Posts by david bates 503 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Feb 2008
I buy my books from Amazon, carck them and put them on my Kobo, because the Kobo store is an unusable abomination. It doesn't even handle changes of resolution gracefully.
So far I've been able to continue downloading and cracking Kindle books, even though I have no Kindle device. We shall see how this proceeds.
Amazon have already lost me as a Prime member due to changes to Music and Video. When my Alexa devices start to fail they'll be replaced with something else.
Having tried to read the Holmes books I've come to the conclusion that Holmes was NOT a genius but, instead, insufferable.
It was simply easier and much less painful for everyone to agree with his nonsensical gibberings and give him a jolly good pat on the back for being so clever even if it was while they were on their way to the gallows.
Mind you thats not as bad as the preposterious garbage pumped out by a modern author who would have you believe that gallium killed a pond full of fish due to its toxicity after someone dissolved a small amount in the water (I forget why) and Holmes did some ad-hopc chemistry to find out what killed the fish. And sensible person would have noticed the pond was steaming merrily and appeared to have a giant boiler heating it parked alongside to get it up to the temperature required to melt gallium and perhaps this had killed the fish...
Not even things that are bricked.
I'm on my third tablet. Teh first two are fully functional, but on the final version of Android they got are unusably slow. Theres no usecase for them unless you go into esoteric things like home automation hub (Alexa does that fine...) car touch screen (much more trouble than its worth) etc.
The latest tablet is 10" and £70....it'll never get an update and when it gets too old its cheap enough to slat without worry.
ePubor will strip DRM from Kobo, Google and Amazon (never tried MS). You might have to wait for an update as the standards change, but it gets there.
I have a Kobo eReader, and seeing as removing ones eyes with a spoon is less painful than using the Kobo store 90% of my books are from Amazon and de-buggered. If I can't strip it it gets returned.
Im surprised to hear about the build quality.
I've just replaced a Thinkpad which died in use, and then refused to post with a Vostro. The Vostro, despite being cheaper is far more robust and actually has a keyboard that works.
Admittedly the Thinkpad did itself replace a Vostro that decided it didn't like chargers and throttled the chip in retaliation - a known issue and one I hope Dell have fixed. The original Vostro lasted at least twice as long as the Thinkpad though.
Did you re-write their contract when you had to close your office and everyone had to work from home to stop the company collapsing under COVID?
When the next lockdown hits (and it will) do you think that all the workers being forced back to the office will be willing to upend their homes lives again to help an organization that has no ineterst in quid pro quo?
Or if you live in Crewe...
Warning - your house is part of a major development that was built on a site used for building and maintaining trains for 200 years and we didn't bother to make sure the developer did the paperwork around decontamination so we don't know what's going on and your house is worthless.
Ridiculous.
Do hospitals not have emergency response? Do they not have the concept of things under attack? Are nurses not taught about disease vectors and threats?
Are women not able to get on in the armed forces because of the real military 'machismo' or is it just the pseudo bit they find offputting?
How many areas of IT actually expose one to any of those phrases? Id imagine your average tester, developer, web designer etc wouldnt know a threat vector from a dustpan and brush.
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