DebatableRaccoon

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Orientation.

Why do people eat food they know isn’t good for their health? Why do people continue to buy products from companies that have proven to only sell bad products or engage in scumbag practices?

They all have the same answer.

I know what the meme is. The comment is supposed to be a satirical state on the reality that many people think they’re still buying something when they pay Steam, PSN or what have you.

Which is what they are in the west anyway.

Ohhhh. It read as a iphone fanboy flex

You are a truly baffling individual. Good day

That serves your case less than you realise. Most people facing this invasion of privacy trust Apple even less.

Sorry to say this but the question reads a bit dense when you’re presently in a different pirating community from the one you’re complaining about but still asking where to ask. You know this isn’t reddit, right?

It’s an r/ so yeah

Short of any model requirements, I’ll just recommend looking at the Kobo line up. They have a pretty wide variety and all support a large number of formats though as someone else pointed out, you can use Calibre to reformat ebooks where needed. You can also put KOreader on them like someone else suggested doing with a kindle so you really aren’t missing out on anything by not having a Kindle.

I thought you were being dramatic then I checked their profile. That’s some next level spam posting

Sadly, there’s not too much I can do about that. From what I’ve understood, there’s a whole lot of red tape around tap-to-pay transaction technology. Personally, I don’t use any of it. Only cash or card where I have to.

Not to mention the insane amount of exclusivity going on now and even the stupidity of certain features of the service not being available in certain areas. I stopped paying for Netflix when I got it from a rep that because I was living in a non-English-speaking country that I couldn’t have access to the English voice track of a show I wanted to watch.

Subscriptions are the next iteration of the console wars. They bank on exclusives instead of designing the best user experience and selling themselves on merit alone.

There are a few different ones. I highly recommend doing your own research to find one you’re comfortable with; reading multiple different reviews of each and whatnot. But here’s a site specialising in finding alternatives to services

By “Google tax” I mean having to buy one of their devices and the “restrictions” I’m referring to are the lack of headphone jack and micro SD card slot. They may mean nothing to you or others but they’re both bare minimum requirements for myself and others. For as long as they aren’t available on Pixel devices, I will never consider a Pixel.

I also hate the ass-backwards hole punch camera but that seems to be even more of a losing battle than the other common sense features I mentioned.

Not to start an argument but why would one want to be using Google Pay after going through the process of de-googling their phone? Seems counterproductive.

I’d love to see this come to fruition. I’ve wanted Graphene since I first heard about it but refuse to pay the Google tax for admission and live with all the restrictions a Google device comes with

Terrible advice. If budget is a concern, then a TV with organic decay really isn’t what they should be looking at. That and with newer technologies like micro-LED, OLED is no longer the be all, end all it once was, especially when longevity isn’t a problem for these other technologies like with OLED.

The desperate desire to cling to anything that presents answers the individual feels comfortable with - a pretty lie is easier to swallow than the hard truth - coupled with the borderline-crippling fear of the unknown. Many religions - especially ones in the west - preach tolerance but rarely practice it. Mix that with power-hungry individuals and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.