I have too many toothbrushes
Seems I gotta try KOReader then, thanks!
Mine is a 2E, the only less-sluggish thing I found I could do was to limit the number of books on it, which seems ridiculous because I have zero PDFs, only epubs & barely using 2.3GB out of 16, and what does it have to do with page turns anyway ?
Ah, it'll remind me of the times I "hacked" my kindle just to display the cover of The Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy :)
It's my only ereader after owning a paperwhite for years. Yeah, it's inferior. It sometimes doesn't register
aseveral good, honest tap or swipes to turn pages ; it's having hard time making a difference between a swipe to change illumination and one to highlight text ; and sometimes you see some shadow text from other pages on your current pageBut kobo do sell some books without DRM, you can sideload without even using calibre, and, most importantly, it's not an amazon product
Any windows power user or dev on a mac can follow a wiki, read a bit and learn.
Good for beginners? I didn't describe a beginner right here. Anybody with experience in computing will find arch straightforward and satisfying. Heck, a CS student would probably go through a first install process faster than I do after 5 years.
What are the concept involved? Partitioning, networking, booting... These are all familiar fields to tons of very normal computer users.
Arch can be a good first distro to anyone who knows what a computer is doing (or is willing to learn)
Just by itself ; I checked KOReader on my phone & wasn't convinced enough to install it on my reader which, beside being that, just works with Calibre from several linux machines (and I don't mind reading PDFs on my phone, it's always user manuals and I need fluid zoom + screenshots for diagrams and stuff like that).
Dans de la S-F bien grasse, qui fatigue peu les circonvolutions: j'attaque le tome 3 de "Embers of wars" par G L Powell, les pages se tournent gentiment d'elles-même. Ça n'a pas la profondeur de contexte géopolitique de The Expanse mais on a envie de savoir comment ça finit.
Tiens j'en profite pour signaler que le premier tome de la série "Honor Harrington", On Basilisk Station, est gratuit pour l'instant (chez kobo). Ça tombe bien car si l'on aime bien son Space Opéra avec des petits soldats dedans, c'est très bien On Basilisk Station ; on a un contexte complexe, un rapport de forces tordu, une situation désespérée - assez bien foutu. Si c'est gratuit c'est bien sûr parce que c'est le tome d'ouverture d'une (longue) série qui, elle, vaut beaucoup, beaucoup moins la peine. Oh ça ne s'effondre pas immédiatement, ça reste haletant un bout, puis ça tourne au ridicule, hélas. En gros, sans spoiler, on passe de Full Metal Jacket (in space) à ...Sissy l'impératrice (in spaaaace). Dommage, mais on peut lire le premier, il est très bien et finit sans cliffhanger vers la suite.
Et justement comme par un hasard qui fait bien les choses, un nouveau "jailbreak" vient de sortir 🥳
I have kept à disconnected kindle for a few years after I completely stopped using amazon for anything - today I wouldn't even be seen with one as carrying one is a bit like advertising for the company
These are the best ereaders period, my kobo Clara 2e is sluggish, night mode is shit, USB connection to Calibre is "when I want, if I want"... But I'm not a billboard for that business. Too bad, really good devices, and hurray for all the people who will enjoy them away from amazon
À noter que chez kobo c'est déjà le cas : vous pouvez acheter sur leur site, mais si le livre est protégé par un DRM tout ce que vous téléchargez c'est un hyperlien qui n'est lisible que par un logiciel compatible avec le machin de gestion de DRM d'Adobe, où vous devez avoir un compte. (Ce n'est pas le cas pour les bouquins sans DRM)
Pour récupérer le "vrai" ouvrage il faut synchroniser sa liseuse en wifi pour le télécharger, (qui dès qu'elle est en ligne risque de se mettre à jour sans votre permission), puis la connecter à Calibre en usb, et de là demander au plugin Obok (inclus dans le pack DeDRM) de retirer la protection - pour être complet et simplifier la bibliothèque, il faut ensuite retirer de la liseuse la version bloquée et la remplacer par la version débloquée...
...ou bien on dit merde à tout ça et on achète que des ouvrages sans DRM qu'on va effectivement transférer comme on veut, où on veut, et à qui on veut. C'est une expérience bien plus agréable: il y a plein d'auteurs qui refusent les DRM, on est pas à la merci d'un service qui ferme, d'un logiciel qui périme, on possède ce qu'on a payé !
DeDRM / Calibre : c'est devenu compliqué, il faut télécharger une ancienne version du logiciel de gestion du kindle pour windows, qui va exiger une mise à jour qu'il faut arriver à refuser pour pouvoir récupérer ses bouquins dans un format moins bien protégé qu'avec les dernières versions... Je doute que sur w11 ça passe.
plus d'info ici >> https://nerdschalk.com/remove-drm-kindle-books-de-drm/
J'ai moi aussi arrêté amazon (au moment du covid, dégoûté par l'explosion de la vente en ligne de merdes "indispensables"). Récupérer tout mes bouquins ne fut pas simple donc. Un truc à chier également c'est que amazon applique les DRM partout, même à des auteurs de chez TOR par exemple qui vend sans DRM. Pareil pour audible, tout est derrière du DRM. Ma recommandation aujourd'hui si vous avez une kindle: ne remettez pas à demain, tentez immédiatement de reprendre possession de vos tomes pour pouvoir les conserver, les transférer, les lire partout. Y compris sur votre kindle, lol.
Kobo vend sans DRM les publications qui n'en ont pas, mais quand c'est possible j'aime bien acheter directement à l'éditeur si pas l'auteur.
Pour en venir au corps de ton propos, sur Mastodon je vois plein d'auteurs qui ne sont que sur amazon, visiblement en auto-publication. Ça faich' parce que parfois j'aimerais bien les soutenir mais comme le DRM amazon est de plus en plus performant et une vraie purge à contourner, eh, tant pis. Je vérifie si l'auteur a pas par hasard un site perso ou quoi mais c'est rare qu'ils vendent directement.
Yes. Calling this image today is super-loaded in every way: racism, white supremacy, fascism, it's all there from BLM to the Jan 6 Insurrection.
Debian is good at being basic, generic, stable AND has an automatic security-update-in-the-background feature
The whole amount of instruction to give to Dear SO is just to reboot the machine if it ever seems to misbehave
Have you read the LKML thread where the Rust people are called "Cancer", then slapped with "You are the problem" to end up with "we are the Thin Blue Line"? Herbst is right, it is sickening.
And what "line" is that? The last line against... Innovation? Just Stuff Moving Forward Like It Does Without Regards For Your Fragile Ego? The Dinosaurs Extinction?
Full message from Karol Herbst on LKML:
I was pondering with myself for a while if I should just make it official that I'm not really involved in the kernel community anymore, neither as a reviewer, nor as a maintainer.
Most of the time I simply excused myself with "if something urgent comes up, I can chime in and help out". Lyude and Danilo are doing a wonderful job and I've put all my trust into them.
However, there is one thing I can't stand and it's hurting me the most. I'm convinced, no, my core believe is, that inclusivity and respect, working with others as equals, no power plays involved, is how we should work together within the Free and Open Source community.
I can understand maintainers needing to learn, being concerned on technical points. Everybody deserves the time to understand and learn. It is my true belief that most people are capable of change eventually. I truly believe this community can change from within, however this doesn't mean it's going to be a smooth process.
The moment I made up my mind about this was reading the following words written by a maintainer within the kernel community:
"we are the thin blue line"This isn't okay. This isn't creating an inclusive environment. This isn't okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds.
I can't in good faith remain to be part of a project and its community where those words are tolerated. Those words are not technical, they are a political statement. Even if unintentionally, such words carry power, they carry meanings one needs to be aware of. They do cause an immense amount of harm.
I wish the best of luck for everybody to continue to try to work from within. You got my full support and I won't hold it against anybody trying to improve the community, it's a thankless job, it's a lot of work. People will continue to burn out.
I got burned out enough by myself caring about the bits I maintained, but eventually I had to realize my limits. The obligation I felt was eating me from inside. It stopped being fun at some point and I reached a point where I simply couldn't continue the work I was so motivated doing as I've did in the early days.
Please respect my wishes and put this statement as is into the tree. Leaving anything out destroys its entire meaning.
Respectfully
Karol
Signed-off-by: Karol Herbst
Hardware settings seems a bit limited. Maybe the point is to make it very cheap? Charging via older standard microUSB port makes it a no-go for the whole of European market through conventional channels tho.
But really the 7.5" 800x480 screen def worries me. A Kobo Clara is 1072x1448 over 6" diagonal, for $120.
(Now 5000mAh battery is crazy good for an e-ink device, that's great)
OP when the actual Crowd Funding campaign starts, please repost. I am curious nevertheless, it's a cool idea but I also want to be able to read my books on it.
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I use NewPipe on my android phone: it will only display the channels I am subscribed to, and you have to take extra steps to check what the algorithm would like to feed you afterwards.
I keep a voluntarily small amount of subscriptions, and removed the "most popular" tab in settings. This absolutely limits the amount of time I can spend on the platform (on top of removing the yt ads).
Manjaro: you're hiding all the sexyness of Arch behind a dull respectable outfit
...or you're hiding all the naked-ass-ness of Arch which leaves you with barely more than a g-string to wear
OpenSUSE doesn't make sense to me either.
I use Arch BTW
Je suis dans Dark. Scrongneugneu que les lignes narratives sont tordues quand tu te demandes qui est qui et surtout quand dans ce bazar
Je recommande !
Bah hé on sait pas hein, c'est p'têt le Martabaf !
J'aime bien faire des mots en croix dans les cagoinces. Victoire donc incontestable de Big Mots En Croix
mon temps optimal de défécation.