Independent documentaries can be, from my experience, quite hard to find and even purchase. They often have limited screenings, do not get any physical releases or to streaming services, and sometimes end up with licensing issues after some years if they’ve licensed music and sound for example. Maybe PTP has them, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
This. I have the same in my apartment. I think a large majority of apartments in my country has floor heating.
Actual Budget is amazing!
As mentioned, this is one of the reasons why Adobe DRM couldn’t longer be used according to the interpretations of the EU directive, and why they “had to” remove the option to download the DRM-protected ePub file and move to an app instead where they could make text-to-speech work.
At least you could easily DeDRM ADE. This seems a lot trickier due to there not being one universal solution and it being in-app.
Exactly this.
Yeah but as I said, shadow libraries are usually very lacking in many smaller languages that are not English or Chinese for example.
That’s why one should work in the same dept as the ones with the capability to check :p
Ouff great call! Then I’ll just keep browsing on my phone.
I do a lot of personal surfing on my work computer… But in my country the employer isn’t allowed to track what I do on the computer as long as I haven’t committed a crime 🤷
The information superhighway as we called this thing way back when. Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Gutenberg, free MOOCs, shadow libraries and what not are a godsend.
I’m not even convinced that Loops was a good idea to begin with. Yes, sure, always nice to have fediverse alternatives of mainstream apps, but short-form videos like those on Tiktok wouldn’t have been successful if not for Tiktoks algorithm which is much, much better than even any of the competition. It’s really good at discoverability and being addictive. And Loops doesn’t have anything like this (and even if this is good depending on who you ask, it definitely doesn’t give Loops an advantage). Who even is the target audience of Loops?
Not really? Always something else beyond the horizon.
At least I’m hoping that there’ll still be a spectrum of both BW and color screens available. Apparently many seem to like/prefer colour screen, and the screen door effect and worse contrast doesn’t seem to bother a lot of people. Some even prefer the more textured look of the screen door effect, though I don’t know myself as I’ve never tried a colour screen. Either way, I’d be hesitant to try one, and as I kept my Kobo Aura One for like 7 years it’ll be quite some time before I upgrade my current Kobo Libra 2. If I have some spare cash I might be inclined to try a colour e-reader as an alternative to my current one, but it’s not high on my priority list.
But yeah, it definitely seems that Kobo is pushing their colour screens as they’re only selling the Libra in colour now. Might be that they release a B/W once the hype dies out a bit though.
Wow, I just bought it last year before they discontinued it then. Interesting that only colour screens are available now. It must mean that they are at least as good though? Edit: after reading reviews, apparently not… that sucks.
Absurd. Glad I have a Kobo.
I do it everyday actually! Nice to see someone else doing it too
Yeah, don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mind them existing, but I don’t want to see it. My mistake maybe by browsing all using scaled sort tho, top is usually fine. But I usually just don’t browse all, I curate my subscribed comms instead.
Especially with a lot of the content being posted on there is not just nsfw but also super fringe. I feel there’s a lot of uncomfortable things being posted, but I might just be sensitive…
Didn’t they already have this before but removed it? At least in my country a “lite”-variant was available but they removed it like last year.