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New comment by stevewodil in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

stevewodil — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:03:53 +0000

There are but it's discontinued. There is no current generation model with page turn buttons.

New comment by stevewodil in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

stevewodil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:17:55 +0000

You'd farm more aura with an ereader on the train

New comment by stevewodil in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

stevewodil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:17:00 +0000

Sometimes I concede on this point with certain devices, but the screen on the playdate basically requires light at a specific angle for it to be at all discernible, so I don't blame you and can't recommend it as a result

New comment by stevewodil in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

stevewodil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:15:16 +0000

In the end, my personal favorite game was selling it on ebay

New comment by stevewodil in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

stevewodil — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:04:16 +0000

Thank you stock astrologist

New comment by stevewodil in "Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025"

stevewodil — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:24:12 +0000

What is the crawler is using a shared IP and you end up blocking legitimate users with the bad actor?

New comment by stevewodil in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

stevewodil — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:07:42 +0000

Prime discounts were automatically applied if you use the credit card on your Amazon account I thought

New comment by stevewodil in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

stevewodil — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:14:26 +0000

I put one in my car when I shipped it across the country - it was great to be able to check where it was and know when it was getting close!

New comment by stevewodil in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

stevewodil — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:55:45 +0000

The article title reflects the typo, it's an issue with the original publication.

New comment by stevewodil in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

stevewodil — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:49:04 +0000

I don’t know if this matters much. When I was in school it was rare to actually read a book assignment anyways, and I’m sure with LLMs now it’s less.

I’ve started to have a positive association with reading only in the last few years, I wish schools didn’t force books onto children and make them think they hate reading for their whole lives.

New comment by stevewodil in "Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life"

stevewodil — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:09:06 +0000

On call rotations are part of basically every engineering team that owns any production service at tech companies, not just SRE

New comment by stevewodil in "Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can"

stevewodil — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:32:20 +0000

>according to GM, the company can create an even better experience for drivers by dropping Apple and making its own software

History has shown that most (especially legacy) car manufacturers make crappy software. I simply don't believe that GM will make exceptional infotainment software and additionally there's no doubt they will charge some subscription fee for parts of the software. It will not be up to the same standard as Tesla or Rivian's software where I can partially accept this argument.

I love CarPlay and my phone already has all the features I need in the car in terms of music, maps, responding to messages, etc. CarPlay is a requirement for me when looking at a car (even rentals).

New comment by stevewodil in "10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life"

stevewodil — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:24:14 +0000

I prefer a more optimal ratio such as 10:1 for optimal injury prevention and optimal posture correction

New comment by stevewodil in "Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him"

stevewodil — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:09:51 +0000

Never that heavily. It’s a tough job at the top

New comment by stevewodil in "Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th"

stevewodil — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:41:58 +0000

To use download and transfer you are required to have a kindle device that supports it registered on your account (11th gen or older), so that's why the option doesn't show up for you.

If the files are .azw3 then it's the same

New comment by stevewodil in "E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays"

stevewodil — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:05:15 +0000

What is the issue?

New comment by stevewodil in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"

stevewodil — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:00:31 +0000

Android has historically done poorly in areas with no signal with regards to battery life. Did it come back after charging it?

New comment by stevewodil in "Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours"

stevewodil — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:43:22 +0000

What happened to the other two hours

New comment by stevewodil in "Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts"

stevewodil — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:58:02 +0000

This guy must really love mattresses!

New comment by stevewodil in "If you haven't logged into your Google acct in over 2 years, it will be deleted"

stevewodil — Wed, 17 May 2023 23:14:43 +0000

They are deleting data associated with the account, but are they still maintaining the address that was registered to the account?

I doubt they are allowing people to sign up with the deleted accounts email address, I was in this exact scenario years back and wasn’t able to sign up again using my deleted account name