They're not old enough to remember the start of the war in Iraq, I imagine. For those who aren't: it was a barrage of justifications which were found to be untrue, especially the 45 minute claim which said Iraq could strike European targets within 45 minutes with chemical or biological weapons. The UN weapons inspector said this was nonsense, and so it proved to be - after the invasion.

Iran will go the same way, one way or another.

Honestly, pick one of the well known distros at random. Personally I use Manjaro with GNOME: up to date software and a polished out of the box experience. I never have to go to the terminal unless I want to.

SailfishOS / Jolla are unlikely to do this. Time to switch. Google's monopoly power over android is showing, badly.

Maybe if the Jolla folks were serious about making inroads in the market for personal mobile devices that they're ostensibly trying to compete in. But they're just as deluded and as doomed as their Meego/Maemo/Moblin predecessors about the value proposition that the SDKs and system software they ship has with the market segment they're targeting.

Press reader is basically this, although it lacks some of the better titles.

It is annoying, but bookshop.org is a good alternative to both Abe and Amazon, presenting a single shop front to lots of bookshops.

Betterworldbooks.com is my go to. They usually have everything for decent prices. And you can buy used or new for most things.

I checked all of the sites above in the comment tree here and the used books are either 60% of the price of new or 150% the price of new, but used (not including shipping on the latter, oof) so this may be where buying books used online is now awful. Gone are the days you can pickup a book for a few bucks including shipping from USPS and it'd arrive in pretty good to excellent condition I fear

Pokémon can probably have it's immense (and insane) secondary market attributed to its gambling-esque qualities. It'd be perfectly fine if people could play with decks they chose and cards were sold at a uniform price, provided the game itself is balanced - which is to say gambling elements in these things are probably by design.

I did it too and found it to be the same. It was years until I realised we had actually been doing rather good stuff.

As a regular glasses wearer, I really do dread the years ahead when I get mistaken for a glasshole. I suspect it won't be pretty.

In the app, account deletion currently errors saying the action can't be started. Hard to believe this is coincidence.

Is this not a symptom of where ICANN sits? Subject to American jurisdiction, so domain seizures make more sense for American litigants. In Europe, litigants must chase down ISPs who are the local gatekeepers. It makes sense that it works differently.