I was following you on Twitter and then I jumped ship when Trump was allowed back on and moved over to Mastodon.social. I'm still trying to figure out what to do there as "my people" have not moved over there and I've been finding it hard to find like-minded people. My main approach has been looking at the global feed and trying to see if there is anything of interest. It's a SLOW process. Occasionally (once a month or so) there is a single post of interest and someone I can follow.

I've also tried searching hashtags, but most of my interests come up empty, so I haven't gotten much out of that either. The other approach has been to look at who my follows follow. I keep hoping that the Fediverse takes off and some of the bigger names come over. (Thankfully George Takei is someone who did) Still, I have to say, having Twitter off my rotation has been instructive in how it feels to remove the pressure to post from a social media platform. Which brings me to the last point... So far, the things I've posted on my on Mastodon.social have not garnered any responses. I think I just don't have any visibility. I'm a whimper in the sea of toots, so people who would find my toots interesting don't see me.

Anyway... I get you and understand your reasoning. I wish you the best and will continue to look for your toots as time allows. I miss the old days. But every social media platform I've been on since 1988 has always gone the same route: fun --> noisy --> commercial --> spammy --> leadership change to less competent leaders --> implosion --> gone. Maybe the Fediverse will move to the fun stage in the next few years.

You can do the same with the Kobo reader, no need to even root it.

I once was working on a project to use a Pi Zero and Debian with the Pi 7" touch screen to make a little reader - not bad, but I got stuck when I needed to get a 3D printed case made.
I currently do all of my ebook reading (and that's a LOT of reading) via only DRM-free platforms and read them on my little lenovo android tablet.
Doesn't solve the textbook issue obviously, though stuff like OpenStax is a step in the right direction.

I hope FSF has success in this area.

Windows has "faithful"? I'm sure you're right, I just can't imagine anyone who owns windows going out of their way to actually procure it.

I see the mods are still not bothering to read the moderation guidelines after all these years.
I think it's time for some *real* flamebait - /. jumped the shark when Rob left. I think it's time I take the hint and bail myself.

I have played with touchscreens, but give me a solid feeling keyboard with LOTS of space any day. I'm still using my Model M from 1995, and got 2 spares for it now, in case it ever wears out.

Sadly true. Most people don't even know the default port for SSH, SMTP or even freaking HTTP! How are you supposed to manage servers if you don't even know your default ports?
Or even the commands to FIND what's listening?

Only if it got the Beltway too - otherwise, well, it could go both ways.

Yes, it's actually really common.
I started looking into myself recently, since it's basically like a tweaky syntax of Perl (to me, anyhow) but with a simpler web output.
Still seems pretty lame though.

Then it's unlikely to be subpoena'd, isn't it?

No, I think I'd rather get an extra ticket or two than deal with a case like the most recent one, with an officer shouting "stop trying to take my weapon" while I'm cuffed facedown on the ground.

Yet another Obama crony with a very loose grasp on the law.

Or just drive the damn car.

I swear, I'm SO sick of this driverless car crap. I don't want one, I don't want to share roads with one, I don't want to even see them.
It's bad enough dealing with humans, the last thing I want is this.

We HAVE a way to get around without you having to drive. It's called public transportation. Get on a damn bus, taxi, or train.

I was expecting a troll - got a hilarious troll-tolling site instead. Very nice :)