08-27-2020, 01:53 PM | #1 |
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Kindle firmware 5.13.2
Version 5.13.2 – August 2020
Performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...MQC26VQQMM8XSW |
08-27-2020, 02:48 PM | #2 |
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Looks like the PW3 is not EOL. Well done Amazon. It's about time.
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08-27-2020, 02:51 PM | #3 |
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They seem to have a lot of bugs for a device that's only real function is to read books, are they a part of Microsoft
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08-27-2020, 02:56 PM | #4 |
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08-27-2020, 03:26 PM | #5 |
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08-27-2020, 03:34 PM | #6 |
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Well Amazon did just announce their new health tracking system today:
Introducing Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band—A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness ("Tone feature uses machine learning to help customers get a more complete view of their health and wellness by understanding how they sound to others," Nothing at all creepy about that ) Last edited by jhowell; 08-27-2020 at 03:40 PM. |
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08-27-2020, 03:43 PM | #8 |
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08-27-2020, 04:19 PM | #9 |
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08-27-2020, 04:34 PM | #10 |
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08-27-2020, 04:39 PM | #11 | |
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(And yes, *all* software. Even 'hello world' probably has hidden bugs in the startup code the linker added to the program. The canonical case of this is the horrible x86 hardware hack that is the A20 gate, the (originally) keyboard controller feature, (later) CPU pin, (later yet) special CPU bus cycle that turned on wrapping of the 1MiB--1MiB+64K range of physical memory to 0--64K. It took years to track the actual bug down that forced the addition of this hardware misfeature -- and it was in the startup code added to programs by a specific ancient Pascal compiler: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-a20-...asnt-wordstar/). This caused literally decades of pain for hardware vendors, emulator developers, etc. The thing only started being removed from PCs in the last eight years or so!) |
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08-27-2020, 05:23 PM | #12 |
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I must say, the general enhancements in this update are some of the best I’ve never seen!
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08-27-2020, 05:27 PM | #13 |
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I'd like to know what in the reading experience is better. Seems the same to me.
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