Its a joke. Piefed. Pie-fed.

Theres pie!
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Most commercial models were trained without permission via stolen artwork, copyrighted materials, etc…

Yep. Thats what i do.

Beggers cant be chosers i suppose?

Actually is solid state drives faster than ddr2? Swap might actually be faster?

Right? We have money. Letme read my book on whatever platform.

Not all. Some of the very old ones you will have issues. I know i did on a old one. But it does work on android!

Oh yeah tables. I can imagine that can mess up any txt based tool for sure. I havent actually tried any ebooks with manual based things in them.

It works for non amazon books at least last i tried. Works on library books…but that feels wierd. I have enough money to buy books now, so sometimes i just op for the real thing.

I have had luck reaching out to authors in the past. One even recommended yoho so that was funny.

Baen library was one of the first (older than amazon!) To let you buy and add ebooks drm free. And any format too.

I had some of thier books on an old palmpilot.

Something i have been foing for years in calibre is saving the de-drm version of all ebooks that i bought. And getting the txt version of the files.

The ebook format is basically a subset of html if you ever look into it. And as time goes on ebook readers have different ways to show these books. Most of the time, its great! Sometimes its not. Give it another 50 years and we will see what works and what doesnt. But i garentee at least the txt files will still work.

I didnt know what authors and publishers go though. Thanks for that lemmydividebyzero

At our local makerspace, we have a drawer thats labeled “memories” with just random RAM chips for the last 20 years. Its probably worth some $$ now.

Not exactly what your looking for but: https://www.amazon.com/Top-Hat-Express-Adventure-Vaudevillain-ebook/dp/B0CM8PY73V

Top Hat Express

Quite a few villains in that and they do some wacky things. Its a fun romp. I like the first book more than the subsequent ones but I enjoyed reading it.

Yes.

Theres online comparisons somewhere on ram/cpu etc… win 11 is VERY bad at 8gb in most cases. Linux at 8gb mostly fly. Hell mac os works well at 8.

Its just microslop doing their thing.

I feel like my steamdeck would be a cop out a bit but it is my favorite at the moment. It has all the consoles and my steam library of more than a decade. Plus I can switch between my laptop and my steamdeck without issues.

But if I were to guess off the top, it would probably be a toss up between Gameboy or GBA. So many good games and distractions from my early childhood.

Same. Its somewhat useful on some very small scripting or tasks…but its mostly just to try out a new model or two. Its not really useful for anything big.

I will have to say…even my tiny models are about as good as Chatgpt/Claude/etc… which makes me think about how much people are spending on tokens regularly. I was able to get the same kind of python script started with my local tiny model that was comparable to the newest Claude code offerings.

Im planning on waiting 5 years to see if it will become a thing and be well supported. Ive been burned by experimental tech before. But I hope to see more of these kind of projects pop up in the future.

I havent seen it. Theres an update just about every other month. Im currently sitting here downloading the newest version /e/ os 3.0 which released thismonth. I havent run into the bugs…but i usually wait a couple of weeks. Just best practice.

But if you dont want to use /e/ theres a huge selection of other OSes you can use. No need to stick with thiers.

I have the same one. Works great and we can het repair parts whenever.