Well, based on your and other responses I guess I’ve been giving my fellow Americans too much credit…

I’d love to know more about how that poll was conducted. 22% of democrats? 47% of independents? I’m skeptical that those are really reflective of how prevalent those attitudes are.

Overdrive is the one I usually hear about, but in googling Libby it seems they are related.

https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6251.htm

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4477058367895-About-the-Libby-app

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017677053-Borrow-eBooks-from-the-public-library-using-your-Kobo-eReader

So, like US conservatives you have decided that sharing facts about our history and its repercussions today is somehow suggesting we should hate a particular group of people for their ancestry? Was there a section in the article I missed?

As long as they dump them as soon as they win.

They won’t. We’re watching D jump right in response to the Republican own-goal of the past few years.

somehow

We’re already in the tent. In the back. In the “I assume they will vote D” seats.

And we will this time. (At least, I will.) While D cheerfully becomes the new conservative party and R becomes/remains the batshit crazy party.

Somehow the Republicans inviting Trump and the racists to take over had the net effect of pulling D to the right.

“They don’t have a home anymore,” said Walz.

The people who no longer have a home are progressives. R made their own fucking bed, but the Democrat leadership kept the light on for them, so they will be OK.

As someone who had to sit through a seemingly unending stream of videos of Biden sniffing hair etc, none of which were as damning as the people boosting them claimed, I really hope they either don’t release this, or it actually is what it claims to be, not some similar crap.

“Donald Trump loses his balance and accidentally makes contact with a girl’s butt” or similar ambiguous clip is probably not going to do anything except make me have to start ignoring videos of Biden sniffing hair again when magas start posting them in retaliation or whatever.

Totally fair, we all have our different usecases…

Well that does sound pretty cool, I might have to take a closer look when I’m ready for another purchase.

Although I am a geeky techy, I’m not a web developer, so I’m sure there are other ways to do what I do that would be easier for someone who was. I just have a basic blog and newsletter with signups, and an audience far, far smaller than the number of characters in this comment. :D (That’s OK though, I’m on an intentional slow growth curve.)

I don’t even go out of my way to drive people to it because in some ways I’m still deciding what I want to do with the space. The “premium” plugins I pay for are to help handle spambots and signups/newsletter stuff. (and there are free plugins to help with those if I really needed to stay free) Wordpress.com sends me “30% off ACT NOW” emails every so often for their hosted packages and it doesn’t even come close to competing. They want you to pony up $$ to get access to any worthwhile plugins at all from what I can tell, and I’m too much of a dyed in the wool Linuxy “you aren’t going to tell me what I can and can’t do” kind of guy to have any tolerance for that.

Edit: Just looked again now - $300/year to reach a tier that allows use of plugins. Nah.

I’ve looked into those other brands but not recently enough to provide any meaningful comparison. (though I have this feeling that “remarkable is overpriced” is something I’ve heard a lot, but I could be wrong)

I’ve personally owned the Kobo Glo, Glo HD, and Libra 2.

For most of their devices (I can’t speak for current models one way or the other) you can swap out key bits of the software and enhance functionality via various hacks/mods. A lot of that is documented here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=223

You can also open them up and replace a standard SD card to boost storage capacity. (Again, I know this to be true at least through the Libra 2, I do not know about more recent models.)

The thing I got the most use from in the past was being able to swap out the sdcard on my Glo and Glo HD, but some folks really swear by the other various mods. I don’t have any complaint with the default reader software on the Kobo, so haven’t messed with swapping that out.

I have not messed with the SD card on the Libra 2 for two reasons - apparently doing so will mess up the waterproofing, and also because I’ve found 32GB to be sufficient for my purposes.

Kobo, folks. I’ve been there through three generations of devices. No regrets. Fairly hackable, sideload friendly, competitively priced.

I agree, and after posting that I did dig up this article which helped me a little to understand FWIW: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-org-wp-engine

Your only choice would be a fork or nothing,

I’ve been down this road before, that doesn’t really scare me. Something this big, there will be a good fork if that happens.

Happily using LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice for like a decade now, and there’s also a reason I’ve got Jellyfin instead of Emby running on the server in the basement.

Still, good point, I was trying to figure out how his current, immediate meltdown was related to self-hosting generically, and it sounds like it’s not.

It’s kinda funny because although I enjoy selfhosting, I wasn’t going to self-host wordpress until I saw how ridiculous the prices are through Wordpress.com for any actual functionality. I’ve got a decent VPS and have paid for a couple of key (to me) “premium” 3rd-party plugins and it’s still costing far less than it would have hosting it all through Wordpress.com. Their pricing seems frankly astronomical to me (or did when I was making my decision.)

I did dig up this article which has helped me to understand the situation a bit better FWIW: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-org-wp-engine

I specified org because that’s what’s in OP, but honestly my comment is the same either way. :D

I currently have WP running on a VPS. It utilizes neither wordpress.org (nor wordpress.com) nor wpengine infrastructure. I’m not getting how this means they can do anything about that.

Edited to add - I did dig up this article which has helped me to understand the situation a bit better FWIW: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-org-wp-engine

Very true. And if you can explain how that is true here, I’m happy to hear it. Also please see my edit, which may not change your response. I did add a little more.

If the victims are the gender without the privilege (as the woman in OP suggests) and the victims are the same group of people who are making individuals in the group feel bad for wearing the same dress twice (as OP suggests) then the victims, as a group, are at fault, it seems to me.

Is an individual woman who wants to wear a dress again at fault? No, but it ain’t a male privilege issue. It’s a culture among women issue.

The woman in OP seems to be going for “this is yet another way the patriarchy is keeping us down” or similar vibe, and although I usually agree with those sorts of assessments and think toxic masculinity is bad for everyone of any gender, this is definitely an own-goal by women.

Insert obi wan kenobi “you have done that yourself” meme here.

Edit: This also assumes I accept the premise put forth by the woman in OP. Based on things I hear (and don’t hear) from my wife and other women in my life, I’m skeptical that the woman in OP is expressing a universal, or even nearly-universal, truth about whether women can wear an outfit twice.

And the Veterans for Trump organization of course had this to say on the matter: