Political Custard

I can’t wait to get a Kobo… but my 10 year old Kindle Paperwhite refuses to die (I just transfer books to it via USB, it’s not been in contact with Amazon for years). I did put an OS on the paperwhite allowing for white text on a black screen and it allowed epubs but it was a bit crashy and needed to be rebooted every now and then and a Kindle reboot takes several minutes. Definitely a Kobo next though…

UPDATE! This comment is no longer relevant now OP has updated link to app.

Warning: Simple Mobile Tools sold to controversial ZipoApps publisher - via Ghacks

Yes, this one is good too, very simple interface. I found it a bit tricky to find out where you import/export (but that could just have been me tapping randomly until something worked). I switched to Feeder when I got bored of ReadYou and now I guess it’s Twine until another shiny thing comes along.

Thanks, it looks really nice and I’m always happy to try out a new RSS reader. As noodle said, it would be nice to be able to get it from F-Droid, I used the Aurora Store instead.

Looks good, I do like minimal apps, some podcast apps try to do far too much and just become a confusing mess. I will keep an eye on this and give it a try when (hopefully) opml import is introduced. Thanks for the recommendation.

I like to think that the last sound ever to be heard on the internet will be someone getting slapped with a wet trout.

What a magical world irc was in the 90s when I was a gay closeted teenager talking to queers from all over the world. When you find your people for the first time. IRC will always hold a special place in my heart. I always keep an irc client on my install… for old time’s sake.

I keep those kind of numbers in Keepassxc and cut and paste them when I need them. It’s not that I don’t trust FF I just think having one storage place is better than having two and it’s just not necessary for FF to have them. A few extra seconds of copy pasting inconvenience is a price I’m happy to pay. For extra security I never cut and paste the CVC, that’s always manual entry from memory.

That aur link should be: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ladybird-git 🙂

The problem is, for your position to be morally consistent you would have to be against all boycotts and sanctions everywhere because they are, by their very nature, unfair to many people. They are not an ideal tool but for want of a better one this is the one we have.

I did a little thought experiment and considered that if I were a business owner here (the UK) and someone said to me, “I would have bought what you are selling but how your country has treated the Chagos islanders is abhorrent.”, I would probably feel that was a bit unfair because I support the Chagos islanders, they have been treated terribly by my country, but I would also completely understand and support that person in their boycott of the UK.

Boycotts and sanctions worked in apartheid South Africa and if I can do a teeny tiny bit to help them work in Israel, I will.

Incidentally, I do protest my own Government’s behaviour, I live in London and have regularly gone to the recent pro-peace protests and will continue going until this genocide stops. In this year’s election I will not be voting for any political party or politician that did not immediately call for a ceasefire - that is not going to leave me with very many options at the ballot box, I can assure you.

I boycott all Israeli companies and products, you may think that that is racist behaviour if you like, that is quite up to you. But I am boycotting Israel precisely because it is a racist state - a view, incidentally, that is also shared by the UN.

ZipoApps, which bought Simple Mobile Tools, is an Israeli company. I got this information from the linked article above: https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/12/simple-mobile-tools-bought-by-zipoapps-sparks-controversy-over-future-of-open-source-apps/

That’s good to know about the Simple apps being acquired by an adware company… an Israeli company at that! Pfft. I used to use the Simple apps a few years ago because they integrated with Nextcloud.

Of these type of browser privacy comparisons the best I have found so far is https://privacytests.org/