Deebster

REUNION November 2, 2025

I solved it in 1️⃣5️⃣ moves!
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Having that whole thing with the appearing items outside would have been so cruel if someone would have figured it out (only for it to be wrong) but probably only Victoria Coren Mitchell would have solved it.

A friend used to have a phone case that had an e-ink display and it was great for handling notifications and of course reading webpages and ebooks. Something more integrated (it just mirrored the normal screen in e-ink) could be brilliant.

I'm assuming that the reason the colour screen is lower resolution is the processing power required; the Kobo Clara's colour version has twice the processing power for the same resolution, but still isn't as crisp because of the grid necessary for how it works. The article says Bigme has some custom tech, so we'll have to wait to see what the reviews say about how it looks.

There is this paragraph:

Bigme promises that the 3,300-mAh battery will "maintain a charge for a remarkably long time" – though doesn't actually specify how long that might be. You'll need to plug in more often if you make use of the 36-level front light when strong ambient light isn't available.

Vague, but that's not the author's fault. Aside from GPS, games are the other thing that uses loads of battery and you won't be playing many graphically demanding games on that display - but we want numbers!

REUNION October 31, 2025

I solved it in 1️⃣6️⃣ moves!
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉

This creates a perspective effect where objects farther away (larger z) appear smaller:

Oh, that's on purpose! Strange choice, I guess it's just to show you can...

Didn’t they recently removed that ability?, as well as the ability to sideload mobi file format?

I don't keep up with Kindle news any more, but I just sent a book from Calibre over USB the same as before, and mobi was their own proprietary format* so good riddance to that (epub is the standard format outside the Amazon world).

* that they bought from someone else

When I still lived in the UK I preferred physical books and I still have three crates of them in a lockup. After looking at a screen all day at work, reading paper was a balm for my eyes and my brain.

I only bought a Kindle when I moved to a different country since it was far cheaper than shipping the books.

Not to sound like a Kobo ad, but I feel like I am the customer and not the product with my Kobo - I can install software, and even SSH into it as root, and I'm not tracked. Of course, that could change, unlike with good ol' books, and books also never run out of battery or get scratches on every page (the Kobo's screen is far from scratch resistant).

(not) owning and (not) controlling our ebooks

Dunno about that; there's plenty of options to own and control your ebooks:

Some books are available without DRM (e.g. some on Kobo.com) or you can strip the DRM, and then keep them on your own storage. You can file and manage metadata with calibre and you can make them available to download using calibre-web.

A stock Kindle will allow adding books via USB or Amazon's by-email service. A rooted Kindle will let you install Koreader which can talk to calibre-web. A Kobo or many (most?) other ereaders will let you do these things without needing to jump through hoops.

I'm definitely bookmarking this one.

It's about the setting defaulting to on. When did Firefox change that? When they first introduced it I had to set it manually and I don't know when/if that changed.

pic #1: Dumb and Data