Because they’re P2P. Just watching is also distribution.

So yes, in reality, they’re sending legal threats asking for viewers to voluntarily pay fines to avoid being dragged to court.

Lol just chunk up the patties and you can very easily spread them over a pizza though.

So I’m not big on most of what passes for self improvement material (I think the self help genre is almost entirely trash), but anyone who makes a habit out of trying to make themself better is moving the right way.

It’s worth noting that there will be people who hear the label and react badly, though.

I would argue that the short term pain is worse than hiding it and being with someone who doesn’t know you and can’t understand you, but I can’t promise it won’t be a dealbreaker for someone you really don’t want it to be, either.

The issue is behavior (which is the primary way most of that is diagnosed to begin with).

Acknowledging the behavior and making a deliberate attempt to prevent/improve it is something I would see as a positive sign compared to the behavior without the same steps. Getting a diagnosis (and some type of therapy) is a good thing.

If you consistently treat me badly, the label wouldn’t be why I left. If you make mistakes, but make the regular effort to be aware of them and improve, the label doesn’t matter either.

People are spending hours on the phone to get basic support or cancel their internet because they just enjoy the interaction so much.

lol I looked at the hardware mod because it would be nice to have my OLED free, but I saw the videos and backed right off.

My experience is that I only have to do anything if it shuts all the way down. You can reboot from the power menu and it goes back to selecting which firmware to boot.

I don’t ever use the regular firmware on it though.

But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.

I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.

I’m genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.

It has the worst library navigation I’ve ever seen.

TorrentFreak has really been spoonfeeding Nintendo’s nonsense positions about emulation everywhere lately.

Just for the hell of it, if you want a well researched book about the value of all sorts of Rest to dispute that specific point.

All LEDs are backlit, and a full 1080p on a 7 inch LED screen is a dogshit reading experience that will make your eyes bleed in about 2 minutes. If you manage to find a terrible OLED at a low price, it’s still emissive and still absolutely terrible for reading.

Free is obscenely overpriced for using a budget LED tablet as a reading device. It’s terrible and has nothing going for it. Don’t pay a penny for a device you intend to read on with any display that isn’t epaper. You won’t read on it because it will be a torture device.

By default it will turn itself off after two days, but it still sleeps pretty completely without a bunch of idle power draw without doing that.

It has a pretty long battery life with no backlight and airplane mode. If you do a bunch of downloads or run heavy apps and have the backlight high, it will drain faster, but it depends how you use it. Boox pretty aggressively limits background behavior by default, though you can change some of it to allow what you want. I don’t have benchmarks or anything to give you a direct comparison, but I rarely think about battery. You’re right to raise it as a question, though.

The one thing with color specifically is that it needs more light than black and white to really shine. In bright sunlight it looks great, but indoors I generally have to raise the backlight higher than I would for other content, and that’s a good chunk of the power draw so makes a dent.

Anything bad about Android is worse on kindle or kobo’s OS. They’re more invasive, give you less privacy options, and make it much more difficult than a decent android app to organize content. I don’t actually particularly like Android, and would be miserable if I had to use it in place of my iPhone. But the device specific software is pretty much all really bad.

Don’t get a device without e-ink as a reader. It will end up in the trash where it belongs. A low resolution backlit display will just discourage actually using it to read.

I use Boox. I don’t really trust them, but Android is just way better than not Android, and their modifications to support e-ink are the best IMO.

I primarily use the go color 7, and the page turn buttons also add a lot.

The crazy part is the “stripped down” was still relatively modest. She was in underwear and bra, but they covered a hell of a lot more than most people wear to the beach in a lot of the world.

SteamOS is arch, so some of the derivatives are too.

Steam shouldn’t really care though.

Good. Scanning everything for CSAM is one thing, but requiring platforms to scan everything uploaded for alleged copyright infringement is insane