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System76 Pangolin Review: the 15" all rounder AMD Linux laptop

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The Pangolin looks like your standard 15 inch ultrabook. It's pretty thin, at 0.71 inches, or 1.8cm, and it weighs 1.79kilos, or almost 4 pounds. It's 16:9, with a 15.6 inches screen, and it's made of aluminium. The aluminium chassis is robust, with minimal deck flex around the hinge or the palm rests, and a bit more give in the middle of the keyboard.

And it's also pretty modular, you can open the laptop easily with 11 screws. Only the battery, wireless card and storage are accessible, the RAM seems soldered.

It comes with the Ryzen 7 6800U, an 8 core, 16 threads beast that goes up to 4.7 Gigahertz. It's paired with the integrated Radeon 680M. You also can only get it with 32 gigs of RAM. In terms of storage, you get a minimum of a 250Gig PCIE4 NVME SSD, and can go up to 16 TB.

It comes with WIfie 6E and Bluetooth 5.2.

The display is 15.6 inches, and only 1080p. It's 144hz refresh rate, and has a 70 Wh battery.

So, on the left, you get the barrel charger, an HDMI 2.0 port, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 type A ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 type C port that supports display port 1.4 and also support charging the device.

You also get a headphone jack, and, interestingly, a physical killswitch for the webcam complete with a little LED to let you know when the camera is off.

On the right, you have another type A USB 3.2GEN 2, a full size SD card reader, which is nice, a pop-out gigabit ethernet port, and that little kensington lock to keep your laptop attached to your desk.

The Ryzen 7 6800U is a pretty powerful CPU. On Geekbench 6, it got a single core score of 2002 and a multi core score of 8662.

In terms of graphics, the integrated Radeon 680M can deliver surprisingly good performance. Running the usual Shadow of the tomb raider benchmark, at the native 1080p and medium settings, it got 30 FPS. On low settings, it managed an average of 42 FPS.

As per thermals, at idle, the CPU ran at around 34 to 38 degrees Celsius, and under load, during gameplay, it never went past 91 degrees.

Now for the battery life, with the display at 144hz, in balanced mode, running youtube videos in a loop on Firefox, it lasted for 7 hours.

When putting it in battery saving mode, with the display running at 60hz, it lasted for 8 and a half hours.

The Pangolin comes with a chiclet style keyboard. It's backlit. It comes with a numpad, and it's nice to use. Key travel is good, the stroke is precise, and the keys are large and nice. It comes with a SUPER key, of course

As per the touchpad, it's a decent size, it's very smooth, and while it's not centered which always annoys me, it works really well with Pop OS's gestures, the click is solid and doesn't rattle at all and the sound is satisfying. The only issue is with the two button spaces at the bottom: they don’t react to tap to click, which can lead to some missed inputs.

The webcam is 720p, and it's just not good. It's super stuttery, it's still a potato cam. The microphone is above average.

As per the speakers, they get pretty loud, but at max volume, they'll definitely start vibrating the chassis and you'll hear that sort of rattly sound. Apart from that, they do have a bit of bass, and they don't sound too tinny. They're good enough, basically, but not at max volume.

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King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Monday after an argument with a neighbor in San Antonio, Texas.

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          ‘King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Monday after an argument with a neighbor in San Antonio, Texas.
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To switch to a more comfortable interface, open any of the applications of the suite. Click on the "View" menu, then "User interface". By default, it's the standard menubar and toolbar combo, but if you click on "tabbed", you'll see that you can now use a ribbon interface, just like what Microsoft Office uses.

Next, we'll look at the icons. From the tabbed interface, click the main menu, in the top right corner, and select "Options". Then click the "View" menu, and in the "Theme" drop down menu, you'll have plenty of options.

You can also reorder any of the icons from any of the tabs of the ribbon. CLick the main menu again, and then "customize". Then click the "Notebookbar" tab. here, yu'll see the "target" dropdown menu that lets you select which tab you want to change.

To install Microsoft fonts, you generally have a package in your distro's repositories, provided you enabled the non free software ones. the package is generally called ttf-mscorefonts or ttf-mscorefonts installer. On Ubuntu or Ubuntu based distros, for example, open a terminal, and run

sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

If you're using an arch based distro, you can find it in your graphical package manager through the AUR. For Fedora, I left a link in the description of the video.

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If you want to use these fonts by default, you can configure that as well. Click the main menu, then Options. Then, go to the name of the app you're using, here it's LibreOffice Writer, and select the "basic fonts" tab.

You'll want to enable all compatibility features. To do that, open the main menu, then Options. In the Load Save tab, click on Microsoft Office, and make sure all the checkboxes are ticked.

Next, in the LibreOffice Writer tab, and the Compatibility tab, tick the "Reorganize form menu to have it MS compatible" checkbox. Also tick the "Word compatible trailing blanks" checkmark.

Next, if you interact with MS Office users a lot, you'll want to send them documents using the Office formats. Click on the "general" tab of the Load / Save panel, and in "Always save as", select Word 2007-365 (docx). Then in the document type dropdown, select spreadsheet, and change the "always save as" field to Excel 2007-365 xlsx, and repeat that step for Presentations and the pptx format.

To import styles and templates, click the "File" tab in Writer, and then "Templates". There, click the "Manage" button, in the top right corner, and click "Import". There, you can select "templates", "presentations", or "styles".

LibreOffice lets you install extensions to add features to the suite. You can head over to extensions.libreoffice.org to view a full list.

To install extensions, download them from the extensions portal, and you'll get a .oxt file. Then, in LibreOffice, click the "Extensions" tab, then the "extensions" menu, and "Extension manager". Click the "Add" button, and go find your oxt file to import it.

After that, these extensions will all display their commands in the "Extensions" tab.

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Effective July 31st, two major Root CAs used by Chunghwa Telecom will no longer be trusted on Chrome 139 and higher. Chunghwa Telecom is the largest telecommunication company responsible for Taiwan's network infrastructure, and their root CA is used to sign certificates used by major Taiwanese government websites.

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Devant la Cour de cassation, Me Rocheteau, avocat d’Anticor, a estimé que «des intérêts publics sont lésés» et s'est étonné que l'association anticorruption soit «la seule à soutenir l'accusation», quand le ministère public à tous les niveaux depuis 2018 a toujours défendu la prescription.
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Justice française : les parquets continuent de soutenir Alexis Kohler

Mercredi dernier, la Cour de cassation examinait de nouveau la demande de prescription des avocats de l'ancien secrétaire général de l'Élysée. La décision sera rendue le 10 septembre.
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« Le capitalisme libéral est devenu mafieux » : notre émission spéciale avec Roberto Saviano
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Dans « Giovanni Falcone », l’écrivain documente le « courage » du juge assassiné par la mafia en 1992. Invité d’« À l’air libre », il évoque l’ampleur du narcotrafic et juge qu’il faut « légaliser » les drogues. Il alerte : en France, l’extrême droite aussi peut arriver au pouvoir."

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« Le capitalisme est devenu mafieux avec les mêmes règles que les organisations criminelles : chercher à ne pas redistribuer la richesse, à détruire la concurrence, tendre vers le monopole, exploiter les systèmes offshore, ne pas retenir les règles du marché contre le monopole et considérer ces règles comme les ennemies de sa propre entreprise […]. C’est le capitalisme libéral qui est devenu mafieux », déclarait le journaliste italien Roberto Saviano, le 7 février dernier. En effet, désormais, c’est le capitalisme lui-même qui fait de l’organisation criminelle un aiguillon de ses pratiques.
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Quand le capitalisme devient mafieux - Frédéric Farah

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"Par ses investigations sur la mafia et le crime organisé, par ses prises de parole politiques, Roberto Saviano incarne le courage civique. En puisant dans sa propre expérience, il s’adresse aujourd’hui aux générations futures, les incitant à s’exprimer, à s’engager. En dressant les portraits de trente personnalités, il dénonce dans un livre incisif les manipulations, la propagande, la censure, le formatage par le marketing, les dérives du monde contemporain, et invite à réfléchir par soi-même, à ne pas tergiverser sur la défense de nos valeurs fondamentales."

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Chère amie, cher ami,
Le 9 juin, le village de Mormant-sur-Vernisson, aux portes de Montargis, sera l’épicentre de l’extrême droite européenne lors d'un rassemblement.

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Incidents in Boulder and Washington weren't antisemitic. A series of attacks in Paris were. All of them were criminal, immoral, and harmful to all of us, including Palestinians.

Violent Protest for Palestine Is A Dead End

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Violent Protest for Palestine Is A Dead End

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Corey Lewandowski Drops Bombshell Allegation: The Biden Regime Kept Several Known Terrorists Off the Watchlist for 'Political Realities' (VIDEO)

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Corey Lewandowski Drops Bombshell Allegation: The Biden Regime Kept Several Known Terrorists Off the Watchlist for "Political Realities'' (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

          The treasonous actions of the Biden regime, which resulted in several peaceful Jews getting burned alive in Colorado on Sunday, go even deeper than imagined.
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System76 Launch HEAVY: the FOSS keyboard + Launch and Launch LITE compared

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It's a full 10 key design, complete with numpad and media keys. It comes in a US qwerty layout by default, but you can basically do anything you want with that layout.

Dimensions: 39 centimeters, by 13.5 cm, and 2.8 cm in height. That's 15.5 inches by 5.32 inches, and one inch in height. It weighs 1.3 kilograms, or 2.8 pounds.

Your keys underneath tab are indented to the right, and everything from the Enter key is also indented to the left, with the arrow keys touching the shift key. The function keys are just Fn keys, you don't get any specific logos or pictograms on them for system functions. You also get 2 spacebar keys.

Anyway, this layout is just the base one: all keycaps are removeable, and you can completely remap the whole keyboard thanks to a configuration tool.

My review unit came with the Kailh Box Silent Pink switches, which I like. You can also get Kailh Box Jade, Royale, or Silent Brown switches.

The keyboard is wired through USB C, and it's also a USB hub, with 2 additional USB C ports, they're 3.2 gen 1, and 2 USB A ports, also 3.2 gen 1. The keyboard also has per key RGB, which you can adjust using the configuration utility.

Since it's a modular keyboard, you also get a bunch of stuff in the box. First, you have 2 USB C cables: one USB A to USB C, and one USB C to USB C. You also get a keycap remover tool, and a lot of additional keycaps.

In the box, you also get 2 small magnetically attached bars of aluminium, with rubber feet, that you can just slot in at the back of the keyboard, to raise it by a 15 degrees handle.

This keyboard doesn't reach its full potential unless you use the configuration tool. It's available in the Pop Shop for Pop OS users, or you can download it off their website as an appimage.

It's a super visual tool, with the full layout of your keyboard on display, and a list of actions you can map to each key. Click the key you want to change, then click the action it does.

You can configure the keyboard with 4 different layers, which all have their own set of actions per keys.
And, more importantly, you can also have RGB settings per layer, and per key.

And the best thing is: once this is saved, it's saved to your keyboard: all your layers, layouts, key mappings and RGB settings, they're all saved on the board itself.

Another important thing to mention, is the fully open design of that keyboard. The chassis design is open source, you can download the CAD files and mill or 3D print your own. The PCB design is also fully open, you can access it on github, and so is the firmware, and the configuration tool.

All other Launch keyboards, the "regular" and the "Lite", have the same advantages: fully open design, access to the configurator tool, a choice of 4 different switch types, and additional keycaps in the box, with the keycap removing tool and the USB C cables.

Where they differ, of course, is in the number of keys. The Launch is a 10keyless design, so without the numpad, but apart from that, it has all the same great features, including the USB C and USB A ports. It doesn't get the additional super key with icons on it though, and it's raiser bar is a single piece, not 2 small ones.

As per the Lite, it's an ultra small design, with the numbrs row and the function row merged into one. It also, of course, dpoesn't have a numpad, but it has all the same accessories, additional keybcaps and cables, RGB, and access to the configuration tool, like its bigger siblings.

What it doesn't have, though, is the USB hub: it's just one USB C cable to plug it in, and that's it.

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OH – food for thought: “They've found ways to be successful critics – emphasis on successful. They get invited to conferences, win awards, maintain influence … that success might come from never truly threatening the system.

Maybe aggressive rhetoric and a bridge-burning approach isn’t a bug but a feature. When the house is on fire, you don’t negotiate with the arsonists about fire safety regulations. You sound the alarm, loudly and repeatedly.

In a truly existential fight, we need people who value principles over profit, truth over access, and righteousness over respectability. Someone whose interests align with the cause because they’ve already burned their bridges to the establishment.

Perhaps being ‘annoying’ and ‘divisive’ is what authentic advocacy looks like when you refuse to be co-opted.”

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“As design ethicist Aral Balkan explains: ‘Dark patterns might boost short-term metrics, but they ultimately corrode trust and damage brand reputation. Ethical design creates sustainable relationships rather than one-time transactions.’”

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I’m pretty fucking sure I never said this. Mostly because I can’t imagine myself using the words “metrics”, “brand reputation” and “transactions” without projectile vomiting.

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As N.H. moves to ban trans health care for kids, some families are preparing to leave — and some already have - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/met…

Trump and NH lawmakers want to limit gender-affirming care. These families say now they have to move

“Do we go to Europe or Canada or Mexico?” asked one New Hampshire mother with a transgender child. “Honestly, those are all on the list.”
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Was steht in den #RKI - Protokollen?
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Was steht in den RKI-Protokollen? - Vortrag von Bastian Barucker

Am 16. Mai 2025 sprach ich auf Einladung der Bürgerinitiative für Frieden und Grundrechte Oberhavel-Steht-Auf in Oranienburg über die Protokolle des Corona-K...
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Die STIKO ist nicht unabhängig! | Schockierende Belege von Dr. Sabine C. Stebel | dieBasis 2025


dieBasis - Basisdemokratische Partei Deutschland

Im Gespräch beleuchten der freie Journalist Alexander Kühn und die Biologin Dr. Sabine C. Stebel die brisanten Erkenntnisse aus den geleakten RKI-Dokumenten. Diese machen deutlich , dass zentrale Gesundheitsbehörden – allen voran die Ständige Impfkommission (STIKO) – keineswegs so unabhängig agieren, wie bislang behauptet. Im Gegenteil: Die Belege zeigen, dass die STIKO über mehrere Ebenen hinweg als verlängerter Arm der Pharma- und Impfstoffindustrie fungiert.

Besonders schockiert, wie Politiker und Entscheidungsträger, gesteuert durch Lobbyisten, den Anschein einer unabhängigen Expertise aufrechterhalten konnten. Die öffentlich gewordenen RKI-Files belegen schwarz auf weiß: Die STIKO folgt den Vorgaben der Politik, ohne Rücksicht auf die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung – und insbesondere der jüngsten und verletzlichsten unter uns: Babys und Kinder.

In diesem Interview werden konkrete Beispiele und Analysen geliefert, die klar belegen, dass die STIKO nicht im Sinne der Allgemeinheit agiert.
Eltern sollten sich bewusst machen, welche Risiken die Empfehlungen der STIKO für die Gesundheit ihrer Kinder bergen können.

Und während die Profite ungebremst sprudeln, bleibt die Haftung bei Impfschäden beim Staat – die Industrie bleibt ungeschoren.

Alle Quellen zu diesem Video finden sich bei apolut: apolut.net/im-gespraech-sabine…
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Dr. Sabine C. Stebel ist promovierte Molekularbiologin, Expertin für Proteindesign und Mitglied im Landesverband Baden-Württemberg. Bekannt wurde sie mit ihrer Aufklärungsarbeit rund um die “Corona-Impfstoffe” und der Veröffentlichung des Bestsellers: “Einmal mit Profis arbeiten oder Ugurs Geständnis."

#stiko #impfung #impfkommision #bmg #corona #sabinestebel #rki #aufarbeitung #dieBasis

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Was steht in den #RKI-Protokollen?


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Vortrag von Bastian #Barucker: Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte lagen auf der aus diesen Protokollen hervorgehenden Aspekte einer offenbar weitestgehend nicht vorhandenen wissenschaftlichen Grundlage eines Großteils der sogenannten Corona-Maßnahmen sowie dem enormen Einfluss der Politik auf die Behörde.

Ausserdem sprach ich über den Vorgang der Veröffentlichung der Protokolle und über die Bedeutung der “RKI-Files“ für eine Aufarbeitung der Pandemiepolitik. Die Protokolle bestätigen die Kritik an der Verhältnismäßigkeit des Pandemie-Managements, die international hochangesehene Wissenschaftler und ein beträchtlicher Teil der Bevölkerung von Anfang an äußerten und dafür ausgegrenzt und diffamiert wurden.

Der Veranstalter umschrieb den Abend, zu dem 120 Gäste – darunter auch Abgeordnete des Landtages – erschienen waren, so: "Solide recherchiert präsentierte Barucker der interessierten Öffentlichkeit zahlreiche Zitate aus den RKI-Protokollen, die den Einfluss der Politik auf die Fachleute im RKI belegen."

00:04:20 Start Vortrag
00:07:42 Die Veröffentlichung der Protokolle
00:12:42 Das RKI: keine unabhängige Behörde
00:14:47 die Risikohochstufung durch das RKI
00:24:33 Aussagen zur Gefährlichkeit des Virus 00:25:44 "Wie Jens Spahn die Pandemie herbeigetestet hat."
00:28:25 Die Unwirksamkeit der Masken
00:36:11 Das Kindeswohl
00:45:10 Die politische Impflkampagne
00:51:39 Die "Pandemie der Ungeimpften"
00:53:32 2G und das RKI
00:56:50 Die interne Evaluation der Maßnahmen 00:59:00 Die Protokolle in den Medien
01:01:41 Die Protokolle als Werkzeug zur Aufarbeitung 01:07:11 Fazit

Anfragen für weitere Vorträge über die RKI-Protokolle unter: info@bastian-barucker.de

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Was steht in den RKI-Protokollen? Vortrag von Bastian Barucker

Aufarbeitung der Pandemiepolitik: Vortrag über relevante Erkenntnisse aus den Corona-Protokollen des Robert-Koch-Instituts
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Years ago the WEF announced they would mess things up so badly that people would beg for AI to run things. People were alarmed, and said "We'll never allow this to happen! Klaus is evil!"


>And yet, now some of those same people are cheering on Trump/Musk, hailing technonationalism, and demanding AI government, walking right into the digital convergence of the 4th Industrial Revolution...
>It's pretty surreal — and it's a clear indicator that waiting for some strongman or tech magnate to save the day is not going to pan out. Ever. We each have to do our part of the work. This channel is returning to look at what that work is, and how we do it. Stick around if you want to save the world 🙏

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Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?


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Way back in 2012, The Guardian reviewed an eInk reader which cost a mere £8.

The txtr beagle was designed to be a stripped-down and simplified eReader0.

As far as I can tell, it never shipped. There were a few review units sent out but I can't find any evidence of consumers getting their hands on one. Also, that £8 price was the subsidised price when purchased with a mobile contract. Their website ceased working long ago.

But it got me intrigued. Moore's law is supposed to drive down the cost of electronics. So where are all the dirt-cheap eReaders?

The cheapest Kindle for sale on Amazon UK right now is about £100. Back in 2012, it was about £70. Taking inflation into account, that price has stayed static. Brands like Kobo are also in the £100 to £150 range.

About the cheapest retail eReader is the PocketBook Lux 4 for £85 or the (terribly reviewed) Woxter Scriba for £70.

AliExpress has loads of second-hand and obsolete models at cheap-ish prices. But a surprising dearth of new eReaders.

Going wholesale, Alibaba has a range of models, some of which clock in at around £30.

Range of eReaders in a store. Each around £30.

But, of course, that's before shipping and tax. They won't come with any manufacturer's warranty and don't expect any software updates. Also, good luck getting accessories!

So what's stopping new eReaders being released at a cheap(er) price? I think it comes down to four main things.

Reading is a niche hobby


Around 40% of UK adults didn't read a single book last year. That survey combines reading books and listening to audiobooks. Of the 60% who do read/listen, about 14% primarily listen. Of those that read, around 60% do so on paper books.

If reading is niche, reading electronically is a tiny niche! This is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg argument. If an eReader were the same cost as a mass-market paperback, I'm sure many more paper-book readers would become converts.

The whole point of an eInk reader is that it is a distraction-free environment. Yeah, you could scroll TikTok on one, but it isn't a pleasant experience. An eReader is designed for one thing only, unlike a phone or tablet. Do enough people want to carry yet-another-bloody-device just for reading?

eInk is expensive


The company which makes eInk hold several patents on the process. They're not a patent troll; they're building a business and selling mega-hectares of the stuff. Understandably, they have an interest in keeping prices high. They don't want to cannibalise their own market.

A basic 6 inch screen with wiring costs around £20 wholesale - that's from Alibaba, so doesn't include tax and shipping. That's before you've added any electronics or a operating system.

Speaking of which…

Android is a bottleneck


The promise of the Android Open Source Project was a free Operating System for anyone to use. The reality has been a little different. Most people want to be able to use basic Android functionality - like download operating system updates or reading apps. But Google doesn't allow that for eInk devices.

As I understand it, Google requires Android devices to have colour screens and, so I've read, won't certify eInk eReaders for newer versions of Android.

So manufacturers have to source parts which have drivers for older versions of Android. Or they have to develop their own OSes.

Books are fungible


Back when Apple sold iPods, they knew that the majority of purchasers would buy MP3s direct from Apple. The perfect symbiotic relationship! But the walled-gardens cracked and now people can buy their music from anywhere.

Amazon keeps this model for its eBooks. Unless you're prepared to get technical, you can only read Amazon books on your Amazon Kindle paid for with your Amazon wallet.

Games consoles are often sold at a loss because the manufacturer knows they'll make it up in game sales and subscriptions.

A low-price manufacturer is unlikely to also run a book store and wouldn't be able to cross-subsidise their hardware with content sales.

Alternatives


Some people have tried building open source eReaders but they're either abandoned, not suitable for production, or ridiculously expensive.

Buying second hand is relatively cheap - often under £50. But eInk screens can be brittle, and older ones may have scratches or cracks which are effectively unrepairable.

How cheap is cheap?


I'd love a £8 eReader. Something I could throw in a pocket and not worry about damaging. An eReader which was the same price as a hardback book - around £20 - would be amazing.

But I don't think we'll get there soon. The monopoly on screen technologies sets a retail floor of around £30, before the rest of the hardware is taken into account. Niche hardware is viable - but only with decent OS support. Other than Kobo and Amazon, no book retailer wants to stray outside their core competency to develop and subsidise hardware.

So I guess it's buy second-hand, or wait for the patents to expire.

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40% of Britons haven’t read a single book in the last 12 months

The median Briton has read just three books in the past year
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I think the ubiquity of smartphones displayed cheap dedicated reading devices just as it displaced cheap digital cameras.

There's nothing preventing monochrome Android-based eReaders; Boox does it, but theirs are $200+.

Google has gone to great lengths with proprietary libraries and SafetyNet attestation to ensure a phone won't be palatable to mainstream consumers without their approval, but people don't expect an eReader to run every app on the Play store. It's viable to build that sort of device on AOSP provided a market for it exists.

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Preinstalled Android Apps Found Leaking PINs and Executing Malicious Commands


On May 30, 2025, CERT Polska coordinated the public disclosure of three significant security vulnerabilities affecting preinstalled Android applications on smartphones from Ulefone and Krüger&Matz. These flaws, tracked as CVE-2024-13915, CVE-2024-13916, and CVE-2024-13917, expose users to risks ranging from unauthorized device resets to theft of sensitive PIN codes and privilege escalation by malicious applications. Technical […]

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