I already see the electron apps coming!
Any Microsoft app.
Element for matrix is actually cheeks
Check out Element X: Ignition
Hopefully one day we’ll see something like Element X for desktop. Right now the only way to run it on PC is through the iOS compatibility thing that some MacBooks have, AFAIK.
The Walmart app and the website itself are absolutely horrendous. You’d think I was using a Windows 98 PC and a dialup modem every time I try to use it I swear. No idea how it’s so shit and I don’t think I’ve ever used a less optimized website in my life beyond overloaded Lemmy instances.
So many restaurant/retail apps are so terrible (and they’re obviously just React wrappers running a bunch of bullshit) that half the time I reach for my laptop and wonder why I even have a smartphone.
Just use a browser. Amazon app is the only one that can arguably be justified. Even then, I know im trading my soul. Fight me, guys
What does the Amazon App have that the website doesn’t? I’ve just been using the website, now I’m wondering what I’m missing out on
The browser version for Walmart is honestly probably even worse than the app. I don’t know how they made a website so terrible.
Mcdonalds app.
Discord. It takes like 12 seconds to start each time I launch it. Of course it’s plenty fast after that, so I guess it’s just the startup time that’s slow.
Discord takes about 6-8 seconds for me, but if you think that’s bad Steam takes 3 times that time for me.
Discord takes around a second to launch for me. Even after force-stopped.
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Slack starts faster for me, but it’s also awful.
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Gotta register the mandatory tracking modules for the CIA, Red Army, MI6, Mossad, and FSB.
My laptop boots up in the same amount of time as discord starting up. That is kind of sad.
Do you have a HDD?
Nope, have used one in the past though.
If anything it’s pretty wild how fast computers start nowadays.
Another problem with discord is CPU usage, it randomly decides to eat 40% of my i5-10400. Even while playing
Reddit
It’s atrciously slow. Even Twitter loads faster.
And every time you click on a post, then go back it reload.
I like to read 1-2 top comments for most posts, but this 2 second white screen for each post kill it for me. This is why I used boost for reddit, and now for lemmy.
YNAB
Always takes like 20 seconds to load a super simple web app
I’m so glad I have the classic version. No subscription cost also helps.
Don’t you need to have flash to run it or something? Is it safe to still have flash on your computer in 2023? I think I got ynab on a steam sale, but it’s been awhile since I’ve opened it. And I refuse to pay for a subscription for something that used to be perfectly fine with a one time purchase.
Don’t you need to have flash to run it or something?
You do not, it’s another Adobe technology, though: Adobe Air. But I didn’t know that it’s still in development.
Is it safe to still have flash on your computer in 2023?
Notwithstanding that it’s Air, It’s not as if flash is doing something by itself. I guess if you randomly doubleclick SWF files you got via mail all the time, it might be an issue ;)
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Thanks for the clarification. I’ll look into it. Ynab (without subscription) is a great app. Maybe I’ll figure some kind of containment system for the Adobe air thing just to err on the safe side. Cheers!
Just FYI, you can’t buy it anymore. And for containment, you can enable the Sandbox feature in Windows (not sure if on Home) and use it, use something like Sandboxie, or simply start a Hyper-V VM.
I never saw the reason to upgrade either. The old desktop version is still going strong for me.
Another vote for shitty Discord from me. If there was any app I could just magically give a speed boost to, it’s that.
Some days it annoys me enough where I just run it through Firefox/Web, especially on Linux where it’s really janky.
You want a magic Discord speedboost? It’s called OpenAsar. Mitigates telemetry, and speeds the client up to usable levels, especially on lower end hardware.
Oh this looks great, thank you for the shout!
In a similar vein to deadcade’s comment, Ripcord also exists also an alternative. If this exchange had happened a few months ago I would’ve recommended it above anything - but unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in a very long time at this point and it’s starting to cause some core functionality to not work.
EDIT: It’s pretty much exclusively the Slack functionality that doesn’t work anymore. The Discord side is great and is IMO has a much more useful UI, ex: you can group arbitrary channels from any number of servers into a single group which is presented in the UI pretty much as a new server. No more server hopping to check out all of your favorite channels!
The day we worked out (a decade ago) that we could stall discord by talking about world news was the day we moved to more secure communication.
I’d definitely love to move away from Discord, but unfortunately I’ve not been able to get my friends to move to anything else. Additionally, I have to use Discord for work (yes, it’s strange - definitely wouldn’t have been my decision) so I’d still be stuck using it even if my friends went over to something else.
Not like there is a better free alternative.
The alternative is a combination of multiple other programs some of which are associated with cost.
Apple Podcasts app on any platform. If you subscribe to like more than few dozen podcasts it runs at a snail’s pace even on the latest M1 and M2 devices from my experience. I turned off automatic downloads and it still ran slow. I don’t know why because a podcast app should be little different than an rss reader in theory, no?
Anyway I switched to Overcast last year and haven’t looked back.
Postman, not just loading is slow, everything is slow.
You can try https://hoppscotch.io, it an open-source alternative for Postman.
That and you have to have an account just to use it. I shouldn’t have to sign in to a 3rd party to test on localhost
I uninstalled it when they started forcing logins. It’s basically a glorified curl anyway.
Microsoft teams and discord. Both use react native.
On the desktop side, definitely Microsoft Teams. It’s insanely sluggish, even just going into a chat takes half a second or even a whole second and noticable time to load the UI. On a device that’s completely overspecced for something like a chat app.
On the mobile side, Discord. It’s quite alright on Desktop or in a Browser, but wow is the Android app bad. It’s soooo sluggish, and half the time forgets what it wanted to load because it takes too long.
The crypto.com app. I mean maybe the reason is “security”, but it takes like 10-20 seconds to view my credit card details.
you’re actually using crypto.com?
Yeah the credit card works well. I’m not really using the rest of the crypto functionality it offers 😅
Yeah the credit card works well. I’m not really using the rest of the crypto functionality it offers 😅
