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Excuse me, a photo gallery that takes 1gb of RAM, especially in this economy, doesn't seem "quite well built".
This fucking web app wrappers, Picasa had 100x more features while using 50x less resources
Yeah 1GB of RAM is completely insane for a photo app, should be like 50MB unless it's actively running face recognition or other ML stuff.
Lol, that's the lede defense.
It has almost never failed. We added 254092 ifelse statements, ensuring every possible state will be dealt with. It only fails if the user does something unexpected, like clicking too fast. Damn. That makes 254093.
It’s not a “web app”. It’s a native Windows app. A photo library app that indexes every single photo so you can search them with natural language like “green shirt”, group people by facial recognition, and edit photos, using under 1GB of RAM is impressive.
If the "native" Windows app it's running on a dedicated browser and coded with web tech, it's still a web app even if it's an .exe
Did you know that Picasa could still group people by facial recognition in windows XP with 1 gb of ram in TOTAL? (Clarifying: 1gb to the whole system, not only a single app)
And are you sure that the indexing is running locally? Because it's called "onedrive photos", not "windows photos", so they can totally do the indexing on the cloud.
It’s a native Windows app. What makes you think it’s “coded with web tech”? Do you know it’s just a web wrapper?
some of the reasons why it's not a native app:
You really need to ask someone who knows what React is about React lol. It is not a UI for web apps.
Using “web based components” doesn’t make something a web app 🤣.
Is steam a web app?
Microsoft also made and use this……
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/javascript/react-native-for-windows
Is it actually doing it in-device? Given that it's attached to OneDrive, I was rather under the impression that it was just offloading the processing to their servers.
Doesn’t really matter where it’s doing what. It’s displaying it all on device. It’s caching stuff on device.
It does matter if you don't want your shit in the cloud.
Why are you using onedrive if you don’t want your stuff in the cloud?
I don't use it because I know they're going to be nosing around whatever I put in there. If it was truly just file storage I would consider it but they can't keep their grubby hands off our data. My comment regarding this photos app is the same idea. If it could be used 100% locally and wasn't also being used to train some AI model or whatever other bullshit they're doing with it then it would be fine. People have a right to know how their data is being used.
Shill harder, we need to deliver more shareholder value
Shill? Explaining why something isn’t a “web app” is shilling now? Geez you commies are getting really loose with your definitions now.