I have some experience doing this with this on an older keyboard Kindle and Calibre, and haven't really kept up with the current state of jailbreaking on newer models, but at the time, it wasn't possible. Although a quick search says that you can still deDRM books using the desktop app[0].

[0] https://techy-notes.com/remove-drm-from-kindle-ebooks/

One day, some spambot hit the site and started searching for terms like "mesothelioma". Adsense would see that page with "mesothelioma" in the sidebar, query for it, and served up the ambulance chaser's paid ads, even though there obviously were no matching results.

I didn't realize this was happening for several weeks since this low volume site was earning very little and I never even hit the minimum withdrawal limit. Suddenly I was earning $50 - $100 - per day. This lasted for a few weeks but before I could transfer the earnings, Google locked the AdSense account due to abuse. It might surprise you, but Google support was not helpful and after a series of reviews, they permanently shut down Adsense for this site.

Therefore, I also turned off Google Adsense for my websites.

If this were just some random blogger, then yes the blame is totally theirs. But this was published under the Ars Technica masthead and there should have been someone or something double checking the veracity of the contents.

That said, there are a number of Ars Technica contributors that are among the best in their fields: Eric Burger, Dan Goodin, Beth Mole, Stephen Clark, and Andrew Cunningham amongst many, so one f'up shouldn't really impugn the entire organization.

[0] https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2021e064215_alt/jsc2...

It isn't as though GLM-4.7 Flash is significantly better, and honestly, I have had poor experiences with it (and yes, always the latest llama.cpp and the updated GGUFs).

It doesn't get a ton of attention on /r/LocalLLaMA but it is worth trying out, even if you have a relatively modest machine.

[0] https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B...

[1] https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-GGUF

Zero lag in switching screens, opening the app drawer, or scrolling through apps - there is a control for the animation speed, but it doesn't seem to really have any impact, positive or negative.

If you're in the US, I like NOAA Weather Unofficial[0]. It is not quite as visually impressive as meteoblue, but has good technical details and the 4x2 widget resized exactly like I wanted. I think the free version is unrestricted, but it is another app where I explicitly wanted to support the developer.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nstudio.we...

Padding is a little different and harder to discover than Nova - it is in the "Customize appearance" menu when you long tap on a widget. That is something to check out, as well as making sure Rounded Corners aren't enabled.

There is also a "Freely position and resize items" option in the Launcher Settings->Home tab, which I do not have enabled, but might be necessary to get your widget sizing just right?

That said, check out Octopi Launcher. I installed it for the first time tonight[0] and it is exactly what you are looking for - a smoother, better Nova Launcher.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688336

It is the perfect Nova Launcher replacement. The UI and features feels like a more polished Nova and transitioning to Octopi is such an intuitive process.

This evening I at looked several replacement launchers, such as Lawnchair and even the stock Pixel launcher again, but Octopi Launcher[2] is the more modern, more refined Nova replacement that you are looking for.

It was a very easy, natural transition process from Nova - all of the Nova features that I used were there (unlike Lawnchair), such as swipe up/down on icons to perform different actions. And little things like folder options, icon placement, and widget handling are SO much nicer on Octopi compared to Nova. Staggeringly better.

I took a screenshot of each home screen page, set Octopi as the new default launcher, and was back to my previous configuration but with a significantly improved visual appearance, in about 15 minutes. It's a no-brainer upgrade from Nova.

The Google Play install is free and basically unlimited, but there is an unobtrusive "Buy Me A Coffee" type button that allows you to donate either $1 or $3 to unlock some eye candy, which I did, but mostly just wanting to support the developer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170000

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/exclusive-cliff-wade-nova-laun...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopi...

I don't really have any sort of personal problem with Boris' post, if what your inflammatory statement was implying.

I also think it was a fairly good description of his workflow, technically speaking, but also glosses over the actual monetary costs of what he is doing, and also as noted above, doesn't really describe the actual outcomes other than a lot of PRs.

I guess would want to see how sustainable this 5 parallel AI effort is, and are there demonstrably positive outcomes. There are plenty of "I one-shotted this" examples of something that already (mostly) existed, which are very impressive in their own right, but I haven't seen a lot of truly novel creations.

[0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714

The theory is that operating system files, which rarely change, are written and almost never re-written. So the charges begin to decay over time and while they might not be unreadable, reads for these blocks require additional error correction, which reduces performance.

There have been a significant number of (anecdotal) reports that a full rewrite of the drive, which does put wear on the cells, greatly increases the overall performance. I haven't personally experienced this yet, but I do think a "every other year" refresh of data on SSDs makes sense.

[0] https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

In my case, I found it is not compatible with all HDMI sources but others just have unknown "Loading video stream..." issues.

[0] https://github.com/jetkvm/kvm/issues/84