E-ink is said to be better for your eyes, and importantly, it works well under direct light or sunlight without losing contrast

Do I understand well that the reader renders well markdown formatting, but the same formatting in epub is ignored?

Sorry, didn’t explain myself correctly. It doesn’t display the bold or italics themselves, it’s just my workaround to know when text is supposed to be italics or bold. I’m simply displaying txt files with the raw markdown, i.e., instead of seeing this, I’ll be seeing

*this*

meaning the asterisks are displayed and I know it’s bold.

Are embedded images rendered?

I can’t answer to that right now other than book covers do display on the first page on .epub files when you open them. I’m not in my home country right now and forgot to bring the little thing, I can check on that and make some review in a few weeks if people are interested

Got this bad boy some months ago and I’m very happy with it. Its software is open source but unfortunately it’s in a Chinese sort of github and I don’t understand much.

Changing the font size is a weird experience since you need to use a Chinese-only program from said git repo, compile the font and its size on your computer, and then transfer the generated binary to the eReader. You can keep said binaries in your eReader later to change fonts on the move.

The formats (my few months old firmware version) supports well are epub and txt, but unfortunately things like italics or bold don’t display on epub files, so I’ve found myself taking the epub books and converting them to txt with markdown notation for bold and italics using Calibre.

Other than those inconveniences, it’s a tiny, lightweight, well-built piece of hardware, the screen resolution is really good, and it’s truly the most portable or pocketable good quality eReader I’ve seen.

There’s your problem. Supply, demand

Unfortunately true. Housing prices being regulated by supply and demand is the problem. Housing is a human right and should be guaranteed to everyone. Spot on, comrade!

How much is your rent, if it’s not too much to ask?

Sure, let’s chill, sorry for my part on that.

Seeing as you’re a Marxist and DSA member: mate, why the need for the left-punching “tankie bootlicker” stuff? Actually existing socialism has brought liberation to hundreds of millions of people, had there been no USSR what would have happened to Cuba or Vietnam?

Now, about work. I agree there shouldn’t be bullshit jobs. Labour, as the only source of value, is a precious commodity, and shouldn’t be wasted on bullshit just because “working dignifies” or some right wing shit like that. That said, I also thing that there will always be labor to do, and since someone has to do it, it would be fair to more or less share it equally and according to our capabilities. We should also work fewer hours than we currently do.

As a final nitpick: when people say that medieval serfs worked less than we do, I suspect only field labor is counted. Peasants mostly lived in self-sustaining communities where the clothes, the housing, the iron utensils, the ceramics, the basketry etc. were manufactured to a great degree by serfs themselves. Serfs may have had fewer “working days” than us as in fewer days spent in the field vs. the office, but I suspect that the rest of the time they were mostly also working doing basketry, woodworking, fixing clothes and cleaning them, building homes, or other labors that were for self consumption or for local trade.

Just “Marxist” suffices. Judging by your hatred of socialists, that’s probably a slur for you already.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, and explain myself to you:

Labor, according to Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, is the source of value in society and economy. Without labor, there simply is no value.

I envision a society that behaves according to the moral principle that can be summarized as “everyone contributes according to their capabilities, and everyone receives according to their needs”.

Who are those who obtain compensation without work? Landlords, capitalist owners, financial institutions: rentiers and exploiters, in short. I don’t want those in my society.

I’m a communist, so no, the only way to debate this isn’t by being a capitalist bootlicker.

i think we need to get rid of the mentality that work is a moral obligation

That’s up for debate, but my point was about work being a guaranteed universal right, not about it being forced at gunpoint.

“Ackchually, I don’t know the details, so maybe they were right to evict an ancient woman”

Reminder that socialist countries like Cuba or the USSR have historically de jure and de facto guaranteed employment, with worse economic conditions and over a half century ago. Unemployment is a capitalist construct and we can do better than that.

If it were illegal, that would be a huge infraction to FREEDOM®🦅🦅

I feel you. I’m a Spaniard, and for 10ish critical years in the 2000s-2010s, we had a so-called “sun tax” that made people pay taxes for solar energy their home installations output to the electric grid. This essentially killed the solar industry in the largest country in the super sunny southern Europe. We have no fossil fuel deposits, no intention of opening up nuclear plants, and no geothermal energy possibilities, and we killed our best chance at solar.

Goes to show how China’s socialist government model blows anything in Europe and America out of the water.

Regarding solar, you’re forgetting one thing: not only is China the highest installer of solar power, they manufacture 93% of the total world production of photovoltaic panels. Every solar power installation in the west relies on Chinese solar panels.

You’re coping by lying about Chinese infrastructure

Your sources do be like:

-Freedom Eagle Burger Institute report on China Badness 1990

-Austrian Painter Legacy Institution report 1984

-Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America, Propaganda Department report 2024

-Victims of Communism Memorial Association compilation of Top 10 China Bad arguments

Cope harder. China has the most vast high speed rail network in the planet and it works, for all intents and purposes, flawlessly, as do the immense metro rail systems in big cities.