Random Musings

When your blind or deaf it'll be a lifechanger for some, it just happens to be an awful company trying to do some shit but there will be real benefits from this for a few unlucky people.

I actually think it's kinda cute

It's not like you can reinvent the wheel with an ereader. I upgrade tech way too frequently, but I've still got a decade old kindle that I'm perfectly happy with.

New Paperwhite looks OK and I'd probably grab one if my current one shat the bed.

Yeah, I think you've answered your own question there. Haven't kept up with eink tech, but also have a G1 paperwhite which is still fine and dandy. Bar IPX, absolutely no reason to upgrade yet.

Answered my own random musing about why you would put palm oil in glorious naturally oily peanut butter. It stops it from separating apparently.

Proper single ingredient peanut butter > that shite with palm oil and various other nasty things in it.

So a big part of my job is responding to requests for books. And there is one borrower, who is not nearly old enough to have experienced the Holocaust, who nonetheless reads literally nothing but Holocaust fiction.

There is EVER SO MUCH OF IT. Taking Auschwitz alone, in the past five years or so you've got The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Mistress of Auschwitz (a trilogy!), The Brothers of Auschwitz, The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV, The Child of Auschwitz, The Saboteur of Auschwitz. It just goes on and on. It's a huge industry!

This isn't necessarily a complaint or anything, or me trying to be controversial; obviously the Holocaust is something that should not ever be forgotten. And there's plenty of genres I like that others probably don't get the appeal of. But even so, I don't understand the appeal of this one, that someone could read about this misery and suffering again and again, and get... something out of it? I don't want to say "enjoyment", but there must be something there.

Yes the industry is responding to demand for this stuff. But it still feels a bit skeezy to me. And there's loads of non-fiction stuff too, where having even the most tangential relationship to Hitler (like being one of his taste testers) is enough to have a book written about you.

Yeah I don't fault the authors, particularly the ones writing memoirs. You experience terrible shit, and you've got people wanting to know and buy your stories about it? Have at it! I don't understand the continuing market for that, but I don't at all object to them making a bit of dosh from it (the authors of fake Holocaust memoirs can go right to hell though).

But when it's gotten to the point that authors have run out of real people to tell stories about, and the only next step is to start inventing people ("based on a true story" can carry a lot of weight), I dunno... maybe it's time to stop?

I know it won't stop, because money. But it feels like they're exploiting the suffering of real people, and that feels wrong to me.

MolarAm🔵 are they 15-30 by any chance?

I didn't fixate specifically on the Holocaust, but I definitely spent some of my early 20s reading a lot of non-fiction about the worst excesses of mankind. Horrors of Vietnam, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, that sort of thing. I think some young people go through a phase of trying to understand how humans can do awful shit to each other and still think they're "in the right" - and for young men in particular, this can translate to interest in atrocities (or, in worse cases, real life death/gore stuff).

Let's hope so.


If they could stop brexit too, that'd be grand.

Long shot, but doesn't anyone have a galaxy flip or know anything about them?

My screen has this weird mark on the right side of the fold. It's strange because it sort of fills in slowly when the phone is opened, and appears to be getting longer.

It looks almost like there is water under the plastic bit of the screen but above the glass.

So weird.

That's a good idea.

But I'd feel like I was cheating on font geek if I went to a new forum. I'll just learn to live with it.


Not really. Let's see what Samsung have to say for themselves.

You have a case that covers the screen? I've got a case for the back but the front just has a screen protector (that came preinstalled)

Yeah going unsheathed feels great but it's just too much of a risk.

Aye! He means his cock!