I have reached the halfway point of #BabylonsAshes, from #TheExpanse, it's been very good so far 'n#Reading on my #Kobo Clara 2E'n#ScienceFiction #Books2025 #Bookstodon
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I have reached the halfway point of #BabylonsAshes, from #TheExpanse, it's been very good so far
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I have reached the halfway point of #BabylonsAshes, from #TheExpanse, it's been very good so far
@joel how do you find the Kobo?
I keep debating buying one, think it best fits what I want single purpose e-reader I don’t care about writing & don’t want a tablet with e-ink screen.
The catch is I want something that’s relatively open to putting books on it from multiple sources currently have a Kindle but don’t like how they’re locking down more so ideally would be a device with multiple purchasing options built in. While I don’t think the Kobo has that it’s currently more open than the Kindles.
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@joel how do you find the Kobo?
I keep debating buying one, think it best fits what I want single purpose e-reader I don’t care about writing & don’t want a tablet with e-ink screen.
The catch is I want something that’s relatively open to putting books on it from multiple sources currently have a Kindle but don’t like how they’re locking down more so ideally would be a device with multiple purchasing options built in. While I don’t think the Kobo has that it’s currently more open than the Kindles.
@JMBragg the Kobo has its own store, the books can be downloaded from the store website in any browser. Some of them have DRM and some don't, you can de-DRM books from them with some workarounds.
I use calibre to transfer my books with a cable.
I have installed #Koreader on it and use it instead of the standard OS reader.
Here's a slightly more detailed review on my blog
https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/kobo-clara-2e-review
Basically, I love it!
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@JMBragg the Kobo has its own store, the books can be downloaded from the store website in any browser. Some of them have DRM and some don't, you can de-DRM books from them with some workarounds.
I use calibre to transfer my books with a cable.
I have installed #Koreader on it and use it instead of the standard OS reader.
Here's a slightly more detailed review on my blog
https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/kobo-clara-2e-review
Basically, I love it!
@joel
I am using Kobo since... wow... since before Rakuten! I think I bought my first Kobo in 2010 (from an Hong Kong book store, because at the time it was available only in Canada, shipped to Canada and USA only, and Hong Kong!)I think I've bought and read something like 300 books there, since then...
Didn't know I could de-DRM my books with Calibre!
How to? 🤔
@JMBragg
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@LaVi argh, era oggi
e no, non ce l'avremmo fatta :(
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Palestina: regge per ora il fragile cessate il fuoco a gaza. israele rifiuta di liberare esponenti politici di primo piano e i sanitari rapiti dalla striscia
@anarchia
Il cessate il fuoco, fragile, sembra tutto sommato reggere a Gaza, e dalle macerie emergono i corpi straziati dal
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@mdione I mean, you don't buy your tools based on the availability of free software firmware to flash them with?
I thought that was everybody did these days
(ok, not really. that's what we tend to do, however :) )
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Moldova, la nuova frontiera dell’Occidente: tra brogli, povertà e ingerenze
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Questi sono i pro-vita (negli uteri delle donne italiane) che diventano pro-morte (quando vogliono far affogare africani nel mediterraneo) e pro-genocidio (quando vogliono negare la sofferenza di un popolo colonizzato e bombardato). Gli va riconosciuta comunque la coerenza di rimanere sempre e comunque pro-bufale, scegliendo quelle che di volta convengono per sostenere le proprie guerre contro la vita delle donne, dei migranti e dei palestinesi.
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@SuperDuperKitten
Create your own at YuzuKeycaps, as I did for mine.
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Tubeless X-Ray Runs on Patience
Every time we check in on [Project326], he’s doing something different with X-rays. This week, he has a passive X-ray imager. On paper, it looks great. No special tube is required and no high voltage needed. Actually, no voltage is needed at all. Of course, there’s no free lunch. What it does take is a long time to produce an image.
While working on the “easy peasy X-ray machine,” dental X-ray film worked well for imaging with a weak X-ray source. He found that the film would also detect exposure to americium 241. So technically, not an X-ray in the strictest sense, but a radioactive image that uses gamma rays to expose the film. But to normal people, a picture of the inside of something is an X-ray even when it isn’t.
What was odd was that he tried three different sources with different materials, and only the Americium made an impression on the film. However, of the three samples, the Americium was the weakest. However, some measurements show that the spectrum of the gamma ray emission for each material is quite different. Clearly, the film was sensitive to a narrow range of gamma rays.
Compared to the previous makeshift X-ray tube, which was weak, the radioactive material emitted just a fraction of that tube’s output. He estimates that the americium, which you can rescue from smoke detectors or repair parts for them, emits less than 1% compared to the tube. He uses twelve of them, however, so the total output should be around 10%.
The image of an IC is impressive. But it also took two days of exposure. Not sure if this would be practical, but if you need imaging after the apocalypse, salvaged smoke detectors and dental film might be what you need.
The upper part of the machine, made from machined copper, looks impressive. It does, however, require some maintenance. We might have been tempted to put some sort of sealant over the copper. The story of how it came to exist isn’t your usual sponsorship story, either.
You might have better luck with the previous X-ray machine. Or bite the bullet, get a real X-ray tube, generate about 70 kV, and make a real one.
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@Lassielmr @DamonCrowley @ElleGray Don't remind them that we have high speed trains, please.
