Jrockwar @ Jrockwar @feddit.uk

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My mom (78) got a new kindle a couple years ago, after the previous one lasting over 10 years.

She's not been using it now because "it's not okay" anymore. After a lot of poking and prodding remotely (we live in different countries) to get to understand what the issue was for the kindle to "not be okay", I managed to get her to tell me that "the screen is blank". I said I'd check it soon after when I went to her place.

When I travelled there, not long after, I checked the kindle, turned on the screen, and it was blank. Because she'd finished a book and the last page was blank. All worked fine.

I have told her, but she refuses to use the kindle because "it's not okay".

In a separate conversation I offered to give my sister my really old kindle as hers is actually broken. My mom heard that and said she wanted it because hers is... Not okay.

The insistence and willful ignoring of what I said is the most infuriating part.

Maybe a bit of a silly comment, but can you install it through proton/wine?

Since I've started using Linux as a gaming platform I've gotten to believe it can run anything you want as long as it doesn't have a kernel level anticheat. Maybe I'm extrapolating my learnings to something they can't be applied to...

Edit: on the old-lemmy there's a thread of people who report success with Bottles: https://www.reddit.com/r/AffinityPhoto/comments/1dxednv/affinity_photo_finally_works_on_linux_2024/

It's not quite EU, and I'm not saying it's necessarily better than buying from the US, but there are many non-US tech brands with nice products if you're okay with buying from Korea/Japan/Taiwan/China. Samsung, LG, Sony, ASUS and Xiaomi, for example.

Reuters?? An international news organisation that operates in more than 150 countries and that reports with almost emotionless reporting just based on facts? They are making up lies for hatred points? Are you also going to try to convince us they employ reptilians?

Over the past 5 years, I've installed ubuntu about 30 times on different computers. Not once has an install on an SSD taken me more than an hour, with it typically taking me 30 minutes or less except for rare occasions where I've messed something up.

PREGANANANT

It's the other way around, an Apple Silicon Mac would be able to run an intel binary through Rosetta (I think there's almost no exceptions at this point). It's intel macs that can't run Arm specific binaries.

I thought a few days ago that my "new" laptop (M2 Pro MBP) is now almost 2 years old. The damn thing still feels new.

I really dislike Apple but the Apple Silicon processors are so worth it to me. The performance-battery life combination is ridiculously good.

Op, I'll try to remember to comment here about what the doc/nurse says tomorrow after that review.

Perfect timing! Yes, I feel the exact same thing.

I've been on titration with medikinet XL with 20 mg for a month which was ok, then after a review got told to try 30 mg for two weeks and 40 mg for two weeks.

30 mg made me feel a bit stressed at work, but nothing that bothered me. Like having 3 coffees when you have a lot going on and you need to get things done quickly. As you say, this feeling only lasts for a while only.

Now I've moved to 40mg and I hate it. Roughly 2-3 hours after taking it, I get exactly what you describe. I've been trying to explain it as a 7-coffee panic. Same situation as the above but with so much coffee in my body that I'm at the edge of having a meltdown and bursting into tears.

This, of course, comes with high blood pressure and heart rate. My understanding is with extended release you get a first "peak concentration", then lowers slowly, and you get a second peak at about 4h or so, depending on formulation. Yesterday, at a time I think matched the second peak roughly, I was watching a stress-free TV show on the sofa, in a stress-free environment with no tasks to do... And suddenly this feeling came in and I had almost 90bpm resting heart rate for no reason when I'm normally in the low 70s.

I hate it and on Monday (I have my next medication review) I'm going to ask for alternatives or to get put on 30mg. That made me productive and motivated but without feeling like I'm being motivated by panic.

No, but I remember seeing another recent poll about a year ago where the results were that about 20% of GenZ identify as LGBTQ.

This would imply that 10% is the acceptance rate (which has gone up "thanks to GenZ's contribution") and the actual rate is higher than this, but that part is missing from the information.

Less conveniently while costing something like $700 plus a monthly $25 subscription.

I don't get how it got pitched either.

Mine is Clippy, but it's constantly retrieving information from the wrong word document.

"Hey, it looks like you're on holiday abroad. Would you like to take your car to the garage? The MOT expires tomorrow."

"Hey, would you like some help researching this really interesting camera equipment during working hours?"

"Hey, I see you're going to the gym. Let me remind you of all the tasks you need to do at home and now you won't have time to do: (...)"

Also because, as a person who has studied multiple languages, German is hard and English is Easy with capital E.

No genders for nouns (German has three), no declinations, no conjugations other than "add an s for third person singular", somewhat permissive grammar...

It has its quirks, and pronunciation is the biggest one, but nowhere near German (or Russian!) declinations, Japanese kanjis, etc.

Out of the wannabe-esperanto languages, English is in my opinion the easiest one, so I'm thankful it's become the technical Lingua Franca.

It's UE in Spanish, from Unión Europea. (Non-doubled letters because it's a single Union, there's no plural like in "States").

Sometimes people in Spain do use the English acronyms for both EU/USA, but I don't think I've seen it often. Both UE and EEUU are more common from what I've seen, and also people rarely say these out loud, it's exclusively a written language problem.

Insulin, like most meds in the US, is expensive because of the free market.

If you have a free market on life-saving medicine, guess what, people will pay however much they can afford and then some - because people are keen to survive.

In most (all?) European countries medicines are regulated. Some medicines have many manufacturers, some have a "government-enforced" monopoly but without free market, and the result is that no matter the country, insulin is free or almost free. The reason is that when you regulate this, and the only possible buyer for a whole country is "the government", the seller is forced to negotiate with the whole government to be able to sell to X million people. And the government is not in a life or death situation, so it's less vulnerable to price gouging.

If the governments can negotiate a low enough price, then they can subsidise the last bit via taxes and people get free life-saving drugs. Yet big-pharma still gets profits at these lower prices, as evidenced by the number of pharma companies there are in Europe (including non-eu countries that work similarly in terms of healthcare such as UK, Switzerland).

Free market works, until the seller has a life-threatening reason why the buyer will be forced to pay whatever the price is. The drug situation in the US is not free market, it's free blackmail.

Well, be it because he is good, or because he got lucky, SpaceX has been doing things right. It's refreshed the space industry like nobody ever has before.

I struggle giving that clown any credit whatsoever but the end result of Space X is undeniably successful, regardless of how they got there.

I did a masters on composites manufacturing while working at Airbus. One day I was talking to one of the lecturers after the class (a very senior engineer in Airbus Defence and Space), and I asked them what she thought about the SpaceX attempts (back then on their very early stages) at reusing rockets.

She ensured me that reusable rockets could never work. Just the cost of inspecting the rockets to ensure they hadn't gotten damaged would outweigh any savings from reusing them.

People have a habit of getting their predictions horribly wrong, so I'm not implying that she was a bad or short sighted engineer, even if she hyperfixated on one of the industry challenges at the time. My point here is that that anecdote illustrates pretty well what was the mindset in Airbus (and by extension, the European space programme) back then, and explains perfectly why Europe is behind on this.

Airbus has a history of making good or very good aircraft but they usually happen after Boeing has taken a leap. The A350 is great but it arrived almost a decade after the Dreamliner. Its development was reactionary, not visionary.

Although the A380 was a visionary solution for problem there wasn't a business case for. Not sure if that's any better...

But this was expected right? Is there anyone who genuinely thought this wouldn't happen? I thought all the people calling out "Genocide Joe" were right-wing alts breaking up the left.

1999 is 25 years old.

How old is a person who considers a 25-year-old "old"? 16? (I mean, besides Di Caprio)

Why does a 16 year old want to settle down?