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my $700 (3 years ago) 4 foot sarnsung doesn't have any ads or bullshit and it works perfectly fine as a computer monitor.
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infernal machines posted:i have a samsung 4k "smart tv" for my computer monitor lol
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Feb 12, 2017 22:17
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infernal machines posted:i have a samsung 4k "smart tv" for my computer monitor*, it does not have ads. the first tv on that list is currently $1995 on amazon.
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Feb 12, 2017 22:27
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do people really spend 20 bucks extra to buy the kindle without ads i mean ads are bad but 20 bucks (i dont have a kindle)
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Feb 12, 2017 23:12
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poty posted:do people really spend 20 bucks extra to buy the kindle without ads if you call or text nicely that youre a confused old or got it as a gift they remove them
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Feb 12, 2017 23:36
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I wonder how long it will take for kindles to go the way of the dodo and EEE PCs because no-one outside of North America has ever owned one and really the US + Canada is not a very big market.
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Feb 12, 2017 23:37
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Endless Mike posted:the first tv on that list is currently $1995 on amazon. it's possible that list is poo poo too. they don't differentiate between ads within the smart hub, ostensibly for other apps and feature available in the hub, and loving volume brought to you by pepsi there's a pretty wide gulf there
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Feb 12, 2017 23:40
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Beast of Bourbon posted:the new nests play audio ads when you activate them by proximity This is a joke, right?
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Feb 12, 2017 23:41
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kindles are really good tho i still have and use my old one from 2010
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Jerry Cotton posted:I wonder how long it will take for kindles to go the way of the dodo and EEE PCs because no-one outside of North America has ever owned one and really the US + Canada is not a very big market. My kindle is very good. I keep it in my bag and take it out when I want to read on the train or whatever. I don't need to gently caress around with it, I charge it once a month or so. It's pretty much the platonic ideal of how consumer electronics should be.
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Feb 12, 2017 23:42
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mishaq posted:kindles are really good tho I got a Kindle Touch in 2011 and used it up until a few months ago when my wife got me a Kindle Voyage. My old Kindle Touch worked perfectly fine and I sent it to my mother and now she's enjoying it. The Kindle line is pretty much the biggest success story imaginable in tech.
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Feb 12, 2017 23:43
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Citizen Tayne posted:This is a joke, right? yes i got me mum a kindle paperwhite, so she could get a copy of my sister's book off amazon. as far as i can tell she loves it. she also managed to figure out how to buy other ebooks without me having to show her, so they did something right.
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Feb 12, 2017 23:45
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Citizen Tayne posted:My kindle is very good. I keep it in my bag and take it out when I want to read on the train or whatever. I don't need to gently caress around with it, I charge it once a month or so. It's pretty much the platonic ideal of how consumer electronics should be. ++
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Feb 12, 2017 23:52
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I need to set up my Canon so I can print out Something Awful threads and read them on the bus.
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Feb 12, 2017 23:55
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i kinda like my kindle ads. they're usually relevant books and they only show up on my lock screen and don't get in the way of anything.
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Feb 12, 2017 23:55
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In the year 2525 Kindles and humanity will be dead.
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Feb 12, 2017 23:57
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infernal machines posted:it's possible that list is poo poo too. they don't differentiate between ads within the smart hub, ostensibly for other apps and feature available in the hub, and loving volume brought to you by pepsi none of these are acceptable on a $2000 tv
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Feb 13, 2017 00:01
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:i kinda like my kindle ads. they're usually relevant books and they only show up on my lock screen and don't get in the way of anything. they're ads stop making excuses them them
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Feb 13, 2017 00:02
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Endless Mike posted:none of these are acceptable on a $2000 tv the latter isn't the former is no different than featured apps in itunes, and they can be wholly avoided by never going in to the smart hub, because why the gently caress are you using the smart hub?
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Feb 13, 2017 00:03
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don't use itunes
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infernal machines posted:loving volume brought to you by pepsi lomarf
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Jerry Cotton posted:and really the US + Canada is not a very big market. lmao
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Feb 13, 2017 00:09
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Just picked up a used Kindle DX for like $100 I'm hyped to mod it and tape it to my wall so I can just have it display random poo poo
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Feb 13, 2017 00:11
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from where? i wanted one of those for schematics and poo poo, but it was never worth paying $300+ for one
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infernal machines posted:from where? i wanted one of those for schematics and poo poo, but it was never worth paying $300+ for one a kindle paperwhite is a hundred bucks on amazon brand new right now
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Feb 13, 2017 00:14
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the kindle dx is not a kindle paperwhite
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Feb 13, 2017 00:15
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as in the use case very specifically requires the large formfactor screen, which the paperwhite does not have
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Feb 13, 2017 00:16
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lol, it's available for $80 us, but only from amazon.com, amazon.ca doesn't have the dx at any price. gg amazon.
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I gots a kindle paperwhite, it has an ad on the lock screen which I see just long enough to swipe to unlock. got the wife a newer one, it has ads in the book selection screen as well. our local library has a pretty stellar ebook selection that works on "whispernet" works for me, won't fix.
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Feb 13, 2017 01:37
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also i may have shown people how to use calibre to break kindle DRM and they are all patronizing the library a lot more now. and the library re-did things where it more geared toward what folks want, they got a recording studio, computers with audio and video editing software, classes on that poo poo, and it pisses the olds off soooooooo much cause they want them paper books.
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infernal machines posted:yes
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Mr. Apollo posted:I was going to get my parents Kindles but they mainly read library books so I got them Kobo Aura Ones since they have OverDrive. Kindles don't support borrowing library books in Canada. odd, i think overdrive is what libraries in the states use that support kindles. . . it's p. champ
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enotnert posted:odd, i think overdrive is what libraries in the states use that support kindles. . . it's p. champ https://help.overdrive.com/customer/portal/articles/1481616-getting-started-with-kindle-ereaders quote:Note: Kindle Books are currently available for U.S. libraries only
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Mr. Apollo posted:Yup, Kindles use OverDrive but they can only download books in the US. lol Canada is so hosed up
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"You can't use the good thing because our country is stupid, so here, have this big piece of poo poo that's nearly unusable but was designed in canada. Eh."
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yeah, but poo poo, at least we're not in america
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tori is right the kindle is the ideal electronics experience, esp in that my first (3g keyboard) works fine aside from literally having a 6 year old battery, my paperwhite 3 is equally as easy to use even with more features, and the touch i got cheap refurbed at a half price books (lol) to keep at work is actually 5 years old and the battery still works fine
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Agile Vector posted:tori is right the kindle is the ideal electronics experience, esp in that my first (3g keyboard) works fine aside from literally having a 6 year old battery, my paperwhite 3 is equally as easy to use even with more features, and the touch i got cheap refurbed at a half price books (lol) to keep at work is actually 5 years old and the battery still works fine Before I sent the Touch to my mom, I checked with my brother who still lives near her to see if he could replace the battery and he said it's about fifteen minutes and $18. Flawless.
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