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This is why I like my Kindle so much (and other e-readers are the same presumably). It does one thing very well, and not much else. I could read the same book

This is why I like my Kindle so much (and other e-readers are the same presumably). It does one thing very well, and not much else. I could read the same book on my phone but it's always popping up alerts and buzzing and so forth, breaking my attention.

falcolas 5y ago
To be fair, even if I'm reading on my Kindle, my phone is still doing all that. I can DND my phone, but then it would have the same effect if I'm reading on the phone.
- weird-eye-issue 5y ago
  On Android, DND still pops up notifications and stuff. Anyone know if there is any easy way to turn that off? I get so distracted and that certainly doesn't help
  - Arrath 5y ago
    Airplane mode? Turn it off?
    - weird-eye-issue 5y ago
      I think you misunderstood - I mean I just don't want notifications showing up on the screen when I'm using it. If I don't want to be distracted when I'm not using it then I just silence it and put it away from me obviously...
  - mFixman 5y ago
    Go to Do not Disturb -> Details -> Hide Notifications -> Hide All. This will prevent notifications from popping up and also not remove any existing notifiation from the notification bar. (I'm using Samsung; YMMV).
    - weird-eye-issue 5y ago
      Awesome, thank you. I had no idea this was an option under DND. I tried turning off all notifications before and it seemed impossible
contingencies 5y ago
Linux console gives me the same feeling. It's partly the font, partly the focus (no interruptions), partly the lack of latency. OSX + iTerm2 is so damn laggy vs. Linux even on worse hardware. It just sux when you have to, you know, input Chinese or open a PDF. Gotta say though, Dune was a disappointment to me, having grown up with Dune 2 on MSDOS. The old Dune had, you know, deeper characters. There's nothing like eating boys and bathing in blood to set off a character. The new Harkonnen are positively placid. We are in a new "PC" age...
- shiomiru 5y ago
  > It just sux when you have to, you know, input Chinese or open a PDF. Don't know about PDFs, but for Chinese IBus works just fine with XTerm.
  - contingencies 5y ago
    Console != terminal. Console means no X11/Wayland.
  - pxc 5y ago
    I don't generally use PDFs for super fancy stuff like forms with JavaScript or whatever, but I generally find that KDE's Okular and GNOME's Evince work perfectly well for my needs. Acrobat Reader is a fucking hog by comparison and I loathe waiting for it to start up when I'm on operating systems where it's the standard.
- pxc 5y ago
  > OSX + iTerm2 is so damn laggy vs. Linux even on worse hardware This is one of those things you notice in a jarring way as a Linux user coming to other platforms, but people kinda look at you sideways and don't believe you when you tell them. What I tend to notice, especially as someone who prefers to use a full screen terminal tiled with tmux, is (1) poor availability of Quake-style dropdown terminals on macOS and Windows and (2) extremely slow rendering on most terminal emulators for those platforms. On the other hand, I think I've heard some Mac users say they detect some input lag on Linux terminals.

falcolas 5y ago

To be fair, even if I'm reading on my Kindle, my phone is still doing all that. I can DND my phone, but then it would have the same effect if I'm reading on the phone.

weird-eye-issue 5y ago
On Android, DND still pops up notifications and stuff. Anyone know if there is any easy way to turn that off? I get so distracted and that certainly doesn't help
- Arrath 5y ago
  Airplane mode? Turn it off?
  - weird-eye-issue 5y ago
    I think you misunderstood - I mean I just don't want notifications showing up on the screen when I'm using it. If I don't want to be distracted when I'm not using it then I just silence it and put it away from me obviously...
- mFixman 5y ago
  Go to Do not Disturb -> Details -> Hide Notifications -> Hide All. This will prevent notifications from popping up and also not remove any existing notifiation from the notification bar. (I'm using Samsung; YMMV).
  - weird-eye-issue 5y ago
    Awesome, thank you. I had no idea this was an option under DND. I tried turning off all notifications before and it seemed impossible

contingencies 5y ago

Linux console gives me the same feeling. It's partly the font, partly the focus (no interruptions), partly the lack of latency. OSX + iTerm2 is so damn laggy vs. Linux even on worse hardware. It just sux when you have to, you know, input Chinese or open a PDF. Gotta say though, Dune was a disappointment to me, having grown up with Dune 2 on MSDOS. The old Dune had, you know, deeper characters. There's nothing like eating boys and bathing in blood to set off a character. The new Harkonnen are positively placid. We are in a new "PC" age...

shiomiru 5y ago
> It just sux when you have to, you know, input Chinese or open a PDF. Don't know about PDFs, but for Chinese IBus works just fine with XTerm.
- contingencies 5y ago
  Console != terminal. Console means no X11/Wayland.
- pxc 5y ago
  I don't generally use PDFs for super fancy stuff like forms with JavaScript or whatever, but I generally find that KDE's Okular and GNOME's Evince work perfectly well for my needs. Acrobat Reader is a fucking hog by comparison and I loathe waiting for it to start up when I'm on operating systems where it's the standard.
pxc 5y ago
> OSX + iTerm2 is so damn laggy vs. Linux even on worse hardware This is one of those things you notice in a jarring way as a Linux user coming to other platforms, but people kinda look at you sideways and don't believe you when you tell them. What I tend to notice, especially as someone who prefers to use a full screen terminal tiled with tmux, is (1) poor availability of Quake-style dropdown terminals on macOS and Windows and (2) extremely slow rendering on most terminal emulators for those platforms. On the other hand, I think I've heard some Mac users say they detect some input lag on Linux terminals.