lepinkainen
@lepinkainen@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 15 hours ago:
Kindle just works
I can read a book in a series, finish it, buy the next one and it’s ready to read before I’ve gotten a new cup of tea.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 21 hours ago:
I paid for (the license to view) the books already, so I’m getting epubs from z-library without the slightest bit of moral pain.
I could do the calibre decryption thing, but meh.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 4 days ago:
ICE would say “Papers, please” to him
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 5 days ago:
Answered in the sibling, but this basically: github.com/ciromattia/kcc
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 6 days ago:
There’s a script, which I can’t remember now, that can optimise the pages by removing any margins etc so that there is no useless wasted space and every bit of display is used for content.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 6 days ago:
Just swapped to a Libra Colour last month and I’m feeling better about the choice every day
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 6 days ago:
It’s semi-decent for comics if you massage them a bit
- Comment on What happened to Pez? 1 week ago:
Silo, one of the very best Apple TV shows.
Watch it, read the books. It’s worth it
- Comment on The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World 1 week ago:
I got both and managed to sell them before they became e-waste
- Comment on Size of an adult Moose. And they are not as friendly as Bullwinkle 1 week ago:
This is why Volvo specifically crash tests their cars against fake moose.
It’s 800kg of muscle on stilts.
- Comment on Can The EV Charging Business Survive the Trump Administration? 1 week ago:
See: trains
China and most European countries have high speed rail and well maintained networks.
USA has: one chonky boy pulling like 256 cars on a wonky track
- Comment on Sonos Plans to Launch Apple TV-Like Streaming Box 2 weeks ago:
They did reverse that one pretty fast
- Comment on Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments 2 weeks ago:
Elmo has your tax data, he’ll just make it so that tax returns are filed through X 😀
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 2 weeks ago:
Engagement is eyeballs looking at ads
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 2 weeks ago:
Engagement.
It’s all they measure, what makes people reply to and react to posts.
People in general are stupid and can’t see or don’t care if something is AI generated
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 1 month ago:
Imagine being an openly gay CEO who finds a party who hates gays
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 1 month ago:
I don’t want to create a Twitter account 😔
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 1 month ago:
And Xi for good measure
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 1 month ago:
I’d just tweet “poop” at Muskrat and Donald 24/7
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 2 months ago:
The best bit is that Blu-ray supports “online content” so they can update the forced intros and trailers to fresh ones!
- Comment on Subway lovers posted 2 months ago:
A footlong sub (not a meal) is around 13€ here.
I can get a full ass restaurant meal for that
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
He has to or else it gets the hose
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 months ago:
In Finland fines are based on percentage of yearly income.
We’re still waiting for Bezos to come here and get a massive speeding ticket to fix our budget for the next decade
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 3 months ago:
Mastodon has protocol level issues that prevent it from being fully mainstream though.
As long as people move out of Twitter, I count it as a win. Especially when we get official government stuff out of there - which won’t happen for the US, but the rest of us have a chance
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 3 months ago:
Twitter started dying when they closed the API
Bluesky’s is perfectly operational
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 3 months ago:
Any game in that genre combined with local and remote multiplayer would be a hit
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
A Mac is not a Windows PC
The last time I turned off my Mac Mini was when we moved. The time before that was when my UPS battery died and I had to swap a new one in.
I do reboot it though, but why would I bother turning it off?
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 months ago:
The previous model has it in the back, you can’t even feel it properly because it’s not recessed.
On the other hand the last time I turned off my M1 mini was when we moved. It’s 100% silent and takes less power than a lightbulb when it sleeps, so why would I bother powering it off.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 months ago:
You can get cheaper options with 10G nics in the same form factor
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 3 months ago:
I choose the Platypus