I get my comics on getcomisc.org or Soulseek. The first one has good sources and a few collections, although nothing I’d call an actual “bulk”. With Soulseek you can download the batches of your choice.

But there already is a device that answer that specific need, so it wouldn’t make sense for the Raspberry 5 to replace it.

Isn’t the Pi 3B still available for that kind of job?

I see no reason to use Matlab in education nowadays: both Octave and Python provide as many features, are as easy to use, and free. The teacher could have verified or made his class accessible through Octave with minimal effort, as OP pointed out. But they wouldn’t be bothered and required all the students in their class to buy a 70€ license each.

As someone commented on the page, this is probably some code shared to third parties to include DRM or be sold on a store. It’s incomplete and doesn’t compile. It could be used to develop mods to an extensive degree, but I’m not sure how much of it would be legal as those tools would have been written using some leaked pieces of software which belong to Ubisoft. It can supposedly not be used to guide an open-source reimplementation of the game, like what was developed for DOOM, the first Diablo game, Moerowind, etc, as per the legal terms, those reimplementations must be developed from blank page, without looking at the original source code.

Butt yeah, I think this can be useful to develop mods and tools.

First of all, welcome to Lemmy!

When confronted to that decision, I ended up thinking that I’d want a tablet that had good image quality, and a screen close enough to that of a comic to be able to see a full page comfortably. When I looked (back in 2020), the tablet market was basically divided into 3: Amazon’s Kindles, iPad and Samsung. Amazon’s are pretty low-cost, which is enough to read comics, but the screen is quite low-quality, and reading comics on a screen instead of paper is already a step-down to appreciate the art. And I prefer to avoid Apple, which left me with Samsung as pretty much the only choice. The Tab A series don’t have AMOLED, and the only advantage the Tab S6 had was to use a stylus (which I wouldn’t have bought, or even used if there had been one sold with).

So I ended up buying a Galaxy Tab S5e. 10.5" is really great to be both light and portable while big enough to display a full comic page, and the super AMOLED screen is amazing. It’s been going strong for 3 years now, and I’ve used it daily to browse the web, watch movies or series, and of course mainly to read comics. When that one gives up, I will look for a similar form factor, unless a good, large enough color e-ink tablet comes out by then, in which case that might be what I’ll pick.

As for usage, I transfer everything through FTP and store the comics in the tablet’s storage. Then I use Perfect Viewer to read them. It’s old and hasn’t been updated in a long time, but I haven’t found any other reader as convenient. I’ve read that Tachiyomi is great to read comics and manga, but it requires a specific folder organization to read comics locally, and I’m not willing to give up mine to use a reader.