Got a very old kindle for free, from someone getting rid of it. No touch, no backlight, most basic thing ever. I only got my account on it to download a dictionary.
I am never buying anything from Amazon to read on it, but I've been using it quite a bit, only on calibre converted stuff. It was not too hard to set up, and once it's done it's just drag n drop.
Tolkien estate usually doesn't like their words used in random stuff. Sometimes I think they're bordering on control freaks, but in that particular case, yeah, nuking that shit and forcing them to change their name wouldn't seem unreasonable to me.
If they're not aware of it, maybe someone should tip them.
"See, on this diagram, that part of the global population represents the users we can legally identify, because they're not minors.
_ So, who's in the rest of the diagram?...
_ This is a mystery to everybody."
X used self-destruct.
Yes, so much yes. I've got that on mine too, and it's a pain. it has very small, close "buttons" too, setting the temperature is an exercise in accuracy, when it reacts at all.
And yes, the tiniest drop of water fucks everything up completely.
Capacitive buttons on anything are annoying, they're unreliable as fuck. They might trigger with the slightest accidental touch, but then they'll act like your finger doesn't exist for a dozen pushes.
Bright colour on dark background makes sense IMO.
This, however :
https://www.digitalretropark.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cpc-01-1320x990.jpg
My 80's computer was (by default) bright yellow text over bright blue background.
It probably sounds quite bad. It was. You could change that with a few commands but you'd have to do it each time you boot the thing, and I didn't bother, it was "normal" to me.
That didn't prevent young me from spending hours copying lines of BASIC code from magazines, but it was tiring. Nowadays I'm just like, seriously, who thought that colour scheme was a good idea?
[De Beers] stating that the economics of lab-grown diamonds for jewelry were not sustainable.
"That's cheating, we can't throttle the market of these shiny rocks! The indistinguishable ones you need are still those we're killing people for!"
I hope one day you can make a perfect gemstone for the cost of a burger, so people just stop caring about them at all.
The article mentions both. Meta is still complaining about GDPR.
Well, good luck to Amazon trying to wipe my kindle remotely with black magic then.
It doesn't have WiFi configured at all.