Where are you all getting riot shields?

Which is better: Junk Store or Heroic?

Lowering the cost to produce would require massively scaling production and/or taking a loss (see: Amazon Kindle).

Also, the cheap ones now likely have really low frame rates.

If you want one that’s fast enough to be a smartphone or computer screen (and not just an eReader), someone needs to front the R&D money to make that possible.

The way to stop surveillance capitalism is to… replace the beeg capitalists with a bunch of smol capitalists?

In ten years, fifty smol capitalists will have merged into five beeg all over again.

I don’t see the solution here.

Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 - 0 to finalize HB 2963 this weekend. It would require manufacturers to make spare parts, manuals, and necessary tools available for equipment sold or used in the country’s second most populated state.

I like Koreader. It’s a pain for the first hour of setup, but it runs so much faster than the other ones I’ve tried: Moon+, Aldiko, and a couple of open source ones that bugged out too often.

I’m waiting got hbomberguy to come back.

May be the wrong thread for this, but isn’t it really common for people to not even know that have aphantasia?

I’m imagining the whole community from The Giver, where people didn’t know that they

and they didn’t even realize.

This wins the thread for me. shudders

I support content creators being able to make a living in the fediverse (without enshittifying it).

So… good luck. I hope you find a healthy way to go about it.

Shouldn’t you have talked to them before starting the non-profit?

I do not claim to have any expertise (and defo not an accountant), but that sounds backwards to me.

I’d have skimmed a transcript, but I noped out of Instagram reel.

revenue share or something for content creators

Where’s the revenue coming from? The content creators paying to store their own videos?

I remember someone tried to monetize Mastodon feeds like Substacks or something.

It didn’t last long.

I can’t imagine any way to monetize content other than individual Patreons or collective subscriptions (like Nebula, Curiosity Stream and whatever Linus Tech Tips thing is called Floatplane).

My cat ignores me if I meow or talk to him.

But as soon as I get on the phone with anyone else…

Modern Disney princess:

“I wanna be… where the people aren’t.”

For people in the future who find this post, I found a video that I can think explores this question really well: Who Can Write Whose Story?

Like a middle school Wikipedia book report, I’ve picked out some of his sources as being particularly accessible/helpful:

• Alexander Chee’s How to Unlearn Everything
• Who Can Write About What? A Conversation With Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang. (NYT paywalled) (transcript on rentry)
• Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward (book, so no link, but you can find it online)

Ate without table -3

Sometimes what you’re feeling needs so many words to express that a thousand just isn’t enough.

*ahem*

I mean…