The features in the image very obviously require connection to Google servers, and requiring an account to connect to someone’s servers is entirely normal and justified behavior.

Good.

Apple removing the disgusting pile of shit of a connector without a single redeeming quality was a big part of the fact that cables have C ends instead now.

Donating money doesn’t give you free rein to be an asshole, and shockingly, their donations went way up when they removed the trash.

They elected to decide that some of the people being jackasses didn’t technically violate their community guidelines and apologized, but that doesn’t mean that there was a single person who was banned who didn’t deserve it. Yes, jumping on a bandwagon of unforgivable horseshit without technically saying a banned thing still makes you a bad person, and yes, everyone they banned should have stayed banned.

They banned “developer” accounts who were being incredibly disruptive throwing a tantrum about the social media account celebrating games with a wide variety of perspectives. I don’t think there’s any actual evidence for them banning a single person who ever did anything useful, but it doesn’t actually matter. They aren’t obligated to let you be in their community.

Don’t behave like a raging jackass and you won’t be called one. I’m not obligated to ignore bad behavior either. It’s perfectly OK to call bad people behaving badly bad people.

You realize it’s open source and you don’t need their blessing to use it right?

You’re not entitled to force people to deal with you being a raging jackass.

lol because people always behave in ways consistent with how they tell an interviewer they will.

From 14 to 31 is still pretty rare. (I checked, population is ~6mil).

And at such a low rate relative to the population, if you’re assuming most cases don’t report it, the difference in reporting could pretty easily be increased awareness that reporting it was an option or some other similar cause unrelated to an actual increased failure rate.

But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.

I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.

I’m genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.

It has the worst library navigation I’ve ever seen.

$350 for a thin client locked out of doing anything useful and requiring a subscription to function?

Shockingly, your brain and productivity improve when you get regular downtime.

(Yeah I know most people want something shorter than a book. It’s a solid read though.)

And when it’s junk out of the box because random no-name Amazon cables are universally terrible?

It’s $10 and high quality. How much do you think you’re saving with a junk off brand one?

There’s approximately a 100% chance that every single implementation of this technology will have negligible safety impact and will be tracked and sold to target ads.

They’re really not. Dude didn’t invent wing doors.