clif
@clif@lemmy.world
Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 8 hours ago:
Bonus points for no jailbreak required : D I didn’t even realize there was a jailbreak for it (or what benefits there are to jailbreaking it… I should do some research but I haven’t found anything I couldn’t do with the stock firmware and it sounds like you generally came to the same conclusion).
Mine is using the stock firmware, wifi off unless using Overdrive, but I plug it into my computer to charge and load it with books. It just shows up as a mass storage device like a USB thumb drive and you can copy/paste books onto it (or use Calibre). After disconnecting it will scan for new/changed files and auto-import any recognized formats into the reader application.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 8 hours ago:
Also saying Kobo. I’ve got the Kobo Libra Colour and love it.
It’s the only ereader I’ve ever owned but I used the spouse’s Nook and Kindle a couple of times in the past and the Kobo kills it. Granted, we’re talking about a nearly new release of the Kobo vs a 5+ year old Kindle so it’s not a fair comparison.
Because of eInk and auto-sleep, the battery lasts me well over a month of casual reading (~30min before bed) with the occasional multi hour weekend session. Backlight is present and is totally readable in dark areas at <10% brightness; 100% brightness is like a supernova in your face. While the Libra Colour is not specifically a note-taking tablet like a reMarkable, it does just fine for quick notes/todo lists/etc but I did splurge on the ($60) stylus. There’s a “notes” application that comes pre-installed.
eBook support for writing in margins (or over text), underline/circling, highlighting, etc is really nice but occasionally the highlight is flakey when trying to highlight the end of a paragraph. That seems to have been specific to certain epubs rather than an “always” thing, but it happens in around 20% of epubs I’ve used. - Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 8 hours ago:
Not that I would know from experience, but I hear there are Calibre plugins that will allow a user to pull the DRM’d book (downloaded via Overdrive) to a computer and remove the DRM.
I’ve read that it’s a polite thing to do because you’re able to return borrowed books much more quickly so other users can check them out.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 10 hours ago:
I forget that there are large centrifuges (somebody posted about Stuxnet further down).
Or, more accurately, I’m more familiar with the small ones (ThermoFisher calls them “Mini” and “Micro” centrifuges) for ~0.5mL samples and I had a hard time thinking that those would blow out a room. But the same link (ThermFisher) that I looked at to find the names also specifies 17,000g and 21,000g models which is just… fucking insane. I knew they spun fast, I didn’t know they spun 21,000g’s fast. Learn something new every day.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 days ago:
Look at the elitist over here that knows how to read : P
I never learned and you can’t make me.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 5 days ago:
I thought it was the same thing in the first frame : D
- Comment on Wobble wobble 5 days ago:
That’s awesome… And also funny that it had to be added. Thanks for the info!
I still want to know what happens on an old one without vibration detection or if it was “broken”. I assume something like an unbalanced washing machine but on a smaller scale? It just going out for a stroll :)
- Comment on Wobble wobble 5 days ago:
First frame isa centrifuge that spins samples at high speed to separate the components in them (I think that’s the purpose, not a scientist).
I hear that if it’s unbalanced, bad things happen, because you’re not spinning an unbalanced rotor at high speeds.
I honestly was coming to check the comments to see if anyone had experience with it so I could ask how bad it is.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 1 week ago:
Yeah, and it varies by station. I push all the buttons. Some times one works, some times not.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 1 week ago:
Who was it that said that the mark of a good leader is that everyone working under them is smarter than the leader?
By that metric, the C level are the dumbest people in a company.
- Comment on Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion? 1 week ago:
Came to post this, glad to see it’s already here.
Nice little utility tool box that does a ton of helpful stuff in a small package. Super easy to self host and container images easily available.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 week ago:
Don’t let the establishment tell you what to not eat. Follow your wanderlust.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 week ago:
Ask it to write a <reasonable number> of lines of lorem ipsum across <reasonable number> of files for you.
… Then think harder about how to obfuscate your compliance because 10m lines in 10 min probably won’t fly (or you’ll get promoted to CTO)
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 week ago:
O it’s writing 100% of the code for our management level people who are excited about “”““AI””“”
But then us plebes are rewriting 95% of it so that it will actually work (decently well).
The other day somebody asked me for help on a repo that a higher up had shit coded because they couldn’t figure out why it “worked” but also logged a lot of critical errors. … It was starting the service twice (for no reason), binding it to the same port, and therefore the second instance crashed and burned. That’s something a novice would probably know not to do. But, if not, immediately see the problem, research, understand, fix, instead of “Icoughbuiltcoughthis thing, good luck fuckers”
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been getting recommendations for videos with 2 to 10 views. Noticed it about three months ago.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
I just referred to the BOFH in class last week.
… Nobody caught the reference but it made me happy.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
Me too
- Comment on You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome 3 weeks ago:
2005: Because server side is PHP… Obviously.
- Comment on You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome 3 weeks ago:
Life hacks. Get on board.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 4 weeks ago:
Me to all restaurants, stores, basically anybody : I’m not installing your fucking app.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 1 month ago:
Somewhere out there is a person with a single folder named “music”, with zero sub folders, containing thousands upon thousands of tracks with names like “1.mp3” and “1 (1).mp3” and they’re totally okay with it.
Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 1 month ago:
Something I found today - ask it for the lyrics of your favorite song/artist. It will make something up based on the combination of the two and maybe a little of what it was trained on… Even really popular songs (I tried a niche one by Angelspit first then tried “Sweet Caroline” for more well known)
The new gpt-oss model replies with (paraphrased) “I can’t do that because it is copyrighted material” which I have a sneaking suspicion is intentional so there’s an excuse for not showing a very wrong answer to people who might start to doubt it’s ““intelligence””
… Like they give a flying fuck about copyright.
- Comment on Corruption fetishists 2 months ago:
Hey! You can’t say that on the internet! You have to say
fuck - Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 3 months ago:
Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 months ago:
I cut my teeth on Linux when red hat was trying to make things “user friendly” with control panel like guis but they consistently couldn’t do what I wanted so I had to learn the terminal anyway.
25+ years later, I’ll use a gui if it works and it’s easy, but I still have trust issues that I don’t have with a config file. You put shit in a config file, it’s going to do what you asked (right or wrong) or sigterm trying… And I appreciates that.
That said, I do mostly gui config on my daily driver these days. Servers however… No gui, no problem.
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 5 months ago:
At least you didn’t have to worry about Ruin manipulating it.
… Sorry, I’ve been reading the Mistborn series and just finished “The Hero of Ages”
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 5 months ago:
I appreciates that about you.
I don’t know if I’ve actually seen one of your posts, but thank you nonetheless.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 5 months ago:
The cycle continues
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 5 months ago:
Don’t mind me, I’m just going to keep up voting these posts because they’re so well done.
