Ngl i just have an old ass file server and drag/drop things there. Then copy/paste the ebook/audiobook over to the offending device. Boom done.

If you vote with your wallet, it just means those richer than you have a bigger vote.

I coudnt afford my steam deck today. Honestly.

Right I just found out about it today!

Yep!

I was just sharing hat would happen if whatapp and other services went down…Interesting. Guess we see what happends live!

I had to really look. But once i started following it was an avalanche. Lots of indie creators and such.

Piefed works on firefox moble well, so thats what i use 😁.

Theres some. Honestly more people are on mastodon than lemmy. It hasnt taken off like the mastodon crowd. If you do #maker on mastodon.social for example, its much better.

I wish the threadiverse supported hashtags and more mastodon stuff but it is what it is.

Thanks!

At scale sure. But for like a small controller or power supply?

I thought ireland and a couple of other countries are stepping up quite a bit recently? I know they have been at the forfront of the EUs efforts to start building chips and have been doing so last 10 years to start scaling.

Just did a search, looks like its going to happen: https://wallstreettimes.com/intel-foundry-5-billion-ireland-chip-manufacturing-2026/

This level of demand is not sustainable Totally agree!

Oh nice ill take a look! We have a 10k pick and place machine over at a local makerspace and ive thought about prefab chips before. Just for fun, but its still a bit of money.

I can just see makers starting to do small scale projects such as https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/russian-enthusiasts-are-building-their-own-ddr5-ram-amidst-the-worldwide-shortage-as-easy-as-sourcing-your-own-memory-modules-and-soldering-them-on-empty-pcbs

And then naturally expanding. I mean we talk about all these hypotheticals but at a certain price range, impractical turns practical. If you cannot convince any big chip makers to make your thing and people will pay 2x for your thing, then getting together with smaller manufacturing starts to make sense.

I dunno im just a small maker person. Made my own laptop from parts and all that. I see this as a potential opportunity.

At what point do we start making the factories ourselves? No really if ddr3 is significantly going up would it make sence for all these smaller companies to pool thier resources and start fabbing thier own chips?

Interesting this is going to be on steam and other platforms. Must have been in the works before all the other management screwups.

My family does “digital detox” weekends before. Its made certain days more interesting and fun since we have to go out of our comfort zone to be entertained.

No screens are allowed.

Nice, glad you like the design. I do too.

I think in theory it would be easier to repair. But it is 250 which is quite a bit.

Ill know in a couple months!

If anyone wants to see the old project: https://hackaday.io/project/192688-the-open-book

Its been around for a bit. The newest iteration looks like its trying to be more like kindle.

GH page: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

I forget where but the developer goes over the cost of the physical hardware a couple of years ago somewhere. Its kinda expensive to make your own open source ebook reader from mostly scratch.

I like this version: https://www.oddlyspecificobjects.com/projects/openbook/

Very similar to https://diptyx.dev/

But its been around longer. Software looks really good for an esp32. Im hoping we see more of these open source ebook readers pop up.

They test a LOT of the packages from what I understand. Not a good or bad thing but it does make things harder to update as time goes on.