I know that #Amazon is horribly evil, and that #DRM sucks in the worst possible way, but I must say that I am impressed that my eight-year-old #Kindle Paperwhite works as well as the day I got it, if not better.

There's no excuse for the upgrade treadmill, ever.

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@RL_Dane my PocketBook Touch 2 bought in 2013 still works great for its main purpose: reading fiction books.
The screen is slightly worse than the one in Kindle though and was replaced twice (the original was sadly lost in a spontaneous strife with friends years ago), also the web browser is almost useless now due to tls and large blobs of js everywhere, but otherwise it is still fine. PB has more-or-less regular Linux kernel inside, the apps are built with Qt, so I have an sftp server and vim on it for max cozyness ^)

@vleugelcomplement
That sounds really cool!

The "Experimental Browser" on the Kindle is a loss as well. It can't handle any JS heavier than say, fanfiction.net 😄

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