tried a few code related prompts. I intended to upgrade but I can't login and support isn't going anywhere.