Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations
Technology
92
Beiträge
67
Kommentatoren
124
Aufrufe
-
Now I'm going to refuse to purchase one even harder!
Not only that, I wouldn't even use one if they paid me. How did they convince people to pay to be spied on and advertised to?
-
I got a shotgun, and here's the plot,Takin' Minis out with a flurry of buck shot,
Boom, boom, boom! Yeah, I was gunnin',
And then you look, all you see is Googles runnin',
And fallin' and yellin' and pushin' and screamin',
And cussin', I stepped back and I kept bustin'
Dude stop. There only so awesome I can think you are. Fucking legend.
-
Never had issues sideloading epubs with Calibre on my PW.
No, Amazon took away the "Download and transfer via USB" option when downloading your books. Making it more difficult to strip DRM, but also to conveniently add it to multiple devices. I prefer to keep my eReaders offline and manage them with Calibre.
Regarding sideloading EPUBs with Calibre, it's not really doing that. Under normal circumstances Kindle can't read EPUB format at all, so Calibre will convert it to a native format, either MOBI or AZW3 generally. But with a jailbroken Kindle and KOReader, you can actually read EPUBs natively. I've actually converted my entire collection to EPUB and deleted the AZW3 and KFX files.
-
No, Amazon took away the "Download and transfer via USB" option when downloading your books. Making it more difficult to strip DRM, but also to conveniently add it to multiple devices. I prefer to keep my eReaders offline and manage them with Calibre.
Regarding sideloading EPUBs with Calibre, it's not really doing that. Under normal circumstances Kindle can't read EPUB format at all, so Calibre will convert it to a native format, either MOBI or AZW3 generally. But with a jailbroken Kindle and KOReader, you can actually read EPUBs natively. I've actually converted my entire collection to EPUB and deleted the AZW3 and KFX files.
Oh my bad.
Any reason why those formats are worse than epub?
-
Oh my bad.
Any reason why those formats are worse than epub?
It's really just that only Amazon uses AZW3 and KFX. MOBI is deprecated, and nobody really uses it anymore, not even Amazon. KFX is DRMed to hell, and I'm not sure about it, but most AZW3 files are just DRM wrappers for EPUB anyway. This is why the KindleUnpack plugin for Calibre can strip out EPUBs from most AZW3 files and retain formatting without needing conversion.
Basically, AZW3 and KFX are for Kindle, and only for Kindle. EPUB is an open standard that literally every device that's not a Kindle uses.
I already own a non-Amazon reader that's my main reader, and I want to move away from Amazon's ecosystem.
-
Like always, Black Mirror has an episode on this.
S## and E##?
-
After AI became a thing, Amazon decided you needed to pay a subscribtion to use Alexa with an LLM instead of the basic keyword recognition model
Well someone's gotta pay for that small country's worth of wasted electricity
-
I started making my own several years ago but got sidelined by health issues and haven't gone back to it.
My end goal is I have a lot of comic books. I want a voice assistant that can query a database and then turn on smart lights to show box locations.
I got the database done, I got the queries working, then had a heart attack and never got the voice input or smart light output working.
Yeah I understand the health issues for sure. First prostate cancer with a radical prostatectomy and then a year later Guillain-Barré Syndrome. I had lots of projects on hold for several years. This was like 5 years ago and I’m good now.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Make the bad even worse. Is there a word for this?
-
I started making my own several years ago but got sidelined by health issues and haven't gone back to it.
My end goal is I have a lot of comic books. I want a voice assistant that can query a database and then turn on smart lights to show box locations.
I got the database done, I got the queries working, then had a heart attack and never got the voice input or smart light output working.
Oh that is fucking awesome. Hope you can finish it and share it one day!
-
Make the bad even worse. Is there a word for this?
Enshitification
-
It's really just that only Amazon uses AZW3 and KFX. MOBI is deprecated, and nobody really uses it anymore, not even Amazon. KFX is DRMed to hell, and I'm not sure about it, but most AZW3 files are just DRM wrappers for EPUB anyway. This is why the KindleUnpack plugin for Calibre can strip out EPUBs from most AZW3 files and retain formatting without needing conversion.
Basically, AZW3 and KFX are for Kindle, and only for Kindle. EPUB is an open standard that literally every device that's not a Kindle uses.
I already own a non-Amazon reader that's my main reader, and I want to move away from Amazon's ecosystem.
Maybe I didnt read it properly when Calibre was sending it to my reader.
Regarding formats: As expected (Insert XKCD comic about standards)
-
Or a documentary.
Alt history
-
-
-
-
Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging - What we're seeing: More hate, more fear, less freedom.
Technology
1
-
-
-
1
-
Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass.
Technology
1
