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by abawany 5y ago
How about a Chromebook with a detachable screen (e.g. Lenovo Duet, Acer, or the HP X2)? These can run Android apps and thus support most digital magazine apps such as Zinio plus they often cost much less than a comparable ipad.
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by abawany 5y ago
My biggest dislike is the storage: my ebook collection is closer to 20GB and I'd love to be able to put it all in the device but it's not to be. The sync story is itunes like (transfer+metadata), which I somewhat dislike, but the
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by abawany 5y ago
I used to have a 912 as well but its bugs were tiresome so I stopped using it. I can say that the rM2 is a very different beast from that. I didn't expect to like the rM2 and was anticipating returning it when I preordered it but now i
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by abawany 5y ago
I love rmapi and use it often with my rM2.
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Tell HN: Google Reviews on Maps Silently Hides Reviews
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Apple turned over the data of two lawmakers to Trump Justice Dept(nytimes.com)
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by abawany 5y ago
There is one coming apparently but the range is fairly sad: https://www.mazda.com/en/new-generation/mx-30/ .
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by abawany 5y ago
Ford has chosen to grant your wish: https://www.ford.com/trucks/maverick/2022/ - a real compact pickup with hybrid technology available at the base price of $20k.
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A Denialism Taxonomy(pluralistic.net)
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by abawany 5y ago
I've been trying to unsubscribe from CR email spam for months now to no avail. Looking at the browser tools, it seems that their api can't handle the fact that I registered with a single letter first/last name so therefore my
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by abawany 5y ago
This is what caused me to let me eBay seller account die - they demanded Social Security Number (SSN) to continue selling. Call me crazy but giving my SSN to a company where the C-suite thugs sent live cockroaches to bloggers for negative a
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by abawany 5y ago
This didn't work out for me in spite of going to the apple store: I was told to drop off my laptop. They then proceeded to 'lose track' of the machine and I eventually got it back after nearly 5 weeks and multiple escalations
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by abawany 5y ago
In some cases, it seems the companies deploy them to coerce and punish: 'logged out, did you? you deserve this captcha for trying to thwart our tracking, peasant! work this useless problem for us for free!' Looking at you, Meetup.
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by abawany 5y ago
I agree. Reporting the same to LinkedIn and their response usually is dismissive.
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by abawany 5y ago
For me, it's the nags (e.g. Garmin's 'time to be active') that make it worthwhile to get me out of my groove. Also, the sleep tracking includes things such as SpO2 measurement, which can help one see if changing sleep po
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by abawany 5y ago
I believe such restrictions are defeated/not available for toll free lines.
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by abawany 5y ago
The T-Mobile ISP plan doesn't have any caps afaik. Keep in mind that getting it requires a hard pull credit check. They do have other issues though (e.g. their modem selecting a sub-optimal band leading to poor service.)
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by abawany 5y ago
Yeah, I love Charter's service (they took over Time Warner in this area) but hate their billing practices. However, with little choice in this area (the other one is 'AT&T' - automatic nein), one has to 'grin and bea
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by abawany 5y ago
I've never gotten used to the 'etiquette smile' (I have different internal terms for it) and try to watch out for it as much as possible; I also appear to be physically incapable of expressing an emotion that I do not actuall
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France blasts 'pathetic' attempts to discredit Pfizer vaccine online(reuters.com)
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by abawany 5y ago
It seems almost as good to me as writing on pen and paper and I don't find myself distracted by any perceptible lag.
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by abawany 5y ago
I wasn't expecting to like my reMarkable 2 but I've grown to love it. The unassuming ease of use and its desire to just help you work or read without getting in your way is indispensable.
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by abawany 5y ago
I've checked them out for the last 4 years while contemplating a move from Spectrum and every time, on checkout, there was the $10/month non-removable fee for renting the modem with no opt-out. This is in central Texas.
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by abawany 5y ago
Old habits die hard: getting internet from AT&T ime still requires leasing their 'modem' for a monthly cost while cable providers let you bring your own device to avoid the monthly fee.
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by abawany 5y ago
I feel weird because I tried to like TikTok but I ended up hating it with a passion. No matter how many times I skipped/disliked a given video type, they still kept showing up. TikTok is clearly not targeted to me because just writing
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by abawany 5y ago
Also, it seems that you can really enhance the functionality of the device with other peripherals by connecting up a USB-C hub: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-a-usb-c-hub-to-upgrade-your-c... .
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by abawany 5y ago
Also, imo the platform walled gardens considerably hamper your ability to move away from a given vendor just because they made the current model less repairable. Plus, as other vendors see Apple's snowballing profit, they also adopt si
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by abawany 6y ago
Re. 2 I just checked: for the currently selected library, it shows you what looks like curated content from the library, to enable you to pick up on things that you might not necessarily do when just interacting with the app with searches a
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by abawany 6y ago
I unfortunately don't know of any services that do this non destructively. However, there are scanner designs that Archive.org use to scan rare books. I'll try to find references but I think they'll require construction - afa
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by abawany 6y ago
One approach I've used in lieu of buying ebooks is to buy a used/new print copy, get it destructively scanned, and thus acquire a drm-free copy of the book. Often this can work out cheaper than buying the ebook.

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