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Stay away from them too.
I would if Pinephone was able to make phone calls or Librem 5 ever shipped...
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They are committing genocide, run concentration camps and forced labour. They actively threat Taiwan. That's more than enough to justify avoiding them.
They are not committing genocide. https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/A/HRC/41/G/17
Regardless of whether it matches everyone's exact definition, it's clearly an atrocity.
1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/is-china-committing-g...
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The prices reMarkable advertise are deceptive to the point where I reckon they’re probably illegal under at least Australian advertising law: that price doesn’t include a marker, which is almost essential to the deliberately expressed purpose of the device; so add on another 20%. Most people will also want some kind of cover, which is another 20% for the cheapest reMarkable sells. You’ve got to be careful about this…
You can use any standard resistive stylus pen though, which you can get for extremely cheap anywhere (and you need to anyway, since the tips will wear down). The only thing their accessory pen adds is a built-in eraser.
Wacom clone styluses are a bit more expensive than resistive styluses, but they can be bought for less than 20$.
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Kobo has a 10.3" reader, it's a bit cheaper than competitors but it's also not as good. Amazon doesn't really seem to subsidize ereader hardware except maybe in countries where they are "losing" like Canada. Like compare what you get with a Boox Leaf or Boyue P78 for the price of a Kindle Oasis.
My kindle is “ad supported” which I always took as they subsidized it. That being said at least a year ago you can hack it and install ko reader and set the ad directory to read only and you got yourself a darn good Ereader with no ads.
Usually a comparable Kobo or Pocketbook is within spitting distance if not cheaper. The 6.8" Paperwhite somewhat upset the balance as they don't have a direct response to it right now. A Kobo Libra 2 is 90% of what an Oasis is for 2/3rds the cost. And no ads.
With all the events happening right now I find it really hard to justify buying products made in China/Russia/Belarus. This product looks great, but I'll never have a clean conscious knowing my money is by extension financing terrorists.
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I don’t understand; China is not taking part in the “events happening right now” (assuming you mean invasion of Ukraine); the global boycott focuses on Russia (and to a lesser extent on Belarus).
He/she means everything, because he/she cant otherwise verbalize what upsets him/her All the news cycle becomes a tangled mess of "being upset at things", it doesn't really matter if these things are verifiable or not, the broader apparatus benefits either way so long as you become irrationally upset
Phenomenal news. I’m hoping competition drives prices down. Remarkable 2 looks neat but so expensive. Now there’s choice.
It all comes down to the paper like writing feel + latency. Several contenders have been compared to RM2, but RM2 has consistently won out. Curious how this one does.
[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/rkw00t/a5x_chauv...
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You prefer China (presumably here we mean the CCP) to any American corporation, because some American companies have done the moral wrong of sometimes folding to the CCP? Seems a bit inside out.
> You prefer China (presumably here we mean the CCP) There only exists one official China on this planet... > because some American companies have done the moral wrong Do we really wanna talk about all the wrong American governments and/or corporations have done in the past 75 years? Or how many resources they depleted while large parts of the World were barely surviving? Are you sure?
People like you always want to compare historic issues with current issues, when it advances your rabid anti-US rhetoric. The truth of the matter is that times change and people, countries, and industry is doing so much better now. Comparing the US of 75 years ago to the China of today is a dishonest juxtaposition, that both slanders the US and infantilizes China.
As an American, I'd rather have a foreign actor spying on me than my own government. The foreign actor has no jurisdiction over me.
> The foreign actor has no jurisdiction over me. You can be subjected to blackmail and/or other hostile actions from a foreign jurisdiction.