A lot of travel ones aren’t really intended for anything but hand washing.

Reputable places won’t print shit that infringes copyright.

Yep, documentation and a good base level default installation configuration/guide with minimal friction.

I’m perfectly willing to play around once I know at the basic level that the core flow is going to work for me. If it takes me digging through a stack of documentation (especially if it’s bad) to even get something to experiment with on my own system? I won’t bother.

Yeah, I really have no particular interest in taking my birthday off.

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.

Yes, it is?

Your rant doesn’t make sense. Asking for suggestions because you’re not OK with being spied on (especially when you’re perfectly willing to absorb the hosting costs yourself or pay for a service that isn’t hostile) is perfectly valid behavior.

You can’t.

Age verification is not compatible with any remotely acceptable version of the internet. It’s an obscene privacy violation in all cases by definition.

Any implementation short of a webcam watching you while you use the site is less than trivial to bypass with someone else’s ID while opening numerous massive tracking/security holes for no reason.

Apparently I phrased it badly because every vote on it is down lol.

So it’s probably my bad.

That’s literally my point.

Most people know that email isn’t tied to a provider app.

Email providers absolutely block other email providers who abuse their system.

It’s also not even close to how email works and plenty of people use email apps that aren’t tied to a provider.

lol I use video of my TV to blow up my brother’s phone with sports highlights all the time. If you crop them they don’t look that bad.

I could get the “default” to facilitate setup, but as far as I’m concerned it’s seriously fucked not to have the first step of your script be replacing it with the user’s own choices. It’s really hard for me to trust the security as a whole of a project that does that by default, especially because it’s intended to be for inexperienced users and there was no indication during the setup process or other included information that that was the case.

Serious question: last I looked at casaOS (because I liked the hardware), they had SSH open and accessible to default passwords by default. This scared me off hard.

Is this still a thing/are there other glaring security holes?

Laptop means an emissive display, which generally results in excessive brightness in lower light scenarios and inadequate contrast in very bright ones, because it needs to power through the ambient light. Epaper is way easier to read because it inherently matches the lighting of your environment (or you can use a front light to boost it slightly in the dark) by being reflective instead. There are interesting efforts at reflective LCD screens, but they’re even more expensive and limited to monitors and TVs for the most part. For text based content, eink and other epaper devices read like actual paper, and you can’t match that with other display tech currently. The display is most of the cost of those devices, though, because they’re still pretty low volume and hard to manufacture.

I’m not sure the distinction you’re making with “big phone”. The bigger ones support pens for you to write on them, and it feels similar to using my iPad to read, just without animations and with a more paper like display that doesn’t get blown out in the sun. (The current version would be the tab x, just to clarify.) I think Apple’s tablet experience is a lot better than android’s, and there are a bunch of apps that I like that aren’t on Android, but I wouldn’t say it doesn’t feel like a tablet.

There’s a 13.3" boox that’s pretty decent. I have the older max 3, and I’m waiting for them to get a color version that size to replace it.

The hard math is figuring out the path (because small imprecision in the guessed location of the object over time can pretty easily cause meaningful errors.) If you control the engine and know the real vectors, projecting their path out isn’t super complicated.

But I’m all for the idea that knowing a variety of math allows you to solve a lot more problems.

Just FYI, this is only the additional “live books” thing.

The actual books are all there as normal downloads.