A loom that learned to weave itself.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•What's your experience with Electron alternativesEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m using pywebview, a cross-platform python web view GUI framework. I like it so far, it’s fairly straightforward. I just wanted a python API around my database, and I’m building most of the app in the front-end with vanilla JS and html.

    I didn’t want the (alleged) bloat of electron, and I didn’t want to jam async/await onto everything in the backend, so I found this alternative.

    The 3rd contender was Tauri, but I didn’t want to bother learning Rust for a simple API. But it was very tempting, and Tauri is an option you should consider.

    I haven’t finished my current project so I can’t completely vouch for pywebview yet. But so far it’s great and I recommend it if you don’t mind using python (I do long for a statically typed backend TBH).

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux Switch advice?English
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    3 months ago

    Linux runs great on most hardware. What you described will function fine with a 4-year old laptop or desktop with integrated graphics as long as you have a decent processor (i5/i7 or ryzen 7) and enough RAM (16BG) and an ssd. Two ssds, one for OS and the other for storage is also a good idea.

    I suggest ubuntu.

    Side note: for photo editing, GIMP or Krita are the go-to apps but neither offer good CMYK color space of you’re printing stuff.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux Switch advice?English
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    3 months ago

    These are fair warnings but increasingly exaggerated toward the end. Ubuntu will work just fine with a minimum of “getting basic things to work.”

    The most important item in the list is that proprietary software is often just better, and not available on Linux, and wine sucks.

    I suggest Ubuntu. It’s heavily managed and takes care of basic stuff. I’ve heard the same about Fedora but I never used it.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Tuxedo Laptops - Any good?English
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    3 months ago

    On the T16 I have one soldered RAM slot and one replaceable. Of course the SSD can be upgraded too.

    The P16 (not the P16s which is just a T16) has four upgradable RAM slots and two slots for SSD.

    So that’s not crazy amounts of upgradability but it’s something.

    I actually got a Legion Pro 5 instead because it’s a lot cheaper but still has 2 upgradable RAM slots and two SSD slots. My only complaint is that the keyboard is less stable than on a thinkpad and it looks like a gaming laptop.

    Someday I’ll get a P16 though… or else one of those Eurocom laptops, if only they had 16:10 screens and nice keyboards.