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That's cool. It was kinda stressful when I did it.

Most of the time. Many retail units are older firmware. Just need to be very careful not to connect to the internet or leave any internal…

Battery life for Kindle is legitimately months if you're a casual reader.

The frog was boiled slowly over years. There is no singular company to get mad at for PC back then. I STILL dearly miss the sick physical…

https://www.doesitplay.org/ This is an issue people actually care about.

I got those 2 for $20. Couldn't create the mandatory account to even use them after a week of trying. Tried multiple phones, reinstalled…

How is HDD shipping so inconsistent? I had one come in an anti-static bag within a padded envelope. It lasted one day... Given how many of…

Yes. Kepub runs much faster. Epub isn't as optimised for Kobos

"Nobody wins in war." A meaningless platitude to be told between people who've never really lost in recent memory.

Sell to who? Other datacentres who also cannot profit from the compute costs? Their RAM and components are datacentre specific. It's going…

wouldn't gamekey carts be incredibly cheap to make?

Depends on how tolerant you are to scratchy irritating plastic seams and edges which attack your hands for hundreds of hours.

Has your order from Harvey gone past Processing yet?

"xteink is not good too small" that's pretty funny. Yeah they are small and extremely limited. Some people want that, though. Think it…

based on what Kobo say internally, you'll be waiting for a long ass time

It's only 150ppi when colour is detected and rendered. It goes back to 300ppi when B&W. The bigger concern is actually the colour filter…

Look up some simple Chinese ereaders. They go pretty cheap. Sub-100 trends quite small, though.

Most manga are pretty close to the size of the 7" ereaders. Some are slightly bigger by default, meaning smaller dialogue boxes/text on…

Which brands are the best at the moment?

even if you're efficient at pausing every month, you've wasted hours of your time over the last 7 years. Just cancel. Then resub when you…

Yeah. But Telstra is even worse.

use this website if you have trouble with removing kindle DRM:…

Rather eat rocks than give Facebook any money. Screw Zuckerberg and his lobbying.

Ignoring the main advantage of physical carts saving storage space on your system and instant play in many instances. The hate isn't…

If it's here to stay, then I'm taking up reading paper books. Or listening to CDs or some shit. Tired of paying to just make this industry…

Realised last year I basically don't need PSPlus year round. I just get one month at a time when I KNOW i'm going to play online instead of…

I did it a few months ago, brand new. Bit difficult due to the precautions necessary. I'd just buy a Kobo if I had to choose again.

“proud liberal democracy” hahahaha great joke. When you’ve not been paying attention for thirty years straight, don’t know any…

mixed bag. doesn't work on PC and is very hard to repair/take apart

finally got around to it and tried ordering. Declined by Control Group. Guessing the account is locked and can't get it anymore. Awesome!…