bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@ambulocetus @jeffowski so, guess you can say the ten is not confident, it is principled.

@ambulocetus @jeffowski because the "remove billionaires" options are destructive and those very rarely work in the long run.

people could just stop buying stuff from billionaires for a start, but they don't want to.

i think the lifestyle of virtually all the proponents of "violently traumatizing" billionaires is filled with stuff made by very wealthy people. the whole stack from netflix to spotify to apple to tinder to food delivery to steam to clothing to ... is made by precisely the people they hate.

just start buying locally produced things where possible, used technology, ...

those are constructive actions which not add more money to billionaires and keep wealth locally distributed. it might not be the most convenient or cheap option and might not even be possible all of the time. at least it's better than calls for violence against people who for whatever reason are better off by others larping as morally superior.

@freemo updates are great, as long as they are optional. the reader i described prevented usage unless the update was installed.

if everything android can be installed samba is no problem, yes!

yeah, diagrams and such are a use case. guess color also enables highlighting text, which is nice.

@freemo yeah, the last ereader i looked at "locked" itself until an update was installed. i don't want to have to install updates to read a book.

what i really need is a reader application, web browser and a file browser which speaks to samba shares. i don't want to fiddle with sd cards or cables :)

i know that e-ink has muted colors, but i don't need that feature anyway - the only thing i can think of are comics, which i rarely read :) do you have a specific use for colors, or is it just nice to have?

@freemo thanks, will take a look, even if i don't really need color. it's so damn hard to get an eink device which isn't bullshit in one way or another, like requiring accounts somewhere.

@freemo what device do you have?

@ambulocetus @jeffowski solid ten.

_why would removing billionaires make people happier_?

_why not focus on make everyone else happier?_

instead of making billionaires less happy/rob them/murder them - because that is exactly what people often call for, thinly veiled.

@iron_bug yeah, i think i haven't seen new stuff in a decade where i would say it's really an improvement.

@spinneria @SirVo @mangeurdenuage @gabriel i'm not sure it was a serious answer ;)

@McMongoose @Kagekokoro the yandex image search is pretty good, google and bing are shit for images.

i need a thread with comfy cozy computer stuff plz.