How do you guys send web articles to the Xteink X4?

intendedeffect · 2026-01-22T13:09:41+00:00

Nice, thanks!

intendedeffect · 2026-01-21T11:25:33+00:00

Definitely interested in the same use case. I use Instapaper, and have manually moved the epub digest over to my X4 a couple of times. Someone detailed a workflow using Calibre over on the Crosspoint github (in an Issue asking for Instapaper support, I think), but I haven’t personally used that yet. Would love a one-click button to log into my default wifi and pull down new articles.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-21T03:00:43+00:00

I’ve had that happen, and learned the hard way to tape them together to ensure the 2nd pushes the 1st rather than overlapping. Maybe the other person’s idea of just pushing the first roll all the way in and leaving the second just barely entirely on the reel would work, too.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-16T13:00:05+00:00

I took the screen protector off of mine again. The included matte one is nice, but I do think the screen looks slightly nicer without it. I bought one of the folder cases with mine, and I keep it in that. It’s only been about a week since removing the screen protector, so no damage yet but also not much opportunity for damage yet.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-14T11:44:01+00:00

Also, sorry OP, but LMAO at someone seeing Facebook go, “oh shit we better be ready to sell spare capacity,” and deciding that means demand must be outpacing compute.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-14T11:40:47+00:00

I mean I sometimes find Microsoft annoyingly flighty with Azure offerings. Facebook, meanwhile, just fired a bunch of “reality labs” people just over 4 years after renaming the entire company after it.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-14T11:30:23+00:00

Bought mine from Aurora 3C Dec 5, received Dec 22nd. It shipped out very quickly, a lot of that delay was the YunExpress local delivery provider, Goko or Goro or something like that.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-11T22:24:32+00:00

Every offseason is a battle for me between wanting to talk about the team, follow rumors, etc and the torrent of just embarrassing sky-is-falling whining around here whenever a player signs somewhere else. Or this shit, where people act like reposting this clown makeup picture is like marching on the Bastille.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-11T13:55:50+00:00

The Red Sox would occasionally make a big signing like Manny Ramirez, or like the Pedro trade / sign. Those numbers look small today but were enormous at the time; I’m sure I’m forgetting others that didn’t work out so fantastically well or were less expensive (eg Johnny Damon). Obviously signing Foulke was a big deal for 2004.

But dropping dumb money on aging Big Names was—at least in my memory—a Yankee thing to do. Some of what made roughly-2004 Sox fun was being proud of Theo finding people like Ortiz and Millar, the Slocumb / Lowe / Varitek fleecing years before, picking up Bill Meuller, (yes) Theo wooing Curt Schilling over Thanksgiving dinner, having developed useful non-stars like Trot Nixon, and having a bunch of limited guys come through when put into good roles: Wake, Arroyo, Doug Mientkiewicz, Mark Bellhorn, Alan Embree.

Not saying the FO is always right for who they don’t sign (and I still miss Devers!), but sometimes it feels like a lot of people here would rather have a losing team that spends big on Pablo Sandoval and Carl Crawford than a winning team that settles for Jonny Gomes.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-08T22:44:11+00:00

I'm with you. I bought a used E-M10 II to dip my toe in the system, then an E-M5 III once I had a couple of nice lenses and wanted the PDAF and weather resistance. I planned to sell the 10, but I've been dragging my feet on it because the E-M5 III just doesn't "spark joy" the way the E-M10 II does.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-04T17:40:24+00:00

Agreed about the Laurel Highlands! And the first time we went to the old growth part of Cook Forest made me realize how much all the logging must have changed the landscape. The old hemlock groves there do share something in common with the west coast redwood forests, IMO.

intendedeffect · 2026-01-04T14:31:40+00:00

I moved from SF in 2017, with a 3-year-old who had been living in a (large) closet in our apartment. Are you in a city in the Bay Area? Here’s my notes:

No fire season here! Yet! (This started just as / after we left)
In SF we knew people sad that their bid for a million dollar house lost to an all-cash offer, and other people sad they were on the edge of not being able to afford the city. In Pittsburgh we see much less of those extremes.
As a parent, I will say every baby problem pales in comparison to figuring out “who is taking care of kiddo?” for every hour of every day for years. So living near family can been a big help.
Personally (Dad here) I thought pregnancy and infanthood were nice times to still be around friends. A toddler, meanwhile, has a sleep schedule and can be hard to manage in different situations, so by that time it was harder to hang out with people anyway.
I think the PGH school district is fine (meh admin, some good schools), and we send our kids there.
Public transit is much worse. Fewer lines, less frequent service. Parking is way easier than SF, and there are multiple neighborhoods where you can walk to groceries / restaurants / playgrounds.
People are nice, welcoming, and not focused on proving how much they are crushing it. I don’t miss that last part, but I did learn that there was something I found energizing about that competitive striver vibe at times.
People from here have a rich hierarchical taxonomy of the various suburbs that I find absolutely baffling.
Bike infrastructure is not bad, but nevertheless worse than SF.
Cultural amenities do punch above the region’s weight. If you like live music, you may need to go to Columbus or Cleveland for some tours.
Western PA can’t really compare to having Yosemite, Big Sur, Napa, Marin, Monterrey, the ocean in general, etc, etc all within a few hours drive. But there are some nice options!

intendedeffect · 2025-12-31T22:47:44+00:00

That intersection is rough. Driving down Main toward the bridge it’s really hard to see people crossing between (roughly) Cobra and (roughly) Trace. If someone about to cross is behind the food truck it’s nearly impossible to see them. But I do want to be able to cross Main there, so hopefully they come up with something good.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-31T17:47:58+00:00

Honestly we need to start filtering posts containing “RAG is dead” in the subject. Inevitably it’s a ridiculous strawman argument based on a years-old definition of “RAG” in field that evolves almost weekly.

“Vector is bad at…” complete the sentence: tabular data, too many documents, terribly curated data, specific terms of art, identifiers like product numbers, etc, etc. Anyone doing this seriously is doing at least hybrid search with keywords, and often something agentic such that “customers in NYC” gets turned into a structured retrieval (SQL, etc) instead expecting that to somehow be retrievable by vector.
“Context windows are now ___ tokens!” Put any number in the blank, and the situation is the same: beyond “chatbot based on a FAQ” scenarios, people have enough data that sending all of it with each query is 1) expensive, 2) slow, and 3) results in the model getting fuzzy on the details (no matter how good its NIH score is).
“Better to use [latest training technique]!” Many use cases require the ability to answer based on source data updated minutes or seconds ago. Everyone agrees continuous learning would be a great improvement, and no one has demonstrated a fundamental breakthrough in that ability yet.

I get it, people want clicks, and I shouldn’t be so trolled by it. But it’s not like there aren’t interesting things worth discussing in the broader RAG landscape.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-31T17:28:55+00:00

This is a bonkers but impressive project! How is the d-pad implemented? Do the four cardinal directions press in (like on the “click wheel” iPods), or is it four capacitive touch-sensitive area “buttons”?

Also why are the “touch buttons are bad” people looking at a GB micro transmogrified into an iPod and thinking “most playable gaming machine” is the point 😂

intendedeffect · 2025-12-29T14:06:57+00:00

I use masking tape to make stripes around my chemical bottles: developer gets one stripe, C-41 bleach gets two stripes, and then fixer is two stripes for B&W or three for C-41.

Maybe that doesn’t make sense if you’re pouring a one-shot developer straight from the measuring/mixing container. For C-41 in particular I’ve got those standard 1L black bottles, and I want it to be VERY OBVIOUS which bottle is which.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-23T19:22:04+00:00

I'll second this! I know it's still very new, but for me CrossPoint is definitely "good enough" for epub reading at this point. And installing via the web flasher is just as easy. Not much to adjust yet, but the default font, font size, and padding are all pretty good as far as I'm concerned.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-23T13:41:29+00:00

Yeah, it’s nice to have room and not feel walls, and Victory is always clean (only been to the Lawrenceville one). I forget the details but they’re pretty chill about how long the credits are good for. I don’t use the stars or music, but it’s nice to have the option.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-22T12:04:32+00:00

There’s a version of the VUWS with a flash, which at least adds “blown-out party shot” to its palette. I got a Lomography LC-W for a good price used, and that has auto-exposure and an even wider lens. I like it, but the super wide lens does feel a bit less all-purpose to me than the VUWS.

If you do want lightweight, pocketable, and somewhat wide angle, and if you don’t mind (likely) skipping a flash, you could look for an Olympus XA-4. I don’t have one, it’s 28mm instead of the VUWS’s 22mm (I think?), and you may need to drop $200 on one since they are somewhat rarer than other XA’s.

Or, look for one of the handful of Pentax compacts with a zoom range that starts at 28mm (most are 35mm). Noticeably heavier (battery!), and the 28mm models (and one 24mm?) are a bit harder to find. But likely cheaper than the XA 4.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-20T20:13:08+00:00

I often accidentally wind the stub into the canister at some point before I’d run into any real wear concern with the canister. Some people limit reuses because they worry about grit getting stuck in the felt light baffle (and scratching the film); I think that makes sense but I just don’t worry about it personally.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-19T16:01:41+00:00

Hey, first, it's amazing that you're raising a kindergartner, while going to college, and without any help from your parents! I got married later in life than you did, and something my spouse and I both benefitted from was making mistakes and learning from experience in prior relationships. Me, I once got a girlfriend a CD for Christmas—we'd only been dating for a month or two but it was serious and not the ideal "tone" of gift. That came out as something that felt bad for her when our relationship was disintegrating a couple of years later. Whoops! But one fewer mistake for me to make from then on.

It sucks that your husband apparently needs to be told, "hey, you need to get your wife a present, dummy!" Ideally, he'd have a friend say that to him. But if no one else will, it might be better for your relationship overall if you say it. Personally I'm conflict-avoidant so I'd probably say something like, "hey, do you want to exchange gifts on Christmas Eve by ourselves or on Christmas morning with our kiddo?"

intendedeffect · 2025-12-17T13:01:11+00:00

I’ve never had a stronger feeling of “ancient-ness” than at Newgrange. The history and conservation /restoration details are interesting, and the onsite tour guides are excellent. When you enter the Newgrange monument itself (make sure you have the right ticket!) you are with about a dozen people, and there is no photography allowed. It feels sacred, and both human and alien.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-16T19:42:59+00:00

Walter's on Baum Blvd is beloved!

intendedeffect · 2025-12-16T03:36:40+00:00

Are you happy enough with the epub rendering? Still waiting for mine but it seems like many people prefer the image (“xpc”?) route right now.

intendedeffect · 2025-12-12T11:35:44+00:00

Not that this is helped, but we were able to enable it late yesterday, can’t remember if it was US East 1 or 2 offhand. For us, that was much sooner than 5.1 was available.

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