I don’t get it either. I have a couple of friends who pay for music streaming just to listen for the SAME music over and over. They don’t even make use of those so called recommendation algorithms or so. I tried to guide them into putting the music they like into their phones for offline listening, but they ignored me. I guess some people just have some sort of love for corporations.
I used to have a 1366x768 monitor. They’re actually pretty common, at least here in Brazil
My thing with gentoo is that my devices that would benefit the most from it are also the ones that will struggle the most with compiling everything. If it wasn’t for that, I would sure give it a try in my lower end devices
I used to be able to use shared clipboard, but it doesn’t work for me anymore :(
And to run on top of the linux kernel
There’s also Gcompris to break the rules
About keeping the children safe
But would a rearrangement of our atoms into identical beings be the same person as us? Maybe it would be just different consciousnesses having the same experiences, and we would never be back.
It’s always security when someone wants to take our freedom away. Always security…
I don’t think this is the point of the comic, but rather make some humorous speculation of a tech future.
In metal gear solid snake eater there’s a scene where we cross a river seeing every enemy we killed.
People uniting themselves against corporations, oligarchs and consumerism culture
I think specifying the technology isn’t a good idea, and can lead to loopholes in the future.
That’s interesting to know. I’d be devastated if I spent more morey for one and felt like it wasn’t worth it. Those devices are too expensive around here.
By the way, don’t you find it useful for reading stuff on the internet, like web articles, news, etc? When I looked for one, I also imagined myself connecting a bluetooth keyboard and using it for writing.
Maybe my different experience comes from living in the global south. All of the are expensive in here, so kindle has no price advantage
I mentioned some in this other comment: https://lemmy.zip/post/49532624/21704502
I used a cybook odyssey for more than 10 years, so I guess bookeen devices can be a good choice. I’m currently using a refurbrished tolino vision 2 and the experience is also much better than the kindles I tried.
But if I had more money, I would probably have bought a device from boox. They make nice ereaders, some even with android,being much more flexible than a kindle. Devices from bigme and the meebooks also look nice, but I don’t know if they have good cases.
I’m sure there are other good options around. These are just the ones I know.
There are so many alternative ereaders that are better than the kindle, that I don’t get why people buy it.
I once borrowed one from a friend and it didn’t even let me organize media in directories from a pc. The directory structure got all messed up and it was a pain to follow my study sequence. Any cheap Chinese ereader would allow that.
I’d really give it a try, if I had one. I find some pleasure in trying to fix and find new life for unused hardware, no matter how old or weird it is. Well, sometimes I fail, but I keep it in case I get nrw ideas for it in the future.
Hmm that’s really interesting. Thanks for the links.
RIP my free time…