Notices by maxine 🇵🇸 (maxine@hachyderm.io), page 2

My biggest issue with "get a mac" is that it ignores the very significant group of people to whom buying a base macbook air with enough storage is probably equivalent to the cost of every single device they bought over the last 20 years.

Get a cheap Linux laptop should be the reasonable answer. 15 years ago, choosing a decent netbook was the solution for this (no, really!) - now it seems even chromebooks are getting expensive and overpriced.

I’m still irritated that as Twitter died all the public information oriented campaigns (transit, fire service, govt announcements) didn’t shift to providing easy to access open technology alternatives for getting that information to people.

And I’m not talking about Mastodon or any other Fediverse stuff. I want RSS. I want to subscribe to a BVG feed to learn about disruptions, I want an easy to access feed of events and protests in my city…

Prime day is a great time to remember that alternatives to most of Amazon's services not only exist, but in cases like audiobooks are actively superior to their offering!

E.g. libro.fm, where you get to both own your audiobooks and support local book shops. Seems better than giving Bezos more cash

https://libro.fm/