Amazon FIIIIIIIRE
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nicxe
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Reading the books doesn't seem to have improved your use of the language any, seems like they're doing you a favor.
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Reading the books doesn't seem to have improved your use of the language any,
oh that's nice. a personal insult relating my reading abilities to my typing skills.
:yawn:
please sir, i'd like a better insult next time.
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not supporting one of the most populare ebook formats
They support almost everything else:
Though some formats require conversion first
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Though some formats require conversion first
"require conversion first" means "unsupported" with undertones of "here's a nickle kid, buy yourself a better format"
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please sir, i'd like a better insult next time.
Man I had a great one earlier but I didn't do it because the "mod warnings" alarm in my head kept going off.
Assuming you're being honest now, you really screwed the pooch on this earlier. Nobody to blame but yourself.
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Canadians who can't buy shit, unite!
#🍁
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Assuming you're being honest now, you really screwed the pooch on this earlier.
Hello Drax.
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Converting epubs to mobipocket/AZWs for my Kindle is a pain in the ass. Mainly because sometimes the formatting breaks. In retrospect, I would have chosen a reader that supported epub, mainly because belgium amazon trying to lock me into using their format (DRM'ed AZW3) and store.
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If you got, say, a Kobo that can play epub, you'd have the same problem in the other direction. I have some Kindle ebooks from Amazon (mostly timed free giveaways) that I had to convert, and I think I had some weird formatting issues the first time I tried converting, but now I've got everything set up correctly and so far it's worked well.
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walled garden much?
Walled garden entirely, if they can manage it. That's probably why they don't come with the Google apps: they get Google's cut of sales that way.
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Yeah, but at least ePUB is more widely used. While the vendor-specific hacks and extensions can be a bit annoying, at least there's a shitton of tools out there for it. As far as I know Calibre is the only tool with mobi support (maybe pandoc too?).
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Do you really need anything other than Calibre, though?
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The only other thing I ever need is Mangle.
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The only thing I ever need is booze.
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I don't know about connecting that to my kindle. Sounds messy.
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Why would you jail brake a Kindle anyway?
Stuff it doesn't support natively. I use it as a little toy for things and sometimes an ugly picture frame, and it's nice to be able to get alerts when the battery is about to die because I forgot about it on a shelf.
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I thought we were talking about an e-ink Kindle. Not a very good picture frame, it's really only decent at displaying text. (There's like, what, 4-5 levels of grey? That's what my 1988 Gameboy screen had.)
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Yeah, like I said, toy.
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I hear people have done horrible things like use a kindle as the display for a raspberry pi running linux/windows95.
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use a kindle as the display for a raspberry pi running linux/windows95
That sounds amusing, but I'm pretty sure someone has got dosbox running natively, right? Skip the middleman rPi, go native!
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I once played around with busybox on my kindle touch. You can get a terminal running on that thing if you really want. Emphasis on can.
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Ok, I don't have a Settings > Keyboard.
I have a Settings > Keyboard & Language, but I've checked every single option in there and I can't find anything named "Trace Typing".
I was able to turn off the profanity filter, so there's that, but that's all.
EDIT:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201829970
Trace Typing - Enter words by tracing your finger from key to key. (For Fire HD and Fire HDX tablets only)
It's not turned on on the regular Fire.
I can buy it ("it" meaning "actual Swype") from Google app store for a buck, but I really don't feel I should have to. Bah! Well I'll defer on it.
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It's not turned on on the regular Fire.
Oh, I didn't realize the latest 7" wasn't HD anymore. Not that I would've expected it to be different if I had - Swype's been on the HD tablets since 2012.
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There's like 57 versions of the Amazon Fire tablet and they all have weird/no names, so it's impossible to just say "I HAVE FIRE 6X" and you know what I mean.
Anyway, it's the 7" one available on Amazon's store for $50 as of two weeks ago. That one. It might have a model name. I don't know what it is.
It's really shitty when everybody else is shipping this just as a part of the OS to not bother. I know it's a "differentiator" for the low-cost version to the high-cost, but still. Even the cheapest Windows Phones have it, it's just PART OF THE OS.
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I can buy it ("it" meaning "actual Swype") from Google app store for a buck, but I really don't feel I should have to. Bah! Well I'll defer on it.
The Google keyboard supports swyping now, so if you can get that installed--I think it's in the Play Store--you should be able to do that. I can't check right now because my wife's got the tablet.
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You mean they ship it but don't TURN IT ON? WTF, Amazon.
They were too busy pre-loading it with your personal information.
"mod warnings"
Try 20s swing instead.
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Anyway, it's the 7" one available on Amazon's store for $50 as of two weeks ago. That one. It might have a model name. I don't know what it is.
Everyone's calling it "the $50 one". But the closest it's got to a unique name that I can see is
7" Kindle Fire
. This page, the one for that model, has a comparison a ways down, and just calls it "NEW - Fire".
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Right; but it's not the same one you would have gotten had you bought it in, say, 2014.
I believe this is the 7" Kindle Fire Mark V. (Or 5th Generation to use the lamer term.)
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Right; but it's not the same one you would have gotten had you bought it in, say, 2014.
Absolutely. That's also why I said people are calling it "the $50 one"--it's not an official name but everyone will know which one that is, because discounting sales or maybe the paperwhite ones, it's the only one at that price.
Although you could get the HD 6 for $70 today. But that one at least has a name. I guess you could call the one we've been talking about the 2015 7" Fire--that's probably as close to a name as you're going to get, even though it's more a description.
I believe this is the 7" Kindle Fire Mark V.
Probably. But they don't call it that, damn them.
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Now, given that the other ones in that picture--and the rest of the "family" I didn't bother showing--have individual names, I guess we just call this "the Fire" or "the 7 inch Fire", and pretend there are no older ones that are just "the Fire", kind of like how Apple likes to pretend the current-generation iPhone is the only one?
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Tim Taylor grunting sounds
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SwiftKey also has their version of swyping called "Flow" and I think it's free now.
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Did you know they made "male", "female" and "hermaphrodite[1]" versions of that tank?
[1] not transgender.
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I do.
But I don't think "hermaphrodite" ones were ever actually official, that's just tanks that were assembled from the sponsons of destroyed tanks, or spare-parts sponsons.
They needed the females to "cover" the males, since the males didn't have enough machine guns for 360 coverage, also because all of these tanks moved at a pace that could generously be described as a "brisk walk".
Anyway the iconic "best heavy tank of the war" version was the Mark IV, I just linked the Mark V because it made the joke work. The best tank of the war was the French FT-17 light tank, which basically invented every feature of modern tanks. Rhomboid tanks weren't bad at trench crossing, but that's about all they excelled at.
Still, LOOK at the thing. Amazing piece of engineering.