Gotta love the artificial obsolescence here. Kindles require basically nothing to run. They don’t need heavy processors or ram. EBook formats haven’t changed. Its purely “its time you spend more money with us”.
For anyone affected, just download books from annas archive, convert to your format using calibre or any other tool, copy via usb and be happy. You don’t need amazon and I’d argue that you don’t even have to use amazon as well.
Kay said she was also concerned about the presence of adverts on some newer, discounted Kindle devices, and how these might alter the reading experience.
Some people still insist you have options and that the market change because of organic choice. You don’t and it doesn’t. Companies are subtle and gently guide you to where they want when it works. When it doesn’t, they push you while thanking you for your support.
To offer some perspective. The Linux kernel will now stop supporting a CPU from 1989.
This Linux billionaire cabal needs to be stopped. My 50MHz 486 CPU works just fine.
The great thing about that is nothing is stopping you from running an older LTS kernel and even after that updating and backporting changes yourself. I have no problem with companies stopping support for things at some point the economics don’t make sense. I do have a problem with not letting the Community take up support after the company is done with it.
a new hobby of mine is finding old PCs and getting some linux distro running on them. I started doing this after getting into some youtube content where people refurbish 90s PCs to either get Linux or community rebuilds of old Windows OS’ going on them and seeing what modern or close to modern software they can run. THEN you get into a rabbit hole of finding VERY interesting projects of people still maintaining like ancient versions of firefox for example.
There’s a sort of cozy comfort to it. getting a mid to late 90s PC going again, booting it up, and hearing the Windows 95 startup sound just instantly sends me back to my childhood. And the thing is this tech surprisingly holds up after some 30 to 40 years much better than modern tech.
A fun new project I’m working on is hooking an old floppy drive up to a modern PC and using it to start games on steam. I saw a short video of that recently where a guy had all these floppy disks labeled with like Counter Strike 2 or Marvel Rivals which he would pop into a floppy drive hooked up to his PC and when the floppy was inserted it simply started the game. It’s nothing complicated at all. It’s just putting a very simple like bash script onto a floppy disk to simply tell it to start a specific game via steam when the disk is mounted. Why am I doing this? man I miss putting physical media into a PC to start a game. having one of those old floppy disk containers and flipping through them all to find a game to play.
