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disambiguation: Apples, the food.

Apple Mac_os-222x300-white

Platforms >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.apple.com/

That's nice. The operating system itself is garbage, and the applications are junk. The interface is complicated and clumsy and slow. This, in comparison with Winblows, is pretty bad.

Much of this page is very dated. For more recent stuff, see macOS



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more coming later -- I have notes offline somewhere

A descendent
A descendent

Sunglasses >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.luxottica.com/en/eyewear-brands/luxottica

I loved the sunglasses from The Arrival - (1996 movie), and thanks to Product Placement Takes Off, these may be from Luxottica. The Ray-Ban Chaos RB3140 are likely a direct descendent.

I haven't come anywhere near close to confirming the actual make and model.



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Kobo Aura ONE 01a

Problem: Given an item in the Internet Archive, e.g. The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, you may be tempted to download the PDF for its exactness. Admirable! However, my e-reader is horribly slow for opening it and turning pages. I find slow page turning aggravating; it makes me lose my train of thought and strains my reading comprehension.

Solution: Download a different format of individual images, bulk-scale them down exactly to your device's screen, then package the images back into one single file.

This extra work is well worth it for me.

  • TODO - See also PDF? I haven't tested it, but I wonder if "repairing" a PDF would also help with e-reader speed.



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