Hacker News: adar

New comment by adar in "I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government"

adar — Sun, 01 May 2022 12:41:02 +0000

Are you sure you correctly read the post you're replying to?

New comment by adar in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

adar — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:27:55 +0000

As someone who just turned 35 last week, thanks for this.

New comment by adar in "Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results"

adar — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:24:51 +0000

Does one count as a nonprofit if their company is losing money? :v

New comment by adar in "Why is LinkedIn so cringe?"

adar — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:33:55 +0000

My favorite riff on these is when the poster is headed to an interview but saves a dog along the way, and the dog turns out to be the interviewer.

New comment by adar in "XSuspender Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications"

adar — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:47:24 +0000

Yep! I speak from experience as an Indian.

New comment by adar in "XSuspender Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications"

adar — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:31:36 +0000

It's a Hindu/Buddhist swastika, which is still widely used by adherents of said religions.

New comment by adar in "Google Chromium, sans integration with Google"

adar — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:53:46 +0000

> So you say your current position is to be rather carefully around anything by/from Google, but you trust Internet randos to build the binary of the browser you use?

How did you come to this conclusion when they stated that they'd rather use Firefox? Or are you saying Mozilla are the internet randos?

New comment by adar in "FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet"

adar — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:15:41 +0000

This is a good tip but unfortunately I'm on Windows on one computer and Fedora on the other.

New comment by adar in "FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet"

adar — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:52:15 +0000

I've been looking for a simple way to be able to listen to audio from my desktop and laptop simultaneously without requiring a hardware mixer or something. I'm currently using Scream but there is a bit of latency/delay.

Farplay seems to be more for audio recording, but would Farplay be a good solution for my use case?

New comment by adar in "Microsoft Edge GA on Linux"

adar — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:50:09 +0000

> Edge has built in support for vertical tabs, tab groups, and chrome extensions.

IMO Vivaldi's implementations of vertical tabs and tab groups is superior, but Edge is definitely a close second.

New comment by adar in "Fedora 35"

adar — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:31:38 +0000

100% in agreement with you. I liked the idea of Manjaro but the way they deployed Nvidia driver updates made it feel like absolute luck of the draw whether you'd have a login screen waiting for you after rebooting post-update. I've had more Nvidia driver issues on Manjaro in a year than I've had in the past decade+ on Ubuntu or any other distro.

Switched to Fedora a week ago which I like a lot so far, but I still very much miss the AUR.

New comment by adar in "Backblaze S-1 IPO"

adar — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:36:06 +0000

I'd feel deeply uncomfortable backing up 80tb of data to a $60/year plan, tbh.

New comment by adar in "Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions"

adar — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:29:55 +0000

I like Vivaldi but the issue is that you're still locking yourself into Chromium's Blink rendering engine which just serves to strengthen Google's push to be the de-facto standards enforcer of the web.

New comment by adar in "Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions"

adar — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:25:24 +0000

I'm not quite sure scripted dialogue in a fictional TV show about murderous superheroes is the correct comparison for Mozilla putting ads in search results...

New comment by adar in "Hiawatha Webserver"

adar — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 08:43:29 +0000

Is there a non-North American context for the word "Hiawatha"?

New comment by adar in "Video streaming battery life improved from 12h (12 Pro Max) to 25h (13 Pro Max)"

adar — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:31:57 +0000

The comment was quickly flagged by other users and is now dead. I'm not sure the hysteria is warranted, you're never going to find a public site where nobody ever posts anything dumb.

New comment by adar in "Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people"

adar — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:54:58 +0000

It takes about 10 seconds to create a new Reddit account so it's the moderators who'd be fighting the uphill, impossible battle to keep someone banned.

New comment by adar in "Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M"

adar — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:44:50 +0000

And? They lose absolutely nothing by asking.

New comment by adar in "Give to Thunderbird"

adar — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:07:03 +0000

Do you have a link to the bug report?

New comment by adar in "Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent"

adar — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:35:24 +0000

I hate being the kind of internet guy who's like "X sucks" about something a lot of people have worked on, but I really, really, really dislike Finder. It fails as a file explorer on several fundamental levels. For example network shares in Finder feel so tenuous and like they could break any instant. Sometimes after you sleep your Mac and wake it up, you have to reboot to be able to reconnect to a network share.