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Ok, I played with it and it seems like the recognition only works in the “Notes” app. It doesn’t work as a general text input for applications.

It works pretty well, though. You select the text with the pen by circling it, and then you can copy it to the clipboard or replace the drawing with the actual text.

Battery life is good, I use it with the wifi off and only had to charge it once, and I read a full book on it.

I haven’t played with the handwriting recognition yet, let me take a look and I’ll report back.

I bought a Mobiscribe recently, for the same reasons. It’s an eReader with an eink display, but it’s an Android tablet. I installed F-Droid, and then NextCloud (to access my ebooks) and Librera Reader. I also use it for listening to podcasts (via Bluetooth, since it’s an Android tablet) and taking notes with the stylus.

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^ this is a Venn Diagram showing people who would fall for that scam, and people who would be able to figure out how to buy Bitcoin if their lives depended on it.

I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.

My favorite comment about this from Mastodon: “X is just a sans serif swastika”.

I did this Wednesday for my instance. Migrating the existing content took some downtime, but now everything is running great. Thanks for the tip!

know about it? We even added your secret directories to our tape backup.

That’s the hacker ethos right there! Love it! ❤️

Love this!

I also have a MUD story… back in 1993 I lived in Brazil, and there were no commercial ISPs, so you couldn’t have internet even if you wanted to pay for it. Only universities were connected to the internet.

A friend of mine was in college studying computer science, and he had a “special number” that he could dial to get access from home. The number was unlike any other I’ve seen before. He shared the login (“students”) and password (“students93”) with me, and told me I could use it sparingly.

I was 15 at the time, and I started playing a MUD. The first day I played for 30 minutes. The second day, for a couple hours. Soon I was spending 8 hours a day playing MUD, and I started dreading the phone bill. Long distance calls where super expensive back then in Brazil, and even a landline would cost as much as a car!

After a month, no bill came. I waited another couple weeks, and I finally decided to call the phone company and ask how much it would cost to call the “special number”.

“Sir, this number doesn’t exist”, was the answer.

Well, it worked for me! I kept using it, playing that MUD for 8-12 hours every day. Eventually, when 1994 arrived, my password stopped working. I tried “students94” and I was in. I only had telnet and ftp access, but that was enough to play MUDs and discover a whole new world.

Eventually in 1995 the password stop working again, and trying “students95” didn’t work. I started using BBSs, and eventually ran my own for a few months. In 1996 I went to college, and the first commercial ISP opened in the city where I was. I was one of their first clients.