miguel

I just tell people “It’s free and I don’t get twenty thousand ‘license term updates’ in my email every month”

Writing month is exactly just that. Just an excuse for those looking for one :) I hope the new community does well, since none of the writing communities on the fedi are especially active.

In my case, I simply ended up buying a subscription to Brittanica, which I started using instead. I just don’t trust wikipedia in this era. https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04/30/our-new-ai-strategy-puts-wikipedias-humans-first/

If an ‘information source’ is planning to start using AI, I’m going to go with one that has some accountability.

How is the color? I’ve been told it makes the screen less sharp, is it noticeable? I kinda want one, been using a tablet for comics lately and it’s nowhere near as good at night.

In fact just a few minutes ago I got another bundle from Humble that I loaded onto my kobo with no issue

I have owned 5 kobos over time, and just love them.

“Almost all”… Unless you read a very specific niche, I’ve rarely looked for a book that I wanted to read and not found it elsewhere. There certainly are some that are specific to KDP, but hardly “almost all”.

My kobos have been excellent, I’ve had a few over the years. MUCH sharper screens than the kindle by and large, and they support loading epubs, pdfs, cbz, all sorts of things.

All my parking meters require an app, and all of my work logins require pressing a confirmation in an app.

Webrings were one of the best ways to spend an evening. I loved getting lost in the Tolkien and Gardening ones.

I tried gemini protocol for a bit to see if it did a decent job addressing this, but it doesn’t. We do legit need a ‘smallweb’ non-commercial sort of thing, but I suspect retreating to a BBS model is probably what is required.

Netscape? I don’t think it worked out for them, if that was the case :D

IMO, it’s all about giving the user control. KDE’s transparency/translucency controls are the bare minimum. Apple hates giving users choices, though, so I hope they do ok for those folks.

I am definitely older (my first programming job involved a mac plus) and personally, I can’t stand the flat look era.

Well, this inspired me to swing my monthly wikipedia donation over to a world book sub instead. It’s bad enough that wikipedia was a very dubious source of info, but now this is just too much.

You mean the bubble of people who don’t want a factually incorrect, environmentally damaging shortcut to provide a summary that’s largely already being done by someone? You’re right.

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Only one who wrote about it was the one who went self-hosted, the rest didn’t talk about it. I would guess it ended up being the final straw, like “why direct people to X to back me instead of just promoting myself where they see me.” Especially if, as you say, the cut was so similar.

7 out of 9, yes, one went to self-hosted, another left in favor of youtube directly, the rest in favor of twitch. The last two I follow on Patreon (Techmoan and My Mate Vince) just sorta rolled past the whole thing.