“I was referring to open book reader…”
The lack of capitalization, and the project name that could just as easily be a descriptor, made me miss it at first too.
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"The Open Book is my long-standing attempt to design a comprehensible and accessible e-book reader that you can build yourself (or at least have manufactured affordably). The current edition is something I’m calling the “Abridged” or “Developer Preview” edition. It’s designed to be incredibly simple: there are 7 through-hole and 14 surface mount components, nearly all in a chunky 1206 package that’s easy to hand solder. The tradeoff is that it has no LiPo charging circuit; instead it uses AAA batteries, making it a bit more chunky than previous versions of the book.
The goal with this version is to get hardware in hands so we can start hacking on firmware."
https://www.oddlyspecificobjects.com/projects/openbook/
So:
- This is a hobby / project of love
- The current focus is on hardware
I’m sure that the eventual plan is to support ePub.
I’m not sure it will ever get there, because it’s not a well resourced project, but I personally don’t like criticizing one person’s efforts, which they are making freely available.
183·10 months agoYou know what’s easy though?
Not bypassing congress to sell arms to a country specifically for genocide. (Biden and Israel)
Democrats will break rules / norms, it’s just almost never for causes that help people.
He could have simply not done anything, and it would have been better.
If “Don’t go out of your way to support genocide.” is asking too much, then don’t be surprised when people aren’t excited to vote for your candidate.
Development of the Wayland specification and multiple Wayland compositors is funded by the X.org foundation, and done largely by current and former Xorg developers / maintainers.
So it still works!
A concrete example of this is doctors and hospitals creating guidelines about how to triage care when ICUs were/are full because of unmitigated spread of COVID.
It is definitely an “interesting” phylisophical question to ask:
“If a long term ventilator user comes into the ICU, with the ventilator they own and brought from home, and they are less likely to survive than an otherwise healthy young man who needs a respirator due to COVID infection, is the morally best choice to steal the disabled person’s ventilator (killing them) and use it to save the young man’s life?”
The policy question that should be asked instead, and never really ways, is “How do we make sure that we never get to the point where we have so many people in the ICU from a preventable disease that we run out of respirators and need to start choosing who to let die?”
This is not just a hypothetical question:
Disabled people continue to plead with us for the bare minimum, like requiring doctors who work with immunocompromised patients to wear N95 respirators while treating those patients.
We continue to chose to stack more people on both sets of tracks instead.
Please be sure to check that the smart switches you have space heaters plugged into are rated for that many amps.
2·11 months agoUSB block devices containing mountable filesystems (on Desktop systems) can generally have those filesystems mounted and files written to them by regular users; But the block device itself stays only root writeable.
So, you need root privileges either way.
(Going from memory, but also decently confident)
Fun fact!
Teletypes predate “computers” and were used for efficiently transmitting and recording text.
Here is a purely mechanical teletype from the 1930s being used to interface with a modern Linux machine:
Considering some humans to be “not humans” is a primary tool of fascism.
Probably best to avoid de-humanizing anyone if you truly want to end fascism rather than re-create it under a different name.
Humans can do terrible, abhorrent things. It’s good for us to remember that, as we are also human; And capable of the same atrocities if we aren’t careful and vigilant.
If you can take multiple large, failed, risks without ending up on the street then you have immense privilege.
It’s hard for most people to “learn from their failures” and keep taking “big” risks, unless the risk to their own life circumstances was never actually that “big”.
Please list some of the top “culture war” issues.
I think you’ll find a pattern.
Hot take:
With genocide and eugenics on the rise again in the real world, maybe we shouldn’t be celebrating a movie whose entire premise is eugenics.
“Here’s what horrible things could happen if we continue to let the wrong people breed while the right kind of people breed to little!”
1·1 year agoI don’t know why people have such a negative opinion of Jizz.
Just because it’s played at the most wretched hive of scum and villainy doesn’t mean that the music itself is scummy or villainous!
22·1 year agoI mark any email that I didn’t intend to sign up for as spam, and I never intentionally sign up for emails from companies.
If Gmail offers a “mark as spam and unsubscribe” option, I use it.
I hope that adds just the tiniest push for Google to automatically mark these types of emails as spam and encourage companies to do better.
But then, I do this maybe once a month with Google’s own emails, so 🤷.
Almost never. When I do, it’s probably most often because I’m thinking about concrete.
I have never felt less like a “man” (in terms of gender) than when I watched a bunch of videos of men explaining why they think about the Roman empire every day.
Actual quote, which was representative of the videos I saw:
“What you need to understand about men, is that we all feel the urge to conquer.”
— Well, I guess I’m not a man then 🤷.
10 year old bug?
What are they talking about, that bug report is from 2014‽
… Fuck