conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

My library also supports Hoopla, which is a limited number of borrows per month, with instant availability. The catalogue is probably lesser, but it's different so adds options.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

8-12 are my lighter reads. Some of my favorites are 25-30.

I do do double speed, so I wonder if that ticks twice as fast on there. But 15 hours a month is pretty bad.

Edit: I just got an email from audible. I've listened to ~20900 minutes (348 hours) in 9 months (38.5/month) on there this year, and I've used Scribd and Libby way more. Obviously I'm not typical, and supporting me isn't reasonable. But since they sent that the same day I made this post I thought I'd add it.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you mean pure desktop, probably whatever age you'd need to be to use windows. Switching from Windows to Linux is an adjustment for most normal people, but a big part of that is because they've been using windows for years and are used to their design choices. At the end of the day, though, in either case, shortcuts on a screen are shortcuts on a screen, and you're not going to be ready to manage either OS for a good while.

In terms of using it as a handheld, the flow is pretty easy, but it's really big and heavy for a little kid.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

E-ink doesn't block/emit light. It reflects it. This is why it reads like paper. Instead of having a light blasting at your face, you have light from the front bouncing off of the display into your eyes. This means that your display can use ambient light instead of needing to overpower it.

Reflective LCD displays actually do exist. You basically have little mirrors behind the pixels because LCDs are transparent and designed to use a backlight. If you're curious, search RLCD or if you want to see a tablet, the Hisense Q5.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It has to be. Epaper is done by physically moving the "ink" particles (which are designed to not move at all when you aren't deliberately moving them) around. It takes too much time for fast refresh rates.

The benefit is that it actually reads like paper. You can't replicate that on LED or OLED.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How does Apple use scarcity to sell products?

They let you get in line with a very clear delivery date when they can't meet demand, compared to basically everyone else who just has stock drops on and off.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It depends on the apps. Stuff that takes a username and password isn't really bad on the Apple TV if you have passwords saved.

The thing that gets me is fucking half assed QR codes. A QR code is a quick, easy solution when everyone has their phone. But there's absolutely zero reason to use a QR code on the TV, then to still make me manually enter your pairing code. Just making the link complete is so much less than trivial that not including it is very obviously intentionally annoying.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Or "I threw it with some random amount of force that I'm sure was the same for both".

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I haven't done sauce a bunch of times, because it takes too much time and Trader Joe's sauce is good enough, but in the times I have, I've had pretty widely varied results based on the tomatoes going into it. It's not exactly mind blowing considering it's basically tomatoes cooked down with some spices, but I don't have anywhere near as much variability in most other cooking. Mushrooms are mushrooms, flour is mostly flour (except I really like how 00 pizza flour comes out). Obviously there's always variance in the end result based on ingredients, but tomato sauce is one of the worst I've noticed, so finding the right source for that might be worth thinking about if nothing seems to work recipe wise.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

It could still be a problem for an enterprise client where individuals could exfiltrate or accidentally leak target IPs.

A lot of security flaws like this don't automatically compromise a system, but can be used in combination with other elements for an attack.

Identifying it means they have the ability to resolve it and come up with an action plan for an attack if long term mitigations will take time though.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

It's stadia but without the bullshit where you have to buy games just for their platform.

It also works better.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You're describing GeForce experience.

GeForce Now is the cloud gaming service.

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