Apparently they are doing a 20 percent off sale.

Load CrossPoint alternate firmware on it....and you have a reader well worth having.

https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x4

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader

Aggravatingly, it appears that Google is blocking the use of Google translate if your phone is using a VPN.

It was working yesterday.

(GrapheneOs phone, Proton VPN)

I suspect that the rise in interest regarding cyberdecks is spurred a lot by the imminent lockdown of Android...and wanting a portable communication tool not owned by government/big business. I know I am figuring what to do (I am rather aggravated by how many defunct phones are not really unlockable/re-usable in ways not linked to Android.

Do we have any bets on when Vance is going to switch from Catholic to Russian Orthodox?

...Bets on when China starts escorting ships through Hormuz Strait, with the blessings of Iran...and this essentially makes the dollar worthless for oil in the world?

Long story short...

got them pics off the store sites, showed them the DDR it would take, and the DDR4 I have for desktop would do the job..

....they were aware that Laptop memory and Desktop memory are very different sizes. (which.)

...He just asked me if the ddr memory I had shown him I had would fit in a laptop.

I know someone that was a fair bit more computer savvy than I am. Has a degree in computer science (amongst other degrees)

So they need a computer that has more than 16g ddr ram. They said they needed a desktop machine rather than a minipc.

Ok. I happen to have some DDR4 and DDR5 that I got accidentally. (desktop. I hit something wrong a while back, I decided to hold it in the backup bin for home use later)

....If I ever had questions in my mind about the deleterious effects of AI...they are GONE now

...I have had a weird feeling for years that Florida was going to be where "Something Big" goes off...(more to the southern end...)

These events are not making me have that feeling any less.

...of course. (because I guess they had enough people reallly wanting that option for producing children)

https://www.wvva.com/2026/01/14/bill-remove-rape-incest-exceptions-abortion-returns-west-virginia-legislature/

Currently playing the demo for MIO (Memories in Orbit)...

....yeah, I have pre-ordered it now. Very playable, and very aesthetically pleasing.

Anyone surprised that the "Peace Award" from FIFA looks like the hands of the damned are coming out of Hell to grasp and pull down the globe?

I mean...What the Actual Hell?...THIS ACTUAL HELL! (both eyebrows raised so far it is part of my receding hairline)

(There were a number of alt-obsessions back in the 90s and 2000s that were that the world was going to freeze, not warm. With climate change, their “homelands” would freeze.

Am I the only one wondering if A reason the (more rich) bigots are focused on the United States/Technocracy map being more “White” is linked to awareness of possible AMOC shutdown? (it does work into their whole thing about smaller nation states they control protected inside larger countries)

Noting how they seem to read Sci Fi and Fantasy as “Gain control of the Torment Nexus”…And I seem to recall there bing a focus on things suddenly getting colder/arctic in their libertarian/new age obsess…

Just waiting for a rogue DOJ release of everything.

Or, more likely....someone accidentally forwarding everything to a wide list of people.

Time to get serious about learning Spanish.

First 2 Murderbot books, in Spanish.

(An article on this just came out (the sudden penny-disruption)

As a retail business, this is an issue, especially if folk use cash.

…So, they decided to just stop making pennies. No ramp down plan.

Oh, should be simple enough..just adjust your prices to give change around.05 rather than .01-.04

…Did you consider sales tax?

(We all start cursing)

The bad latin is fully intentional, and part of the message.

We do not bow to those who would subdue us. The Romans could not subdue us...we even take their language and turn it.

We are accused of all these terrible things...ok...we will take those titles, those masks...and make them OUR OWN. (in my mind, the "murderers, thieves, ruffians...all the criminal labels...when mentioned by the Addams, it is a nod to what folk have accused them of being. )