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Fuck I gotta unlock my bootloader asap https://social.linux.pizza/@MichaelRoss/115342003180134350

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My wife is so cool… I should marry her…

Alright. Everything's okay because my wife fixed it. If you were having trouble with the initial release of Starsword Nemesis on your e-reader, check the update just uploaded to itch.

a lot of people tell me that lithium will fix my problems

Librera ALSO requires me to give it full access to all files in order to install it, which is pretty aggro for an app that wants me to pay five dollars. Maybe not this one either.

Current status

- Tried: ReadEra: This does not seem to anticipate how narrow my phone is. Despite fine control over font size and line spacing, There are only two settings for margins, "none at all" and "inconveniently large".

- Tried: koreader: I had to disable multiple phone security features to run the f-droid version of this app. Once I open, I discovered I hated it more than words can describe. I hope it didn't hack my shit

- https://librera.mobi : "Contains ads". What does this mean?

i wish instead of putting billions of dollars into putting gross AI in everything, google would spend like half that much money on making Android run as well as it did in 2014

Alternately I am now looking for recommendations for a good basic epub reader for Android. All I want is for it to have text search, have a good upper range of font sizes, and not display "noise" such as page numbers or the current time while I am reading. I have never needed anything besides Google Play Books before this.

Has anyone ever seen Google Play Books do this, and if it does, is there a way to get an error message? I am in contact with¹ the publisher but there is not enough information to tell the publisher what is wrong.

¹ Married to

*Later, trying again from the computer*

Google what the fuck does "Processing" mean. What does it mean to process a book. I just want you to sync it to my phone and open it. I mean it's already on my phone but you won't open it on my phone unless you first sync it from my phone to your server back to my phone so I'm trying to be accommodating.

If I click on the book all it does is open a new tab containing this help page https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/185545?visit_id=638955591931852971-3016000300&rd=2

This story has no moral.

I'm at the laundromat. I have a 20mb epub in my Dropbox. I try to open it in the Dropbox app. It goes, I can't open this, but here's a button to upload it to Google Play Books. That's convenient, I think; I tap it. It spends something like twenty minutes downloading the epub to the phone over a cell connection, then another twenty minutes uploading it to Google Play Books. Eventually it finishes. I open Google Play Books. The book is not there. Nor is it in Files. There is no error message.

This is a photograph I took in Montreal last week. I would like to share it with you.

@lorancou If you are in the EU, Microsoft is required to waive the $30 fee, because the EU has ordered them to. My source is a news article I read in the last week. I recommend simply following the ESU enrollment process, and if it says "you're in the EU! it's free!" then you win, if it says "give us $30" then search Google News to see if you can figure out, assuming I'm right, how to convince Microsoft you are in the EU.

Reminder that if you want your Windows 10 machine to keep receiving updates you need to follow these instructions https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/extended-security-updates before the program ends "on October 13, 2026"

Okay! That was easier than I expected, compared to the advice I was given. Now I just have to worry about whether Microsoft enabled one of their data-stealing features without telling me and if so whether it's still on. I guess. And also the fact that I will not want to use Windows 11 any more in one year than I do now.

There's a second problem. At the bottom it says "By selecting Enroll, you agree to the Extended Security Update TOU". Well, I definitely should read those Terms of Use then! The "Extended Security Update TOU" link goes to this page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/useterms , which doesn't contain the string "Extended" on it. I only find, under "Windows"->"10", a link for "Microsoft License Terms" last updated July 2017. Microsoft is demanding I agree with a Terms of Use I'm not being given an opportunity to read.

Okay, so this is nice, I just saved $30. Except wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. "you've previously backed up your Windows settings". What the fuck does that mean? I didn't consent to that. Is Microsoft informing me that at some point they copied data off my computer to one of their servers, and did not tell me? What data? When? Why?

So for starters, I am following these instructions.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/extended-security-updates

When I get to the point of "Enroll Now", it wants me to sign in with a Microsoft account. Wow, I sure do hope this is part of payment/licensing, and it's not going to covertly convert my local login account to a Microsoft-account login!