doubtingtammy

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not a gap in every dialect! "Ye" is another plural second person used in Ireland

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's so disturbing to see libs cheer on the meat grinder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, but have you considered rytheon stock price?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Negotiating a political settlement isn't "giving up". Turning off the meat grinder is not "giving up"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use either KDE Connect (/gnome connect), or firefox

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Different pronunciation. Kanye's ye is "yay" while the plural second person pronoun "ye" is pronounce like "Yee"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Are you Irish? Those are the only people I've heard use "ye" for the plural "you". Which is a shame, because it has a nice ring to it. Ye and Y'all are like yin and yang

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Imagine opposing a genocide only because of horse race politics

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Oh shit. Nobody tell congress or else they're gonna ban linux

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

On the hardware level, it will take a while. In the software level, I don’t think it will ever happen.

I'm no computer engineer, but this seems like a silly take. Hardware requires supply chains and some of the most closely guarded technology in the world. Software requires programmers and time.

the Linux Kernel, the GNU stuff, the systemd stuff, the Freedesktop specifications, Xorg if they still use it, wayland protocols and wlroots, are all developed by people from The West,

Literally anyone can download those things and fork them. And I wouldn't be surprised if there's already chinese contributors. And if China really wanted, they could even ignore the GPL and not publish their changes to the source code 😲

Not everyone can download extreme UV lithography.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I did not have 'Pelosi takes on the gerontocracy' on my 2024 bingo card

One Pelosi ally said it was possible she would press Biden publicly to give up his spot atop the Democratic ticket.

“The speaker does not want to call on him to resign, but she will do everything in her power to make sure it happens,” this person said, referring to Biden quitting the race.

[Edit] changed the title to Politico's after reading this community's sidebar

 

I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn't the best. The "touch screen" is the old resistive type where you really need to press with your nail or a stylus. Despite all those flaws, it's fantastic. It's just good enough for reading books.

I read with large text so I don't even need to put on glasses, and it's easier to read than an actual book. Combined with Anna's archive, I'm reading more than I ever have before. No Wi-Fi nd slow screen make the experience feel closer to an actual book than a smartphone. It's great to just have a device do one thing without distractions popping up every minute.

It's all old technology, but it's so rare to see anyone with an e-reader. Probably because they're still expensive and designed to microtransact the fuck out of you.

So do you think there could be a simple open source e reader? I see pine64 is making the "pinenote", but it's still just the developer version, it's expensive, doesn't have an sd card, and looks like it's trying to be a lot more than an reader. Maybe it'll come down in cost, or they'll release a simpler version? The biggest obstacle for making an e-reader seems to be the screen, so maybe the pinenote's screen could become something of a standard.

Or maybe I'm overthinking it, because there's already so many old Kindles and nooks out there that could be improved with a new battery and maybe new firmware too.

Thoughts?

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