Atemu

Not the above guy, but I’ll share my thoughts too.

Much appreciated :)

if you have an Android device with F-Droid

Yeah I think that’s how I heard of it ;)

Although it has a gorgeous 8" display, I found it to be somewhat unergonomic to hold, and it has a notoriously bad battery life.

I think battery life isn’t that important of a factor for me. As long as it’s in the range of “I need to charge it every once in a while” rather than “I need to make sure to charge this every day”, it’s probably fine.

Comfort is more important but hard to judge without actually holding it.

From what I’ve been told, 7" is about the size of an actual BW manga page.

From what I gather online, Manga is apparently printed on JIS B5 paper which is 257mm x 182mm which has a 12.4" diagonal but the small hand books Manga you typically see is B6 which is 128mm x 182mm (8.7" diagonal).

The diagonal isn’t really that meaningful though as the aspect ratio of JIS B paper and e-readers is different. A 10.3" reader with 4:3 aspect ratio is 157mm x 209mm and an 8" one 122mm x 163mm.

While 8" is almost wide enough for B6, it’s not nearly tall enough, even for B6. 10.3" is quite a bit larger than it needs to be for B6 and quite a bit smaller than B5 which sounds much more ideal.

I use the “fit to width” option, which makes the page fit the whole width of the screen (and display about two-thirds of the height of the page at any time); I end up pushing the “next” button twice for each page, but as I like to read slowly, I don’t mind at all.

Ah, that doesn’t fit my style unfortunately. Manga is also frequently laid out a way where some elements might be the entire page tall.

You don’t. It’s very easy to bypass the account registration on a new Kobo. You don’t even have to turn on the Wi-Fi.

Neat thanks, that’s what I’ll do then.

If I can’t find something I can just add a quick !g to my already existing query and look it up on Google instead, which I’ve found rather convenient.

Yeah I used to do the same (but with !s).

It’s much more convenient to just have good search results to begin with though. Kagi uses the Google index and a few others and you have your own filtering and ranking on top.

In the beginning I felt tempted to do !s a few times too but the results were always worse, so I quickly unlearned doing that.

Executing bangs is also a lot quicker with Kagi; DDG is kind of a slog.

Chances are that it doesn’t work there either. What actually does the OC is the kernel; the GUIs merely write the desired values into the correct files in /sys.

This has nothing to do with the ROM. While you can embed trusted keys into a ROM which is useful for debugging, what I mean is the regular trusted ADB keys that get added when you allow ADB access from your computer via the pop-up.

If you’ve allowed your PC ADB access recently (this expires after some time), your key should be trusted. If it isn’t, there is the method to make it trusted I described.

You do need to modify the system partitioni to enable ADB at boot though. Just do what I described.

Ecosia being any better in this regard would be news to me. They also rely on ads for funding.

Oh they’ve been getting worse for sure but Bing is still worse. I’ve used the Bing index via DuckDuckGo for years and it’s quite bad.

I now use Kagi which uses both Google and Bing indices (among others) and it’s much better and I think most of that is because the Google index is used.

Have you heard of peertube?

It’s slightly overkill for your purposes but it is basically a self-hosted Youtube with a similarly nice UI and everything.

Oh great, shitty bing search results with tree NFTs.

When you captured that, the device was in the recovery. That’s not particularly interesting; recovery works fine.

We need adb access during boot. You need it to say “device” here while it’s attempting to boot.

If no device shows up, you haven’t enabled the prop to enable ADB properly.

I used this for comparing the CPUs https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleCompare.php.

Okay, at least that’s not userbenchmark but what I said still applies: this number does not tell you anything of value.

My friend mostly works with unreal engine.

Oh, that’s quite something else than 3D rendering.

It’s been a while since I fiddled with it it but I didn’t do anything significant with it.

According to Puget systems’ benchmarks, this is one of those specific tasks where Intel CPUs are comparatively good but even here they’re basically only about on par with what AMD has to offer.

Something like the 9900x smokes the 14700k in almost every other productivity benchmark though.
If you care about productivity performance first and foremost, the 7950x could be a consideration at 16 high-performance actual cores which smokes anything Intel has to offer, including in Unreal. It’s by no means bad at gaming either but Intel 14th gen is surprisingly competitive against the non-x3D AMD chips for gaming purposes.
Though, again, CPU doesn’t matter all that much for gaming; GPU (and IMHO monitor) are much more important. (Some specific games such as MMOs are exceptions to this though.)

Its their for them to be able to work basically

As in professional work? Shouldn’t their employer provide them with a sufficiently powerful system then?