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Thousands of users world wide, that’s like multiple users per country, oh no!

Gun culture is fucking wild

Don’t know what you gain by calling names.

Different people have different likes. Its really not a hard concept. Have a fine day 👋

No, I didn’t say exhausting, I said uncomfortable. I bought my first ereader in 2009, and a lot of then in the meantime, I had devices with only buttons, only toucscreen, and both.

Using buttons for page turns is the most comfortable for me. I do appreciate a touchscreen to configure the device, select books, etc.

Opds and kosync, I’m sold :o

add.: ordered it 2 hours ago.

I’m fine with it being cheaper as long as it has a backlight lol

Its an essential feature for me, just saying of it would make the device more expensive, so be it

Hard, no. Uncomfortable, yes.

I’m really not looking to move my fingers much when I read. What am I supposed to do, rest my finger on the display so I can turn the page and skip 15 words per page?

Having a space with no display where I can actually hold the reader makes it so much better, for me

Read so much about that thing. Make it 100$, give it a backlight and WiFi and I’ll buy three…

My kobo has a power button, and two page turn buttons and its perfect for my needs.

Seriously, I have 4 (5 if you count the ancient kindle DX) ereaders, and the kobo is the only one I use. Will never again buy one without buttons

No need to, there is no fruit of the poisonous tree in German law. Police can strip search you in bright daylight on a crowded square for no reason - clearly illegal, bit what they find will be used to proscute you. The officers will be punished as well, at most with a stern talking to.

Google is not breaking the (German) law here, it actually is your responsibility as a user to not spy on people. Failure to do so means up to three years in jail, for a first offender most likely a fine. And your device that you used to break the law might get confiscated.

The later was already the case when people used radar warner apps (banned on Germany as well) and lost their smartphone for that.

No, the user breaks this law, not the manufacturer. So the loophole for google is, they don’t care about you.

I didn’t check the actual law, always a good idea to do so.

So, §201 StGB actually covers both, it is forbidden to “aufnehmen” (record) as well as “mithören” (spy on). Bonus, its forbidden to cite transcription (im Wortlaut mitteilen).

Its an old law, going back to video cameras with magnetic tape and actually tapping a phone line. So it was used quite often, including the mentioned fake surveillance cameras, that didn’t record or even view anything but seemed to the public they did.

When dashcams became a thing people would be sentenced for using them. These days you can use dashcams, but never save for more than 24h or show the recording to anyone but the police/court.

I guess the law is a relict of living next door to Stasi, but its really just a guess of mine.

Not a lawyer, but as far as I got it, the storing isn’t the punishable part, the recording is.

You can’t have security cameras filming public spaces (like the road in front of your house). Even if its dummies, as people couldn’t tell the difference whether the camera actually films them or not.

Illegal in Germany. You may not record conversations, if you try to enter something like that as evidence you’ll get punished as well.

I suspect there are many countries with laws like that, and if your phone actually disables the feature when you enter them or just let’s you hang to dry…

Sounds funny, but it’ll lead to people saying "look at those 4 years without a president where everything went to shit! We need strong leadership!’

I have fiber in my basement and could book gbit. Upstream is still nerfed, currently I have 250mbits down, 50 up

Edit: disregard that, just checked with my ISP and apparently I have an old plan, and could book 1 gig symmetric. For thrice the cost, though

Over here breathalysers are admissible, but you can reject to use them. Police then has to decide wether to call a doctor to draw blood.

Filesystem doesn’t really matter once you have a reliable, redundant off-site backup and recovery plan set up and tested.

Really, use what fs feels best for you. And do your backups.

Did I mention backups are important?