oats

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

I update my whole complete Linux box like twice a year. Thrice when I’m bored.

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

We have one (I think) provider who does free WhatsApp traffic in Germany, but it never took of. WhatsApp itself is used a lot though.

Persobally I have 20 or 30 GB of data, not sure. I use like 3 to 4 each month.

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…

I do use German key layout, as I’m used to that for decades.

And German number, currency, date, address formats, as the English are just whack

The end key becomes ende. Over 30% increase!

Don’t know what your mobile OS is, I set my Android to English and use HeliBoard for the keyboard app. It even remembers what app should get Swedish, German, English layout and word suggestions.