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Unless there is a x86 to ARM translation layer on Linux that I’m not aware of?

https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/

It appears Valve is working on Proton for arm64, I was wondering if this is to attend the mobile market, a new Index or maybe a smaller Steam Deck.

What kind of question is “Do you need an E-ink display?”

Currently, Apple does not offer any hardware form factor with an e-ink display. If the poster was interested in hardware, that would filter out Apple devices.

What’s wrong with the kindle? I have a 2012 kindle paperwhite

I also have a Kindle, PaperWhite 3.

The list is long, in short: Kindle has a closed system. Similar to the reMarkable brand of e-ink devices, they make it hard for you to do anything it was not made for, and to be heavily dependent on their services.

You can still run Doom and other programs on Kindle, but I would not recommend buying it new, nor to someone who does not want the hassle of tweaking it, as there are better options working well out of the box.

In the poster case, converting DRM-free e-books to Amazon's proprietary format is not always straightforward and can cause severe artifacts in your books. You either need time and patience to tweak the settings of your conversion tool, or install something like KOReader that can read them as-is.

profits local

Depends on the profits you mean, I don't think there is a single hardware built here, overall:

• Buy hardware used or refurbished from local sellers.

• Software that supports your local library borrowing system (Something like OverDrive).

open source drm free e-books

Most hardware supports them out of the box. For the ones that do not, there are some workaround (koreader).

On the profit part, there are some publishers in Canada and you can always connect to your local library.

kobo or apple

That is like comparing apples to oranges. I don't think apple offers eBook readers.

You need to think if you like/need a few things.

Would you like e-ink display? Would you like colour? Is it just to read and annotations? Or you want to run apps available on your phone as well?

Once I started using e-ink for reading books I cannot use LCD or LED panels anymore for that task.

As e-ink eBook reader goes Kobo might be the best option in Canada, everything you need out of the box with the bonus of connecting to your local library.

I saw some online sellers offering Bigme and Boox in Canada, but I could not confirm if they have offices here.

I would stay away from Amazon unless you ok flashing used hardware (for safety) and with doing workarounds (to install koreader).

It depends on how it is implemented. There are many examples out there. wikipedia list of electoral systems by country

A pure proportional voting would have no ridding/districts, I think this is more common for municipal and provincial level elections.

If the countries are divided into independent-ish states or provinces, they can divide the population by the number of available seats - that means a province with 10% of the population, ideally would have close to 10% of the seats.

I am not a big fan of breaking down provinces further because the more you divide into smaller districts, more votes are thrown away, and you open it up for gerrymandering.

Canada seems to do a good job dividing seats per province, the problem is that the provinces break it down into districts and use first past the post voting to elect officials.

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