I read a WWII book about wartime pilots doing crazy shit. At one point the wings freeze over and the alcohol spritzers for de-icing are all plugged up, so somehow it vents into the cabin and gets the pilots drunk from the fumes. I think they ended up landing on a glacier in the fog, thinking they were about to hit water.

Anyone can say they’re offended without any cost to themselves. It’s ‘cheap’, and the outcome is often very ‘expensive’ for the offender. You could even make the case that virtue is derived from being offended. This disproportionality invites bad faith. I’ve stopped caring about people’s offense.

Anyone can say they didn't mean it that way/they were joking without any cost to themselves as well.

Not to say that there isn't anything wrong with how people have been increasingly incensed in the last few decades, but that's basically what it was like in the 90s and before. Someone was like, "whoa dude what you said wasn't cool" was met with "it was just a joke".

Your reasoning cuts both ways I think.

It doesn’t cost the other party anything to say you were joking. Saying you’re offended can lead to lost economic opportunity for somebody.

Fuck that, you’re the big game in town, you get the big bitches. Fix your shit.

Flagged. I want my back button back.

And yet I’m still annoyed enough to upvote them.

I’ve tried to understand Org mode but it seems like a mix of so many different goals and ideas that it’s just a giant spitball of miscellaneous solutions.

TODO

README

typesetting

Etc ad nausea

The common thread seems to be emacs. Mostly.

trick is to start using it for whatever usecase you want than later you discover that you can use it for other usecases as well and your previous learning carries over. For eg. use it to write readme and export it to html/pdf/md etc. later if you feel the need of task management system for todo/progress/done well org mode supports that so you don't need to learn altogether new service for tasks. This was my journey as well

need to write and export to different formats--> need for task management system --> need for small excel sheet (org mode tables --> need for http request/response aka postman/insomnia --> continuing

have you read their page? it is really good https://orgmode.org/.

I’ve always figured this was what they wanted. They probably tie it to your IMEI so they can track you everywhere online and in the real world.

E: Seriously? This is a multi billion dollar industry. Oh no, Google would never do that…

Has there been any progress on extending e ink lifespan?

That's a non-issue so far as I'm aware.

The displays will last and function for years. Long enough that other components are generally long obsolete.

Obsolete, but still functional for their intended purpose. The screen will fail before the components get tin whiskers, if you use it often-ish.

E ink readers will fail later because of a very low refresh rate, but as a screen monitor it may be a poor match.

Pixel-Qi full sun display mode may be a better match for what most want.

That depends.

For anything networked, not having access to the latest and greatest ciphers, or CA certificates, eventually causes problems. It's possible that mobile formats won't be supported. And a decade or so out, what was once a generous provisioning of storage and memory will frequently come to seem small. Android-based devices such as the Onyx BOOX line probably won't be able to get newer OS updates even if the vendor was willing to support them as Android itself seems to have a moving hardware baseline (I'm typing this on ... an older Android device).

That said, the displays themselves should still function, yes.

What's the current lifespan? My original Kindle is still working just fine.

Don't you find the low-resolution and the low-contrast of the first generation panels annoying?

No, since I've upped the boldness since day 1 lol. I never noticed it being "low resolution".

Depends on how things are set up with the refresh rate; subpixel rendering may have an effect IIRC. Details I don’t really understand, but e ink has a shorter lifespan than other tech.

Airtags are creepy as fuck. Even if Android has built in airtag detection, it doesn’t solve the problem of people without up to date smartphones, or people that don’t know what any of those messages/warnings mean.

It shouldn’t be too difficult to remove the beeper from the device, or disable it somehow.

Once you figure out how to open the thing (there are videos of how to do this online, it's not that hard to do it destructively, and once you know where to pry, pretty easy to do it without breaking any of the plastic that holds it closed), you can remove the speaker without even needing to break anything, it's just held in place with glue.