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 / 5 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 / 5 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 / 5 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 / 12 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

Hello HN. I live in a third-world country where Internet speeds have historically been very poor and generally expensive. So I built an offline file transfer tool called Feem, that helps you transfer text, files and folders between your devices without passing through the Internet. Like other apps in this same category, you need to be inside the same LAN. Or share your mobile hotspot. You also need to install the... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

You can also try Feem (https://feem.io). It transfers folders, and has an Android app like you requested. It also supports resumable file/folder transfers, which majority of other tools mentioned in this thread don't support. Disclaimer: I'm the creator. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Shameless plug: Try Feem (https://feem.io). Compared to other alternatives mentioned in here: Similarities: - Transfer files offline within same LAN. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Just adding to this https://feem.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago

Warpinator doesn't work on my network so I use feem.io on windows to transfer things over to the deck itself then copy and paste it over to the sd card once its on there (the free version transfers it over to the documents folder). I know there is a mac client so you could try that. Source: about 2 years ago