torunar's comments

On: Ask HN: What's your terminal and shell setup?

[torunar]

xfce4-terminal + bash. The only tweak for the terminal is a custom light theme, the only tweak for the shell is a custom PS1 to show current git branch and time.

On: Ask HN: What difftools and mergetools do you use on Mac?

[torunar]

vimdiff, same as on Linux and Windows.

[bpmedley → torunar]

I also use vimdiff. It’s magic.

[sinsquare → bpmedley]

What is so great about it?

I do feel like I'm missing out on something here, but it's hard to quantify what it is.

[bpmedley → sinsquare]

Blank spaces are color coded so for easier detection, I can edit the file if I need to, and there are diffupdate commands for piecemeal merging of sections of the files.

On: Night Vision App – Give Your iPhone Night Vision Capability

[torunar]

Based on the reviews, existing users didn’t really appreciate a switch to the subscription-based model.

On: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you not recommend? And why

[torunar]

Chess, Books and other preinstalled apps that you can’t remove for this exact reason.

On: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

[torunar]

Whatever way you choose, don’t forget to include an RSS feed for your blog.

On: Vinyl-on-demand service will press anything you want

[torunar]

The article says 50€, but the site says 99€. Am I missing something?

[throwoutway → torunar]

You're right, looks like they doubled the price

[gnabgib → torunar]

... the 2015 article date

On: Show HN: Submit Hacker News

[torunar]

What is the use case for it? What kind of activity implies automatic announcements on HN?

On: Ask HN: Feedback on my life expectancy tracking startup

[torunar]

Short answer: no, I would never subscribe to something like this.

Long answer: I would never trust my health or lifestyle data to a non-government organisation, and I would never pay for unreliable information based on guestimations.

[Livaton → torunar]

Thanks for your feedback. Agreed, data protection is a big topic for apps. Thinking this may be relevant for those who pay for health/fitness subscriptions, to get a different perspective on the outcome of their activities. Agreed though, life expectancy data is based on large studies/populations, so can't be 100% accurate at each individual's level - more just an estimate as you say.

On: Apple says no to PC emulators on iOS

[torunar]

Wonder what they have to say about iSH Shell [1], it’s a full fledged VM with Alpine Linux running on iOS/iPadOS.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/se/app/ish-shell/id1436902243?l=en-GB

On: Ask HN: Any recipe sites that start with the recipe?

[torunar]

Posted here on HackerNews some time ago: https://based.cooking.

[robinyapockets → torunar]

This format is great! Thanks for the tip