EnsignWashout

joined 2 years ago

This was really helpful. Thank you.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?

  • BAEN sells eBooks directly.
  • Libby has various options to check out eBooks from local libraries.
  • Project Gutenberg has free and DRM free eBooks for most books in the public domain. A huge number of classics are available this way.

When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.

Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.

As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.

I remember those days, as well!

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought a "fixer-upper" recently, so I fill most days off with minor home repair projects. I'm using it as an excuse to build a decent little project workbench, though.

Just so you know, this isn't Reddit. You've just been blocked by everyone reading along here.

If you start to feel like no one replies here, it's actually you, in this case. It could help to try again with a new account.

Sure some people might say hi back but that doesn't mean they're a friend.

True. But I've had some great friendships grow after years of just "hi" in passing. We weren't friends yet, but we were destined to become friends.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are you suggesting that our total and complete lack of health and safety standards and really even a modicum of self respect - hurts our international product sales? How could that possibly be?

As an American, I was taught that maximizing quarterly profits will solve all of my problems, so I have no framework to use this idea, and so I will ignore it.

P.s. Help welcome. Some of us realize we're disgusting. Discussing here probably does help. Thank you.

I'm with you.

Thankfully, corporate bullahit isn't the only way to create a discovery algorithm.

I expect that we will have a diverse set of discovery algorithms available to opt into here, in a few years.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you! You're doing Lliira's work!

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.

Prove me wrong.

Counterpoint?Obviously I don't have any examples here.

I'm sorry if I got anyone's hope's up

I hope this was a brief, fun, moment of mystery for a few of us.

Thank goodness. We didn't have enough Stars Wars, yet.

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