Well, in Canada they got caught faking last-minute sales for EV rebates, which might trigger closer scrutiny in other places as well

Free for life? Here is always been free for only the first few years of ownership and then you pay, plus the system is fucking terrible and doesn’t work half the time.

I still have my circa-2016 email confirming my pledge for the Time 2 Silver, which ultimately got cancelled just before the fulfillment date due to Pebble selling out to Fitbit.

While I loved my original Pebble back then, I would really want something similar to look and function of the T2S so will watch this project in hopes it too is resurrected

That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines…

Watch they do. I know because I’ve reported things for violating electrical standards, etc and made damn sure to emphasize that to their support, only to seethe same continue thing being sold months later.

No. I paid for all my books but so not use Audible etc to access them

Google also seems to pad their library with stuff uploaded to YouTube, which I’m pretty sure includes stuff not uploaded by authorized individuals.

Music streaming services are crooked AF

It really depends on the mods. Stock Minecraft and even many mods would run fine on a potato, but some of the bigger mods actually require quite a bit of CPU/overhead.

There are also various mods that require certain (older) versions of Java etc to run, and those versions of Java may have known security issues.

I hate to knock it as a product, but I compared a lot of the books I bought on Kindle and - unless I’m missing something - the selection on Kobo seems quite limited in comparison.

It seems that Amazon is using Kindle Unlimited you lock authors into exclusivity. This reeks of monopoly abuse but of course nobody is going to do anything about that.

Yeah I looked into the Kobo store and a LOT of the books I have - which are not exactly small titles - aren’t available there.

In some cases they’ve got the first couple books or audiobooks out of a series that currently has 10

The color might make more sense if you’re into manga or graphical novels as opposed to just ebooks

This doesn’t track.

To pull my books into calibre, I need to first download them onto the Kindle, which requires wifi.

Interesting. Is there a client you could recommend for Android?

Friendica seems like a new thing? No apps for that yet either

Not really surprising that short video clips would be used to target people with lower critical-thinking skills and attention spans

Neither do the other thousands or millions of people who do so, but it’s not a particularly uncommon thing and it’s likely enough that (birthdate) is the reason it’s there. I’ve got my birth year (not '88) in my username for some sites because the bare username was already taken

He’s a money supporter.

Yeah, birth years are super common in usernames (and password, don’t use it there). Bob Smith finds his preferred username is taken so becomes BobSmith79 or BobSmith88 or whatever because it’s easy an easy enough variation to remember.

You can find patterns/relations in almost anything if you reach for something, kinda like the “six degrees of separation” thing even if there’s a more reasonable answer

They did. Not many choices left that support it, sadly

Yeah, going from “Google Play Music” to “YouTube Music” was such a downgrade. Shit like Bluetooth had more issues with YTM, and they completely eliminated the ability to purchase music. It sucks and there are still no good alternatives on Android :-(