You do lose quite a bit of electricity going over long distances, but can overcome that with sheer volume. But that also means the closer the generator to the consumer, the more efficient it’ll be.

I wonder how feasible it would be to just donate to your favorite authors

I use a kobo e-reader and it works a treat. Looks and feels good, and can load any ol downloaded epub book without issue with Calibre.

I was thinking along the lines of if you already had them downloaded and wanted to switch off to something else

My Kobo e-reader is pretty nice and takes any ol e-pub file just fine. And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files. Just sayin

I’ve got a kobo Clara HD with plenty of pirated books on it, works pretty well, would recommend

Massage them…?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers#Ethnologue_(2024)

The stats seem to indicate that English is the most spoken language still, though Mandarin wins on first language speakers by far which makes sense.

I don’t see Mandarin taking over English as the default language, so to speak. Mainly because it’s way easier for people who know languages like Spanish, German, other European languages to pick up English as a second language then it would be for them to learn Chinese or another Asian one.

Twitters value has already been going down the shitter thanks to shit leadership, this is just another nail.

Oh no! Anyway…

I don’t know why we’re blaming AI when it’s power generation not transitioning fast enough that’s the problem…

If wind, solar, nuclear was widely available this would be a non issue.

I mean, my primary use would be translating Japanese fiction. And the “why they need to be said” is purely entertainment purposes?

At the end of the day, networking specialists are in the minority by a considerable degree

AI as we know it does have its uses, but I would definitely agree that 90% of it is just marketing hype

Got mine off Amazon in 2021, am Murican

I have a kobo but I don’t remember having to do anything with Walmart. Rest is spot on though.

Most of the aid is for defense like missiles for their air defense systems, to shoot down rocket and drone attacks. But believe what you want.

Most of the aid is in the form of weapons, not raw dollars. Something tells me that a homeless person wouldn’t have much use for a THAAD air defense system

I wouldn’t mind the basic shit like a banner here or a side bar there. But the fucking obnoxious mid page ads, auto playing videos, scam link shit can go die in a hole.