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by thimabi 2y ago
Oh, I’m sure base prices would be much, much higher if our bills were reduced when not using the full quota. It’s a shame there’s so little (or no) competition between ISPs in most places. So much inefficiency to be weeded out of the market
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by thimabi 2y ago
Maybe it’s time to create a new HN client with this feature. Ironically, an AI can be of assistance in filtering AI-related submissions or comments.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I mean, on their own, many of the core apps probably don’t bring much revenue to Apple. I can understand their reluctance to allow uninstalling the App Store, but what do they gain by preventing someone from uninstalling the Camera, for ins
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by thimabi 2y ago
I take tools like these as an inspiration. All of us have at least some trivial tasks that can be automated. In the past, automating them might have been a hassle, but with LLMs, that’s no longer the case. I, for one, have a “scripts” folde
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by thimabi 2y ago
Why gate such a basic functionality for users in the European Union? People elsewhere do not have access to alternative app stores anyway. Is allowing them to uninstall such apps too much?
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Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC(arstechnica.com)
85 points by thimabi 2y ago|43 comments
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by thimabi 2y ago
I love the fact that one of the customers used T-Mobile’s own Terms and Conditions to refute the notion that prices could be increased, regardless of the language in the FAQ. As the article reports, this is what the terms valid at the time
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by thimabi 2y ago
OneDrive also promised unlimited storage space for files, and it just lasted a few years. Of course, most “unlimited” things are impractical from a business point of view. But I think the burden of dealing with this should fall on the compa
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Never Missing the Train Again(lilymara.xyz)
371 points by thimabi 2y ago|136 comments
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by thimabi 2y ago
According to Apple’s website, the hearing protection feature will only work in the U.S. and Canada, but nothing is said about the hearing aid feature. Does this mean that the latter will be available internationally? It would be a game chan
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by thimabi 2y ago
Claiming to have deleted something while just having hidden from public view… that’s basically begging content owners to sue and very easily win damages.
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by thimabi 2y ago
> There's already Drupal, Joomla, Ghost and many more. None of these have gained as much traction as WordPress, so much that I don’t consider them as drop-in replacements for the general public.
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by thimabi 2y ago
This whole affair has been a disaster for everyone involved. Just a ton of dirty laundry being aired in public… Time is ripe for a new publishing ecosystem — more secure, with less cruft, and preferably better governance. But I imagine Word
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by thimabi 2y ago
That’s news to me, thanks for the information! I’ve considered replacing my Kobo’s battery, but the issue seems firmware-related, so I never thought it was worth the hassle.
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by thimabi 2y ago
> Since I don't want to pay extra to disable the ads, the trick I figured out is to buy the Kindle for Kids. It comes with a cover, no ads, and a 2 year warranty. You can turn off the kids stuff with one switch, and then it's j
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by thimabi 2y ago
I count the physical manipulation of pages as an advantage of dead tree books. E-ink is very nice, but there’s nothing like flipping through actual pages to find some information. Of course, the situation reverses when you’re trying to sear
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by thimabi 2y ago
That happens on sideloaded books that belong to the same device as well, at least on my Kindle Scribe. These books disappear occasionally, and I have not found a consistent way to make them reappear in the UI. Sometimes they return on their
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by thimabi 2y ago
Come to think of it, a foldable Kindle would be very nice! And not just because it has the format of a book. The portability of a Paperwhite combined with the note-taking ability of a Scribe… there’s probably a market for that. Edit: also,
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by thimabi 2y ago
You make an interesting point. Maybe facilitating the usage of sideloaded books is not among Amazon’s priorities. Yet I don’t know how much of that comes from malice rather than simply negligence or lack of interest.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I think Calibre is able to integrate with the “Send to Kindle” email interface as well, so you can have the best of both worlds :)
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by thimabi 2y ago
The thing is that the iPad screen truly doesn’t compare to e-ink in reading black-and-white books. If the e-ink screen is made properly, with high resolution and no PWM, one can read for hours on end without eye fatigue. Battery life on e-i
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by thimabi 2y ago
It is insecure depending on one’s threat model. Though I agree end-to-end encryption would be the best practice.
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by thimabi 2y ago
The plastic on the back feels normal to me, after many years of usage. I use a case, don’t know if that helps to minimize the “sticky and gross” aspect. However, I have been experiencing annoying software bugs with both my Paperwhite and my
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by thimabi 2y ago
That makes sense. Another comment pointed out that even the resolution of colored content (150 ppi) is half that of black-and-white content (300 ppi). Trying to take notes with bad refresh rates and lower resolution would not make for a goo
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by thimabi 2y ago
Rather than a physical switch just for that, why not a few reminders in the UI if one keeps the airplane mode off for a certain amount of time?
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by thimabi 2y ago
The size is good for PDF reading, but PDFs with huge margins or small font sizes don’t work well. One way to fix the margins issue is to use the “Send to Kindle” feature, which converts PDFs to the Print Replica format and trims their margi
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by thimabi 2y ago
Yet Amazon has been consistently increasing the size of the Paperwhite models over time, each one a bit larger than the previous one. They remain portable, but no longer fit into one’s pockets, for instance.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I mean, they have the right to be opposed to this practice even though it is standard, right? I myself am opposed to it too, and I believe the more people stand up to it, the merrier.
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by thimabi 2y ago
WeChat using a custom protocol like MMTLS instead of sticking with something solid like TLS 1.3 is a risky move. Rolling your own crypto almost always leads to trouble. Of course, there may be ulterior motives behind Tencent’s decision, and
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by thimabi 2y ago
The last Paperwhite model, for example, did not work upside down, just in landscape mode (and even so, only rotated to one direction). I don’t know whether Amazon finally added a gyroscope to the Paperwhite in order to fix this issue.

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