There is a whole community of people out there who will pretty much refuse to buy brand new electronics. And thats for very obvious and valid reasons.

Kindles can be found for dirt cheap if not free 2nd hand. And so many users have a kindle for this reason. Myself included. Id never throw out or discard an electronic device that continues to work. For the same obvious reasons as why i dont buy new ones.

And so this information is super relevant and important to users like me. Regardless of how much people like you might be convinced that "we had it coming" or whatever.

For those of us who will only buy electronics used, kindle is usually the only option. And far cheaper too. So its nice that the device can be opened up a bit.

Can confirm. That's why im here. Figured I'd just jump earlier with the whole avoiding US companies vibe too.

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I think I wasn't seeing decaf roasts at local specialty roasters in the past... But then again it wouldn't be the first time I discover I've been living in the cave.

If anything that seems like worthwhile analytics for the dev team to have access to.

Most software lets you opt out of sending anonymous analytics data though.

Lol crypto did not "start" in San Francisco. And if that's so incredibly wrong, there is no point of even considering anything else you wrote.

That's an interesting tip. I'll tweak the recipe and give it a go!

Can this make Overdrive/Libby integration easier? Thats really the main thing pissing me off about Kindles.

People dont own land anymore. We live and die in ever-inflating rental properties.

People are recommending arch to beginners? This is genuinely the first time i hear of this trend and Ive been into linux for over 20 years now.

Not once have I heard arch pushed to beginners at my local LUG or any LUG ive attended in other cities or countries.

People usually recommended Ubuntu in the past or Mint. Occasionally Fedora. Then Elementary had some steam. Nowadays the landscape is much more diverse I think.

Maybe there is some folks on the internet who get a kick out of recommending hard things to people who need easy things. To gatekeep and create an exclusive feel. But i think if youre seeing that regularly then you need to reasses where youre spending time. Because core Linux culture has never been that since i can remember. We have always embraced that different distros are appropriate for different use cases. And that has always been our strength.

If I'm honest I'm not sure what shots they take or whether they are getting tested. But they do see an endo regularly, so I do believe the situation is being managed/monitored.

Nobody knows his identity or whereabouts. Nobody knows what happened to the soldiers who stopped either.

And thats probably intentionally so, to avoid martyrdom if hes dead. Or to protect his life if he's not.

And that in itself is a very powerful part of the story.

You may well be right. People do like to do a bit of armchair neuroscience now and then. I suppose im not too bothered on whether it's due to dopamine or something else. Just the mood swings are a concern for fear.

Yeah can't argue with that. That's pretty compelling. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for explaining it. That makes good sense!

If you have time, could you share more about what speciically makes Frendica so powerful.

Im only just dipping my toes into fediverse and I'm super curious.

3Easier said than done. Had a quick search. In 45km of my home there is not one reMarkable, PineNone or Bookeen. There is 2 kobos. And around 200 kindles. Kindes are starting at 5 bucks for ones that look a little beat up. Kobos are 80 bucks. You can still avoid buying most books from amazon. Obviously not all. Even owning Kobo there are some books you end up buying from Amazon. They have the largest foreign language library. There are thousands of popular books which you cannot get in a foreign language anywhere else these days. And you have to acknowledge that most people in the world are not reading books in English.

Sometimes you can get a solid deal. If youre super patient or lucky. But the 2nd hand market will generally always follow the market distribution of retail.

So long as kindle is domninating. 2nd hand users are gonna be heavily pressured into buying kindle.

I wholeheartedly agree that we shouldnt support amazon and i do think they are making kindles a pain.

But i dont think you can expect people to just find 2nd hand alternatives like what you listed. Especially when you consider the demographic of people shopping for eraders.

This is why i find these kinds of comment chains futile. We all love to vote with our money, but its not that simple for a lot of people. Maybe instead of this "you get what you deserve" attitude we could put more energy towards promoting the jailbreaks and trying to make those as accessible as possible for your chineese grandma to be able to do it herself on her Windows Vista. Not to mention that there is 0 value in telling anyone that bought a new kindle that they deserve whats comming. At best they sell their kindle when they buy a kobo perpetuating the cycle. At worst they trash it and contribute the already growing problems of ewaste.

Yeah that latter part of "it was easy for me" in particularly stinks of the elitist attitude i was mentioning. I think its a sign of someone thats not really trying to help but rather to make themselves seem smarter.

If you see lots of it here then I guess this post is fair. But i will standby my remark that if you're seeing a lot of this kind of mentality then you need to reasses where you are hanging out...

Maybe go to a local LUG instead. People are a bit more desperate to actually help others at those usually.

Hope we don't waste your time! Let us know!