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I could see the benefit on a non-phone mobile device. Completely cutting power as a deep sleep without needing a lengthy boot sequence could be nice.

Unless it’s actually “just as fast” as volatile memory (including progress to the latter) and not more expensive, though, it seems like it wouldn’t justify the tradeoffs.

On kindle, if you tap the middle of the screen, then click the little Aa up top, you get formatting options. On reflowable formats, you can go to the more tab and uncheck the animation button. On ones that are fixed pages, it should be one of the only options.

Same, have a boox, getting a second boox, and really wish I had a better option to track location across devices. KOReader is a nice reader experience, but browsing books sucks. I use a blend of moon reader and the built in app depending on my mood, but neither feels as good as maple reader on my iPad, and nothing I’ve found can really sync my location.

https://wiki.kavitareader.com/en/faq/external-readers

I keep not getting to it, so can’t vouch for it, but Kavita looks like it’s worth trying.

What you’re describing is no longer a human civilization filled with humans. Free will is a core to what makes people people, and that means people being permitted to clash, disagree, and compete.

It’s not defeatist in any way. His weird fantasy world where work and investment aren’t rewarded sounds like a miserable hell hole.

The scale of what government is capable of compared to government plus the private sector are not remotely comparable.

It is a statement of fact that if private companies were not entitled to the fruits of their research it’s literally impossible anywhere near as much research would be done, and literally impossible that output of that research would be further along.

The economics of academic research is actually something to complain about. That research is paid for in large part with public funding, then privatized and paywalled.

There is no theoretical world where academic research could get paid for at anywhere near the rate of the private sector. If trade secrets didn’t exist, we would be decades slower in technology at a generous best case.

Your opinion doesn’t have even the tiniest sliver of validity underlying it.

The knowledge wouldn’t be out there. It wouldn’t exist because the companies paying for the work would be bankrupt.

https://www.samsung.com/global/business/networks/insights/blog/persistence-pays-off-for-samsung-networks-in-becoming-a-major-5g-radio-access-network-vendor/

I’m not willing to dig too deep, but here’s a Samsung.com link saying it was 16 billion in 2018 and trending up. I’m not sure if building fabs goes into that bucket or a different one, and that’s a budget copycats also need, but the amount of investment in research is absolutely enough that not being able to benefit from it before being copied would make it much more difficult to do.

If they couldn’t protect trade secrets, they couldn’t afford the literal billions of dollars of research they do to make that progress.

Nonsense.

Minimum requirements go up a little, but the reason they don’t support modern versions is exclusively cost cutting.

And it’s definitely not true with Linux. They occasionally abandon old, dead hardware when the development effort is too high for the benefit, but for the most part mainstream hardware will still work as well or better on modern versions.

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.

That’s not VR.

I kind of want GPL, but with one extra clause that says that violating the terms of the GPL permanently and irrevocably terminates all right to touch anything else under the same license, including your own code.