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Touched and computer UIs
<Touched> visual studio code is built on electron
<Touched> everything is a lie
<~Alex> lol
<~Alex> Touched: Why aren't you as critical of web applications as you are of the current graphical desktop state?
<Touched> what do you mean?
<~Alex> Surely the world of program-as-a-service applications was the worse fear of proponents of Free Software
<~Alex> why do you have so much disdain for the fragmented graphical programming options but don't mind graphical web programming really?
<Touched> who said I don't
<~Alex> I didn't
<~Alex> I said you don't seem to hate it as much, or at least that's what I was trying to get at
<~Alex> what is it about it?
<Touched> because desktop apps haven't evolved
<Touched> it's the same tech
<Touched> web stuff is evolving
<~Alex> same as what?
<~Alex> you mean unchanging?
<Touched> yes
<Touched> I don't really like either
<~Alex> what attracts you to the console then, other than the power of the keyboard over the mouse?
<Touched> nothing
<~Alex> so that is all?
<Touched> pretty much
<Touched> maybe it's also minimalism and distraction-free stuff
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