Good to know. I guess I managed to only look at their Android offerings.

PocketBooks use Android, which can be a positive or a negative. It gives you access to Play Store, but it’s also Google.

Calibre can also convert between various file formats, and with DeDRM plugin, it can also remove Amazon and Adobe DRM.

Also subscription services typically pay the actual authors only pennies. If you want to support the authors, buy the books or use libraries.

There are stores in many European countries that sell DRM-free e-books in local languages. They might use the term watermarked instead of DRM-free. See if you can find one in your country. Because they are DRM-free, you can use any device to read them.

Many libraries also lets you rent audiobooks and e-books. Many European libraries have moved to using Readium LCP DRM for e-books. You will probably have to use their own app to read them, which means you can’t use e-readers, such as Kobo to read them.

At full operation, ITER is expected to produce 500 megawatts of fusion power from only 50 megawatts of input heating power, a tenfold gain. At this level of efficiency, the fusion reaction largely self-heats, becoming a “burning plasma.”

That 10x gain would be pretty huge, if they can make it to work. I believe the record so far is only 1.5x.

I’ve been playing Expedition 33 on desktop Linux, and it’s really great. It really does put a lot of other games to shame. Good to know it works acceptably on the Deck.

Kobo sells DRM-free e-books: https://www.kobo.com/p/drm-free

If you want to check that a book sold on Kobo is DRM-free, you need to scroll to the bottom of the page, where there is a section titled “eBook Details”. It has a line that says something like “Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free)”.

The Fascist States of Trumpistan

They recommend Galaxus over Amazon, but many of the product links lead to… Amazon.

Uusimman tiedon mukaan Olkiluoto 3:n pitäisi käynnistyä ylihuomenna, lauantaina, kello 23:00.

https://umm.nordpoolgroup.com/#/messages/f5ab1a56-8af0-4b90-9070-b0bd587c5368

As I understand it, the energy efficiency class is based on how long the device works with a full charge. They have laid out a test cycle that needs to be repeated until the device turns off. The rest of the information on that label is just for your information.

• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ%3AJOL_2023_214_R_0002 (Annex II)

One problem I can see with this is that it pushes manufactures to set as high maximum charge level, and as low minimum charge level for the battery as possible. What is “full” and “empty” for a battery is something that the manufacturer sets. The higher the “full” level is, and the lower the “empty” level is, the more stress is caused for the battery, which leads to the battery dying sooner. If you for example limit battery charging to 80% charge level, you can double the expected lifetime of a lithium battery. But this rating system doesn’t take that in consideration. It’s up to the consumer to choose between Class A device with 500 cycle battery and Class B (or something) device with 1000 cycle battery.

• https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries

The EU now mandate that smartphones and tablets must be repairable, with parts like batteries, cameras, displays to be available for 7 years from the time the device enters market.

• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1670/oj (Annex II)

Näinhän se varmasti on. Näin jälkiviisaana voitaneen todeta, että viime vuoden vuosihuollon kesto oli “hiukan” ylioptimistisesti määritetty. Sen oli tarkoitus kestää reilun kuukauden, mutta se sitten venyi ja venyi, ja lopulta siihen meni vielä toinenkin kuukausi. Tänä vuonna ne arvioi kestoksi suoraan sen pari kuukautta.

Kieltämättä jouduin hierasemaan silmiäni, kun tämän uutisen luin. Olkiluoto 3:ssa joku asia etuajassa? Alkuperäisen suunnitelman mukaan vuosihuollon piti päättyä 2.5., mutta ne meinaa saada sen valmiiksi jo 28.4.

This might be the reason for requiring glibc 2.31 and newer:

Security related changes:

CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution after a security transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.

Anyone want to take bets on how many deaths/injuries will there be before they’re pulled?

DOGE will make sure it won’t be pulled. They’ll shut down any administration that tries.

This LiDAR tech vs Tesla video makes me wish Tesla will use LiDAR in their self-driving Robotaxi fleet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ&t=556s

This is also good article:
https://www.ecuradio.eu/2025/04/decay-capitalism-post/

Decay Capitalism. A system where economic value is meticulously created only to be relentlessly siphoned later, almost always at the public’s expense, and invariably with appalling consequences.

Ja se vekotin on tosiaan “melko” iso, suuruusluokkaa pieni rivitalo pyörimässä vartaassa. En nyt yhtäkkiä löytänyt mittoja että olisin muistikuvan varmistanut, mutta se on useita metrejä halkaisijaltaan ja pituutta kaksinumeroinen määrä metrejä.

Tuo “rivitalo vartaassa -roottori” on Olkiluoto 3:n roottori. Se taisi painaakin jotain 200 tonnia, ja kierrosnopeus jotain 1500rpm. Tuo Olkiluoto 2:n roottori on hiukan pienempi. Videosta arpoisin, että sen halkaisija on jotain parin metrin luokkaa, päätellen siitä, että se on kutakuinkin yhtä korkea kuin sen ympärillä häärävät ihmiset.

I just use Firefox, so I guess that one. I have meant to look into Vivaldi and Mullvad, and perhaps LibreWolf.

One reason is, that there is no guarantee that the forks are safe to use. Any claims for “privacy-focused”, “secure”, etc should be considered marketing terms until they are somehow sufficiently proven to be true. For example, Zen Browser is one of the many Firefox forks. Its developer has made some major mistakes and otherwise behaved in questionable manner, and have basically shown to be an inexperienced developer.

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/5947
https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927