It’s also not really a nice belt, at most 3 stars.

Steal $50 from your employer and you’ll to jail. Employer steals trillions and nothing happens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

Ok, I played with it and it seems like the recognition only works in the “Notes” app. It doesn’t work as a general text input for applications.

It works pretty well, though. You select the text with the pen by circling it, and then you can copy it to the clipboard or replace the drawing with the actual text.

Battery life is good, I use it with the wifi off and only had to charge it once, and I read a full book on it.

I haven’t played with the handwriting recognition yet, let me take a look and I’ll report back.

I bought a Mobiscribe recently, for the same reasons. It’s an eReader with an eink display, but it’s an Android tablet. I installed F-Droid, and then NextCloud (to access my ebooks) and Librera Reader. I also use it for listening to podcasts (via Bluetooth, since it’s an Android tablet) and taking notes with the stylus.

This is amazing advice! Saving it for when I have a kid.

Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book for a limited period.

So sad that we solved the problem of knowledge scarcity, and because of greed we need to add it back artificially.

I thought the same. Definitely the same vibe.

There’s was a scanner app that I loved, for Android. Turned into a subscription, even though most people use it less than once a month and even though the app was basically complete and never got updates.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

Singular they has been used for something like 7 centuries.

No one needs an AR-15 for self defense.

Ugh, I had a trans coworker who was conservative. Had an AR-15 “to defend herself”, and was against non-binary people and immigrants. Joined the police as a volunteer, and was doxxed for hanging out with some white supremacists.

The report in the first link is 1 page of affirmations, without any evidence, backing, nor references. Followed by 50 pages of names of random people, including a veterinarian and my old scuba instructor (really!).

That’s not a report. I’ll pass.

Yeah, I want to read it again! Maybe when I’m retired! 🙂

Gödel, Escher, Bach. I was only able to read the whole thing because I was in a ship for a month without TV or internet.

I signed up for a 2-hour Ableton class that was being offered at work. Not sure why, it just caught my attention. I was amazed by how the instructor could write a cool song in just a couple minutes! I had no idea that was possible.

That’s how I started, I bought Ableton and a small MIDI keyboard. Followed tutorials on YouTube and started writing a song every week for the song-a-week subreddit. I took a few online classes on music production and kept learning.

A few things that clicked for me:

• I don’t have to do EDM just because I’m using Ableton and all the YouTube tutorials are about EDM. I can make ambient.
• Notes sound better when they’re not quantized.
• There are no wrong notes to play.
• Finishing songs is really important.

The beauty of it is that 10! seconds = 6 weeks.

No one is suggesting that the transition would happen overnight… It would be just like any other job that became obsolete in the past, it would gradually phase out.