themadturk

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by themadturk 3mo ago
Yeah, I'm sure you're right. Still irritating. I tend to use Firefox for Reddit now.
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by themadturk 3mo ago
Nickel, the stock firmware on Kobo, is pretty decent. KOReader is better, though. The Kobo is a pretty hackable device. I pair my Kobo Clara BW with BookFusion, which gives me portability between any KOReader device, Mac, Windows, iOS, and
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by themadturk 3mo ago
When DRM is used, it is because publishers have required it, not because booksellers require it. Is that a better way of putting it?
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by themadturk 3mo ago
I don't think stevia is classified the same way; it's a natural sweetener with zero calories. I think the others are "artificial" sweeteners.
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by themadturk 3mo ago
That's my issue as well.
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by themadturk 3mo ago
I use Safari all the time as well, but it doesn't behave very well with Reddit (keeps closing and reopening tabs due to "too much memory" problems. Other than that, it works for 99.9% of everything else.
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by themadturk 3mo ago
Hah! This was me, as well...first a Timex, then a C=64.
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by themadturk 3mo ago
I (a youngish adult, in the US) had a 1541 drive that broke. I was in love with the "Silent Service" submarine game, and found an ad in one of the computer magazines for a cassette version of the game that I ordered from England.
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by themadturk 3mo ago
"Selling" doesn't require DRM; publishers require DRM. So not every book you want to buy or can buy is available without DRM. Not even authors especially want DRM. Kobo will only let you buy a book without DRM if the publis
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by themadturk 3mo ago
Kobos have web browsers, and they have be in "beta" forever as well.
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by themadturk 3mo ago
Most publishers demand their ebooks be sold with DRM. This can be seen as an aspect of "evil."
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by themadturk 3mo ago
A Remarkable tablet was the first thing I thought of, but it was still so unclear I had to click through to actually understand (more or less) what was going on.
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by themadturk 4mo ago
My mistake!
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by themadturk 4mo ago
I ended up with two disk drives, and a RAM expansion, so I was able to run GEOS. But it took a good while to build up to that (I was a married, childless adult when I used the C=64, if that's any comfort).
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by themadturk 4mo ago
At least some Tor.com ebooks are available DRM-free through Amazon. Honor Of The Queen, 2nd in the Honor Harrington Series, specifically says it's sold without DRM on Amazon.
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by themadturk 4mo ago
Yes, but from some of those places the authors receive no compensation.
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by themadturk 4mo ago
My own novel, The Immortal Remains, is DRM-free on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google, and other platforms (maybe Apple as well, I'm not sure). Other authors, such as Cory Doctorow, sell their books DRM-free as well.
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by themadturk 4mo ago
British TV in that era was enormously, shall we say, frugal. As soon as they discovered videotape, which was both cheaper than film and reusable, they went all in on it. BBC especially (and ITV as well, it appears) often wiped their tapes a
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by themadturk 4mo ago
I complained about this style of writing on Medium a few months ago. The author of the article replied that it's a preferred style if you anticipate your writing to be read on a small smartphone screen. This kind of makes sense. Whethe
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by themadturk 4mo ago
I consider myself an "intelligent general reader" and read this last month, producing my own much briefer review [0]. Such a good book! I read a lot of popular history, but not usually written by actual practicing historians (who
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by themadturk 4mo ago
I learned this as "Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them."
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by themadturk 4mo ago
Adobe Digital Editions runs on my MacBook Air M3 with macOS Tahoe. What problem do you see? (FWIW, ADE will probably die when Rosetta support goes away with MacOS 28, but one of the de-DRM plugins will read acsm files directly and bring in
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by themadturk 4mo ago
You can also play with Calibre's default transfer template so all book files go into a single folder of your choice on the device. Then you can set your KOReader home or favorites folder and see everything in one place.
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by themadturk 4mo ago
The MacBook Air is a better machine, but the Neo is far better than an iPad because MacOS isn't constrained like iPadOS is. The Neo can't really be compared to an iPad for that reason alone.
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by themadturk 4mo ago
As a recent retiree from a Fortune 500 company...no, there's no such thing as an upgrade. We were virtually exclusively laptops on the desktop. It was full replacement every time.
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by themadturk 5mo ago
I believe Dosbox-X had native Apple Silicon support…at least it has an Apple Silicon installer.
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by themadturk 5mo ago
The last time I refreshed my Mac setup I didn't reinstall my standalone Microsoft Office, which I'd kept for the (very) occasional Word compatibility need. Looks like I can trash the installer now, save a little drive space.
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by themadturk 5mo ago
They've already taken it; what are you going to do about it?
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by themadturk 5mo ago
But the writer is an end user. How does his perspective not regard the end user?
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by themadturk 5mo ago
I don't think the Chinese had presses like Gutenberg invented. Type was set in a frame, inked, and the paper pressed over the inked type manually. Gutenberg's great innovation was coupling the screw press, already in use for press

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