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  • It took Intel seven years to put those earlier machines into full production, which contributed to it losing its lead to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW), opens new tab. Intel struggled with the reliability of those previous EUV models in the initial stages of production.

    Um no, that's Intel trying to shift blame for its own botched 10nm process. Did that even use EUV? I kind of recall not.

  • I'm satisfied. Virmach has had ups and downs but their network is fast too.

    If you want something Hetzner-like in North America, you might look at OVH. They have a data center in Beauharnois (BHS), Canada, which is near Quebec. It's not too different from using a server in the Northeast US.

  • That article is almost 4 months old and yeah, the internet in EU is better than in the US. But you can get US plans with plenty of bandwidth. I've been happy with buyvm.net and there are many others. Hang out on lowendspirit.com for a while to get a sense of things.

  • Why do I not want a Pixel? Expensive, poor battery life, batteries hard to replace, no headphone jack, no SD card slot, no stylus (that turns out to be surprisingly handy). Also too much AI crap. Yes there are some nice things about the Pixel too, but I ended up with a Moto G Stylus 5g (2023 model) and am quite happy with it. It has all the stuff I mentioned. The one Pixel feature I've sometimes missed is HDMI out of the USB-C port.

    Added: wireless charging is also nice but the 2024 Moto has that. Also I think it might interfere with easy battery replacement.

  • Usually you write the book with a text formatter and package the results in to an epub, so IDK if it's common to edit the epub directly.

    The epub is just a zip file containing a metadata file and a bunch of simplified HTML files (one per chapter). So if you're comfortable editing HTML, or better yet writing scripts, you can probably slap together something simple that unpacks the epub, strips those images out of the pages, and re-packages the epub.

  • Wait, if you have the old edition on your kindle, do they reach into your kindle and change what is there? Or do they just change the version in the store to the new edition, preferably with a new ISBN, if Kindles have ISBN's?

    I remember about the Roald Dahl thing and it seemed pretty clear which edition people would be getting. And some of this stuff (according to another internet poster I mean) may have been intended to keep the books in copyright longer rather than to merely mess with the content. Blyton died in 1968 so her stuff could enter the public domain in the next few decades otherwise. That's nefarious too.

    I remember for sure that Huckleberry Finn had the N word. Maybe little kids shouldn't be reading it, I'm cool with that, though I read it as a kid myself. But grown-ups who do read it can deal with an unexpurgated version.