Yeah, definitely think there are use cases for this (look at how popular the xeink X4 has gotten), but a device smaller in most dimensions than modern smartphones isn’t gonna make a good general purpose ereader for many people

Good to know, I was a bit disappointed by the second though I did like a lot about it. I’ll have to pick up the third and finish it once I’m past the current round of books!

In fairness a lot of other large commercial sites are somehow even worse…

Lots of good answers, but I’ll throw another in: pollution of the Internet with slop. I’ll search for e.g. what good flashlights with ‘n’ features are and there will be hundreds of near-identical listicles that are clearly hallucinated. I’ll try to look at a local restaurant’s menu and it will bring me to a fabricated webpage with ai generated images of food (with Wonder brand Hont Doug bundts yesterday!) and a menu that is very obviously factually incorrectly.

There have always been low-effort fake listicles and bad information, but it used to be easy to avoid the couple links per search or to refine the search to be specific enough to rule them out. Now I’m not convinced there aren’t websites that generate poor quality content on the fly based on whatever I just searched.

Just a guess as to what’s going on, but the optimum temperature for drinking hot beverages overlaps pretty exactly with the optimum temperature for microbial growth, so if these are better at retaining heat than the comparisons they would also spoil faster

Sidephone, key phone, ikko one with the optional keyboard, upcoming clicks communicator, and dumber mini are all modern semi-smart keyboard phones at or below their discounted introductory price for the base model, with similar enough specs in most areas. Most of these are on some sort of privacy AOSP rom too.

And that’s not including all the unihertz, blue fox, and other Chinese phones that would compete

Sounds like you want the sidephone then maybe. I think this is a cool idea but there’s like 8 other implementations for hundreds left. Unless the main draw is Linux, but if it’s pushing to run android apps then why not stick with degoogled android like all the others?

I think their stock valuations are typically of the stock they own rather than total stock. Bezos for instance owns 8% of Amazon.

He got it wrong, a lot of them like them in between as long as they’re on an island waiting for them.

Curious why that year? You have to go much older to predate any surveillance tech. Like some cars in the 90s had GPSs embedded, not sure when the ability to offload data arose but no later than 2007 in OnStar equiped vehicles.

Supernote has two sizes, I use the smaller one as an e reader successfully. About the height and width of a largish novel, but much thinner, and it runs a very open android fork that lets you treat it as a USB, along with various cloud sync options including self hosting. It’s primarily geared towards writing, but it natively supports kindle app for library books and is pretty easy to side load other apps onto. My one big caveat is that it isn’t backlit which makes night reading a pain, but some random person on reddit just started selling a light that clips directly into the pogo pins on that back and it works pretty well, though it’s annoying that it isn’t directly integrated so it’s another thing to keep track of

Regardless of the actual amount of guns one sees around and in desks, one thing I think is particularly relevant is how many guns are in American media. I’ve never personally seen a desk gun in the USA, though I do see a fair amount of holstered guns in public, but so many TV shows, movies, and even advertisements have random guns popping up even if it’s not thematically relevant or appropriate.

I guarantee it’ll be badly coded and introduce vulnerabilities, which for government phones could be national security threats

Just read this for the first time a couple months ago, immediately followed by the sequel Year of the Flood. Haven’t gotten round to finishing the trilogy yet. I’m interested in your thoughts once you finish!

Kind of scattered these past few weeks, so I’m about halfway through Murakami’s After the Quake, on story two of Three by Tey, and on the first fifth of Terry Pratchett’s The Truth

Definitely her over Trump, but she has to get past the primaries first, and we cannot forget that she ended up being a supremely feckless candidate on all the core voter issues that gave her momentum at the beginning of her abridged campaign.

The bolt has buttons and no real smart features but it also has an infotainment tablet. It also still has gps and Wi-Fi and whatever else as options, so I don’t particularly trust it not to be tracking everything. It’s certainly miles better than most of the competition but it’s still a modern car.

There’s an entire chocolate episode literally every season? And they’ve done caramel weeks several times too.

The point is that most commuters don’t need the larger chargers, they can get all their commiting energy from a 120v wall charger and save fast chargers for road trips. I’ve been driving a PHEV or EV for 6 years, 120 mile commute ~3 days a week, and have used fast chargers maybe 10 times total.

Tens of millions voted for him the second time, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a good chunk of the 600k came through a few big donors and this was yet another money laundering scheme like the coin, that happened to catch a bunch of morons in the mix.