Literature 📚

Looks like ebooks purchased from Google Play Store still use crackable Adobe DRM. I’d prefer to buy from ebooks.com, but I refuse to be confined to one app or device by fucking DRM. I don’t like giving money to Google, but if you have GrapheneOS you’re already forking out big bucks to them for a Pixel phone, though hopefully in the future it’ll be able to run on Motorola . . .

Puyi: From emperor to gardener

(Better than just putting him up against the wall, I guess, right?)

ebooks.com

It’s true that some people really do have to be on Facebook/Xwitter for work, but in that case I’ve always suggested that they also make a Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed account and let people know about it (“why not join me on …”) and try to use the two (or more) side by side. Hopefully that will make the people they interact with realize that there are in fact good alternatives, and perhaps get them to join as well, further increasing the size of the Fediverse🌈.

Very probably true, but I just get so sick and tired of the US’s behavior that it’s very tempting to root for its downfall.

Indeed 🙁

Good 👍🏻 Strangely enough, though, whenever I read about what will replace the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, it seems like the Euro is usually mentioned before the yuan, whereas you’d think it would be the other way round 🤔.

Bulwer-Lytton is your man.

‘HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus tonight?’ said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb.

‘Alas, no! dear Clodius; he has not invited me,’ replied Diomed, a man of portly frame and of middle age. ‘By Pollux, a scurvy trick! for they say his suppers are the best in Pompeii’.

And so forth.

The Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram icons are still ubiquitous on far too many web pages, and I really don’t understand why they’re still there. These services have proven time and time and time again to be toxic in so many ways, and don’t even add any sort of value to the organizations that still use them.

Whatever you may think of NPR, when they finally left Xwitter (or were thrown off, I don’t remember) they found that there was a negligible drop off in traffic to their site. Toxic, and not even worth the effort, not for NPR, and I bet for a lot of other organizations as well. Why don’t they wake up?

I remember a while back reading a number of similarly-themed articles whose authors would complain about how they were “trapped” by Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, not realizing, or not even making the effort to realize, that there were already a number of alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so forth. Every time I read one of these articles (I can search for them if anyone is interested, but I suspect folks on Lemmy have encountered at least one or two in the past), a little voice in my head said "there’s an easy way to solve this . . . " So either people in general just want to have something to complain about, or are just plain stupid. Grrr.

EDIT: One of my favorite uses of uBlock Origin is using it to remove Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram (and sometimes even BlueSky, depends on what mood I’m in) links from webpages that still have them. It does seem like the “f”, the bird/x, and the camera icon thingy are at least less prominently displayed than they used to be, if nothing else.

Herzlich willkommen! 🙂🇩🇪

(according to DeepL—hope I got this right!)

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Right. My sentiments exactly. Hopefully this won’t trickle its way into LibreWolf …

Parents of the future will have to change it to “don’t you know children are starving in Gaza?” And undoubtedly lots of other places too 🙁.

In case anyone is interested: https://store.doverpublications.com/products/9780486477374

https://heartsofspacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-magnificent-void

I think you can make the font bigger in the settings.

I was sort of under the impression that tlp was an “install it and leave it if you want” type of thing, but that you could tweak it more to your liking if needed. 🤷‍♂️ Well, in any event it didn’t work for me in either case!

Thanks for the suggestions; I might give auto-cpufreq another shot first just because I’ve used it in the past on another machine, but if that doesn’t work, I will definitely take a look at tuned. 👍 Will try to remember to report back with the results, though it may take a while.

Caveat emptor buying music from Qobuz, always try bandcamp first.

Will have a look, my hamsters and I thank you.🐹🐹