I’m amazed RedReader doesn’t get more love. It was my chosen third-party app before the API changes and it continues to function flawlessly (with the exception of NSFW content) after the changes. I have stopped browsing Reddit at this point, but feel that a list like this really should celebrate RedReader more…

We all know what it means.

Except for me, apparently. I’ll have to update my vocabulary: backlight can mean front light.

E-ink displays are opaque. The Kindles with illumination use side-lighting with a layer of plastic that guides the light across the surface of the device. They are effectively front-lit using LEDs situated around the perimeter of the screen.

You can’t backlight e-paper. You could get a book light, though!

Consider using Ungoogled Chromium on desktop or Cromite on Android.

Also Chrome…

I was you once. In 2018, I bought a dumb, black-and-white laser printer (Brother HL-L2300D). It has done nothing but print whenever asked. I’ve only had to change the toner once (to be fair, I print infrequently). It doesn’t require special software. It was cheap. I highly recommend going this route.

You should be able to set the region and the language independently, right? What if you’re an English speaker living in Germany, for example?

You can run them in a VM…

True. Me too. The fact that you can degoogle some Android phones while you cannot de-apple iphones makes the lie of omission particularly vicious.

Why not just get the storage box and run the Nextcloud instance with the storage box mounted? Just curious.

Pot calling the pan burnt-arsed

Thank you for this!

Well, in this case, it is a lie of omission. It is true that Android devices are massive trackers. But, so are Apple devices.

What do you mean?

It shows how far the pendulum of corporate power has swung since then.

Or, just pay their executives more.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful response. I’m sorry for not seeing it for so long! If you can believe it, I just discovered the “inbox” in my lemmy app and am going through all the things people said to me over the past month.

This whole topic is really interesting to me. I hear what you’re saying and imagine the distinctions you’re drawing between these models and real brains are significant. I can’t help but wonder, though, if we, as humans, might be poorly equipped to recognize the characteristics of emerging intelligence in the systems we create.

I am reminded vaguely of the Michael Crichton book Andromeda Strain (it has been many years since I read it, granted) wherein an alien lifeforms based on silicon, rather than carbon, was the major plot object. It is interesting to think that something like an alien intelligence might emerge in our own networked systems without our noticing. We are waiting for our programs to wake up and pass the Turing test. Perhaps, when they wake up, no one will even see because we are measuring the wrong set of things…

Fair, but I’m just saying, we can still catagorize upsetting things as upsetting, even if, personally, we’ve achieved equanimity with respect to our inability to effect any immediate change.

Not sure why everyone is so upset

Because it’s upsetting. The fact that it has been upsetting for years doesn’t make it no longer upsetting.

The attitude that old news shouldn’t be upsetting enables upsetting behavior. And, quite frankly, I find that upsetting :-)

And, if they can disclose in such cases, one should assume that they might disclose in any case.