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Well thanks for mention it, I really feel the same. Stuff just does not open instant and perceived slowness on macOS is real. Just try simple stuff… Modern Windows just flies most of the time in comparison. Opening a file dialog in finder is a common scenario yet it is so slow and the system seems to appear limited by simple stuff like that. M1 surely improves things but the UI generally seems to prefer animation over raw speed.

I really don‘t know what the reason is but I feel that a lot of people simply ignore this. I use all 3 major systems and I cannot overlook it anymore.

Additionally, Docker is another real issue mentioned for the reasons already. Too bad that it is so common now and its slowness is a growing pain. I feel that WSL (WSLg) on Windows is huge, no comparison to run a traditional VM for the most part if you are not macOS only. Never thought I have to write this…

Ok I see; thank your for the explanation. So out of interest, I did some research and found that approx. 30% of packages depend on native implementations further down... so this seems to be a huge problem...

Additionally I looked at the sqlite3 package and not too surprisingly it uses node-gyp as well. So even checking in node_modules might cause the problems you described.

Out of interest: which backend language do you recommend to reduce such problems...?

Not a node dev myself but why not simply reference dependencies with fixed version? According to semver (that is probably what most node projects use anyway), you are free to use latest minor and patch revisions and leave the major fixed. Shouldn‘t this prevent most compatibility problems?

As sad as the incident is: I am glad he is still committed to Android after being a team member and therefore equipped with a deep understanding about the platform and architecture itself.

Oh cool you are right. It seems to work in airplane mode. Now the only thing left is the initial load if you switch devices while it has been taken down...

I try to find out more about the project and its story. Thank you

Cool seems to work well. My only complaint: there is not much information about who is behind this project and how encryption works... Leading to: what happens if the website is not reachable or goes offline?

DPG seems to be a cool idea but what happens if a website has password requirements like at most/least an uppercase character, a number, no longer than x chars...

As I understand it, you have no control of the output it generates...

Last month I tried to use Reed Solomon ECC in order to do error correction. I stopped using it, the moment I understand that error correction does not necessarily mean "error detection". If one does not exactly know the number of possible errors within encoded data, RS-ECC may "correct" to a wrong result (if the data contains more errors than the ECC is able to correct). So checksums might be the better approach (in certain scenarios) if data integrity has the highest priority... I wish, Reed-Solomon would handle that.