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Tipping is prevalent.

Well that explains why it’s so prevalent

libgourou has no need for anything that has to do with Kobo. It’s really only three cli commands: activate (once), download acsm, de-drm. It produces an unencrypted .epub that you can open as is or copy to your Kobo device with any ordinary file operation.

Create an account with ADE then activate using

adept_activate -u "your.adobe.id@email.com" --output-dir ~/.adept

IIUC this eats up an activation (I think they allow at most five) so back up the contents of that directory. You should be able to bring it with you to other computers.

I’ve used libgourou successfully many times in the past year to remove DRM using my ADE key.

I angrily started doing this for every book I buy after changing reading device to a newer Kobo, and discovering that all the download links for .acsm files that my book store provides will expire after two years. I.e. after those two years it’s impossible to move them to a new device unless I remove DRM.

Hold on. Is there no tax on the tip?

Could just be jerking you off from behind

If that’s the smallest computer chip in the world, the hand must be tiny

Satya lives in the biggest glass house in the world and yet he’s up there throwing the biggest fucking boulders. How about he just shuts his mouth and realizes he has overstayed his welcome by about ten years. The ignorance is mind boggling.

Hey, I don’t know you, but the last few lines of this post genuinely worry me, especially “I have nothing to lose.” If you’re thinking about hurting yourself, please reach out to a crisis line tonight (988 in the US, or search “[country] crisis line”). Whatever’s going on, you’re clearly in a lot of pain. Talking to a doctor or psychiatrist about what’s going on could actually help: what you’re going through sounds awful and treatable.

Let’s say you could temporarily reverse the laws of physics and rewind the universe to the exact state it was in this morning. Would anything have happened differently the second time around?

Depends on your view of free will. If they never did, they never could.

Number of men with driver’s license in 1850

Hollywood literally cannot tell a “looks don’t matter” story without sneaking the looks (or status) back in by the third act. The Beast turning into a generic prince. She’s All That spends ninety minutes insisting personality matters, then resolves it with a makeover. The Princess Diaries goes one further: “you’re fine as you are” turns out to mean “you’re fine as you are, also you’re secretly a princess.”

I don’t think the people writing these endings believe the lesson themselves. An industry that runs on headshots and red carpets isn’t positioned to sell “looks don’t matter” with a straight face, and that disbelief leaks into the third act. Shallow people writing a story about looking past shallowness was always going to end with someone getting hot again. What bugs me is that they sell this corrupted message to our kids, repeating the cycle.

Self checkout works just fine in Sweden, the only people with an issue are dementia-ridden elderly (but they can’t make sense of how to pay with a debit card either).

The “no restrictions” part is a very strong signal. Any prompt to an image model is basically a coordinate in its latent space, and “no restrictions” will point straight at the darker areas.

Turns out, I am no longer human

It never does.

But also even if they can, they can’t implement it in 5 seconds or even a week, but the order takes effect immediately. So there’s absolutely no other choice in the short term.