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It’s either this fairy tale, or its flip side, the myth that ‘private vices’ somehow add up to ‘public virtues’.

some website where you can type the classics instead of just reading them

Is it this one: https://www.typelit.io/ ?

I was intrigued by the top bar, but the *fetch screen says ‘Unity X11’ for DE.

What’s “Mordor Intelligence” – is that a real thing, or a parody of the surveillance/‘defense’ industry companies that are coming up with names nicked from LotR? (‘Anduril’, ‘Palantir’)

Torture device, presumably.

Michael W. Lucas’s “Networking for System Administrators” is a great resource: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa

Chromium has been running on a fork of WebKit called ‘blink’ for a while now; ‘bare’ WebKit is closer to Safari.

Another vote for Tesseract – just to clarify the terminology, though: PDF is a fragile format best used read-only; so you really don’t want to edit a pdf, but make a new one using the same (or cleaned-up) bitmaps and a new ocr text layer.

Now, tesseract is excellent at recognizing glyphs; but especially if the scanned image is a little fuzzy, the layout detection falters; and when it falters, you get redundant line breaks, & chunks of text in the wrong order – all of which gets incredibly annoying for searching & copying purposes. So if you can spare the time, and the text requires it, you may need to mark regions (paragraphs & titles mainly) on the bitmap image manually. There exist a few frontends to Tesseract that help with a task like that; check out, e.g., https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader - inside single paragraph blocks of text, Tesseract doesn’t get as easily confused; and the text output is in the correct reading order, & w/o redundant breaks.

Recently I became aware of ‘StarLite’ tablets – the prices are pretty steep, but the specs look really good, esp. wrt the screen.

Yeah, I’m really happy with my Leopold which I’ve been using for the past 3 months. I used to have Unicomp before that; and while the typing feel was a little better than the brown switches I currently have on the Leopold, its build quality was lower, and eventually it just died on me thanks to what I later found out was a notoriously failure-prone controller they used to use back then. I’m told that Unicomp’s build quality has improved a lot since then.

… though the frustrating thing is that I was able to get the Unicomp only because I was living in the US at the time; and the Leopold I got thanks to relatives in S. Korea. Where I live, ‘mechanical keyboard’ is treated like a synonym for ‘gamer keyboard’, and all the BS associated with that.

So excellent off the shelf brands exist, though one has to do some local research first.

By that phrase, people understand ‘manufactured by Apple’ – and on Apple forums & such, they point that out pretty rudely, as opposed to pedantically.

Also a tiny nitpick about the terminology in the OP. An ‘Apple Keyboard’ is a keyboard made by Apple (who haven’t produced a mechanical keyboard in 30+ years; and currently offer nothing other than chiclet-key abominations); there, too, the right term is ‘Mac compatible’.

… an aluminum Apple keyboard is all I have after my Unicomp broke; and I hate it with a passion.

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