altkey (he\him)

I think that to trully give urgent delivery services a purpose we need:

1. Abandon 0-day delivery services unless they serve a significant purpose, e.g. for immobile persons, delivering medicine, etc. That would erase like 95% of required labor;
2. Reclassify the rest as a communal service, mostly on a regular schedule between known clientelle;
3. Optimize paths between vendors (or hubs) and delivery targets for the remaining fleet. At this point a minimal system is upheld by a minimum number of members of community who don’t need to hurry and use motor vehicles;
4. Create an option to offload some delivery task to other community members who live nearby and go this route anyway, probably via some app;
5. Allow for less urgent delivery jobs being posted, but always served by the members of the same community. Community collectively defines what non-critical deliveries hold value, e.g. delivering flowers for a birthday celebration can be seen as okayish to do.

Fetch quests, when optimized, provide some persons with meaningful labor that keeps up their physique, and their, and then others’ involvement ties the community together and makes personal connections between people in it. Drones navigating the sidewalks humans use are irrelevant if the amount of labor needed is not overwhelming to begin with, and doesn’t need to be optimized by producing expensive robots and computer vision models.

How? When I tried to dodge that conflict, Todd was right-click-unzipping packs of fighting soldiers onto me. It felt like a meme interpretation of “If you aren’t interested in politics, politics are gonna start to be interested in you”.

Right, and yes, I read a lot on a similar device.

Pics to give you an idea: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xteink4+review+photo&t=fpas&ia=images&iax=images I believe I set my fonts smaller than on these.

It’s just very convinient to carry it around in a pocket and take out at any moment vs conventional A5+ ereaders. I didn’t use them that much for that reason, but that thing is great in crowded busses or wherever. Strong edge2edge grip makes me overlook the amount of text it can display easily.

Where it has problems though is that it reads only epubs (text files) and preferably lighter ones too. PDFs are out of the question, manga/comic books. Not only because it’s just 480x800px - many cheaper ebooks still manage it with similar pixel count - but because of it’s serious hardware limitations.

If you sail the high seas, there is not much problem finding books of, say, Terry Prattchet or Michael Parenti in epub. But that means this device is solely dedicated to reading books, a subsection of them that someone cared to properly digitize to share or sell. Skimming through articles and documents, scrolling thtough scans, manuals, formatted textbooks is out of scope here. It does one thing, last weeks, and doesn’t feel like a huge commitment while carried around.

IMHO, as long as you can browse Lemmy threads on your phone without aids, it’s not too small, and I’d rather look at what one wants ebook for, if what you want to read fits what this reader can open.

Nothing but (temporal) confiscation of land and hardware would frighten them enough.

Neat sha(mbles)