A nitpick, but America won't have Gitmo in that scenario tho. Displacing american people to random countries now is deeply rooted in the premise it's okay to have a torture camp franchized over to places out of everyone's sight. It wasn't okay before and it's not now, and serious country with some sense and a accountability would not employ such tactic.
Yep, and I do this both on my noname e-ink reader and my phone (fb2reader or moon reader apps there). Downloaded audiobooks, whole another beast, are great in Voice app from F-Droid, if you choose this path.
I didn't find it inconvinient to read on smaller button phones before and the difference between a dedicated healthier device and a modern smartphone mostly escapes me. This obviously excludes PDFs and manga/comics not adapting to your screen size like a basic e-book in epub/fb2 formats, so if you stick to one of those formats - you'd want an A5-paper sized device or more.
Worse problem with some book for me is not a medium or an interface to consume it, but a lack of concentration, interest and/or habit. Life finds a way, and if you got captured by a book, you'd stop to see or care how you eat through it. But for a regular reading routine it'd be great to think of when and where you'd dedicate some time to enjoy literature, so it'd gain a momentum with you.
It depends on how long the book is and how were audio files compressed. I'd put an average of 450MBs per book as I inspect my non-app direct downloads, with 6 Dune books being 2,5GB, more individual ones been from 250MBs to 1GB. If you reconvert them yourself, you can set the target bitrate => size to barely tolerable levels if you will, and keep in mind that's still hours upon hours of joy, they worth it, and for tough books you can download them in parts. Idk how tight your space budget is, but I found it's pretty nice that the whole Dark Tower cycle by Stephen King, being cleverly shrinked by the uploader, took only 6,5GBs while giving me a month-long ride.
Compared to most PDFs and EPUBs, audio is obviously a very bloated data source, but at the same time it provides a lot of advantages pure text can't.
But maybe if enough users switch to SteamOS, Adobe, and other software developers might port their software to it.
I'd probably wait for mass public service adoption of Linux in EU (China, India?) at the very least. They would port Adobe Acrobat first as their scout, and then we'd see what comes next.
In Russia the incertainity of Windows' availiability made local software companies consider, start testing or even produce releases for Linux because of FOMO. For global megacorps, there should be an incencitive, coming either from profits, out of fear or as a legal requirement.
Swirl is destfuctive like almost everything in raster graphics with recompressing, but unswirling it back makes a good approximation in somehow reduced quality. If the program or a code of effect is known, e.g. they did it in Photoshop, you just drag a slider to the opposite side. Coming to think of it, it could be a nice puzzle in an adventure game or one another kind of captcha.
I believe than, no, it wouldn't crash the whole ship, it's just they would feel a bit inconvinient if this would surface after the Trump is gone.
Some Fortune 500 guys and top functionairees don't want themselves associated with the Eipstein mythos once Trump and his closer cronies take the blow.
The question is why he isn't redacted in that push? He is a dead man, so the logic behind this forced association may be that dropping him would also erase everyone else's wrongdoings. The cult of personality is useful both before and after the end of it, to bath in it's blood and come out clean. Who\what else did this person see there we don't know yet?
Imagine a catchy hip-hop beat pattern, but it gets repeated real fast. There is some song structure, then an overlay of a melody, sometimes vocals, but the center of it is a broken rhytm that gets your legs moving, kicking air, do a primitive tap dance to it. That's like exploring a tact-to-tact consistent EDM music, but with some Game+ twist.
What I've meant is going for donation email scam is laughable while being the pres and having no legal boundaries on real, massive corruption schemes. It is not uncaracteristic of him and his people, but it's the billionaire's version of ordering a fake coin trinket to never return the shop cart. I want to see it as a measurement to what these guys are, with their frame of thinking still being that small these petty little frauds are their character limit.
I've done that for export to portable devices and for use in video editing, but other than that I keep them intact to keep seeding the original file without producing duplicates.
.cue files are there to inform your player about where songs/chapters start in a record. It's mostly for situation where you have ripped CDs as singular files and not tracks. It's a frequent occurence in lossless torrents (.flac, .alac, .wav, audiocd territory) and the reasoning behind that may be that it keeps the most exact copy of a CD without any user-side interference, and .cue files are text files laying alongside your cd rip (and probably a log of ripping). Such interference may also be seen as unwanted in some cases, e.g. when the record is mastered that way one track seemlessly flows into another, so any way to cut between them is arguable.
In a just world he would be put aside as a reactionary. But in the unfair world we have he is plenty steps ahead of what is the norm for his position.