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madjo

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40ish white dude (he/him) from the Netherlands

  • Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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  • No, the files are mostly owned by the publisher. That's why you sometimes have stories where books disappear from Kindles because the rights holders revoke Amazon's license to sell their books. It's what happened with one version of Orwell's 1984, ironically.

    It's ridiculous, if you ask me, but that's the reality with Broken By Design DRM ebooks.

    That's why it's prudent for any buyers of ebooks to download them as soon as you can, and put them in a library like "Calibre", that way, even if Amazon loses their license to sell those publishers books, you still have access to the ebooks you bought with your money.And that's why it's bad that Amazon is removing the option to download the files yourself. And why I recommend people to take their business and wallets elsewhere! Stop giving Bezos your money.

  • Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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  • According to them you only have a license to those ebooks.

  • Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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  • Or go for the Kobo, which is similarly priced as the Kindle. The Kobo Clara Colour is £150

  • Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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  • I'm really glad that I downloaded my entire Kindle library a month ago, and converted it all to either CBZ or Epub.

    Fuck Bezos.

    One tip for the audiobook-fans: Download your Audible books while you still can. It's only a matter of time before Bezos locks those downloads too. Libation will help liberate your library into DRM-free files.

  • THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS

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  • That’s because they exist. Probably not aliens and such, but any object seen flying that’s not identified is a UFO.

  • THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS

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  • I’ve heard quite a few flat earthers who claim that “they” are hiding god by hiding the true shape of the earth (according to the flat earthers obviously)

    According to them the Bible tells them the world is flat and there’s a dome separating the waters above from the waters below.

  • Calm down Satan

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  • I’m confused by your post.

    1. theirs is a reaction to someone posting a cartoon as a comment.
    2. they give a link to the original. (And before you say that that post had to have been edited to add the link, it would be marked as such, like this one, and it doesn’t show that the post is edited)
    3. anyone can see those comments. It’s not limited to just the poster, unless you’re not on Lemmy, but instead are viewing this thread from someplace else in the fediverse, like Mastodon.

  • THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS

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  • For a certain group of people, science and life have gotten too complicated, and they want to feel special with special knowledge (often coupled with a distorted god belief), so they fall in the conspiracy theory rabbit hole.

    And flat earth is actually one of the more dangerous conspiracy theories too, according to this chart, as it is usually not the only conspiracy these people believe in.

  • What was your earliest experiences with the Internet like?

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  • Chatrooms on ilse.nl

    Simple webpages.

    No ads.

    Dial up noises.

    Altavista was the search engine. Astalavista was the search engine for pirated material.

  • Five Confusing Fediverse Things

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  • Because they're not exactly private

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  • Do we? I was never asked.

    The community as it is right now, feels like the early days of Reddit and Slashdot. I really don't mind that slight speed bump.

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  • I respectfully disagree. Reddit went downhill and became significantly more difficult to manage/moderate when the masses joined.

    If people aren't willing to invest a bit of time to understand how Lemmy works (and it's really not that difficult to understand), then I don't think Lemmy is a good fit for them.

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  • It was the default for a very long time. Reddit changed that because it prevented them from monetizing the site that easily. And the admins seemed to dislike what RES could do with the old Reddit look.

  • What’s the dumbest thing you ever got in trouble at school for?

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  • I got detention for being ahead in reading. We were reading a text in class, people got turns to read part of the text out loud. And they were reading so slowly that I was way ahead of them. So when the teacher gave the turn to read out loud to me, I didn't fully know where the previous reader had left.My neighbour whispered the next line to me, but that line appeared twice in the text.

    So I started reading from the second occurence of that line but with the next line after that there was a lot of confusion in class.

    The teacher told me to stay behind for detention, because of that.

  • ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off

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  • My North-East facing balcony doesn't get enough sun light. But it's an interesting idea.

  • Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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  • dons a Viking helmet and in a deep bariton sings No they're nooooot 🎶

  • how old were you the first time you got drunk?

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  • 4 or 5, though I have no active memory of it, but apparently the day after my dad's birthday, my younger brother and I found the crate of empty-ish beer bottles from the party the night before, and we drank the little leftover beer from those bottles. Apparently we slept like drunk roses the rest of the day.

    After that I never drank alcohol again until I was well in my twenties. I remember being drunk off champagne one New Years Eve, I was 26 at the time, to drink away the lonely feeling I had at midnight, when I was the only single guy in a party filled with married people. We had done the countdown and at midnight everyone turned to their partner to kiss them a happy new year, and I had no one, that was the most miserable start of the year I ever had. So I disappeared in a bottle that night.

  • MAGA melts down over Super Bowl halftime performance

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  • I’m sure that’s what’s you were taught, but it’s not true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/news-etymology/

    It doesn’t work in other languages either.

    The Dutch word for news is nieuws, but that does not form an acronym of noord, oost, west, zuid.

    The German word is Nachrichten. Which is very far from Nord Ost Süd West.

  • America has a problem: GOP Congressman Chalks Beyoncé’s Historic Grammy Win Up to ‘DEI’

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  • America has always been a racist as fuck country. The only difference is that it’s now blatantly mask off.