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Almost all of our GUI software was designed with high refresh rate screens in mind, so it can be clunky to use e-ink ones. If we had GUis based on section changing, instead of scrolling, it wouldn't be a problem. On pcs, using the page up and down keys can be a workaround, but on phones, it's complicated.

Damn, I LOVE e-ink screens, I'd love to have almost all my devices using it, I love to read freely without getting eye strain from it. I'd even give away being able to watch videos in my phone for an e-ink screen.

But it seems like I will never be able to use it anywhere besides my cheap second hand ereader... the prices are always astronomically high :( even chinese e-ink tablets are too expensive for me.

Most people are too tech illiterate to understand it all. I doubt people would agree to such a level of data collection, if they knew more about it. I believe it can be compared to making illiterate people sign a contract, when they can't even read it.

To be fair, a lot of good researchers have trouble creating succinct abstracts.

That AI in the article title was probably for getting more clicks and do some seo tricks, because the text barely mentions it. The expected growth is in industrial and automotive applications. In a way, it's likely to reach consumers soon, but not in the way we want.

The link, to save you a click: https://archie.serialport.org/

A burnout, maybe?

I agree that incentivizing innovation is a good thing, but when it becomes a pressure, we tend to get less innovative ideas, and more wasteful stuff, planned obsolescence, and even loss of functionality. It's like a system going overshoot and distorting itself in a destructive manner, instead of building more over it. Some examples come to mind, like manufacturers adding iot to appliances that don't need it, sites redesigning their layout every couple years to add nothing new at all, confuse the user base and become more resource intensive, new windows versions bringing heavy incompatibilities, but barely any new features, google worsening the results of their perfectly functional search engine that billions of people use daily, just to add some mandatory ai stuff that could have been optional, etc.

But how do you know if it's the clutter that is being removed? One of the indicator listed in the article is broken links from wikipedia. These links are very likely to point to informational resources or news articles, but are also being lost at a high rate.

Are there any downsides to saving photos as pngs?

Are you sure the prompt wasn't firefox logo on the windows xp wallpaper?

How light is it when compared to xfce?

That's the kind of thing we get when we hit the diminishing returns of innovation in some areas, but our economical system pushes companies into constantly innovating to stay afloat.

Such a license wouldn't fit the free software or the open source definitions, but I find it interesting that there has been a small, yet apparently growing, group of people unsatisfied with our current open licensing, for different reasons, and proposing new ideas and concepts that wouldn't fit these definitions.

Scrolling through this meme was weirdly timed, because the shampoo bottle I left too near to the edge just fell off in my bathroom.

True. Only the frequency of occurrence that is different.

I bet hippocrates is a professor there

I used to love that brilliant site. It was lile a place for people to discuss mathematics, physics, and other topics, with daily problems, jokes, curiosities, and a lot of things, made by the users, in a format like a social network. The site then changed so fast to become a paid and limited platform with no resemblance to its original form :(

Wait, other people don't do that? Well, that explains a lot... Since I was a kid, I never understood how people treated their stuff so badly and throw stuff away without a second thought. I take care of my stuff for as long as I can, and almost never throw anything away. They're like companions who walk with me in my life, and I'm never giving up on an old friend.