• Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Unlike traditional web apps, OneDrive Photos is actually quite well built. It has a Windows 11-like Acrylic design for the context menu and does not take up a huge amount of resources, as RAM usage stays under 1GB

    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

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      12 hours ago

      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.

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      2 days ago

      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.

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      1 day ago

      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.

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        17 hours ago

        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.

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          8 hours ago

          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?

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            8 hours ago

            some of the reasons why it’s not a native app:

            1. it uses 1000 mb of ram instead of 50 mb
            2. if you install binisoft windows firewall control, it wants to get permission to “Microsoft Edge WebView2” when you open it
            3. all the other microshit apps like clipchamp, new outlook, teams, the start menu, the widgets, are all webapps. It’s like they fired anyone that knew how to write code and replaced them with copilot
            4. the library, https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui , is react = web
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          8 hours ago

          Shill? Explaining why something isn’t a “web app” is shilling now? Geez you commies are getting really loose with your definitions now.

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        22 hours ago

        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.