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I do this too. As well as ebooks, I have all my household manuals on it (washing machine, gas boiler, etc.) plus manuals for various devices - so much better than either keeping th…

There is a beta feature for using the reMarkable as a 'whiteboard' but it's very very buggy right now.

I always found it remarkable that a small regional studio like DMA could come out with two of the most important video games ever made (Lemmings and GTA).

The fact that it's a single-purpose (ish) device, and that it feels and works so much like real paper. It's like being able to carry an infinite number of infinitely long paper not…

Response time (i.e. pen touch to pixel appearing) on the latest generation of e-ink devices is literally imperceptible, though I believe they've had to cut a few minor corners to g…

I own a reMarkable 2. There is certainly enough to justify the cost, if you are a prolific note-taker. Conversely, I find it hard to justify the cost of an iPad, becuase I already …

I use Violentmonkey - I can't remember why, but I probably installed it due to the Firefox issues years ago and carried on using it. No complaints here.

Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story that the 'OK' button is only labelled that way because in user testing people read the original text - 'Do It' - as 'Dolt'.

> for a price At risk of seeming like a shill (I just like Groupy!) there seems to be a 50% discount code here, making it the price of a coffee: https://www.techradar.com/uk/review…

Their 'Fences' app is excellent (which was the app I bought the bundle for). In particular, the ability to create a view on the desktop onto another folder. This lets me split my d…

Not free (or 'free') but there is a commercial app that does this very well indeed - Stardock Groupy. It was bundled in with something else I bought years ago and I just leave it r…

You're definitely not alone. The sudden switch to WFH, combined with lockdowns etc, caused me to experience pretty severe stress/anxiety issues for the first time. I severely under…

Me too! My rM2 has quickly become one of my most-used daily devices, between note-taking, reading/annotating PDFs, reading ebooks and doing sudokus.

I think that's a little unfair. Gutenberg has some annoyances/quirks, but if you're starting from scratch and using a modern theme it's not bad by any stretch. Having been in the p…

Not to mention that Portugal has a nationalised healthcare system. I think I'd rather have 430 Eur + nationalised healthcare than $1260 and have to pay out of pocket (or deal with …

I guess freedom of movement allowing Eastern Europeans to legally live, work and pay tax in Western Europe without jumping through hoops, and immediately being able to benefit from…

The occasional donation to a non-profit might help people subsist, but it doesn't build a better society with more opportunities for everyone. Nobody needs an obscene salary for wr…

Came here to say this. Chatroulette added unnecessary 'features' that just introduced more friction into the experience (as it were). Which seems to have meant users gravitating to…

It's a novelty gift, like land on the Moon or naming a star.

You'd be better off becoming a Lord or Lady of Sealand: https://sealandgov.org/shop/become-a-lord-lady-baron-or-baro... The Principality of Sealand is a micronation off the coast o…

Let's not forget that Britain could have had mega fast fibre broaband in the 1990s if Margaret Thatcher had allowed British Telecom to proceed instead of 'leaving it to the market …

There's an option in fb2k to send opened files to a named playlist (e.g. 'New'), in which case it doesn't disrupt any other playlists you have open and just plays the file like Win…

Flash Player works as a standalone app iirc. https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/