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PDF reflow is one of the major reasons I am using Koreader. The whole thing is very clever and works extremely fast given the limited nature of these devices.

IMAP had its day in the sun, but the advent of big webmail providers (especially gmail) has killed off the advancement of email clients. Now all major development is focused on try…

This sort of thing is why nobody gives a shit about IBM anymore and they have to keep just buying relevant companies to stay relevant. Hopefully they do the right thing and hand ha…

This is correct. I think it may add a bit of security, but containers are better thought of as mechanism to deploy and manage applications/services. They can be useful as part of a…

> Is there an equivalent of DDWRT/OpenWRT but for TVs? Get a used mini-pc, install Linux on it, and don't allow the TV to connect to any networks. This is a 50-75 dollar solution. …

I have a 'smart tv'. I don't allow it to connect to any network. The only really annoying thing about it is that noises from tv shows or the house sometimes triggers the voice reco…

I have a Rx 7600 XT that I purchased to run Ollama LLMs. Something just to screw around with. Works fine with their ollama:rocm docker image on Fedora using podman. No complaints. …

Mirrored raid is good. Other raid levels are of dubious value nowadays. Ideally you use "software raid" or file system with the capabilities do scrubbing and repair to detect bitro…

Taking a valid and correct observation and then strawmanning it with a crappy comic strip does not turn it into a invalid and incorrect observation. The whole article above reminds…

What software are you using that has a parent company that pays out damages to you if it fails? Because that is the purpose of 'bonded and insured'. I haven't looked at every EULA …

> The one thing I don't understand about these Pi based mini-racks is why you would build a home lab that's less powerful than your client devices. It makes sense because you are u…

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In the USA, at least, most the lumber for home construction is farmed. We don't rely on "old growth" for much anymore. Meaning the forests are kept forests and new trees are plante…

It is essentially requiring tech companies to work for the UK government as part of law enforcement. They are required to monitor and censor users or face fines and Ofcom has the a…

United States educators need to go to Poland and find out what they did to get such a increase despite the pandemic.

It is less 'logic is new'... it more about abstract thinking is a skill that is more useful in societies that have complex social arrangements. If you are a primitive farmer abstra…

small and medium businesses. These are the movers and shakers. Any barrier to entry for people creating businesses and selling products to the public is a innovation murderer. Big …

It is generally said that the lowest threshold for people to perceive time delays is around 10-15ms. Speed of sounds is roughly 343 meters per second. Which means translates we can…

One of the major benefits of being a American is that even though our politicians are garbage and the science of central banking in the USA is to economics what mercury pills and b…