@darius i'm not 100% but I think part of it is de-DRM can't keep up with Amazon's updates. So if your device is up-to-date many things might have trouble jailbreaking the books.

@darius There are some important limitations on the DeDRM Kindle plugin now. If you have a physical E-ink Kindle device then you can pull the book files off your Kindle and convert them in calibre. You need to enter your Kindle’s serial number in the DeDRM settings somewhere. Kindle for Mac and Kindle for PC are a tougher proposition. They still work but only under certain conditions. A new installation on Catalina will certainly not work. An older 32-bit Kindle for Mac does, with effort.

@darius try the same plugin in windows os. It wont work in linux

@darius thanks friend!

I included a digression on the concept of historical contingency that got edited down significantly. It probably helped the article read better but I wish I'd figured out a way to talk about that more.

@darius this is great, thank you for writing and sharing. I appreciate the breakdown of the history, which was very easy to follow (as a semi-laypersonnin this area)

@darius @365-rfcs Thank you for sharing this. I'm curious how many opportunities are there today to actually invent something new, technology-wise. It seems most things are more like refinements and improvements of things that already exist(ed), or ports / reimplementations of existing techology between programming languages. On the other hand, there are still an infinity of problems to solve (often created by the technology itself), but they are rarely as signnificant.

@darius I use Logitech media server so I can do multi room audio. It's a bit of an old school web interface but it's cool. It's all open source these days.

@darius Great question. If you find it, let me know. I am living with Rhythmbox and Lollipop on Linux, but still not as good as I imagine it could be.

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Windows Media Player, circa 2007?

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:brain3: REO speedwagon

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💇 Lease on salon

@darius thanks, here's my contribution

@darius You don’t have to drive like your kids to be here… but it lives.

@darius You don’t have to drive like your kids to be here… but it lives!

@darius That would be cool, thank you! What sort of information should I send/how should I send it?

@darius such a good feature. thank you!

@darius Interesting workaround!

@darius very cool! what is the friend.camp emoji?

@darius @catalina fwiw I also tried jumping to 2 after 0 on the same assumption and I fell off immediately, it feels a lot more padded and less intentional in its design than 0

@darius I think one would be Availability Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

@darius "humans are just really, really bad at statistics"? :p

@darius @snaums erhole mich immer noch von der Schließung von Google Plus.

@darius @heartles I find things like superfluous google services as a general good as they keep smart people distracted on button layouts and shit and not making cryptocurrency products

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Google is constantly making an argument for why oligopolies are bad. The company is so obviously full of incredibly intelligent people but the bloated behemoth that it is just seems totally incapable of growing new ideas and staying behind them long enough for them to blossom.

Microsoft is the same way.

Its like, something about being that big just makes you incredibly fickle.

Unless you are Apple, then you just lock everything down and continually change the charging port.

@darius Are we talking by mass or volume?

@darius Oh it's @tom !!