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abricot··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
I have the Kobo Libra Color and the contrast on the X4 is much much better.

The whole sticking-it-to-the-back-of-your-phone i find a bit useless, but mine came with two metal rings so that I can stick it to other places.

I have one ring on the dashboard of my car so the X4 can hang there until i need to use it. Good for trips with many stops.

abricot··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
512 GB according to the manual, but it probably depends on the card.
abricot··on Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing
Looks like NovelWriter which I'm using.
abricot··on Ask HN: Low entry barrier hobby that can potentially generate income?
I’ve had this idea that is just too awful for me to actually do it.

Create a script that generates brainrot videos with a voice just reading popular Wikipedia pages out loud.

abricot··on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
One thing that isn’t mentioned in the article is that driver’s education in US is a fucking sad joke, and the driving tests even more so.

Many mention rules about yielding, and having to stop when turning right on red: most of the drivers only know a fraction of the rules. They never learned most of them.

I’m not sure about this, but my understanding is that some states don’t even require a license if you are older.

abricot··on WiFi signals can measure heart rate
Or beam them and delete the buffer
abricot··on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely
Mentioning the president is a bit like saying the pope is old. They are both selected/elected old.
abricot··on Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
> Virgin Islands

Denmark tried to offhand the islands multiple times.

"The islands were eventually sold to the United States for $25 million ($613,570,000 in 2024) which took over the administration on 31 March 1917 and renamed the territory the United States Virgin Islands."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies

The controversy is more how it got in the hands of Denmark in the first place.

abricot··on Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?
Wienermelange?
abricot··on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
I've never seen an ereader at a thrift store
abricot··on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
Only if you don't need to pay them a living wage.
abricot··on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
It also stowed the other items, and know how much space they take up.

From the article:

> “When you’re a person doing this task, you’ve got a buffer of 20 or 30 items, and you’re looking for an opportunity to fit those items into different bins, and having to remember which item might go into which space. But the robot knows all of the properties of all of our items at once, and we can also look at all of the bins at the same time along with the bins in the next couple of pods that are coming up. So we can do this optimization over the whole set of information in 100 milliseconds.”

abricot··on Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast
Sadly true. It will likely be 720p vertical.
abricot··on Home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut
Everything seems to be exploding in Lebanon!?
abricot··on Mitsubishi is an example of anti-consumer, poor design decisions
How would a “cursory research” reveal that they are lying in their online material?
abricot··on WhatsApp gives India an ultimatum on encryption
Is there any chance that a whatsapp ban in India would greatly affect Indian people?
abricot··on MKBHDs for Everything
It also kills any hope in that NEW CATEGORY that makes it really hard for the next one to even try...
abricot··on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
It's clear as in "if you know the rule you can count on it" but there is no discoverability within the tool itself. It will even say if a file has been uploaded into the chat already, giving you an impression that the file is in the chat - while it really is in your own onedrive.

I only discovered it by chance while roaming my onedrive directory.

abricot··on Ask HN: What were your tech predictions 10 years ago?
The future is not evenly distributed. The only thing I have signed by hand in the last 4 years are package deliveries.

- Change of union, digital signature - New contract at work, digital signature - Moved apartment twice, digital signature - Signed my kid up for school, digital signature - New phone contract 5-6 times, digital signature - Made hundreds of payments online, digital signature. - updated my tax information, digital signature

All using NemID or later MitID here in Denmark.

abricot··on Ask HN: Why hasn't OnlyOffice see higher adoption than LibreOffice?
Not sure that is what keeps most away
abricot··on Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
Wow, grinding through 2 layers of PCB to get to the third. That takes dedication!
abricot··on Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography
I guess that bird could be spying on you. Jokes aside, this is natural drone photography.

I can imagine you would be even more successful with targeted photography from a trained bird.

abricot··on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries
Doesn't this actually support the argument? If she had known her neighbors she maybe would have questioned this stranger carrying out a TV, or at least given notice to their appearance.
abricot··on Ask HN: How old do you think you will live to be?
I'm optimisticly guessing at 48
abricot··on Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf]
kortilla didn't invent it. It was coined in the 1970s.
abricot··on Spiders could theoretically eat all humans on Earth in just one year
I'm getting "access denied"
abricot··on The Pirates Are Back
If we're talking Europe prices were never even near $100
abricot··on Ask HN: Programming Gloves?
Buy a cheap pair and cut off the fingertips.
abricot··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
To be fair, google DID provide quality at scale in the past. I'm not sure the same can be said about Pinterest.
abricot··on The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Check out eInkBro Browser if you haven't already. It saved my sanity when I started using my eInk tablet.
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