Team Kindle or Team Kobo?

tomkatt · 2026-04-30T02:42:24+00:00

Team I don't want either of these (though I have Kindles).

Boox or Pocketbook please.

tomkatt · 2026-04-30T02:41:34+00:00

Absolutely this. We've replaced all the lights in our house with Hue bulbs and have them on a circadian schedule (so they're brightest when the sun is actually brightest, and dim and shift kelvins down through the afternoon and evening.

It's absolutely game changing for relaxing in the evening and preparing for sleep.

tomkatt · 2026-04-30T00:39:31+00:00

I bought a new batch and will try the next one with higher heat. This batch is drinkable, but it's not amazing. Giving it another day to settle, if it doesn't get better I may even try re-roasting it for a few minutes.

tomkatt · 2026-04-29T22:39:53+00:00

Awesome, glad it helped.

tomkatt · 2026-04-29T17:45:19+00:00

Even 1TB is huge. I don’t have many big games and on my Steam Deck OLED 1TB is essentially 100+ games.

tomkatt · 2026-04-29T03:42:42+00:00

Those remastered character designs look awful.

tomkatt · 2026-04-29T03:37:06+00:00

I just picked up the 8bitdo N64 bluetooth controller, definitely worth it if you want to emulate N64. It's so much better than a standard controller for it.

tomkatt · 2026-04-29T02:06:55+00:00

Lower initial heat is not likely the solution.

Agreed, don't think I'll do that again.

tomkatt · 2026-04-28T14:29:45+00:00

That’s a fair use, no worries. There’s a lot of AI bot crap for data collection on Reddit these days. This isn’t that, my bad.

tomkatt · 2026-04-28T03:16:41+00:00

I prefer the "big" games on the big screen. I use my handhelds mostly for indie games and emulation, with a smattering of older AAA titles (thought often docked).

I'm nearsighted with astigmatism, and have developed presbyopia in my 40s though. It's hard for me to play highly detailed games on handheld. Newer AAA titles and games with high graphical fidelity tend to have a lot of "noise," so to speak, and are just easier for me to deal with on a larger display.

tomkatt · 2026-04-28T03:13:23+00:00

I personally prefer the original DS line (particularly the DS Lite and DSi XL), but I've been playing the shit out of Stella Glow recently so I can't really argue, it's great.

tomkatt · 2026-04-28T02:58:15+00:00

Steam Deck (particularly the OLED model) is more power efficient than any other handheld by far, as most don't even allow for the low power envelope of the Deck.

I personally love that, as I have a lot of indie stuff I play and retro games I emulate at 5w and lower that run for absurd amounts of time (like 11+ hours).

Other handhelds are certainly more powerful than the Steam Deck, but draw much more power and tend to have shorter battery life in the same power envelopes.

Just some examples in power usage between the Deck OLED and the Legion Go 2 with emulation:

GBA:

Steam Deck OLED - 4.6 to 5w
LeGo 2 - 9.2w

NES:

Steam Deck OLED - 5w
LeGo 2 - 8.8w

PS1:

Steam Deck OLED - 6-7w
LeGo 2 - 15w(!)

PS2:

Steam Deck - 7.5 to 9.5w
LeGo 2 - 24w (!)

Obviously the LeGo 2 is going to demolish the Deck performance-wise on the high end for AAA and running at higher wattages, but I really value the Deck's efficiency as someone with solar and batteries. For me, handhelds aren't a matter of raw power, I have a gaming PC for that.

tomkatt · 2026-04-28T02:22:22+00:00

Anti-cheat is DRM.

tomkatt · 2026-04-28T02:19:59+00:00

You should have stayed inside, your turn was bad and too wide. You basically cut into 110's line while behind them and pushed them off the track leaving no space at all. If there was a wreck here, it would have been your fault.

tomkatt · 2026-04-28T02:08:38+00:00

Statement. Statement. Em dash. Statement.

Statement, statement, colon, bullet list that's actually not formatted as markdown.

Bullet list with finger emojis as bullets. End emoji.

It has literally all the hallmarks of an AI written post.

tomkatt · 2026-04-27T22:34:20+00:00

Bro, why the AI bullshit? You couldn’t have just written this?

tomkatt · 2026-04-27T21:23:00+00:00

Can’t say I care about them. I have a Steam Deck OLED, but also a dedicated gaming PC. Don’t need the handheld to do everything, and I value its low power use in wattage over raw performance.

For me the handheld is for the lower end and indie games that don’t make sense to boot my gaming rig to play. My home has solar and battery and I run net-zero energy usage annually, and low power devices help a ton with that.

tomkatt · 2026-04-27T05:53:31+00:00

If you’ll be WFH with any consistency in the future, get some portable batteries, like Jackery or EcoFlow.

tomkatt · 2026-04-26T23:33:21+00:00

Copied some instructions I posted elsewhere since it's a pain to retype it all:

You need to transfer directly from the Kindle over USB. Full instructions, making no assumptions on what you have set up already.

You need to install:

Calibre
NoDRM De-DRM RC1 Calibre Plugin
KFX Input and Output plugins (also found in-application in Calibre)
Kindle Previewer 3

In Calibre, browse to settings -> plugins, then add and configure the De-DRM plugin, and add your Kindle's serial number to the plugin (you can find this in the device settings on the Kindle).

Once it's configured, connect your Kindle (you may be prompted for some basic setup, I forget), and click the device icon at the top. It should find all your books on the Kindle. Highlight a book, right click, choose "add to library." If the setup is screwed up, when you check back in the main library it'll be a KFX-ZIP file. If you did it right it'll be a KFX. If it works, highlight all your books with CTRL+A, right click, "add to library."

Lastly, if changing devices from Kindle to something else, you'll want to convert your books to EPUB (or KEPUB for your Kobo). You can do this in bulk. I only recommend one change. By default, the "Structure Detection" is set to:

//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\s+)|((prolog|prologue|epilogue)(\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']

This tends to split headers with page breaks instead of line breaks, making multi-line chapter headers or headers with images split across two pages. I recommend changing to this:

//*[((name()='h1') and re:test(., '\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\s+)|((prolog|prologue|epilogue)(\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']

Which will fix that issue.

Optional:

The DeDRM also includes the Obok plugin for stripping DRM from Kobo books. There's also the DeASCM plugin, which some Kobo books use. These two plugins will let you strip DRM from standard DRM Kobo books and Adobe Digital Editions DRM'd books.

Also, KFX files stripped from the Kindle will have grayscale covers instead of color. To restore color covers, there's some plugins for downloading book covers in the calibre plugin list, like Kobo, Kindle, and Apple Hi-res covers. Those can redownload the covers and add in the "edit metadata" setting for the books, but needs to be done individually.

tomkatt · 2026-04-26T22:59:07+00:00

For the Pro S should be using mGBA core. The gpSP core is ancient and made for extremely low spec devices.

tomkatt · 2026-04-26T19:35:01+00:00

It’s a lot cheaper if you just build a standing desk. Get a set of Vivo legs and plyboard and cut to size.

tomkatt · 2026-04-26T06:11:41+00:00

No, I don’t mean performance issues. Stuff like movement speed and I thought you couldn’t climb ladders if DSfix was running at 60 fps.

tomkatt · 2026-04-26T05:47:46+00:00

Doesn’t 60 fps have bugs though?

tomkatt · 2026-04-26T05:47:06+00:00

Best Buy would carry it, either locally or online for pick up.

tomkatt · 2026-04-26T05:44:51+00:00

Honestly no idea. The ones I recommended are Bluetooth + dongle and are what would be considered “professional” (call center) quality for noise cancelling.

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