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Yingwu

@ Yingwu @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A courtyard of bamboo and late-night snow

a lone lantern a book on the table

if I hadn't encountered the teaching of no effort

how else could I have gained this life of leisure

Wei Yingwu 韋應物

  • I'm doing my part!

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  • Don't forget Backgammon. World's oldest board game!

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • As mentioned, this is one of the reasons why Adobe DRM couldn't longer be used according to the interpretations of the EU directive, and why they "had to" remove the option to download the DRM-protected ePub file and move to an app instead where they could make text-to-speech work.

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • At least you could easily DeDRM ADE. This seems a lot trickier due to there not being one universal solution and it being in-app.

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • Exactly this.

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • Yeah but as I said, shadow libraries are usually very lacking in many smaller languages that are not English or Chinese for example.

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  • I'm not even convinced that Loops was a good idea to begin with. Yes, sure, always nice to have fediverse alternatives of mainstream apps, but short-form videos like those on Tiktok wouldn't have been successful if not for Tiktoks algorithm which is much, much better than even any of the competition. It's really good at discoverability and being addictive. And Loops doesn't have anything like this (and even if this is good depending on who you ask, it definitely doesn't give Loops an advantage). Who even is the target audience of Loops?

  • Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer?

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  • Not really? Always something else beyond the horizon.

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • At least I'm hoping that there'll still be a spectrum of both BW and color screens available. Apparently many seem to like/prefer colour screen, and the screen door effect and worse contrast doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. Some even prefer the more textured look of the screen door effect, though I don't know myself as I've never tried a colour screen. Either way, I'd be hesitant to try one, and as I kept my Kobo Aura One for like 7 years it'll be quite some time before I upgrade my current Kobo Libra 2. If I have some spare cash I might be inclined to try a colour e-reader as an alternative to my current one, but it's not high on my priority list.

    But yeah, it definitely seems that Kobo is pushing their colour screens as they're only selling the Libra in colour now. Might be that they release a B/W once the hype dies out a bit though.

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • Wow, I just bought it last year before they discontinued it then. Interesting that only colour screens are available now. It must mean that they are at least as good though? Edit: after reading reviews, apparently not... that sucks.

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • Absurd. Glad I have a Kobo.

  • What's up with lemmit.online?

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  • Yeah, don't misunderstand me. I don't mind them existing, but I don't want to see it. My mistake maybe by browsing all using scaled sort tho, top is usually fine. But I usually just don't browse all, I curate my subscribed comms instead.

  • What's up with lemmit.online?

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  • Especially with a lot of the content being posted on there is not just nsfw but also super fringe. I feel there's a lot of uncomfortable things being posted, but I might just be sensitive...

  • EndeavourOS: Our new ISO release is here, meet Mercury

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  • Ah right. I've ran Arch before but got tired of things breaking sometimes so I wanted something more stable. How stable is EOS? Are a lot of manual fixes needed?

  • Astronomers Amazed by Perfect 'Einstein Ring' Gleaming in Space

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  • I'd like to traverse that stargate for sure

  • EndeavourOS: Our new ISO release is here, meet Mercury

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  • How does EOS compare to Pop?

  • One year ago!

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  • Awesome, great job! I've also been thinking about picking up drawing but I have so much else going on so I haven't really had time to prioritize it.

  • How are you doing with your communities?

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  • Thanks for the encouragement!

  • Lemmy vs Mbin vs PieFed

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  • Mbin has better support for microblogs and Mastodon federation than Lemmy. I also prefer the default front-end of Mbin to Lemmy, but Lemmy has better alternative frontends and apps. I think it's great to support Mbin as well.

  • Go buy a linux book at a charity shop or a library sale!

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  • Really nostalgic about the times when you were taught computer stuff in physical books. The only ones I have nowadays in physical format is Code Complete and Clean Code...