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I recently got a boox go color 7 because I dont have space to buy physical books. the only platforms I can find that have a decent selection are ones like kindle where you dont get the book, only the ability to read it through their app. i want to use the built in reader on my device and I dont want to be able to get rugpulled by Amazon or lose access to my books when a smaller company goes under.

I'm fairly comfortable on the high seas but whenever a book is available without DRM I'd prefer to buy it so I can support the author. do you guys know any platforms with a good selection of drm-free ebooks? Manga too, but I'm pretty sure the only place you can get it in the us anymore is viz through an app. also as a side question, what format is best?

I saw a video recently talking about how generally people living in the country ignore weird noises in the woods, and it reminded me of some of the weird noises i've heard from the woods near my house.

i want to know your scariest stories about stuff like that because I can't sleep anyway so I may as well have a reason. it can be real experiences or more urban legend type stories, I just can't find enough good scary stuff because the internet sucks now.

title, and to be clear I mean for my usecase specifically. Redhat is being absorbed into IBM and i'm a little worried about how that might affect the fedora project. I'm aware that they've been owned by IBM for a while but we are seeing all the typical signs of a company about to go to shit thanks to bad management. I am looking into and preparing to switch in case the fedora project is messed up as well.

I use my pc mainly for gaming (so steam is required) and stuff in my browser and I have a gtx 1650 (can't get new stuff bc i'm broke) so although I don't need the proprietary drivers necessarily, I prefer them. I use KDE with a handful of kwin scripts (like temp virtual desktops and karousel) and some cosmetic stuff like klassy, better blur, and a custom color scheme. I need all of that to remain possible. I currently use fedora kde edition, but I have been looking into immutable distros because I don't know what I'm doing and I want to have a much lower chance of breaking stuff (or at least a way to easily unbreak it). I also want something at least reasonably up-to-date, because I like to get new features quickly. I don't need to get them as fast as something like arch, but ubuntu and debian are way to slow for me.

what do y'all think would work best for me? I've looked at a few things but I haven't been able to find anything but fedora that serves my usecase the way I want it to yet.

no picture bc I'm at home rn, but I recently started working at the Library in my small town. we've been trying to remove the outdated or poorly circulated books and replace them with more recent ones and ones that will circulate better. in the process of doing this my boss found an anti-vax book from 2008 that we got as a donation in the early 2010s (we know bc it says in the computer) and the last time it had been checked out was like 2 months ago and it has some the best circulation of any of our books. even worse, we dont just get a book and put it straight on the shelf. donations are sorted through by volunteers, offered to the library if the volunteers think they'd be good, and then have to be accepted by the director. the previous director added the book to the system personally. a librarian did this. thankfully my boss, the new director, decided it was 1) too old to keep around, 2) too damaged to keep around (fucked up spine), and 3) bullshit, so she put it in the pile of books we are deleting from the system.

I got a legion 5 gaming laptop back in like 2020 and while the laptop itself works fine, about a year or two in the screen brightness just... stopped funtioning. I was still on windows at the time, but the issue is still here now and I'd really like to be able to use Plasma's new hdr-without-hdr thing. As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the hardware in my computer.

that being said, I've run windows (which it came with), ubuntu, tuxedo os, and fedora (current) on this laptop and aside from the brightness sometimes briefly coming back after a restart until I restart again (I think it happens after updates when it happens but it's so rare I can't tell), it won't come back. I'm using lvfs for firmware stuff and do get stuff from it sometimes, and I keep my system up to date. I haven't been able to find any solutions online so I figured my best bet would be to ask here. anyone know how to fix or at least diagnose it?

I've seen a lot of people lately saying that upscaling (fsr, dlss, etc.) is a bad thing, including some calling it 'fake frames', which is probably due to them confusing it with frame generation.

What upscaling does is take an input (a frame rendered at 1080p, for example) and attempt to improve it by generating more information (bringing that 1080p frame to 1440p). this does make things a little fuzzy, but it also frees up resources to allow stuff like improved lighting to be rendered which makes games like cyberpunk able to be rendered at a decent framerate without a $5,000 gpu.

Frame generation is different. It takes an input as well (same 1080p frame, for example), but it doesn't improve the frame. It makes a new one based on that frame, sometimes several. These actually are 'fake frames', and this is what the people who called upscaling fake frames were really talking about.

I won't lie, upscaling is definitely a crutch and the goal should be to be able to render that cool stuff at native resolution. however, the tech that can render that stuff is too expensive to be worth buying unless you have money to throw away, which real people typically don't. it's up to you whether a little fuzziness in the graphics is worth it to you, but the fact is it'll give you the leeway to choose between higher framerate and prettier lighting. without it most people are stuck just setting their graphics to 'no', because they can't afford the kind of processing power making things look good at native resolution takes.

Part of why I am making this post is that I wanted to see what other people think of this take, and more importantly get feedback so I can improve the take later. I'm currently running a laptop with a 1650, and I've had it for years. I'm used to balancing frames and quality and making compromises, and upscaling tends to be one of them that's worth making.

I recently got underdogs for my quest 3, and I was expecting somewhere in between real steel, pacific rim, and (if it had a game) battlebots. I got not only that, but an excellent rougelite with a great soundtrack and visual style. It takes place in a cyberpunk 2077-esque world in which you (rigg) must help your brother (king) get into the last place controlled by humans, new brakka, before an ai called big sys hacks into his brain. you are trying to get in via underground mech fights in your mech called the gorilla. the controls match the mech perfectly, making you move by grabbing the ground and throwing yourself around the arena (like a gorilla, shockingly) and enemies. it also features a sandbox and challenge mode that's a lot like the map maker from portal 2. overall the game is awesome and totally worth the $30 price tag.

edit: Should also mention it is a great workout, I got the game a couple days ago and my shoulders and biceps feel like I dipped them in lava.

What the title says, specifically I am wondering about floorp.

hypothetically, let's say you were tasked with simplifying the English language. how would you go about doing that, and why?

to start with an easy one, the first thing I would do is eliminate silent letters from all words and make it so no letters share sounds. for example, example would become exampel. then, because x would no longer be around or at least wouldn't have that sound, ekzampel. I would also consider eliminating mulit-letter sounds like ch, and replacing them with single characters (probably the ones that got removed).

I use a Linux distro with kde, so I have a lot of customization available. I like trying other distros in VMs, but stuff like windows (no need to copy really kde is similar by default) and Mac is a pain in the ass to use that way. so, I want to know what your os does that you think I should copy using kde's customization. I'm looking for Mac in particular (bc I haven't used it before) but any OS or desktop environment is fair game.