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Also, it seems to me that we should be settling to a BTC/BCH price that is at least loosely coupled to the energy costs of mining, no?
same with some old games/apps, they work still perfectly on my older iPhone with newest updates, yet due to changing the store and developers not "updating" them they are no longer available for me.
moved to android, with linageOS.
Non-DRM'd ebooks in formats which are open, easily parseable, and that people care to archive should be fine for a long time. Some people here are talking about a decade as if we won't be able to parse epubs or text files in 10 years. I've got documents >30 years old already which are still easily parsed, and I don't imagine I'll have problems rendering them in another 30 years.
I'll be utterly amazed if we can't render a basic HTML document, text-focused PDF, or hell even just ASCII text in the year 2032. I also have little doubt I'll still technically be able to load my DVDs or Blu-Rays of that data in 2032 and copy it into the holographic crystal storage devices that'll come out just before that.
I learned a few things about digital library books that made me sad:
* Publishers only allow a certain number of "rentals" of digital library books, after which the eBook license expires.
* Publishers also put an expiration date on the license, so after maybe two years, the eBook license expires even if nobody borrows the book.
* Publishers have repeatedly put hard limits on the abilities for libraries to purchase eBook licenses, for example allowing only one copy per library for new releases.
* Publishers raised the prices of library eBooks to be far higher than a physical book. A $15 physical book might cost $60 as an eBook to a library.
I am right now in line to borrow the new DeGrasse Tyson’s book and will have to wait for almost 6 weeks for my turn. They have only 3 digital copies available and almost a hundred people waiting ahead of me.
You wouldn't use a thermometer that was always 10C too high to measure and reports temperatures, without pointing out that the thermometer has a 10C bias, would you? Why would you oppose introspection about oneself and one's own potential biases in knowledge production?
In fact we all benefit daily from scientific discoveries made in oppressive, violent, bigoted regimes.
I just don't see this being worth the money. Hundreds of $ to make switching music slightly more convenient just seems like a colossal waste of money to me.