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You don’t need to crack anything, pirate your ebooks (I’ve recently had good results from annas-archive.org for fiction books) and send them to kindle as personal documents.
Corporations are not people, no matter what the Supreme Court says.
The only game journalist I trust is James Stephanie Sterling and Denuvo sure as shit isn’t sending them a copy
Cops will never help you
Games are free on PC, or at least very cheap if you insist on actually purchasing them
Think of the poor cluster bomb manufacturers. How will they maximize shareholder value if nobody uses their widely banned weapons that mostly kill civilians?
Tradition, one of the worst reasons on earth to do anything.
Kinda hoping to stretch it until tablet style foldables get reasonably reliable and affordable
Galaxy note 9. It’s the peak smartphone, no holepunch nonsense, every useful feature, still plenty fast. The only drawbacks are that the battery is starting to wear out, which is fixable with a bit of fuss, and the screen has a little bit of keyboard burn in, only visible on all black screens.
From the 1998 paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page:
Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is “The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention”, a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.
Yeah there’s a pretty fundamental conflict of interest in an advertising company controlling most of the world’s browsers.
This means you need to use Firefox, Chrome is crippling adblockers.
Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic
Trashfuture is the best tech podcast
Man, we’d really be screwed without piracy and emulators. This number only counts legal availability.
Aggressive would be shooting down jets until everybody stops flying on fossil fuels, which would be good to do by the way
If that’s the concern use a fucking train
Poor capitalists trying to squeeze every cent of margin they can’t possibly plan for things that’s too hard
Proper planning prevents piss poor performance.