why does the Telegram desktop app have a setting to select the graphics API

@noiob Do you actually want an answer or are you just postin

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@SwooshyCueb I know what ANGLE is I just don't think (a) this should matter for a mostly text-based app and (b) shouldn't be a user-facing setting

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@noiob yeah should probably be an environment variable or smth imo

@SwooshyCueb that entire app is a mess I once complained about tweet previews being cut off at three lines and the answer was "I wrote my own text layout and it can't wrap around images, so the text can't be longer than the image"

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