I refer to it as "Boomer Social" as it is the exclusive form of communication for family members over 60. When I purged my Meta accounts, finally, I completely lost contact with my sister.
Seems that old people who were around for email being the norm can't manage to use it anymore...
Yeah, it makes things a lot harder as I want one that will let me lug my TTRPG library around with me.
Hundreds of books over four systems, all in PDF, takes up a pretty big chunk of storage.
I keep them on my tablet, now, which works. The thing is power hungry, though, so I need to plug it in or it dies in like two hours.
I'd really like a nice eInk (hopefully color, but I can deal with grayscale) reader to manage all that, as well as my books, and my collection of Alan Moore graphic novels and the Neil Gaiman stuff that I still have.
Cards are their own issue...
I had a bank that would always deny my purchase of a game with fraud detection, though I suspect it was because GOG was still banking in Gibraltar then, but then my card was actually stolen and they just let them spend $5 at every store in town until I was overdrawn by the maximum they allowed.
The natural extension of a life sustained on caffeine, nicotine, and spite.
They may have the power but I'll be damned if I don't make using it cost as much as possible.
They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked "adult" for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.
I made that account in 1999, it's not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I'm getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.
We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the "Don't be evil" motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.
I scrape from the command line, Google doesn't even tough a web browser, leech the webm/webp/whatever content and transcode it into mkv/mp3 to watch locally, offline, with no ads or tracking.
We should all know they never stop with "those people" and always pick the next group to attack.
The fact that so many are willing to throw anyone under the bus for a few political points only proves they aren't capable of seeing the very clear pattern that just keeps repeating.
It's not like we haven't all heard some variation of Martin Niemöller's "First They Came" by now but people still keep thinking that if they're just "one of the good ones" they'll be left alone.
They do this after they stop letting download what you paid for and transfer via USB.
I downloaded my whole library, cracked all the DRM and dumped the AZWs to ePubs as soon as they announced that, and sent in an account deletion request. When they made it a requirement to use their "cloud" to do anything with your Kindle I knew it was over.
We all knew it was coming, any way to screw us they'll do it, they don't need customer service anymore since they killed most competition and people are stuck with Amazon or Piracy.
Personally I'll send an author a donation if I can't buy direct from them in DRM-Free formats.
I was looking at a Boox Go Color to add in support for my manga and comics as well as my library of novels but with Android getting really creepy I'm not so sure I want to be tied to what I see as a dying ecosystem again because Boox uses it as their OS.
The Pine64 stuff looks like a good option, but it has no expansion, which was always a problem with Kindle since even their 128GB internal flash of the PineNote (that si much larger than any Kindle version) isn't enough to load my manuals. That's actually why I have the 1st Gen Kindle Keyboard, and not the DX, with so little storage and no expansion option the PDF support and a screen large enough to make things locked to formatting for 8 1/2 x 11 readable was pretty pointless.
They have already had people on them for not stopping scam ads, they get paid by their customers so they don;t care how many of their products are harmed.