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.
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.
Haven’t used Brave Search yet, but I have not had the same issue it’s DDG. I use it as my primary search and it works the large majority of the time. I do resort to Google on rare occasions and am always amazed by all the blatant spam at the top of its results.
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.
I had similar issues, and tried the same to no avail. The only thing that worked was a complete reinstall of the operating system. Am guessing you might need to do the same.
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.