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GrapheneOS is working with a manufacturer to change this:[0] > We're working with a major OEM and the devices will be the future versions of existing models they have now. The devi…

See Colin Gorrie's "How far back in time can you understand English?".[0] [0]: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-u...

(including HN! - https://media.simple.photo/12M3xnh3VhDMUgCs8DVhkTBI6OgDGGIX/... )

Of course, SteamOS is an immutable Arch spin, so it's not as if this isn't an idea that's been had before, but Arch is indeed on the surface sort of a weird distro to implement as …

The Guix pages have styling: https://guix.gnu.org

And in Spanish here: https://www.poeticous.com/borges/el-disco?locale=es (Not having much Spanish, I at first thought "Odin's disco(teque)" and then "no, that doesn't make sense ab…

almost: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE

You can set default margins in the user interface of KOReader too.

I'd suggest KOReader, on various devices, as the best renderer and interface.

One can also remove DRM from books one purchased with Calibre+DeDRM plugin.[0],[1],[2] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/2024_guide... [1]: https://www.mobiler…

And it works on Android too. Even for devices that aren't e-ink, I prefer KOReader to anything else.

> ....It's not some moral axiom that demands action to shut down problematic speech whenever it happens. No, that would probably end up in a logical paradox, if one were intolerant…

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

TeX puts more space after periods/fullstops (which is why you're supposed to do special markup or other measures to mark '.' in the middle of sentences which aren't sentence-enders…

There's a 1990s Alan Alda video interviewing Thad Starner with these elements: https://youtu.be/X7DM1mT8r7c

Yeah, I think KOReader started out for Kindle first, and then added Kobo (and then other things - works on Android for one, and KOReader is typically what I use if I'm reading on m…

I qualified the air-quoted "great" in the subsequent text, which was really intended to be the main point. (And high price and high quality may sometimes correlate, but high qualit…

What people aren't generally used to doing is installing OSes. Any OS. Using OSes... Windows 11 is far more complicated, finicky than plenty of Linux installs. (People get caught u…

It happens that lots of people who use Linux like to mess around with things, and, from a certain perspective, that's a waste of time. (But can be enjoyable.) But it's perfectly po…

(Though only in a small percentage of the world are those smartphones primarily iOS devices....)

Don't recommend Apple if you know better. Not everybody does know better. You can just say that you don't have enough time or spoons to do free tech support.