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@artkavanagh I’ve looked at the Purism Librem 5 but can’t justify spending the money. So I use a cheap older Android phone and limit what I use on it.
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@MitchW Damnation Alley was first by a few years. I think they both grew out of the late 1960s sense of looming apocalypse. Which should be coming back into style any minute now.
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@rasterweb Of course the billionaires agree with him: they all want to be trillionaires.
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@manton Except that Amazon has prioritized (I think) the theory that everyone should be an author so as to incrementally increase the participation in their overall ecosystem. Convince people that they’ll make money and they’re less likely to leave. (Even though the long tail of people make essentially no money).
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@manton That’s exactly why I dumped my Audible subscription after years - no way to extract human work from the flood of slop, and no pricing differential. Fortunately libro.fm sill exists as an alternative.
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@pawel Not loading in Firefox on Linux Mint:
An error occurred during a connection to orzech.me. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
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@dwalbert I just did a 30-mile day hike alone. Though I did have an audio book running some of the time for company. But with open-ear headphones that don’t disturb critters!