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by widowlark 2y ago
yeah just dont turn on the wifi, you can even update the kindle via usb to get some new features if you like.
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by widowlark 2y ago
is your wifi on when you add your calibre books? if so, thats why.
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by widowlark 2y ago
not so - they will fight you on the ad removal most of the time
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by widowlark 2y ago
megacorp set an arbitrary price for this, and you think the consumer is at fault?
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by widowlark 2y ago
I can confirm that the new versions have to be placed in a child mode in order to hide the ads. It seems they have closed this admittedly nice loophole
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by widowlark 2y ago
Not OP, but a few things: - the authors are unfairly compensated by amazon and the public libraries due to publisher issues with ebooks already. OP is hardly contributing to this disparity. - I choose to purchase expensive copies of books I
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by widowlark 2y ago
I basically always keep it offline, pushing updates via usb-c
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Analogue 3D preorder available on Oct 21, 8am PDT(store.analogue.co)
1 points by widowlark 2y ago|0 comments
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by widowlark 2y ago
Shogun by James Clavell as well!
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by widowlark 2y ago
"Better a thousand innocent men are locked up than one guilty man roam free." To clarify, I vehemently disagree with your post and think that the pursuit of innocence is an imperative function of the state.
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by widowlark 2y ago
id imagine that level of honesty could still lead to billions lost in shareholder value - thus the grey area. Market obfuscation is a real thing.
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A Rare Visual Disorder Twists Faces Out of Shape(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by widowlark 2y ago|1 comments
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by widowlark 2y ago
New studies unlock the mysteries of prosopometamorphopsia, a disorder that distorts faces. One woman’s condition improves when she wears orange-tinted glasses
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by widowlark 2y ago
I get Panic! Studios vibes from this font.
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by widowlark 2y ago
The A6X2 is great as well, and fits a surprisingly small niche for smaller writing devices. I would also love a device that is the size of a pocket notepad someday
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by widowlark 2y ago
++++++ to Kagi.
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by widowlark 2y ago
yes, we are part of the universe. But our perception does not change the reality of its existence, only our understanding of it.
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by widowlark 2y ago
AI is even better at racial profiling than the police. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-rec...
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by widowlark 2y ago
All we experience is in our mind alone - psychedelics reveal nothing about the universe but they do reveal everything about our perception of it. It wont make you see colors that you are incapable of normally seeing, or hear things you are
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by widowlark 2y ago
The best way to interact with people who feel this way is to not play the games. Eventually the isolated individual will be managed out or adapt to a more sensible posture. Best to work around them until then.
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by widowlark 2y ago
But the chilling effect it has on cross-team interactions leads to the same result.
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by widowlark 2y ago
The authors approach, in my opinion, will lead to nothing but confrontation and probably decrease productivity significantly. Then again, it sounds like that's the goal
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by widowlark 2y ago
Most of the time, im letting YOU know that the product or service YOU own is not working. Its a courtesy. If I have to jump through this many hoops to tell you that, ill just let it continue to fail until someone more important than me has
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by widowlark 2y ago
on its face I don't know that patents alone drove the industrial revolution - I imagine that the modality of labor and capital also played a significant role
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by widowlark 2y ago
banks would not offer such lucrative interest rates if immortality was a publicly known trait
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by widowlark 2y ago
https://kotaku.com/morrowind-completely-rebooted-your-xbox-d... For those who don't know
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by widowlark 2y ago
Rather than bartender, use ICE - open source, similar feature set
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by widowlark 2y ago
> If it was "objectively bad" I and the other commenter wouldn't be able to refuse it, nor would "everyone overlook it". Something can be objectively bad without you noticing its failures. Consensus does not gui
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by widowlark 2y ago
I would like to better understand your mentality. Every Apple article I read has comments like yours, essentially saying "It works on my machine, its a YOU (the struggling users) problem". Do you genuinely believe your response is
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by widowlark 2y ago
What is worthy of HN is determined by user interest. You are not the gatekeeper of HN. I for one love this project. Amazing work, Ariel!

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