Hacker News: blakeinate

New comment by blakeinate in "Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021)"

blakeinate — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:14:34 +0000

As someone who uses your extension daily, I truly appreciate your strong will. It seems every day strong ethics become harder to maintain in our field.

New comment by blakeinate in "My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise"

blakeinate — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:32:36 +0000

If you enjoy supernatural, I highly recommend PowerBeatsVR. It's not nearly as polished as supernatural, but the workout configuration options are very effective, plus no subscription fees.

New comment by blakeinate in "Google Search Is Dying"

blakeinate — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 02:48:47 +0000

Just tried andisearch and am extremely impressed. It has so far handled all queries I have thrown at it better than brave search and DDG. Will continue to experiment, best of luck and awesome work!

New comment by blakeinate in "Study Confirms Climate Models Are Getting Future Warming Projections Right"

blakeinate — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:08:08 +0000

Do you have any sources for this? Sounds like an interesting subject I am not familiar with.

New comment by blakeinate in "The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018)"

blakeinate — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 05:03:32 +0000

2048 truly is the epitome of mobile games for me. Simple, translates well to a touch screen and most importantly no ads or micro transactions. My one gripe is I can't compete with my wife's high score.

New comment by blakeinate in "Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?"

blakeinate — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:47:11 +0000

As someone who had an Evo with custom FW back in the day, I can attest the process is much simpler in recent years. If you do your research and ensure the device you are purchasing has official lineage support, the entire setup procsss takes less than an hour. Lineage includes built in update support as well, although to upgrade between major versions you still need to use a computer if I remember correctly.

I purchased my first iPhone since the 3G this year, and it is currently for sale on swappa. I am willing to compromise on a slightly less polished UI and subpar camera to get the UX of android back; at least for me, iOS was lacking many features I could consider essential.

New comment by blakeinate in "Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life"

blakeinate — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 01:41:43 +0000

This year I purchased my first iPhone since the 3G, after today I am starting to regret that decision. At this point, I can only hope Linux on mobile picks up steam.

New comment by blakeinate in "Moving away from Google services, 8 years in"

blakeinate — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:41:30 +0000

My solution ended up being a mix of Backblaze B2 buckets, Nextcloud (linked to B2 using S3 Nextcloud features) and FileBrowser Pro on IOS (which is much faster than Nextcloud for photo upload, links directly to Backblaze). Costs me less than 10 cents a month at this point.