ARGH, complaining about the people and browsers 

this same douche keeps harping about how we can just make a progressive web app because they use localStorage which means we can save whatever we want to the local file system.

This is after me explaining multiple times that localStorage is not the same as file system access, it is a browser cache with some makeup on it.

And the 30 seconds later he says 'what do you have against progressive web apps? They would let us access the file system!'

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ARGH, complaining about the people and browsers 

also, progressive web apps certainly feel like a Trojan horse that is there to help move people from having any local applications to using applications that are purely on remote servers like chromebooks

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