Building a full function browser is a huge project that can really only be done by a big organization. And it’s mostly for the benefit of advertisers and other hucksters, so not a satisfying thing to work on for purely charitable reasons. Basically the web sucks. We’d be better off with a privacy protecting fragment that was designed for end users rather than for upstream. See Rfc 8890 for more.

Thanks!

What size boox did you get for $300? If it’s 13.3" that is pretty interesting despite it being Android. The current one is around $800. I think I’m ok with a normal backlit screen in the right format.

The Hacker News crowd likes the reMARKable but I don’t see what’s so great about it. Inkplate is the only one I find interesting for now, and I’d want it to be bigger.

I used a reflective laptop (Toshiba T1000) in the 1980s and today’s stuff isn’t really that much more functional, at least for text.

Big phone means same mostly proprietary software and spyware apps, hard to replace internal battery, limited software updates after which the device becomes obsolete, non upgradeable memory and storage, etc. By comparison my 2011 era laptop still runs current gnu/linux distros and has a swappable battery, HD/SSD, and other replaceable parts.

Thanks I didn’t know about that. Interesting though pretty expensive and runs android 11 (I’d prefer to stay all FOSS). A convertible laptop is another idea, e.g. thinkpad yoga. Also would want easily replaceable battery which the inkplate has. The Boox sounds more like a giant smartphone, is that reasonable? This type of device should be nearly BIFL imho. 13.3" inkplate would be great.

I might get an inkplate 10 (same size as Boox) but really want something bigger, like 14 inch or more, to read arxiv.org PDFs.

I’ve bought a few of these bundles but could never get into reading the science or tech books on my small laptop. And they are useless on a phone. They might be best on a big desktop monitor, especially in portrait orientation. I have an easier time with narrative ebooks. History, fiction, etc.

Some of the books in the bundle do look good.

How about almost anything else? Go, Ocaml, Ada. Haskell, etc ? You might also consider CUDA if your problem naturally parallelizes.

Why rust? It’s trendy but it’s really best for systems work despite the zealots.

I’ve been using mate, generally happily. I don’t remember what if any issues I had with xfce. I hated gnome.

You have to post X events for the keystrokes. I may have some code around that does something similar, lemme look.

Then my laptop is a phone? It’s sort of a phone but it doesn’t connect to the phone network, so only sort of. Since it needs a wifi signal it’s not so mobile either.

Ok but wifi only isn’t really a phone?

I didn’t watch the video but I don’t think there is any phone that lets you avoid having your location tracked. If there is wifi near where you want to use the phone, you could run a voip client on on a wifi-only tablet, perhaps.

I’ve been wondering whether satellite communications gizmos with no GPS allow any type of precise location tracking from the satellite. I’ve been interested in this, which lets you exchange text messages at fairly low cost (about 2 cents per 50 byte unit). Besides possible privacy advantages, it also lets you communicate where there is cell coverage:

https://shop.blues.com/products/starnote-starter-kit

What exactly do you want it to do? You can implement TOTP with a 10 line python script and I probably have a few of those kicking around. I’ve ended up doing that at least a couple of times.

Use a medic alert bracelet if you need something like that. EMTs are trained to look for it. They aren’t going to derp around looking at your phone.

I’ve never been able to get a library card anonymously, but anonymous email is pretty easy I thought. I use mailinator sometimes, which has no registration even.

I set up ZNC and got it working but it was a pain in the neck, took some trial and error, and the docs were confusing. Once I got it going I basically left it alone rather than try to clean up the situation.