I agree with you entirely. Anybody who is comfortable with calibre and with managing their own library of epubs won't have a problem with a device like this.
I have one of these and I enjoy using it. If you have a lot of drm-free ebooks and you want a tiny device with good physical buttons, then it might be worth getting one of these.
It only supports drm-free books that you load on to the sd card, so you're hosed if you buy all of your books through the kindle store. No libby app or other workarounds. Edit: I just got access to the article. Apparently the newest version of Crosspoint has Libby support. On the plus side there's a nice 3rd party firmware scene. I use Crosspoint, which makes the interface more straightforward. It is also easy to sideload new lockscreen images and my preferred fonts for ebook reading.
I only use it for basic epub ebooks.The processor/screen combo makes comics and pdfs a bad experience. Due to this Crosspoint doesn't officially support pdfs or comic book files.
From a hardware perspective, I REALLY like it. It takes up minimal pocket space and I can fit it into the bonus pocket on my jeans. The physical buttons on the front and side are very nice and responsive. Screen is small but more than adequate. Battery life is fine.
For Zelda games, the gauntlet challenges are what I have to come back to months later. In BOTW, there was Trial of the Sword. Still haven't finished that one. There's just something about the whole setup that stresses me out. Strange counterpoint, the Eventide Island shrine quest was probably my favorite part of the game.
I'm running the standard version of syncthing through termux at the moment. It lacks some of the power management options, but otherwise I've experienced no issues.
I second Aegis. You can drag icons and rename tokens. You can also sort by a to z, last used, usage count, etc. Aegis supports automatic backups and can export plaintext or encrypted backup files, after which you can transfer them to other devices however you transfer other files from your phone.
The backup files work with Aegis and with several independent desktop apps depending on your OS of choice. While I haven't looked into it, that suggests that the encryption method isn't something homebrew.
As far as #6 goes Aegis doesn't try to save my passwords, encourage me to use passkeys, or suggest AI solutions. Magic bullshit is a vague qualifier, but I think Aegis is thaumaturgically inert. The 'icons' are just the first letter of the name of the token issuer by default.
The more-than-one-year lifetime is a problem with anything, including plenty of Google projects. There are over 60 contributors on github, so that's something.
This is the biggest problem that I have with the Windows 'Just download the program from the internet' mentality. All that it takes is one brief moment when you let your guard down and everything falls apart. On top of that, modern search engines seem to be very happy to show bogus results as prominently as possible. Package managers aren't perfect, but they're a big step in the right direction. When I have to use Windows outside of a corporate or managed setting, I use something like Chocolatey.
I'm a married person and I had a few reasons. First and foremost was the feelings-based subjectivity of absolutely adoring my long-term girlfriend who was also my best friend. I wanted to be there for her for as long as we're both around and I wanted her to trust that I would be there for her. She felt the same way and wanted to demonstrate that she was all in, which was just as important. For a lot of people (if you look at the divorce statistics), marriage doesn't offer peace of mind. For us, it did. This has everything to do with our temperament, how we are with one another, and the things in life that we want, and what makes us worry about the future. I had a lot of options, but I certainly wouldn't have married anybody else that I'd met.
We also have careers that could involve moving to another region from time to time. There's a significant cost to walking away from a job to be with your partner, so being on the same page about the long-term nature of the relationship is an important part of the decisionmaking process. Health insurance/other benefits is a small but significant thing. It wasn't a factor in our initial decision to marry, but marriage makes it easier to share some things depending on where you live and what type of people are running your government. For me personally, it also made it easier to wrap my head around estate planning, life insurance, and stuff like that.
A minor note based on post-marriage experience: The wedding ring is a decent weirdo-repellent. It isn't foolproof, but it cuts down on some of the social nonsense that single people have to handle. If that interests you, you could just stay single and wear a ring.
It sounds like you want something that doesn't lend itself to troubleshooting or useability. It can be done, though: pull your hard drive and run everything from a live USB with no persistent storage. Or just don't use computers.
Something like 4 out of 10 important for me, but 10 out of 10 if I share a computer. I keep xfce4 on my computers because I like some of the utilities that come with it by default and I'm not the only person in my home who logs in. The default setup is close to what my people expect and it can be modified easily enough.
That being typed, I use a window manager after spending years adding custom shortcuts to an increasingly modified xfce setup to match my day-to-day use patterns. I got tired of dealing with stacking windows and wanted to try a setup that tiles the windows instead. It made sense at that time to try out a window manager that came closer to what I was looking for. I still use xfce4 if I want to run an x-11 type of environment for some reason, but I'm using sway for my personal day-to-day environment. I'm willing to use KDE or GNOME if that's what is installed by default, but I'm working against muscle memory when I do so.
I'm not sure that there is a consensus at this time. After reading some conflicting information, I opted to install syncthing via the F-Droid version of Termux until things settle down. When I run it in a terminal the default browser opens the web interface and I'm good to go from there. Power management is not great, but it works and runs the current version of syncthing.
For me, Trebuchet goes straight to my brain. There are plenty of fonts that look nicer to me, but that's the one that I settled on after trying out dozens. I read it faster, I don't lose my place, it works equally well for me at several font sizes and on both traditional ebook readers and tablet screens.
All of that being typed, I'm aware that the 'If' in my initial response is doing the same amount of heavy lifting as the 'Some might argue' in the article. Barring the revelation of some truly extraordinary evidence, I don't accept the premise.
I agree with you entirely. Anybody who is comfortable with calibre and with managing their own library of epubs won't have a problem with a device like this.
I have one of these and I enjoy using it. If you have a lot of drm-free ebooks and you want a tiny device with good physical buttons, then it might be worth getting one of these.
It only supports drm-free books that you load on to the sd card, so you're hosed if you buy all of your books through the kindle store.
No libby app or other workarounds. Edit: I just got access to the article. Apparently the newest version of Crosspoint has Libby support. On the plus side there's a nice 3rd party firmware scene. I use Crosspoint, which makes the interface more straightforward. It is also easy to sideload new lockscreen images and my preferred fonts for ebook reading.I only use it for basic epub ebooks.The processor/screen combo makes comics and pdfs a bad experience. Due to this Crosspoint doesn't officially support pdfs or comic book files.
From a hardware perspective, I REALLY like it. It takes up minimal pocket space and I can fit it into the bonus pocket on my jeans. The physical buttons on the front and side are very nice and responsive. Screen is small but more than adequate. Battery life is fine.
Looks like he got Tuvixxed with Gary Sinise.
I guess I'll have to stop choking my chicken, then.
Just throw the veggies in some water. They love drinking that crap.
You misspelled The Stars My Destination, aka Tyger, Tyger.
For Zelda games, the gauntlet challenges are what I have to come back to months later. In BOTW, there was Trial of the Sword. Still haven't finished that one. There's just something about the whole setup that stresses me out. Strange counterpoint, the Eventide Island shrine quest was probably my favorite part of the game.
Debian is sooo Dorothy.
I'm running the standard version of syncthing through termux at the moment. It lacks some of the power management options, but otherwise I've experienced no issues.
I second Aegis. You can drag icons and rename tokens. You can also sort by a to z, last used, usage count, etc. Aegis supports automatic backups and can export plaintext or encrypted backup files, after which you can transfer them to other devices however you transfer other files from your phone.
The backup files work with Aegis and with several independent desktop apps depending on your OS of choice. While I haven't looked into it, that suggests that the encryption method isn't something homebrew.
As far as #6 goes Aegis doesn't try to save my passwords, encourage me to use passkeys, or suggest AI solutions. Magic bullshit is a vague qualifier, but I think Aegis is thaumaturgically inert. The 'icons' are just the first letter of the name of the token issuer by default.
The more-than-one-year lifetime is a problem with anything, including plenty of Google projects. There are over 60 contributors on github, so that's something.
Yep. In the same way, bolt-on wheels are better than quick-release wheels in a city.
This is the biggest problem that I have with the Windows 'Just download the program from the internet' mentality. All that it takes is one brief moment when you let your guard down and everything falls apart. On top of that, modern search engines seem to be very happy to show bogus results as prominently as possible. Package managers aren't perfect, but they're a big step in the right direction. When I have to use Windows outside of a corporate or managed setting, I use something like Chocolatey.
I'm a married person and I had a few reasons. First and foremost was the feelings-based subjectivity of absolutely adoring my long-term girlfriend who was also my best friend. I wanted to be there for her for as long as we're both around and I wanted her to trust that I would be there for her. She felt the same way and wanted to demonstrate that she was all in, which was just as important. For a lot of people (if you look at the divorce statistics), marriage doesn't offer peace of mind. For us, it did. This has everything to do with our temperament, how we are with one another, and the things in life that we want, and what makes us worry about the future. I had a lot of options, but I certainly wouldn't have married anybody else that I'd met.
We also have careers that could involve moving to another region from time to time. There's a significant cost to walking away from a job to be with your partner, so being on the same page about the long-term nature of the relationship is an important part of the decisionmaking process. Health insurance/other benefits is a small but significant thing. It wasn't a factor in our initial decision to marry, but marriage makes it easier to share some things depending on where you live and what type of people are running your government. For me personally, it also made it easier to wrap my head around estate planning, life insurance, and stuff like that.
A minor note based on post-marriage experience: The wedding ring is a decent weirdo-repellent. It isn't foolproof, but it cuts down on some of the social nonsense that single people have to handle. If that interests you, you could just stay single and wear a ring.
It sounds like you want something that doesn't lend itself to troubleshooting or useability. It can be done, though: pull your hard drive and run everything from a live USB with no persistent storage. Or just don't use computers.
Something like 4 out of 10 important for me, but 10 out of 10 if I share a computer. I keep xfce4 on my computers because I like some of the utilities that come with it by default and I'm not the only person in my home who logs in. The default setup is close to what my people expect and it can be modified easily enough.
That being typed, I use a window manager after spending years adding custom shortcuts to an increasingly modified xfce setup to match my day-to-day use patterns. I got tired of dealing with stacking windows and wanted to try a setup that tiles the windows instead. It made sense at that time to try out a window manager that came closer to what I was looking for. I still use xfce4 if I want to run an x-11 type of environment for some reason, but I'm using sway for my personal day-to-day environment. I'm willing to use KDE or GNOME if that's what is installed by default, but I'm working against muscle memory when I do so.
I'm not sure that there is a consensus at this time. After reading some conflicting information, I opted to install syncthing via the F-Droid version of Termux until things settle down. When I run it in a terminal the default browser opens the web interface and I'm good to go from there. Power management is not great, but it works and runs the current version of syncthing.
For me, Trebuchet goes straight to my brain. There are plenty of fonts that look nicer to me, but that's the one that I settled on after trying out dozens. I read it faster, I don't lose my place, it works equally well for me at several font sizes and on both traditional ebook readers and tablet screens.
Teleporno and a quiet room?
Gotcha. This is replacing one nonsense black box with a different one, then. That makes a depressing kind of sense. No evidence needed, either!
All of that being typed, I'm aware that the 'If' in my initial response is doing the same amount of heavy lifting as the 'Some might argue' in the article. Barring the revelation of some truly extraordinary evidence, I don't accept the premise.