The classic is a wizard of earthsea/left hand of darkness and they are always worth repeating. If you do just two, those are them. It's almost criminal how these are kinda slipping beneath view these days.
I got a steady diet of her short stories and children's books growing up. I remember sur specifically, but generally they were less fantasy oriented from what I can remember. (Edit:huzzah autocorrect)
I ended up on a first gen dell developer xps and didn't win the Intel nic lottery. Dell's Ubuntu repo bricked my laptop a dozen times til I moved to arch, which actually had the decency to include the broadcom driver.
The hardware is alright, but the total lack of effort in maintaining has been from the jump.
Things like this make me wish the traditionally anti government party wasn't a bunch of loonies, because they'd be the ones pushing this to public conscious in a way that might move the needle.
I don't doubt the intentions of (some) progressive members of government, but they're outgunned and have a long list of priorities. Getting legislation to reverse this isn't coming from corporatists, the infinite retention is going to seem like a feature to business.
I laughed a little because I'm not sure I ever grew out of the expectation of everything being a little broken. You are going to learn so much you could have done without.
On a more sober note I'm not sure adding a business model fixes the problem anymore.
If we paid for our anonymity like toll roads or subscriptions we box out people who can't afford it. Commodity level information isn't likely to be decreasing in value any time immediately.
If equitable access is also on the list, I don't see anything but regulation and taxes getting you there. Just look at the steam store prices outside the first world and you have an idea for how poorly it could go.
Hopefully healthcare.
I have to admit I'm totally soured.
Serving ads is not cool, and specifically poisoning the Lemmy instance with all the problems of tying near permanent content to an ad ID is negligent.
No you won't convince me he had to to make a living, or do you not use wikipedia.
If you think ads are non intrusive we have different definitions.
If any selection of the free content network I'm a part of isn't showing me the content I want it's an intrusion.
There are umpteen services that run on donations, telling yourself ads are necessary is the same deal with the devil as the public Internet.
Does not help the movement most inclined to wrap themselves in a flag just stormed the capital.
Welcome to the part of the Internet with a soul.
Seriously if you're old enough to remember the Internet in terms of users weird passion projects you could do a lot worse than hanging off any part of activitypub.
There's a lot more people than the old days with technical backgrounds, so there's a lot more practical stuff.
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Sounds about right. You're quoting a right wing rag from a 20 year policy analyst with no practical experience.
You want to know what poor people can't afford? Extinction.
Not always. Believe it or not it used to be kinda like it is now, here.
With the technical barriers to entry pre AOL the people online were outcasts, nerds, and science departments at universities. The ad driven model is the attempt to lower barriers of entry make profit of that and not the other way around. Lots of the Internet ran on generosity and donations.
It's been shittier every day after there was an agreement on how to monetize though. The people at the start didn't ever have the guarantee it would get adopted, so for all the idealism we deal with their compromises.
From a macro economic perspective, (and im not advocating for a conspiracy, just aggregate business interest) they're dropping energy usage so they can pay less on their electricity bills.
So actually a double fu. get less so they can pay less rent, to provide lesser service.
Because rent seeking is the only tech bubble left.