Some day we'll have a decent chat that doesn't give you problems you don't need. I have been building a Discord/Slack/Mumble alternative since 2020, which is something that I wanted to do since around ~2008 but I didn't have the skills back then. The problem is that I made a few mistakes as I started by writing the client in Go + GTK3, and at some point, it was very buggy (especially in Windows) and hard to debug.
Then I decided to rewrite it in Go + Sciter, but when it was becoming usable[1], as it had voice channels, custom avatars, custom themes[2], and layout modification, embedded images, custom user roles, file upload, and Markdown support, Sciter's creator decided to end support of its TIScript version, which was a JS alternative for controlling the UI. This made all the code that I wrote basically useless as it would have to be rewritten in JS to be compatible with the new version (really bad timing for me to write it in Sciter at that time).
After trying the JS version, it felt even buggier than the TIScript version, and at this time I got sick (stomach related) and had to stop developing it for about a year. During this time, while thinking about it, I realized that all the time that I tried to save by avoiding C++ made me waste even more time. I have tried many options: PyQt wasted too much memory and was too hard to deal with async stuff through QThreads. Rust felt like being married as all it does is whine and you can't get rid of it. Nim had no good GUI option. Go's Qt lib took way too long to do anything as my computer is slow. But now I'm doing what I should have done from the beginning.
A bit more than a month ago, I started to write it in C++ with Qt. Currently writing the media embed part[3]. I think by the end of the year, I should have the basics of a modern chat done, as customizing the UI takes way longer. There is no funding, just me and the dream of a native full-featured customizable (colors, size, space, position) bs-less chat.
Here in Brazil we have churches that allows members to sing songs from a book that we call it Christian Harp[1] as part of the worship, the result is a lot of people who can't sing to save their own life end up singing and musicians from the church try to find the song key and chords in real time, it ends up being a great practice to develop a good ear.
Thanks for the video link! Very cool. The poor singing combined with the on-the-fly guitar tuning gave the piece a grungy punk-like feel, at least to my ears. I rather enjoyed it.
A cute (translated) comment from the video: “To sing with this guitarist is easy! Just praise the Lord and he does the rest!”
I used to be a Hetzner customer for a few years (2018-2020), one day my card stopped working, while I tried to get a new one I ended up with a 5 EUR invoice, once I got a new card I tried to pay the invoice but they had blocked my account, so I had to transfer the money to their account to pay the invoice, once paid they told me to create a new account, I did and was asked for a picture of my passport after being a customer for years, I stopped trying to use their service at that moment. Now paying twice the price at Linode but at least they only ask for a phone number.
That's the cutest laptop i have seen, after watching it yesterday it made me think about how much work would be needed to get some old netbook like the HP Mini or Asus Eeepc and turn it into a dock for Samsung Dex (desktop mode through usbc->hdmi for Samsung's phones) or a Raspberry pi 4.
The Pinephone comes with a USB gadget driver that presents the phone as a NIC. Plug it into a laptop, and the laptop can then be used as a terminal for the phone simply by sshing into it. X forwarding works, so you can practically run desktop programs that would be cumbersome to run with a touchscreen.
You could probably do the same with a Raspberry Pi, but it might be trickier to do with an Android phone. A phone that supports Termux or UserLAnd would work well if you used adb port forwarding.
Why not get something like a HP Pro Tablet 608 G1? It is a slim 8" and it has 5g wifi. That is about the size of the libretto 50ct that I used to have, but the user isn't stuck with Win98se2.
Interesting! If you can still reproduce this would you mind filing a bug at http://crbug.com/new, and pasting the contents of your about:gpu page as a comment?
Agree! They could have cached way more of this. A pre-rendered video would have had the same effect. A fun and impressive thing to build for sure, but its value isn't worth its complexity.
It was posted before[1], but there was just the name Sciter in the title, if the post had something like "Sciter engine: Electron alternative going open source" it would have had much more views.
Then I decided to rewrite it in Go + Sciter, but when it was becoming usable[1], as it had voice channels, custom avatars, custom themes[2], and layout modification, embedded images, custom user roles, file upload, and Markdown support, Sciter's creator decided to end support of its TIScript version, which was a JS alternative for controlling the UI. This made all the code that I wrote basically useless as it would have to be rewritten in JS to be compatible with the new version (really bad timing for me to write it in Sciter at that time).
After trying the JS version, it felt even buggier than the TIScript version, and at this time I got sick (stomach related) and had to stop developing it for about a year. During this time, while thinking about it, I realized that all the time that I tried to save by avoiding C++ made me waste even more time. I have tried many options: PyQt wasted too much memory and was too hard to deal with async stuff through QThreads. Rust felt like being married as all it does is whine and you can't get rid of it. Nim had no good GUI option. Go's Qt lib took way too long to do anything as my computer is slow. But now I'm doing what I should have done from the beginning.
A bit more than a month ago, I started to write it in C++ with Qt. Currently writing the media embed part[3]. I think by the end of the year, I should have the basics of a modern chat done, as customizing the UI takes way longer. There is no funding, just me and the dream of a native full-featured customizable (colors, size, space, position) bs-less chat.
[1]: https://i.imgur.com/BFAF2f0.png
[2]: https://i.imgur.com/SagVweI.png
[3]: https://i.imgur.com/nhBUsGh.png