Digital without a doubt.

• More convenient to travel with it
• Awesome how the e-ink looks just like paper and draws little energy
• Your entire library can take much less space
• Save the trees
• If it gets damaged, only your device will be destroyed, but your library (hopefully) remains (if you make backups)
• Instant access to basically any book (no need to wait for delivery or in-person shopping)

To me, my Kobo was one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Before buying it, I didn’t really read many books

“I’m sorry”

If it starts like that, it’s not gonna work, no matter what.

In fact, according to my experience, if you have to apologize for something, you’re already fucked. There’s no way to make it better.

SQL. There are so many SQL dialects. Only if there could be a way to standardize it…

I’ve just tried to search for ‘tank man’ and also ‘tiananmen square’ with DuckDuckGo’s image search, and both of them returned the picture we all know, that dictator Winnie the Poop doesn’t wanna see…

Basic cybersecurity skills, like

• don’t click on random links in random emails
• identify phishing/scam emails
• use a password manager & generate long enough passwords
• know how long a safe password is
• use unique passwords everywhere
• use an ad blocker
• don’t click on sketchy links
• identify sketchy links
• don’t share your personal data when it’s not necessary
• make offline & online backups
• change the admin and wifi passwords of your home router from the factory default
• have some sort of a firewall and antivirus software
• etc…

Hmm. In the country where I’m from, absolutely, that’s the case. The average level of IQ there is incredibly low, so it’s not really surprising.

Generally on the internet? Well… kinda yes. Of course, I know there are many cases thanks to social media garbage that are making people unwilling to read and use their brains to think, thus degrading their abilities to pay attention for a longer time, which would be required for reading even just a moderate length of text. Yes, I’m fully aware of that, and that’s a tragedy for today’s generation.

So why “kinda”? Apparently I tend to follow topics that actually require a certain level of intelligence, and the communities there usually have adequate reading and comprehension skills.

But yes, long story short, that’s the trend unfortunately. People just read less and less, and with that, their skills are degrading as well.