All I’ve learned from this tread is that people have some very strange beliefs…

Maybe talk to your DR instead of trusting what people say online.

Soo…I have the phone. Whats a good replacement? Or is google going to do something about this? Theres a referenced site that doesnt exist yet by google themselves. Im at a bit of a loss.

They have such a custom site. In a good way. Works well with RSS :)

https://マリウス.com/index.xml

Congrats it’s worse! Harder to get to :)

If they go online, then yeah updates are a good thing.

Personally, I just dont make it go online. Calibre is so good that updates only make it worse.

Heh yeah… I was part of the linux port for fun for a bit. Certain models are just pop the bottom off and now you have access to the SD card(!) that they use for the linux kernel. AND they published the linux kernel info on GH so we even knew what they were customizing under the hood. Not a whole lot if im honest. The battery/SD card/screen/buttons are all kinda cheap, but also super easy to swap out. So you just put https://github.com/Quill-OS/quill on it and boom linux eink device.

I think osme of their newer models have less repairable parts as the product line has become more popular.

Thats the one I remember. Its so funny some of the comments in the GH PRs and Issues themselves.

On a side note, im seeing more and more people transfer over to Codeberg and other such git alternatives. Ive used GH for over 15 years and its interesting to see the shifting occurring. Then again, to those of us that have been online for a while, it feels like the natural order of things. GH is trying to get as much $$ as they can (which includes AI) and its new features are becoming tied to monitary components. Meanwhile the community is making things its users actually want.

Actually quick question, how did the author pull in all those resources on the comment section? That is pretty awesome!

I still have my kindle thats over 10 years old.

I got a Kobo and its awesome as well. Ironically, because wallmart couldn’t be bothered to use good components they made it extremely repairable.

The best place to find a good working ebook reader is to either use an old phone (which is not really eink, but without wifi modern phones can last a bit). Or go to a thrift store and find a decent one for 10$ or less. Just make sure it turns on and you should be good!

I like the authors recommendation of something VERY cheap like a 10$ reader…but its probably not viable if Im honest. Sounds like a lot of e-waste that would occur.

This is on top of potential tariffs which if enacted will make PC costs skyrocket. I feel like a lot of people are just going to skip the generation like they do with every other windows OS version. They will just keep windows 10 forever kinda like XP did back in the day.

nice!

Ive personally used proton as well for the one program that I need in windows land. It works really well.

Maybe I should have just linked the blog post: https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability

I once made a good roll and my character threw a goat at a kobold. Halflings +1 to throwing.

My DM started to calculate the damage, gave up and just said the kobold died. Then we figured out goats had more hp than kobolds and had a goat in the party…til the end of the campaign lol. It’s was out goat of holding.

Quite a few classic movies would not be a thing if cell phones were in the universe at the time.

Yep users move over time. Its the natural order of things. I disagree with the article that moving away from SO is "bad news for developers " as long as we have something better in the works. It looks like Discord is the thing everyone is jumping on, which kinda sucks.

Yep I agree. Its a combo of many different things.

I cant tell you the last time I was on SO for a question. its been that long.

The article also goes into it, but I think the invent of AI and asking somewhat specific questions may also explain the decline. If you can get a result that can get you 90% of the way there with an AI that used stack overflow as a resource, theres no reason to actually ask on stack overflow. Its faster to go on the AI result or go on google/bing/etc…etc… that has the answer right there on the page.

And the redesign…its pretty bad in my opinion.

I was once downvoted answering a question on a library…that I created on stack overflow. Still makes me laugh.

That graph tells a story.

A repurposed old PC with something like yunohost, generic Debian, or some lightweight Linux will probably get you what you need.

It heavily depends on what programs you want to run.