eagleeyedtiger

@eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. Mines an older Clara I bought about 5 years ago. I personally don’t have the use for a color screen, but for $10 I guess why not!

  I installed KO Reader as soon as I got it and never looked back, it supports standard epubs. Not as pretty as the standard Nickel (?) OS but more customisable.

  I love having an e-reader. I read so much more because of it. Much more convenient, not having to worry about heavy books, holding open pages, no need to worry about proper lighting for reading. Light and small enough to bring everywhere. I will buy another immediately once this one dies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love my Kobo. I installed KO Reader on it and have Calibre for managing my ebooks.

  Get all my ebooks from z-library or Anna’s archive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the typical conservative mindset, “It doesn’t affect me so I don’t care.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait to see the mental gymnastics subreddit moderators will perform to defend this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I’ve been trying to share this video wherever I can.

  People also need to be aware of Curtis Yarvin, founder the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment. Many of the rich tech fascists in Silicon Valley share his ideas and ideals. From his wikipedia page alone:

  Yarvin’s ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel have echoed Yarvin’s project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin’s thinking. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, “​So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things,” which included “Retire All Government Employees,” or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, “I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

  This page also documents a lot of the Venture Capitial Extremism happening right now: www.vcinfodocs.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soil nutrients have such a marked effect on corn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I might try again next year. I’m slowly reclaiming the lawn and turning it into growing spaces so should have more room then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soil nutrients have such a marked effect on corn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped trying to grow corn in my small backyard as it wasn’t worth the effort for the amount of space it would take up to get good pollination. Once it gets to the middle of summer here in the southern hemisphere, corn becomes really cheap to buy anyway.