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You're not wrong. Notice how I mentioned my favourite model "sucks less" than the other one. What ever company sells an e-ink smartphone with a fantastic camera and up-to-date Android will get my money for ever.

When attending school for music a few years ago, my house mate had started playing violin after having binged TwoSet Violin on YT. Sad to see them go - they inspired many.

(I never watched a video though, as I had 40 hours of practice to do every day)

Thanks for sharing! I too have looked at the Palma, but without it also being a phone, I can't go for it, because I'd have to carry it and a LCD-screen phone.

Colour e-ink works by having a colour filter over the screen, and every third pixel being dedicated to each colour (please correct me, people who actually know the details!).

Therefore they inherently have lower resolution, and are also by nature around 2/3 less white in the pixels not displaying anything. When reading text, most pixels are uncoloured, meaning in most cases you significantly lose screen resolution, compared to b/w e-ink. Thus, with colour e-ink screens, unless you're out in sunlight, you'll need backlight most of the time. This is my reason to keep using the black and white versions, and it might be something for you to keep in mind when you select your next reading device.

I want to recommend getting an e-ink smartphone.

I've tried the Hisense A5 and the Bigme Hibreak, and software-wise, found the Bigme Hibreak to suck a little less, as I could not access the Google Play store on the Hisense.

I had one with colour, and one without.

The black and white screen is much better.

Both sadly run outdated Android versions, so I don't do anything like banking on my e-ink phone.

But I have found that not having a LCD screen in my pocket, literally gives me hours of my day back. It literally saves a huge portion of my life from being wasted in the evil pit that is ad-funded recommendation algorithm services.

LCD screens, videos, and ad-watch-time-maximising recommendation algorithm services (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, etc) attract our eyes like moths to a flame.

I have not finished multiple books per month since my pre-smartphone childhood days, until getting an e-ink smartphone.

My Bigme Hibreak, that is my daily driver, runs Android 11, and I don't get timely notifications on e.g. messaging apps. It also came without case and screen protector, which is a big minus.

Do you have experience with e-ink smartphones? Which makes and models work for you?

Turned location off for Uber for this reason. Makes the app less useable - but still worth it. Without that feature, I'd rather just wave a taxi in (depending on city). Makes me feel like Uber is hostile towards users instead of servicing them.

How about I rob your store Thursday and you mine Friday?

Is there a DRM-free way to watch this?

That is indeed totally crazy.

I wish I had some way to verify your story, as I as a reader can't know who sits behind the keyboard on the other side.

Online Adverts are a form of micropayment. It's currently the only way to charge sub-cent amounts from users. It requires the third party of an advertiser, which is a very expensive middle man.

If we can figure out how to do micropayments without users needing an account somewhere (like PayPal), we can get rid of ads. That is the ultimate solution to this long-winding conflict between users, advertisers and content creators.

This is what I have done as well.

I think it was Bruce Schneier who brought up the idea of digital feudalism. I want to own my data, and that is incompatible with the business of Netflix and Spotify.

Very sad about it, since both those services are very easy to use and I was experiencing more new film & music while subscribing than I am when not subscribed.

After being Clojure-only for a long time, I decided to write the front end to my last project in Elm, just to see what the fuzz was about.

While I miss code-is-data very much, there is no turning back from the type system and how there are no unpure functions. It is just so mind-blowingly easy to catch almost every bug I would usually write.

I'm afraid this is the point where I should try Haskell, and be unsatisfied for the rest of my professional life.

So owning and sharing child porn should be OK in the eyes of the law?

It's simply not an easy question to give an easy answer to.

Infix is only easy to read if you're only used to it. Not inherently better - I'd say opposite even.

Also, I don't want to live without Paredit (or Smartparens)

Disagree that it's readable. The parens are great - they show exactly where a function call starts and where it ends. The program is a tree!