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Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by dewey »

rcarmo wrote: post #87
dewey wrote: post #11

In my regular RSS reader I often have the problem that some feeds are not full feeds, or some images are missing (In case they have some gallery) and I have to click out to the page, even just to verify I got the full text. That always kinda stops me from going the eink route where I don’t have a proper browser. Depends on which feeds you subscribe to I guess, probably works really well for long form, reliable feeds.

https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/picoflux/ fixes that for me.

How? Seems like just a fork without PG won’t won’t fix buggy feeds. I already have Postgres running on my server so the DB isn’t a selling point for me.

Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by Chris2048 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #48
ynac wrote: post #5

I like to read a physical dirty (ink dust, not content) finger newspapers whenever I can get them. At a bakery / cafe a few weeks ago, sitting outside having cherry Danish and an Americano (the international special), I was reading the NYT and the SeaTimes section by section. It was awesome. Comics, international, regional beats, magazines. I realized somewhere in the middle of the caffeine and sugar rush, just what…

> and an Americano (the international special), Now I'm curious what you mean with "the international special"? Here (international to you perhaps; Spain) an Americano is just a espresso with lots more water, tastes more or less the same as drip coffee, perhaps a tad bit stronger as it's a diluted espresso. But never heard of a "international special" version, what could that be? :) I similarly also like the tactile…

Just a tangent, but coffee ordering in Europe can be difficult for me sometimes, coming from UK/Ireland; most people here order a "latte", but I don't think it really exists in many places (at least in the same proportions, 1 or 2 shots in 180ml to 250ml steamed milk), even though their are similarly named item e.g. in Spain, Portugal & Italy.

Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by dominotw »

TFNA wrote: post #3

This doesn't work for me in spite of over 10 years of trying. I am currently eating lunch and wasting time on HN on my phone, but my ebook reader full of edifying material is sitting there ignored on the table, right in front of me. I need some way of leaving the phone at home completely, but in my country so much basic everyday stuff relies on a phone (and strong bank authentication through a phone).

sure ppl still take cash. also what are you buying all the time?

just go out and dont buy anything

Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by [deleted] »

righthand wrote: post #44
TFNA wrote: post #3

This doesn't work for me in spite of over 10 years of trying. I am currently eating lunch and wasting time on HN on my phone, but my ebook reader full of edifying material is sitting there ignored on the table, right in front of me. I need some way of leaving the phone at home completely, but in my country so much basic everyday stuff relies on a phone (and strong bank authentication through a phone).

I always hear the “I need my phone for bank stuff” but can’t you just leave your phone at home and then schedule going to the bank if it’s that necessary to a part of your day? I can’t imagine you need to be interacting with the bank 24/7/365.

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Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by carlosjobim »

pseingatl wrote: post #72
righthand wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But my point stands, do you need to do the type of banking that requires constant identification every day to the point where you need it always around it distracts you from what you’d like to be doing? If that’s true then the bank has completely captured you. Or leave your phone in your bag or at home and you shouldn’t have this issue. The “I need my phone for banking” excuse is a vague reason to keep using it. They…

Payment of any bill, any online purchase usually requires 2FA and a phone. No phone? No online bill payment or online purchases. Were it not so...

Do you need to bring your phone everywhere to pay your bills? Or can you leave it at home for paying your bills? That's what the original commenter is referring to, if I understood him.

Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by carlosjobim »

TFNA wrote: post #54
righthand wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But my point stands, do you need to do the type of banking that requires constant identification every day to the point where you need it always around it distracts you from what you’d like to be doing? If that’s true then the bank has completely captured you. Or leave your phone in your bag or at home and you shouldn’t have this issue. The “I need my phone for banking” excuse is a vague reason to keep using it. They…

Again, we are not talking about banks or banking. In my country one's bank app functions as the strong authentication used to log in to all the other services where one has to prove one's identity. And yes, pretty much every day while I am on the go, I have to authenticate to some service or another.

> In my country...

It's not your country. It's the banks' country if they own it to the extent that they own your identity.

Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by neo1 »

theshrike79 wrote: post #82
neo1 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's called w3m (or lynx). No seriously. Not kidding. While I'm trying to be snarky, I recently discovered how well it works to do exactly what you are asking. Sites that need javascript, or are paranoid cloudflare prisons won't work, but otherwise it works quite well. For walls of text (long substack articles) I still prefer epub, and use https://codeberg.org/neo1/mkebook which I wrote, but if you love the terminal:…

Defuddle ( https://github.com/kepano/defuddle ) by @kepano (CEO of Obsidian) is pretty damn good at getting a text-only version of random sites.

Defuddle looks interesting, I will try it out. Thanks for pointing it out!

There is another tool that on the surface appears similar to Defuddle called trafilatura: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura It was OK, but I wasn't happy with it, as it kept stripping the comments sections.

Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by embedding-shape »

Chris2048 wrote: post #92
embedding-shape wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and an Americano (the international special), Now I'm curious what you mean with "the international special"? Here (international to you perhaps; Spain) an Americano is just a espresso with lots more water, tastes more or less the same as drip coffee, perhaps a tad bit stronger as it's a diluted espresso. But never heard of a "international special" version, what could that be? :) I similarly also like the tactile…

Just a tangent, but coffee ordering in Europe can be difficult for me sometimes, coming from UK/Ireland; most people here order a "latte", but I don't think it really exists in many places (at least in the same proportions, 1 or 2 shots in 180ml to 250ml steamed milk), even though their are similarly named item e.g. in Spain, Portugal & Italy.

> most people here order a "latte", but I don't think it really exists in many places

Yeah, concepts like "latte" just differs so much based on the region/person that it's hard to establish "one true version" even though people will claim "one true version" actually exists, and people just have to follow the "rules" of the drink.

Latte for example will differ just based on what cafe/bar you are in Spain for example, just like a "Cafe Solo" will differ based on the cafe/bar you visit. Some will do 1/3 part espresso, others 1/8, and so on.

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Post by b112 »

adhamsalama wrote: post #31
dewey wrote: post #11

In my regular RSS reader I often have the problem that some feeds are not full feeds, or some images are missing (In case they have some gallery) and I have to click out to the page, even just to verify I got the full text. That always kinda stops me from going the eink route where I don’t have a proper browser. Depends on which feeds you subscribe to I guess, probably works really well for long form, reliable feeds.

I really like the idea of reading blogs on my Kindle, so I built https://inkfeed.xyz It's a web-based RSS reader optimized for e-ink devices (especially Kindles) that allows you to read blogs online via the Kindle browser, and download the blogs (directly on your Kindle or email it to your Kindle email). And it does support fetching the full article using Mozilla's readability package! Please try it and let me know w…

It's a neat idea. I think it needs some feedback wheb you click to choose. I asked for an article in mobi as a test, and it was 30 seconds for it to give it to me. I thought it was borked.

Maybe a "queuing" or something? It let me do other things until it was ready, like download the epub.

Re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

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Post by adhamsalama »

b112 wrote: post #99
adhamsalama wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the idea of reading blogs on my Kindle, so I built https://inkfeed.xyz It's a web-based RSS reader optimized for e-ink devices (especially Kindles) that allows you to read blogs online via the Kindle browser, and download the blogs (directly on your Kindle or email it to your Kindle email). And it does support fetching the full article using Mozilla's readability package! Please try it and let me know w…

It's a neat idea. I think it needs some feedback wheb you click to choose. I asked for an article in mobi as a test, and it was 30 seconds for it to give it to me. I thought it was borked. Maybe a "queuing" or something? It let me do other things until it was ready, like download the epub.

Were you logged in or not?

If you were not logged in, then the conversation happens on the Kindle itself so yeah it's gonna be slow.

If you were logged in and the "backend mode" was enabled, then the delay will most likely be fetching the article images, compressing them and converting them to jpeg on the backend, but there's a setting to choose if you want to embed images or not.

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