My library has booth Libby and Hoopla.
Hoopla is by far the better service. 10 books per month with a huge library to choose from. No waiting for somebody to return it in a line.
I use both mine and my wife’s library card so I am going through 20 books per month. Plus aother 5-6 on Libby.
Bah!!! Beginners numbers…
I’ll have you know I barely passed typing class on one of those IBM ball electric typewriters at 31wpm.
On the IBM computers with word perfect 5.1 from the 5.25’ floppy. I was much faster… 32wpm.
Then I got ulnar nerve damage from a terrible bicycle accident in Europe aka… I fell off… and now I average 20wpm.
Media companies, “We are losing money because people don’t want to pay.”
Or just maybe, your product sucks and people are finding alternatives to avoid dealing with you.
Currently pirating or streaming from a secondary site is faster, better quality, and easier to use. It’s really not that hard to figure out.
Body language. It is an unconscious behavior that people adopt in a culture.
If you travel to enough places and are observant, after a while you can pick out the cultures where people are from without a word.
The groups need an established core of well informed and experienced people to work together and shape the culture of the community. The moderation team also needs to be responsive and consistent.
I got pulled into being part of one of those teams years ago. It was a pretty simple formula to make the community healthy: The creeps/spammers got banned and reported. The ignorant got educated in a logical and coherent manner by a team approach. The trolls were played with for a while then banned when they eventually violated a rule.
A good group can save lives and help a lot of people. A bad one can further harm the already damaged and vulnerable. There are many of both groups out there.
They have proven many times over that pirating/accessibility have inverse relationship.
My most frustrating example was when I needed one song for a project my wife was working on a long time ago. I looked to try to purchase it online and could only find it on iTunes. In order to purchase from iTunes you had to download the application and install it. However I had an old machine running Linux… By the time I figured this all out I had spent 2 hours trying to pay $0.99 for one song. I could not find an approved way to do it. So I went the alternative route and had the song in under 5 minutes.
They keep pushing accessibility down recently. I am not playing their games again. When they want to be reasonable they will get paid.
Never had good luck with anything netgear.
I have used Motorola’s and have never had one crap out on me. I just replaced my old 3.0 modem with the MB8611 and so far it is working flawlessly.
They really have simplified it down to shiney pieces of sealed magic.
My 18 year old had to call me up to help with his windows laptop at college. It’s a bit embarrassing.
You never got stuck in formatting hell on word-perfect apparently.
It was pretty easy in creating new original documents.
Editing existing documents was an absolute nightmare. The list was extremely long of random shit that would happen we you deleted some text.