sanirank's comments

sanirank | 2 years ago | on: Vivaldi on iOS

Orion browser for iOS permits both Chrome and Firefox extensions. I have Firefox’s ublock origin installed on mine. Seems to work well so far.

sanirank | 3 years ago | on: Meld for Macs

I wish IntelliJ would sell git-only tool - their three way merge tool is the best I’ve used, and would gladly pay for a license.

sanirank | 4 years ago | on: Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags

I still wonder why phone cases with physical blockers for camera and mic aren’t in high demand, and why there aren’t hundreds of pirated copies on the market for the ones that have been developed.

sanirank | 4 years ago | on: Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

Maybe the good folks at Apple, Mozilla, Brave or Opera could implement this feature in their browsers? They’re looking to increase their percent of browser use - it could encourage people to at least try switching over. Obviously would be popular among the HN crowd for developer documentation, but we could spread the news :)

On the downside I could see this being used by terrible people to delist actual information sources so that they would only ever be served conspiracy theory sites in their searches as well.

sanirank | 4 years ago | on: Linux from Scratch with Training Wheels

I don’t know why but I find this so interesting. I totally don’t have time right now (with a young kid and trying to make some/any progress in my career as a dev now that I’ve successfully made the career change to working as a developer), but I really just like understanding how things work from the ground up - I can’t wait to have the time to build my own Linux distribution. It feels like it’ll be such a waste of time - like installing 5 or 6 different distros on an old PC I had just out of curiosity to see what they looked snd felt like. And I broke and fixed the boot loader so many times that it became kind of an enjoyable challenge getting the machine to work again - “ok, now how did I get grub2 to recognise where my partitions are…?” It seemed like spinning my wheels but I just really enjoyed it. I don’t know why. Kind of reminds me of a comment someone made here on HN about Linux a while ago - something to the effect of “I want an OS I do t want a hobby.” Except I enjoy messing around with it and spending time making it work. Not very productive though I admit.

sanirank | 4 years ago | on: Vim Modes Transition Diagram

Love org-mode. You should look into Spacemacs or Doom Emacs, with their focus on vim-style keybindings. I’m still learning my way around Emacs so appreciate Spacemacs for its discoverability. Doom is supposed to be quicker and more stable though, so it sounds like that might be the distro for you.
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