conciselyverbose

It’s really not.

In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.

But still declared them liable for the actions of their users.

Bad ruling, just less bad than it could be.

If I put the over/under at 10x male pirate to female, are you taking the under?

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For first party stuff, Nintendo launches finished games (though Sony does too).

For third party, cartridges are expensive enough that it’s not uncommon at all for companies to straight up make a bunch of content download only. A lot of “multiple game” collections only put some of the games on the cartridge (not counting the ones that tie some to keys).

I don‘t see a reason why these cardridges wouldn‘t work in 20 years anymore.

Because, just like discs, they’re a crappy pre-launch build that relies on day one patches or additional content to actually work correctly.

I would be shocked if the newer versions don’t have a software hack way before that.

The fact that the first version was easy to hack made later versions lower priority, but at some point for the sake of preservation or to have the OLED, the new ones will catch up.

Eh, it is what it is. I could sideload if I really wanted to.

After more effort than it should have taken (for some reason my PIA app or Android was bouncing local connections even with the settings to allow it enabled) ebooks do work. Probably not well enough for me to actually use it, though. It only turns pages with swipes and doesn’t really give any ways to do formatting. I’m surprised I’ve seen it suggested by people for ebooks with how limited it is. (I fully understand that it’s not the priority development-wise).

But at least I finally set up docker, which I’ve meant to do forever.

It’s a US site and a US court.

US law is the only thing relevant to the case being discussed.

I’m not crazy into stats (I don’t track books when I re-read them, though goodreads supports that), but audible’s “you read 30k minutes last year” was definitely kind of cool. (The fact that it took me a full 30 minutes to add the new books I’ve read across 5 apps since last time I bothered putting stuff on goodreads? Not so much.)

My problem is I have a whole stack of different apps to fill out my listening, so Audible’s numbers are 90% the 1 author I actually bought from them outright, then there’s two different library apps, and a subscription to Scribd Everand for a bunch of my reading, plus actual files in a different app, so none of it really means anything, and not everyone provides it so I can’t even compare.

It’s too bad the iOS app is stuck behind test flight, but it looks like it supports ebooks, too, so I think I might try it on my Android readers and see how it manages for those. I desperately need a better system for those than “just go find the file and use boox drop when I feel like it”.

It’s crazy how different different apps render the same text in the same font.

I ended up having to force roboto thin to get something close to how moon reader displays regular roboto.

I’m giving it a shot now, though. I do like that nice side bar that gives you fine control over how your library is displayed, with different profiles for different things.

The least annoying reader on Android I’ve found is moon reader pro. It feels a lot worse to me than maple reader on iOS though.

A lot of people seem to recommend KOReader (it might be because it can be installed on a lot of readers that don’t have Android though), and actually reading is fine, but browsing your library is awful. It’s completely free without anti features though (on fdroid if it isn’t on the play store).

Imagine thinking you should be able to use the platform that makes “open source” their whole marketing pitch while locking you into their platform that they have paywalls on, then try to enforce restrictions on how modifications to their “open source” project are allowed to work, for free.

None of this is “hacking”

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.

Yeah, if they weren’t sourced by people giving them to them under other pretenses I wouldn’t judge.

Jesus Christ fuck them. “Fair is fair”?

Torrent Freak’s.

They cover news in the torrent and piracy space. This is very clearly news. It’s literally the whole purpose of the site.