Category: Links of Interest
Ebooks aren’t killing print
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This article on CBC talks about the thriving independent bookstore industry in Canada where readers of printed material are younger. Ebooks had a surge, then have dropped back and print remains strong. This was also detailed at length in Book Wars. You can read my summary of Book Wars here.
Enshitification in Polish Trains?
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Yes the manufacturer of a train in Poland remotely bricked the train because they didn’t like who worked on it. Now that “hackers” who were hired by the train company to get the train rolling again have fixed it the train company is now threatening to sue the hackers that got a crucial piece of…
Louis Rossman – the Enshittification of Amazon
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Like Louis, I’ve had a harder and harder time finding anything of quality on Amazon. Worse, like many of the people commenting on the video, I’ve had my negative reviews of bad products taken down because they “weren’t relevant” to the product. I have no idea how saying “this product doesn’t work for its intended…
Crypto is a Scam – Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
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Years ago I remember being interested in Bitcoin, simply because it was new interesting tech. I even mined a few dozen of them back when it was possible to do that with an underpowered second hand computer you were willing to leave on for a few days. For the last 5+ years though crypto has…
Notebooks Come and Go
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Greg shared his on again off again notebook habit. There’s something about writing by hand that feels right to me, even though it’s slower than typing, and you can’t just hit ‘search’ to find something you wrote. But for some reason, I just stopped using my notebook for a few months. It’s like it went…
Noah Herman – Back to the iPad Pro
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Much like Noah above, I’ve been using my iPad much more again for getting things done. Just 3 months ago I was using my iPad so little that I was contemplating taking it off my 2nd desk and downsizing from a 12.9” iPad Pro to a Mini. An iPad Mini is far more portable and…
I Also Just Want my Music
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Jeff walks us through how it’s $3000 to get some kids music. As he says this is further enshitification of content. Yes I pay for YouTube Premium, and Apple Music, and I buy the movies I want to add to my own library. I continue to think that maybe I need to go back to…
Yes Someone has Written Your Blog Post
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As my friend Tom writes, someone has written your blog post. But I don’t write because I’m sharing entirely new things, I mostly write and do videos to help cement my knowledge. Much as Tom suggests. Writing for others is important, but it may be just as important if not more important than writing for…
Matt Gemmell an a Second Screen with his iPad
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Matt writes about using an e-ink screen to scribble on as a secondary screen with his iPadPro as the main device. The main issue he’s trying to solve is wanting to scribble on the iPad while it’s also his main screen for writing. I’ve solved this by having my iPad on a VESA arm on…
Chris Lawley’s 2023 iPad Desk
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Much like Chris, I’ve been using my iPad more again with the changes in iPadOS 17. My biggest problem was Obsidian being slow for a while, but after some testing Obsidian is no longer slow on my iPad.
