I will say, if you have a book with glossy pages, or glossy print, having the light directly above your eyes can cause glare. You end up having to hold the book or magazine at a slight angle. That’s an issue a book light doesn’t have as much.

If you do buy it and don’t like it, send me a DM and I’ll see about buying it from you. I could always use a spare. But it has to be the Nichia warm white version.

Let’s start with ranked choice voting. Let third parties have a chance.

There is such a thing as “intelligent defaults”, though. I can’t be the only one carrying around 10 GB of music on my phone. This will affect anyone in my shoes, and it was super annoying until I found the setting. Luckily that setting exists, but where’s the setting to disable pull to refresh?

I’m allowed to be surprised, since this is the only media app for android but I’ve ever seen that refreshes the entire library every time you open it, or with pull to refresh. It’s completely unheard of. Totally surprising.

That’s the beauty of this one. It has like 8 brightness levels and the first one is so dim it’s too dark to read by. The highest will light up your entire yard in a 100’ radius. (It’s nuts, but it can’t do that for more than 60 sec before it turns itself down.)

You never have to worry about what brightness level you left it at when you last turned it off (although it does remember it). You can instead long press the power button while it’s off, and it will start stepping up through the first seven brightnesses startling with that “firefly” mode that wouldn’t bother your eyes even in the middle of the night. And then it stays at the level where you release the button.

It’s by far the best headlamp I’ve ever owned. Budget be damned, just buy it. You won’t regret it. 😂

Oh, it also comes with a handlebar mount. It makes an excellent bicycle light.

I’ve been using this for a few days and it’s pretty good, but not perfect as a music player. It sometimes forgets what I was playing when not in use, and I have to re-pick a playlist, and of course it loses my position in it when that happens.

I also tried it as a video player when tapping a video in my gallery app (Fossify Gallery) after I had recently used VLC for music, and it resumed the music instead of playing the video! Twice! I had to explicitly exit the app before it would play the video. (I realize Fossify Gallery has a built-in video player, but it’s not very feature rich, and I was simply trying out VLC.)

I also had to turn off the feature for rescanning my library every time the app opens because that’s on by default, and with my large music library and dozens of playlists, it would take literally 25 seconds to open every time. No idea why that’s on by default when “Refresh” is one of only two options in the three-dot menu, easily accessible on-demand.

I also just learned, much to my chagrin, that you can accidentally pull down from the top to refresh. Another feature no one needs. Not for something that can take 25 seconds, and is right there in the menu besides. I can’t find any way to turn that off.

Have you considered using a headlamp? I find they make better book lights than anything that clips to a book. It doesn’t get in the way of turning pages or weigh the book down. Plus the light is more even, and it’s generically more useful since it’s a headlamp.

I have a good rechargable one with several brightness settings and a beautiful warm white LED. It lasts a very long time on the lower settings that are good for reading. Read on if you want to know why I chose the specific one I did, buy honestly, and headlamp will work. The one I have is not cheap.

On the other hand, some book lights have multiple color temperatures, and using one that limits the blue light can help with sleep when used near bed time.

Armytek Wizard C2 Pro Nichia warm white headlamp.

Price: $99

1. The battery is an easily swappable, super common 18650 Li-ion. If it stops holding a charge, you can easily replace it very cheaply, but it should be good for years. Plus you can swap it out for a freshly charged one if you have spares and a secondary charger.
2. It has a custom, durable magnetic USB charging cable, not some tiny USB port that’ll just break. It literally plugs itself in. You just hold the headlamp base near the cable and it jumps on. (After twisting the base CCW 1/4 turn.)
3. The color temperature is a warm white with 95% color rendering index. (That’s really good.) If you read a magazine or comic with it, the colors really pop! Seriously, I was blown away when I first looked at something colorful with this headlamp. Cheap headlamps often have a blueish tint which is terrible. Same with cheap booklights, too.
4. The lamp pops off and you can use it as a flashlight, plus the base is magnetic so you can stick it onto things.
5. It’s a flood light, not a spot light, and has a wide beam with very even illumination.

It makes a superb book light while also being an excellent all-around headlamp.

I just thought I’d mention a headlamp as a choice, and a good one is worth the money, IMO.

The biggest downside is it’s not super comfortable for more than an hour of use. I took off the top strap, and that makes it even worse I imagine. If I really needed to use it for a long time, I would wear it over a bandana or something.

Thanks, but that doesn’t appear to be open source. I’m only interested in open source software that can be installed from F-Droid.

I could have perhaps made a fix and do a PR on Github…

Ok, so you know how Github works. So why didn’t you post this as an issue on Github?

Thus proving that Mortal Kombat is an easy game made for babies.

The way college works is a scam in itself. You don’t need that much liberal art education. Four years and tens of thousands of dollars (sometimes hundreds of thousands) just to see if you can hack it in a job in your field? That’s insane.

Most jobs should be accessible right after high school in the form of paid internships. Programming is a trade, and most of the skills should be taught in high school. Not everyone needs to be a “computer scientist”, just like not every plumber needs to be a hydraulic engineer.

I’ve worked in a lot of programming jobs and zero of the people were what I would have called computer scientists. They were just coders who could write a conditional statement and a for loop. That gets the job done 99% of the time. (Obviously I’m greatly oversimplifying. My point is there’s no “computer science” involved.)

After a job in programming for a couple years, if you want to start working on the Linux kernel and write compilers, go ahead and go to school then and become a computer scientist. That’s so few people.

And then when there are no jobs hiring internships and computer science, you know not to focus on that. Do something else.

But big business hates this. They want everyone to prove in a gauntlet that you can work under super high pressure and tight deadlines that are totally arbitrary.

Why buy the ZSN when you could buy the AE01, AS10, AS10 Pro, AS12, AS16, AS16 Pro, AS16 Pro X, AS24, AS24 Pro, ASF, AST, ASX, BTE, Carol, Castor, Castor Pro, x Crinacle CRN, D-Fi, Dawn, DQ6, DQS, E10, ED, EDA, ED4, ED9, EDC, EDC Pro, EDCX, EDS, EDX, EDX Lite, EDX Pro, EDX Pro X, EDX Ultra, EDXS, ESX, GP20, H10, x HBB DQ6S, Krila, Libra, Ling Long, Merga, PR1, PR1 Pro, x HBB PR2, PR3, PRX, S1, S1D, S2, SA08, SA08 Pro, Saga, SK10, SK10 Pro, SKS, Sonata, Symphony, T10, Vader, VX10, VXS, VXS Pro, XTRA, Z1, Z1 Pro, Z3, ZAR, ZAS, ZAT, ZAX, ZES, ZEX, ZEX Pro, ZNA, ZS10 Pro, ZS10 Pro 2, ZS10 Pro X, ZS12 Pro X, ZS3, ZS3E, ZS4, ZSN Pro, ZSN Pro 2, ZSN Pro X, ZST X, ZSX, ZSX Pro, ZVX, or ZVX Pro?

Your link is backwards. The text goes in the square brackets and the URL in the parentheses.

Chuck E Cheese in 1994?

[Chuck E Cheese in 1994?](https://youtu.be/tzjdP94rKH4)

I’ve heard there are a lot of people who listen to PBS Space Time to fall asleep.

OMG! That’s what those crystals are!

The site wouldn’t load for me, but I did manage to capture an archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230807215607/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/best-mini-servers.html

Might I suggest using Discord as an alternative to Reddit?

I found the juxtaposition of your comment to the one below yours to be pretty funny.

I support swappable batteries to avoid unnecessary e-waste or any other reason anyone has.

My arguing with you about the pros and cons of spare batteries vs chargers was misguided, because you’re entitled to have your opinions and I don’t see why I should care about your justifications for those opinions.

When my battery gets low, I’m often in the middle of something. Watching a video, playing a game, chatting with people. Things I don’t want to stop and have to try to resume a minute later when I could just plug in and not miss a beat.

Shutting down, swapping a battery, and restarting cannot be done in 15 seconds. I don’t really think you were being literal, but you’re making it seem like it would be entirely trivial. I don’t think it is.

Carrying a second battery is carrying another box around

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