Ebook readers are so dodgey or overpriced it’s frustrating to find anything decent. How hard is it to create a device that lasts 6 hrs on battery, doesn’t fall apart in 2 years, has a decent 5 inch display, has a backlight, doesn’t have ads or telemetry, and supports a basic set of standard file formats? Even the 300+ dollar devices fail at this.
Fuck it. I’m building my own cellphone.
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No, my keyboard is doing it locally. Futo.
I just did a rough whatsapp text to speech message using a tasker script log and monitor battery power usage. I had it rounding to 4 decimal places of a percentage and saw 0 percent change. Take my rather unscientific test as you will. I think the trick is to not do it continuously and leverage location and volume detection events. I think a few years ago this may have been a lot more heavy on the battery but anything made within the last 2-3 years will not have much of a problem.
I most definitely trust Apple, Google, and Amazon to not use the backdoor listening devices the NSA likely had them put in all phones.
You are probably right though. I doubt this anything like they are marketing it. It’s likely location tracking, flip on mic near businesses with services but don’t record till input reaches -12db, transcribe, parse keywords against list and report back. This whole process is incredibly low power on a phone and the only packet you would probably see leave the device is small and probably pretty inocuous looking.
They have to geofence out so many trigger locations that I doubt they check if each location is accurate, current, and legal for them record at. There is no way this can work legally.
I’ve been down that route and the battery and screen were in bad shape. The loading files via usb is actual fine with me. I keep hoping I’ll find something long lasting in the size of a paperback but I guess the demand is just not there.