I’ve owned two Kindle devices over the years, and the ability to directly load content, without involving a third-party service, was a big part of what made them usable for me. If that feature is gone, these devices will no longer be viable for my needs.
And the enshittification continues…
at least three congressional Republicans
How does that compare with the number of congressional Republicans actively spreading this disinformation?
Just ask ChatGPT; it’s better than humans at proving its humanity with these stupid things.
VMs provide a meaningful security boundary between applications. Containers (docker, etc) do not.
Interesting! From his post,
Mikhail advised me to use balanced trees instead of extensible hashing
And
I never told Mikhail that Oracle had tried implementing a filesystem using balanced trees, and its performance was terrible leading to most insiders in the industry concluding that balanced trees performed poorly for filesystem File size patterns.
Of course, that filesystem exists today as btrfs.
As noted elsewhere in the thread, they do support MTP transport, so it’s definitely not as user-hostile as it first sounded. Things like Calibre will still work. However, the fact that Amazon also removed the ability to download ebooks in the browser for offline transfer suggests where things are heading. IIRC kobos have some anti features of their own, but I don’t recall the details. I wonder if something like the Daylight DC-1 could be even better. It’s not just a nice reader, but a proper computer. At least, if it actually exists.