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Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by anagri on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:09AM (#37062114)
do you have a Mac installer available?

also you need a designer. the website looks like from the 2000s.

thanks for sharing the app.

Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by wffurr on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:23AM (#37062297)
A quick click shows that it’s available on home brew and Mac ports.

I like the 2000s website style. It’s functional, simple, and loads very fast.

Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by eviks on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:17PM (#37066557)
what the quick click doesn't show is that brew will require ~700mb of dependencies and still installs as a cli app, not an GUI app bundle
Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by pluijzer on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:43AM (#37062534)
Yes this website needs a huge full screen video of models in business attire making calculations on a white board. When scrolling down I don't wish to find out what it does but would like some quotes from people saying how it changed their lives. Some transitions would be nice, the ones that make my fans spin, it gets cold here in the winter. Without it this website is barely usable.
Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by fuzztester on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:29AM (#37064183)
Totally.

Along the same lines, I'm nearly Goad Complete (TM) with an amazing SaaS called Append-Slash-Ess as a browser extension. It does what you would expect, at the click of a mouse or touch of a finger, no need of keyboards, which are so last century. We aim to obsolete them so we can rake in, oops, take on our mission of improving the world.

And since our team is made up of (literally) outstanding ex-Ghroaglers, we'll only support the Ghroan browser, of course. And it'll detect and reject others, for the benefit of everyone.

Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by doodpants on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:51AM (#37062628)
So, you think the website would be better if it:

- had low contrast text in a thin font

- had pointless animations of content fading in as you scroll down

- had a GDPR cookie consent popup

- popped up an interstitial form asking for your email address so you could receive their newsletter, but only after you've had the site open for 30 seconds and were in the middle of trying to read it

- was completely blank if you disabled JavaScript to try to avoid all of that nonsense

No thank you; the current design is unironically perfect IMHO.

Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by gapan on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:43AM (#37064386)
Can you please point me to a website from the 2000s that looks like this? A wayback machine link would do. Because I definitely don't remember websites from the 2000s looking like that.

The website's design is fine.

Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator by akho on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:53PM (#37068240)
what kind of satire is this