Ripcord VS Be My Eyes

That argument would hold more power if there wasn't an existing native client for Slack and Discord, made by one person, with all the features I needed, working with absolutely no lag and minimal resource use, working on MacOS, Linux, Windows. Unfortunately the development stopped, or I'd still use it. https://cancel.fm/ripcord/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ Used it before, worked OK. Now I use Matrix, so I don't need it anymore. Neat trick: AppImages are squashfs compressed filesystems, so they can have slow startup etc. Fix this with ./app.AppImage --appimage-extract, find the binary in the created folder and run that one instead, so that you pay the decompression cost only once. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Not sure if it still works (or will continue to work) but this might be what you're looking for: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ I've also had fairly good results using gtkcord4, though it takes it little finagling to get up-and-running: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

There are a bunch of features in slack beyond the core chat stuff, like: 1. Being connected to multiple communities and switching between them instantly this can be of course simply replaced by connecting to different servers in a tabbed terminal and use the terminal's built-in cmd-1/2/... shortcut, which happens to be the same as in slack. 2. Meta data about others, like their timezone or how to pronounce their... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

All three of these are web browsers (slack and vscode are built on electron) that are notoriously RAM-hungry. If you don't want to buy new hardware, switching to using the slack web-app or using a third party client like Ripcord will remove one of those browsers, and using an IDE that isn't a web browser would take out another. You may also find that another browser like Firefox uses less memory than Chrome. Source: about 1 year ago

OpenAI says that it is working with bemyeyes.com to make it available for wider audience. I don't know what that mean. Source: about 1 year ago

Jumping on to the top comment to encourage folks to download the Be My Eyes app. Source: over 1 year ago

Hi, please download BE MY EYES, it is a global support system there to help the Blind people. Choose your respective regional languages so blind people can have more people who can help them out in their mother tongue. I see a lot of Hindi speaking people have joined the app and are helping fellow blinds. However, it would be great if we could have more people who can speak regional languages from India. Even... Source: almost 2 years ago

I just helped a blind person see with the Be My Eyes app #BeMyEyes http://bemyeyes.com. Source: over 2 years ago

I have that app as well. It’s really an awesome way to help someone else. They should have more apps like this. Be My Eyes. Source: almost 3 years ago