As I understand it, Onyx Boox/Palma devices are great, but Onyx is a flagrant violator of GPL FWIW. For a full size reader I always recommend/second the Kobo Libra Colour and for a Palma replacement, the Bigme Hibreak is fantastic and also comes in color for a great price.

It really was brutal, but in the way that makes you very aware that it’s your fault for sucking at it.

I used to sing Sub Terrania’s praises long before it was cool. That game is a gem. The development team was a bunch of demoscene madmen who were able to wring miracles out of the Genesis and eventually created IO Interactive, which went on to make Hitman and the upcoming 007 game.

Their later game, Red Zone, is a technological flex like nothing else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyrinx

Now apply this to like, everything else ever.

Machine designed to convincingly fake human internet conversation sucks at ____________!

I assumed as much. :)

Now get outta here, ya Powkiddy

Retroid*

Amazon: exploits workers to amass inhuman wealth

Coders: apply for jobs at Amazon

Amazon: exploits coders to amass inhuman wealth

Coders: shockedpikachu.jpg

That’s great advice. At least for as long as libraries still exist. 😫

I hear good things about Pimsleur as an alternative.

https://www.pimsleur.com/

Excuse my ignorance of genre names, but isn’t Rogue Trader a fully blown Warhammer CRPG?

Republicans: “Hey, you suggested it, but now that we’re thinking about it…”

“Own the libs”

True enough, but you’d still be playing legal whack-a-mole because by the letter of the law, you could still be legally relatively poor but have access to an insane amount of money in lots of ways.

In principle, yes, but hiding wealth is also like Rich Bastard 101 stuff.

The problem is that the winners don’t share. They exploit the others. That’s exactly what got us here in the first place.

Any economist or data scientist should be able to pretty easily compare the economic course to a forecast of what would have happened with minimal interference.

Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.

I would say the only silver lining here is that the exploitation of labor puts these giants in a precarious position where all of their critical work is being done by unhappy, extrinsically motivated people who are often only still there because they’re relatively immobile (i.e., they aren’t good enough at their job to find another one easily) or they were kept on because their salary is lower and they’re less experienced. It makes these massively complicated technology ecosystems extremely brittle, which is why software has been shit across the board for the past decade or so. It’s possible there will be a pendulum swing if and when quality becomes an attainable and marketable feature again.

I do. It’s not ideal but it still gives me something better to do than social media.

I’ve heard it’s quirky and kinda mid as a phone, but not unusable.

Color screen and the fact that Onyx, the makers of Boox, flagrantly violate GPL terms.

But it was the Boox Palma getting publicity that made me aware of the form factor and start digging. I’m super happy with the Bigme Hibreak, but I don’t have a SIM card in it. I mostly use it in airplane mode as a dumb e-reader and don’t even install any apps besides the minimum needed to do that.

I got an e-ink e-reader in the pocketable form factor of a phone (Bigme Hibreak Color). Instead of doomscrolling social media, I read a couple paragraphs of the Oppenheimer biography. Next I’ll reread Neuromancer. It’s life-changing. 10/10 highly recommended.