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Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:02AM (#43087558)
You can turn of accelerometer in settings and control the rotation manually via the menu
Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:58AM (#43087532)
I’m happy with native Kindle for reading ePubs. I use KOReader for PDFs only at the moment.
Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:55AM (#43087512)
I didn’t get that advanced yet. I’m trying to figure out the Dropbox integration at the moment. I don’t use Calibre. I know highlighting works (I’ve annotated the PDF I’m reading), but I didn’t test highlights export / sync yet.
Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:53AM (#43087504)
My friend wrote it. I’m reading a draft. I’ll ask him if he’s willing to share more broadly, but it’s probably too early
Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:53AM (#43087497)
I can still use Kindle Scribe exactly the same as before the Jailbreak. Think of it this way - before it had Library (for reading and annotating Kindle books) and Notebooks (for writing). Now it has a third thing - KOReader (for reading only, KOReader doesn’t support handwriting annotation).
Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:15AM (#43079799)
KOReader on Kindle Scribe 2022: https://imgur.com/a/oYshWxI

KOReader is so good for reading PDFs, compared to the native reader, I’m very impressed. Supports proper landscape mode (where swiping to next page moves to the second half of the current page, THEN next swipe gets you to the first half of the next page), supports auto-rotation, support auto-cropping of PDFs with controllable margin (killer feature), supports contrast adjustments, … It does not support handwritten annotations, but for just reading PDFs - it’s perfect.

Re:Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers on Monday December 31, 2018 @04:08AM (#18793754)
I was referring to this: > invite the person for a two-hour interview, and schedule it during the call, first offering an evening time slot for the interview.
Re:Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:02AM (#18793453)
Yeah, if only it was all unicorns and rainbows. What you describe is how I imagine they interview for director / VP positions. With hundreds (thousands?) of applications per day for software engineering positions, all with perfect resumes, what you describe just doesn’t scale. Software engineers do 1-2 interviews per week each, it’s part of the job. I might be a minority, but I would refuse to spend two of my evenings per week interviewing people. I’d rather spend time with my family instead. I think asking candidates to get a day off for interviews, which happens like once per year or even less often for each candidate is more reasonable than asking your employees to work evenings each week.
I have reported Apple Maps issue in the past. It’s been 3 months and the issue is still there. And the problematic place is 7 minutes driving distance from their Apple Park. I don’t think I’m reporting any other issue - waste of my time.