Had an epic KPop shoppin' trip to Southcenter today, capped by grabbing THE VERY LAST BOX OF SOOBIN TRIX from Target! I've finally completed the set of #TXT cereals. It wasn't the Family Size, which I would have preferred, but the cutouts on the back are all the same size, so I can make myself a little band standee now. Also, er, does anybody need cereal???
Found a random Beomgyu at my Safeway. Which is good because the box I already had is kinda squooshed. Still on the hunt for Cookie Crisp and Trix. #txt
Thanks to Mr. Tikistitch's mad cereal hunting skillz we now have 2 of the 6 #TXT General Mills cereal boxes (though the Lucky Charms is a bit messed up - sorry Beomgyu, you are still handsome).
Soobin and Seungkwan doing each other's dances, and then getting super hyped before doing the Happily Ever After choreo. Which Seungkwan nailed.
Also love that look for Seungkwan. And Soobin's bouncy hair is trying its best to steal the show in the best way, but these two are too high energy for it to work.
This challenge has been giving me so much happiness.
Take a shot for every time they make a heart :fingerheart_2: :borahae_2: :bloblewd:
Aaaah my knees are so weak :blobhearteyes: how do you guys choose a bias in this group? They’re all so talented and captivating, even their personalities are amazing! :blobcatbigfan:
A nice article that should be shared more often to create more awareness on why #DRM harms everyone.
Earlier on I used to purchase ebooks via Amazon, and then use Calibre to strip off the DRM.
Then, after Amazon tried too hard to make life too hard for DRM strippers, I've decided to go the old pirate way all the way down.
Remember that piracy is way more ethical than giving your money to an intermediary parasite that turns a purchase into a rental, allows you to only access your purchase on very specific hardware and software, gives you no guarantee that you'll still be able to read your book in 10 years, and offers no way of gifting the book or passing it to your children.
And we also need more writers and artists who are aware of the issue. When I discovered that my computer vision book had been released on the Kindle store as well, DRM protected, I took the step of adding a line to the README Github repo used in the book, along the lines of "if you purchased a DRM-locked version of the book, please reach out to me to get an unlocked PDF or EPUB file". If Amazon goes down, I want my books to still be around.
DRM harms content creators as well, as it reduces the lifespan and distribution of our work and locks it into a specific platform.