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Cake day: February 16th, 2026

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  • Well, I just dug around the whole market for a small eink reader, and determined I want an x4 with usb-c and a warm front light.

    I don’t need a touch screen or any other non-sense. Just a charging interface compatible with everything else, a decent screen, and the ability to read in the dark.

    I have an old Boox Nova Pro, but it’s screen refresh went to pot with an OS update, and I kinda stopped using it.

    I liked the idea of the Palma and have looked at other ~3inch devices over the years, but the Palma is too pricey and the rest have been about equal in price or junk.

    Was tempted to jump on the Bigme bandwagon with one of the recent releases, but I really don’t need anything that fancy.

    The x3-x4 price range is about perfect, but what’s the point of epaper with no light or USB-C in 2026?

    Bah, what are these people doing?

    Who wants to bet the Picco will tick all my boxes but the price will be like $160 USD.











  • I have no problem with being able to verbally ask a computer to do basic useful things, it’s a far more advanced PC-human inferface than the computer mouse…

    But beyond that, meh. I get how it can be used by science to solve complex issues or analyze large datasets, and that’s cool, but I don’t need anything on my PC more calable than an aide that can set a timer for me, or thereabouts.

    If it can’t already do something with way fewer errors than people, than it shouldn’t be doing that yet.

    If it can, then we might as well put it to work.

    We didn’t build stone tools because our hands were good enough, or bronze tools because stone was good enough,…