American sniper was also a bad movie. Not even worth the torrent.

The Mango Man!! My nemesis!

Far more effective action than slathering canned soup over the protective glass of a Van Gogh. Though I do not know why they photo documented themselves?

It’s amused me since the Metal Gear Solid 4 came out that Snake has an Apple iPod, fully simulated with that exact click wheel design. And it was a good design.

I recently brought out my iPhone SE to use as an audio player. It’s basically a glorified iPod Touch, but it at least has a headphone jack

If you want to know how joever it is for Anime just know that it’s on a16z’s radar.

https://a16z.com/anime-is-eating-the-world/

Bad Max: Toll Road

I understand that a high quality web browser in this modern age is really expensive to develop. Mozilla, which is like an ant compared to the gorillas called Apple and Google, needs to find the funds it takes to develop that browser and pay the people who work on it.

That said, it’s really the bigger picture here that’s totally fucked. The web browser is supposed to be a tool for the user, not for the advertiser. I don’t give a shit about someone else’s advertising, or their ability to reach me and to target my attention span. But in many ways the advertising model props up the entirety of the modern web as we know it. It’s kind of a condemnation of the entire ecosystem, but I don’t know if anyone has thought of a sustainable alternative model.

Further, I view it as a kind of condemnation of the modern WWW that web browsers must be so complex. It feels like half of the development of web browsers is just based on supporting advertising in some way or another, and making sure the 700 ad scripts that run when you load a page don’t bring the browser to a screeching halt (a form of supporting advertising). Another 25% is dedicated to making sure crap web frameworks like React run well.

There is real innovation in the web browsing space. Wasm, WebGL, and so on. The fact that you can play a fully interactive 3d game in your web browser without having to download and run it locally is impressive. But is it all really worthwhile?

The worst thing is I don’t have an answer to any of this. I realize most of this stuff is extremely dumb and pointless, but it feels like the Internet has been totally overwhelmed with AI spam, shitty websites that necessitate javascript to even view them for basic information, and endless ad and user tracking. This announcement is especially rich because Firefox is still both better than Chrome & basically second class compared to it. Many web devs (or their employers) treat Chrome like the standard and Firefox as an afterthought. I just imagine now Mozilla taking that beautiful little fire fox and caging it and poking it with cattle prods to see if it can find new ways to make its ember glow.

I’d love for an alternative to the WWW to spring up, and you’d think something like the Gemini protocol could be it. But if you’ve ever used it, you’d realize it kind of sucks to use. A website like hexbear wouldn’t even be possible on Gemini. It had its heart in the right place but doesn’t meet the moment, and IMO never will.

They should hire me. I’d strongly push for what matters: introducing Goku as a character into every franchise. This fan demands it!!

Likely! Here is the KOReader support matrix for Kindle. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kindle-devices#err-there-are-four-kindle-packages-to-choose-from-which-do-i-pick

Here is the currently latest release downloads for KOReader. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/latest

Here are the latest available firmwares available per Kindle model https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GKMQC26VQQMM8XSW and I know there is an archive of some older versions. Possibly incomplete. I think Amazon and some other sites may have backups of older firmware versions, too.

And for the specific model you have you will have to research to learn how to jailbreak it. If it’s as old as you say it’s likely doable with relative ease.

My first Kindle was a Kindle 4 I bought used. It was 167 DPI and when I switched to the PaperWhite3 at 300 DPI it was definitely noticeable.

A weakness of my PW3 is the lighting. It has 4 LEDs compared to the PW5’s 17. The PW5 definitely has better evenness in the backlight, whereas on my PW3 you can tell exactly where the LEDs are shining their lights from along the bottom edge of the display. The PW5 also has “warmth” in the lighting, giving a much better paper look, sort of like the night light features in computer displays. Not to mention the PW5 display has more real estate. Undoubtedly, the PW5 looks much better than the PW3.

https://old.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/qgz4zk/kindle_pw5_2021_vs_pw3_2015_photos_with_old/

THAT SAID, my PW3 works fine. I’m not rushing out the door to replace it. I stop noticing the flaws, which are relatively minor, as soon as I start engrossing myself in the book. A good book, fiction or not, will transport your mind elsewhere. The upgrade in PPI was more significant than anything else, which is why I have continued to enjoy my same e-reader for about seven years, now.

So, if you have the opportunity to buy a decent one as your first choice, I recommend it. But if you need to really save on the dollars, you will be happy with a “lower end” model, because the flaws will melt away when you spend less time thinking about the hardware and more time reading your book.

My only concern with such a device is by being so capable and packed with more software, it will assuredly have a bigger surface area for exploitation. Especially once support for the device ends. By contrast, my Kindle barely even has a web browser. The KOReader software has some good web capability, but not in the form of a web browser.

Meanwhile the resident bedbug of the NYT is openly calling for escalation against Iran. If he wants it so badly, he should enlist and be sent to the front.

the mental of a 17 year old

I remember my friend had this Digimon game and kept getting Poop-mons. They kept turning into poops for some reason.

100% backing this, especially since they recently moved away from that awful .NET MAUI app and made native apps for both iOS and Android.

I don’t use it personally because I still just manage my passwords offline with Keepassxc on my computer, but I recommend BitWarden. Especially over Lastpass.

Meanwhile sam altman is going to TSMC and telling them they need $7T worth of new factories to produce chips to support the amount of processors "Open"AI needs. Which is an insane amount of misspent resources, obviously, to solve exactly < 0.0% of the world’s real problems.

And the TSMC execs scoffed at him and started calling him “Podcasting Bro”

TRIPLE SIX FIVE FORKED TONGUE

i hope they both die horribly

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