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Post by rchaud »

rjzzleep wrote: post #151
SamBam wrote: post #126

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This is pretty clever. If I recall, the LiveScribe Smart Pen had/has this feature. You just draw some symbol and tap it, and it inserts a voice recording at that spot. Surprised this isn't standard on these products now.

I have a hisense eink pocket reader(5.84") and it has an eink refresh button. It's hisense's degoogled android(only support chinese and english and some menus have weird grammar). But what's interesting is that if you hold the extra button it launches into a notes app which has dictation and unlike googles own dictation it does a pretty good job at capturing both chinese and english without needing to switch. I didn'…

Does this actually fit in your pocket? Front or back?

I have a Kobo Mini with a 5" screen that's perfectly pocketable, but it's on its last legs, and the 2012-era e-ink lag is noticeable.

I have looked at modern options but they're all 6" minimum with a lot of bezel, which means they won't fit.

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Post by m12k »

wraptile wrote: post #154
m12k wrote: post #147

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Twitter exists because you can't write long posts. Snapchat exists because you can't view past messages. Tinder exists because you can't just talk to anyone unless they are interested in you too. Limitations and missing "features" absolutely can be an asset to a platform.

You're comparing apples to oranges - those are social networks where multiple people have to come to some sort of consensus, having rules over that consensus sure, can be a feature. I don't need anyone to agree with me to turn off notifications.

Devices with notifications are little skinner boxes for our brains. There's perfectly valid reasons for people to want a device where notifications are not even an option, just like there's valid reasons for alcoholics to not want booze in the house. If that's not an issue for you - congratulations, those devices are not designed for you. But please don't deny others them, just because you don't think they should exist - they absolutely should.

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Post by falcolas »

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

> Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have.

Like syncing local notes using common cloud services?

Technically, the feature's there, but it's locked behind a $100 per year "service".

Rant aside, I have an iPad mini where I turned all notifications off. Just as good as if it didn't have those features when I don't care about them - but if I need them they're right there.

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Post by lvass »

GrigoriyMikh wrote: post #131
bsd44 wrote: post #122

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I would if Pinephone was able to make phone calls or Librem 5 ever shipped...

As a person who is totally unaware of anything going with Pinephone and other Linux phones, i'm asking -- are they really unable to make phone calls? Or only in some specific cases?

You can't make phone calls in case you only want open source software. GSM Baseband software is notoriously closed and that's practically enforced by law.

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Post by fluidcruft »

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

Has PDF annotation improved on Remarkable 2?

Otherwise it's trival to disable notifications, messaging, email etc (at least on Boox and there are quite good youtube tutorials about how to do this), so that's not a particularly strong differentiation.

"You can have any color you want as long as it's black" only works as a selling point if other cars can't be black.

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Post by webmaven »

yesbut wrote: post #129
zikduruqe wrote: post #121

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Foreign actor doesn't have to abide by the Fourth Amendment either. They can just show the US whatever they want without a warrant.

The US would still be required to abide by the Fourth Amendment though.

> The US would still be required to abide by the Fourth Amendment though.

Only directly. The Five Eyes and other 'partners' routinely share intelligence with each other that their counterparts would face barriers to collecting.

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Post by mbar84 »

rchaud wrote: post #148
youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

What 'loud' tech did you see on the linked page? Everything was about reading and writing.

I think he means it in a metaphorical sense. Anything that grabs attention is "LOUD" in this sense (just as is ALL CAPS writing).

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Post by netizen-936824 »

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #155
netizen-936824 wrote: post #33

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I agree. This is a poor comparison. A product that's subsidized will always win the price war with one that's not

Well, the difference between Kindle Paperwhite and Oasis is just one inch - but you need to pay twice as much. You could say only the former is subsidized - but wouldn't it be in Amazon's best interest to make reading experience more comfortable?

Its in Amazon's best interest to offer either convenience or lower price, which is what they do at the cost of treating labor poorly and harvesting usage data.

It's comfort and convenience subsidized through suffering

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

Jtype wrote: post #139
peoplefromibiza wrote: post #112

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> You prefer China (presumably here we mean the CCP) There only exists one official China on this planet... > because some American companies have done the moral wrong Do we really wanna talk about all the wrong American governments and/or corporations have done in the past 75 years? Or how many resources they depleted while large parts of the World were barely surviving? Are you sure?

Yes, go ahead and directly compare the US with China. How many deaths can be directly attributed to each? How free are the citizens of China to criticize the Chinese leadership? The US? Which of the two country's practice organ harvesting? Which of the two country's is practicing ethnic cleansing right now? Is there a single historical event in the US that everyone is in fear of discussing at all? How about talking a…

> Yes, go ahead and directly compare the US with China

usually people who are completely wrong don't even know how much wrong they are...

> Which of the two country's practice organ harvesting?

Countries like the U.S. and Canada did not include organ trafficking as a form of human trafficking when adopting their national laws on human trafficking. However, in the U.S. for example, some individual states like Massachusetts include organ trafficking within their state laws on human trafficking.

> Which of the two country's is practicing ethnic cleansing right now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ethnic_cleansing_in_t...

or do you prefer

https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/ethnic-cleansing/trum...

> How about talking about Tiananmen square in China?

Do you ever talk about putting Pinochet in command in Chile?

Or of the many other atrocities you, as a nation, committed in recent history?

> You don't think that China is "depleting resources"?

Average meat consumption in China is at 45kg per person per year, USA is at 119kg per person per year. Or 264 pounds, if you prefer nonsensical units of measurement.

And you have been doing it for almost a century.

The United States accounts for about five percent of global population, but is responsible for 30 percent of global energy use and 28 percent of carbon emissions

> Comparing the US of 75 years ago to the China of today is a dishonest juxtaposition

China is still a better trade partner than USA, even today.

The only reason Americans hate Chinese so much (it's a recent thing, they used to love 'em) is simply because they beat them at manufacturing.

But when they buy US debt they are fine with it...

Or when they invest in Silicon Valley together with bloodthirsty Saudi Crown Princes, they open not only their doors, but also their hearts to them.

Here we can see Tim Cook together with Mohammed bin Salman, responsbile for the Khashoggi assassination in 2018.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/h6MR1tH-Ps__vGg-IZWyUTL-5Ho=...

(from https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511540/silicon-valley-...)

Here we can see your elected President explaining how many fighter jets and other weapons your country sold to Saudi Arabia (translation: to Bin Salman, the man besides him)

https://gdb.voanews.com/7BB4C7FE-F921-4D0D-867F-53B7691931F0...

If you think that China is to be boycotted, well, I don't see a reason why to not boycott USA as well.

It's very simple logic, you probably don't see it from there, but from the real land of the free, you're not that different.

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