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  • I bought one of the really sturdy kind (weighs about 40kg / 88lb). Uprights are solid 100mm/4" rounds of pine, none of that hollow cardboard tube nonsense.

    My XL-sized void loves to haul arse into the room and leap right from the ground to the top level (around 1.6m / 5’3" from the floor), which makes the thing rock side to side fairly precariously. He hasn’t knocked it over yet, but some day I’m sure he’ll come in too hot.



  • It looks like it goes away (I went into the settings for one contact, where there’s a toggle to switch back to SMS/MMS).

    Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to change it back to RCS for that conversation now.

    Also, on a more personal note: the baby blue background is ugly AF. Like actually just heinous. I’d rather it wasn’t there, you get a perfectly good indicator RIGHT ABOVE THE TEXT INPUT FIELD what it’s about to send.



  • I recently bought a Boox Palma, which is a phone-size Android device with a real E-Ink display.

    It’s not a phone (WiFi/Bluetooth only, no mobile radio), and with 4-bit greyscale it’s definitely an adjustment to use with a lot of apps (it has per-app DPI & contrast controls to help), but they’ve done a lot of work on the refresh rate to make it feel responsive.

    It even has midrange-phone specs (SD 6xx series CPU, 6GB RAM, 4Ah battery), with full Google Play, so it’s a quite usable Android device overall. Like most modern E-Ink devices, has a CCT warm-to-cool frontlight, so great for night-time use.

    Now would I want to use it as my only, everyday device (if it was a phone too)? Probably not. Could I? Almost certainly.

    Colour E-Ink is still quite limited (in contrast, and resolution), but I expect the patents on that are quite a bit newer and we won’t be seeing so much movement in that area so soon.


  • To expand on @doeknius_gloek’s comment, those categories usually directly correlate to a range of DWPD (endurance) figures. I’m most familiar with buying servers from Dell, but other brands are pretty similar.

    Usually, the split is something like this:

    • Read-intensive (RI): 0.8 - 1.2 DWPD (commonly used for file servers and the likes, where data is relatively static)
    • Mixed-use (MU): 3 - 5 DWPD (normal for databases or cache servers, where data is changing relatively frequently)
    • Write-intensive (WI): ≥10 DPWD (for massive databases, heavily-used write cache devices like ZFS ZIL/SLOG devices, that sort of thing)

    (Consumer SSDs frequently have endurances only in the 0.1 - 0.3 DWPD range for comparison, and I’ve seen as low as 0.05)

    You’ll also find these tiers roughly line up with the SSDs that expose different capacities while having the same amount of flash inside; where a consumer drive would be 512GB, an enterprise RI would be 480GB, and a MU/WI only 400GB. Similarly 1TB/960GB/800GB, 2TB/1.92TB/1.6TB, etc.

    If you only get a TBW figure, just divide by the capacity and the length of the warranty. For instance a 1.92TB 1DWPD with 5y warranty might list 3.5PBW.




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    8 months ago

    Except that they’ve ruined that too. You now need an account to view anything, so the reach of announcements is greatly diminished.

    At this point leaving shouldn’t really be too difficult, since a large portion of your audience already has; because they’ve been shut out, or have quit voluntarily.