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I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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brigandish wrote: post #370
chii wrote: post #277

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Tiresome doesn't necessarily mean physically tired. Words do have meaning, and you would know if you read those meaning to understand the idea being presented.

Arduous never means "something that is slightly inconvenient" unless one is prone to exaggeration and has the forbearance of a child. > Tiresome doesn't necessarily mean physically tired. Not necessarily , no, not at all . I suggest a dictionary. Back in the day, people who cared about reading and the meaning of words would keep one handy, often next to the bed.

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Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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rg111 wrote: post #256
chii wrote: post #149

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> Delightful experience. compare this with the piracy option: search for torrent or download link, click, wait for download to finish. Upload to device. Read and enjoy.

Just text the book title to Telegram bot of Z-Library. Under 5 seconds, you have the book. Tap the share button to email the book to your Kindle email address. If the Kindle has wifi on, the book automatically appears under another 10 seconds. The whole process takes less than 30 seconds. I buy Kindles specifically for this feature of being able to mail EPUBs to Kindle. When or if it is no longer possible, I stop buy…

I tried Telegram at first and found several channels all claiming to be official, but without obvious instructions for such a bot. Then I tried Googling, and there are countless shady links. It's unclear what the real thing is and what's a scam/spam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/zlibrary is full of warnings about scam websites.

My point is it's hardly easier, let alone safe, compared to Amazon.

Edit: Is it this? https://go-to-zlibrary.se/#telegram_bot_tab. Seems a bit risky, given the trail it creates vs anonymous downloads from some tor site.

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memefrog wrote: post #484
mavhc wrote: post #468

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Use your dominance as a platform provider as leverage to extort extra fees for doing nothing. https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/cases/AT.40437

They don't extort anything and they aren't dominant. They're a minority player in the market. If anyone is dominant, it is Google. Despite Apple being more expensive, people still choose them. This isn't lock in, it is because they're the luxury, cool choice.

The Apple App Store led with an estimated revenue of $85.1 billion (roughly £70.5 billion) in 2021, responsible for 63% of total app revenue. In the same year, Google Play Store generated revenues of nearly $47.9 billion (roughly £39.7 billion) through Android apps

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Post by rg111 »

archon810 wrote: post #492
rg111 wrote: post #256

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Just text the book title to Telegram bot of Z-Library. Under 5 seconds, you have the book. Tap the share button to email the book to your Kindle email address. If the Kindle has wifi on, the book automatically appears under another 10 seconds. The whole process takes less than 30 seconds. I buy Kindles specifically for this feature of being able to mail EPUBs to Kindle. When or if it is no longer possible, I stop buy…

I tried Telegram at first and found several channels all claiming to be official, but without obvious instructions for such a bot. Then I tried Googling, and there are countless shady links. It's unclear what the real thing is and what's a scam/spam. https://www.reddit.com/r/zlibrary is full of warnings about scam websites. My point is it's hardly easier, let alone safe, compared to Amazon. Edit: Is it this? https://…

Not that. You try the link that says Single Login.

I use ZLib since before it was popular. So there was near zero risks of scam sites.

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Post by memefrog »

mavhc wrote: post #493
memefrog wrote: post #484

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They don't extort anything and they aren't dominant. They're a minority player in the market. If anyone is dominant, it is Google. Despite Apple being more expensive, people still choose them. This isn't lock in, it is because they're the luxury, cool choice.

The Apple App Store led with an estimated revenue of $85.1 billion (roughly £70.5 billion) in 2021, responsible for 63% of total app revenue. In the same year, Google Play Store generated revenues of nearly $47.9 billion (roughly £39.7 billion) through Android apps

Right, because the Apple app store is used by people that own iPhones, which are expensive luxury goods for people with lots of disposable income. The Android app store is used by everyone else. The Apple app store is still a minority player in terms of market share.

I genuinely don't understand how you can simultaneously post these stats and claim that Apple's business model is bad for people that develop apps for Apple's devices. As a collective they make BILLIONS of dollars per year more.

Far more egregious is that Google charge a similar fee and do basically nothing to moderate the platform at all. If anything is rent-seeking, it is that. Apple does a huge amount to moderate and review apps when they go out. It was a hassle, as an app developer, to have to go through that process. But the result is an ecosystem where people trust apps enough that they'll spend significant amounts of money on them. Who would spend anything on an Android app when you have no idea if it's actually good or if it just has a completely astroturfed review score?

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Post by bobboies »

jasonladuke0311 wrote: post #454
bunga-bunga wrote: post #395

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> I’d rather go into a real shop anyway You’re assuming that scams don’t make their way into regular distributors as they try to cut corners and maintain competitiveness. You already see established brands lower the quality of their products after the first round of reviews online. If found out, they just blame manufacturing. Sorry.

Yep, Patagonia is suing Nordstrom for selling fakes: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/patagonia-accus...

Nordstrom being a third party vendor of course. You want Patagonia, go to Patagonia. :)

In my mind we’re talking about what is a better solution to the problem, and it’s that companies WILL protect their IP. If someone buys fake Patagonia, Patagonia loses out on a sale.

Amazon doesn’t own much of anything IP-Wise on their marketplace in the grand scheme. And they don’t care who buys what as long as products are moving. It’s easier for them to just pay out returns than handle the actual problem.

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bpt3 wrote: post #422
dangus wrote: post #400

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There’s a big difference between limiting SKU count to simplify operations and products being curated to be “the best” and most trustworthy options. Natural foods stores have much more stringent standards on things like artificial colors, animal treatment, and use of chemicals. For example, Tide Original is banned in New York for having too much of a cancer-causing chemical. Costco sells it. Costco sells products wit…

No one said Costco offers the very best product in any or all categories. What they said is that Costco is upfront about what they're selling, rarely sells defective products, and offers a very generous return policy in the (rare) case you are dissatisfied with a purchase. Those aren't that far off from Walmart or Target, because those are also generally reasonable retailers. I would say Costco offers better value on…

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Post by fennecfoxy »

nomat wrote: post #44

I think this is the future of computers for people. they will open their phone and say "hey siri get this book or computer or car" and the browser will show them a bunch of made up products generated by an AI and they'll get the product drop shipped from china and it'll be a shitty counterfeit just like the $5 256GB USB drives. But they won't know because when you look for reviews, the review websites will also be ge…

Lmao, scams and crap products have always been a thing since we crawled out of the oceans. As always, the problem isn't technology but humanity itself.

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Post by fennecfoxy »

homarp wrote: post #378
andrei_says_ wrote: post #118

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We swim in garbage already (looking at amazon) but bhphoto and sweetwater still exist.

and apple.com

The streamlined and stylised experience of paying multiple hundreds of percents mark-up for ram and SSDs.

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Post by fennecfoxy »

VincentEvans wrote: post #128

Let me tell you how to buy a kindle book for my kid’s Kindle that is connected via a child account in “Amazon Household” to my Amazon account. (This opening sentence already signals how the rest of this will go). A child’s account can’t buy books - you have to do it for them. 1. I open Amazon app on my iphone and find the book - “This app does not support purchasing of this content”. 2. I open Kindle app on my iphone…

I call this "technoshit", which is the general downhill trend of UX as technology and software becomes more complicated. I suppose there's Doctorow's "enshittification", however that lends more to intentional anti-patterns whereas I try to describe the feeling of "why couldn't they just try harder to make this not shit".

Stuff like your experience with Amazon, mine even just last night having to: find where I can buy something I want to stream (already a nightmare), buying it on the "new" Google TV app only to cast to the TV before playing it and getting "this content cannot be played on your TV", before starting it playing on my phone first and _then_ casting, after which it worked.

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