Paradox
@Paradox@lemdro.id
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
I built a 3D printed ereader stand that has a RAM mount ball on the other side.
Right now it’s sitting atop a manfrotto monopod between my bed and side table. Eventually want to mount it on the wall, but the monopod has worked well enough I don’t see too much need to change things up.
With a cheap Bluetooth tiktok ring remote bought online, I’ve had a very enjoyable reading experience in bed, and if I drift off there’s no worry about the device
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Boox’s Neoreader is surprisingly good, but KoReader just frog blasts it
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Free cellular for life, except Amazon has basically limited it down to nothing
I loved my oasis, but the whispersync was, for all intents, busted, for the last few years.
Finally moved to a boox go color, installed calibre, and couldn’t be happier
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Check out standard ebooks. They take public domain books and “clean” them up with really good typesetting, spelling fixes, and other things. All free too
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Boox Go 7 Color II
Install KoReader on it (it runs Android so it’s literally just installing a new app) and you’ve got the best reading experience out there
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 5 weeks ago:
Bullshit
Funko pops. Lego. Star wars. Marvel
- Comment on Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds 1 month ago:
I only recently found out that FSD treats you like a poorly behaved toddler, with its stupid strike system. For those who are unaware, if the car doesn’t think you’re holding on to the steering wheel and paying attention to the road, it gives you a strike. Once you have one strike, you can’t use FSD for the duration of that drive. Once you get three strikes, it’s disabled for an indeterminate time period, typically a week, but you can find reports of drivers being locked out for a year or longer. Keep in mind, this is a feature you have to pay extra money for, on a subscription basis
My Subaru doesn’t give a shit if I accidentally let go of the steering wheel on a drive with its its lane keep assist system enabled, it just beeps at me with increasing urgency, while still doing its job
- Comment on Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study 2 months ago:
I used to buy plane tickets on a VPN with an exit node in Southeast Asia. Cross country USA for $95
- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 2 months ago:
Ghost, tumblr, WordPress, any of the self hosted SSGs out there.
- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 2 months ago:
Substack just annoying as can be anyway, with the constant spammy pop-ups about subscribed to my newsletter and whatever the hell else. Absolutely atrocious blogging platform
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 months ago:
I love mine. Don’t use it for much, but still love it
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 3 months ago:
The article is 3 years old
- Comment on Bungie delays Marathon, telling players, "we know we need more time" 4 months ago:
TF2 has years on destiny
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 4 months ago:
What the hell are they thinking
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 4 months ago:
The sad thing is, we had federated auth before social sign on. OpenID was a thing before oauth
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 4 months ago:
I once used one to look up my friend from summer camp. He lived in New York City and I didn’t live anywhere close
Library had a bunch of NYC phonebooks
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 5 months ago:
Our machines have the ability to turn the buzzer on after each cycle, but it’s not sticky. Given how far away from everything else the laundry room is, even with the chime you can’t really hear it. So I have it set to just ping our phones when a load is done
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla 5 months ago:
Used screen savers to bootstrap digg by free advertising
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 5 months ago:
BART wrote a PDP8 cross assembler in the late 90s, that they still use today.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 5 months ago:
Fwiw it shows the charge % to the next pip down next to the ammo counter
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 5 months ago:
Tbh it’s more like quake 1 than Doom
Which isn’t a bad thing, but I think everyone would have been perfectly happy with just Doom: Eternal 2
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 5 months ago:
These don’t really feel like a garden hose, best comparable thing is the spray from a good impact or rotor sprinkler.
I didn’t get the long nut because it wasn’t an option when I bought them a few years ago haha
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 5 months ago:
I liked em so much I wrote a blog post about it
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 5 months ago:
I used to feel the same way, going as far as to drill out the flow restriction devices, but I found a shower head I actually like a few years back, and even it’s lowest flow model feels powerful
I liked it so much I wrote a blog post about it
- Comment on Xbox CEO: Consoles are a 'good, established business' and a 'really healthy part' of Game Pass 5 months ago:
Updates that fix bugs come to PC far earlier than Xbox sometimes never coming at all. Games, when not on gamepass, even from Microsoft, are typically cheaper on other platforms. And sometimes they just don’t even put content on the Xbox
Last fall was halo 2’s 20th anniversary. If you only played Xbox, you could have forgotten it. Microsoft did nothing on the Xbox about it. But on PC, they promoted the released E3 demo levels
- Comment on Xbox CEO: Consoles are a 'good, established business' and a 'really healthy part' of Game Pass 5 months ago:
Then why are you treating us like second class citizens?
- Comment on Ubisoft’s Colorblind Simulation Tool, Chroma, Now Available For Public Use 6 months ago:
My only beef with Microsoft and Xbox is that they’re not willing to open up these systems to any sort of macros or even complex rebinding.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 6 months ago:
Shame, because I used to actually admire how he handled layoffs. Was a far sight better (from outside looking in) than the “thanks, here’s one extra paycheck, send your laptop back at your expense please” I’d experienced
- Comment on Best printable puzzles to 3d print? 6 months ago:
Any puzzle made by Oskar van Deventer. He’s got a ton of them, they’re all free, and he posts YouTube videos about them all
- Comment on Apple Readies Its Biggest Push Into Health Yet With New AI Doctor. 6 months ago:
I’ve heard the song and dance from all the tech companies at this point. Google and Microsoft both offered a package that promised things like chart portability and whatnot. Each was shut down a couple years later, and charts and records remain as locked down as ever