No argument here. It is insane to me that if I want content that isn’t locked into a particular ecosystem, I have to seek out public domain material or pick from the small subset of books that is sold DRM-free books in an open format. For anything else, money can’t buy flexibility. For most books, the only options for digital are accepting the DRM, waiting until copyright expires (good luck with that one), or privateering with out a letter of marque.
Very user-hostile, but very unsurprising.
Kindle hardware can be very nice, but almost every software decision is designed to keep users within their walled garden.
No epub support, no third party app support, no ability to load non-store audio, and now this. What a waste. These things could be so much more useful than they are.
Mercator k55k knives can be had for less than $50 on Amazon. Many Opinels are available on Amazon for under $20. Great knives if they’re what you’re looking for.
Woof. The logo was always a hint about what they were planning to do to the customers. First the K and the G came for the letter o…and I did nothing because I am not the letter o.
There’s nothing non-intentional or implicit about denying the franchise to noncitizens. For the vast majority of countries, that is the way citizenship is expressly designed to work as an in-group. Citizenship is generally meant to discriminate against outsiders.
Neat! Next time I build a house, I’ll go with House Telvanni.
Michael Moorcock’s Elric books tick all of the boxes in your list. So do his Corum and Hawkmoon books.
The bones are their money, so are the worms!
Adding on to this: people overestimate their own expertise.
I’ve had good luck with Brasso and an old piece of t-shirt. A bit less abrasive than sandpaper, but it should still be able to remove the rust. The blade print will not be unscathed. My douk-douk was definitely prettier before I started mistreating it. Rinse it off when you’re done, oil up the blade, move on.
I saw that, too. I haven’t had a lot of headaches with MTP using my Android devices, but I’m always surprised at how there always seems to be a plan to make my devices worse than they already are.