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I was using this a lot to read stuff on my Kobo e-reader, and I'm sorely going to miss that feature. There's no replacement unless Kobo puts out a huge firmware update.

There can't be an argument for or against it because there's no clear generally accepted definition of what it means to be sentient.

As a bonus, you get the identity of the person who owns the card

Antagligen alla som har någon typ av reservation mot kärnkraft. I deras ögon.

Om man läser definitionen av ordet på wikipedia så betyder det snarare "politisk och social medvetenhet om rasdiskriminering och andra strukturella orättvisor". Tror inte det finns något elbolag som utmärker sig i det avseendet.

Or get better taste buds

It needs to be at least as easy as Windows to install and have good support.

Extra bonus points if they preinstall/bundle it on gaming PCs.

I'm thinking of file compression formats like Zip, LHA and ARJ, which would work particularly well if the image was not dithered and used run-length encoding (e.g. the PIC format of the Atari ST). The PNG format still uses the deflate algorithm which is essentially identical to the compression used by PKZip in 1991.

At the time when dithering was commonly used to achieve the illusion of more available colors, i.e. the 80s and the first half of the 90s.

It's really only helpful for formats that will be directly read by hardware (the video chip) and where the "compression" ratio (I would prefer the term quantization) needs to be fixed. For file compression, which was quite mature but CPU- and memory-intensive at the time, the dithering only makes it more difficult to compress further.

Compressed textures on modern GPUs actually use similar compression: a color palette followed by indexes into the palette. But that's done per 4x4 pixel block.

This.exe file including music and visuals is 4KB

Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It's baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.