Not pictured, the boomer after he's got three whiskey sours in him and he starts screaming about a bomb on the plane.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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I've never been able to get a sour, usually it's just alcohol and a canned mixer like club soda or a soft drink
are you flying first class
We keep it in the flight deck beverage compartment
You can't turn off the little red book 
Father, I cannot click the book
I don't think they ask you to turn things off anymore. How recent is this?
They only ask you to not wear headphones unless they're connected to the on-board system now.
I've flown a few times in the past year and never heard that one. Then again I probably already had my headphones on when they said it
The interference is really minimal and a ton of airlines still use paper preflight stuff anyways. I used to have to run a 10ft long dot matrix printout with computer codes to them when I worked at the airport 6 years ago. But that was dash-8s so not really the most up to date planes
It's so fucking funny to me when the author self-insert character has a goatee too. I wish I understood why a certain type of guy wears them
Insecurity over their jawline.
I've always associated goatee with works in IT for some reason
Ha! Heh heh.
I thought the boomers were the ones who disproportionately bought tablets.
Yeah, I see more 18-30 year olds with books than boomers/gen-x. In fact I'm my experience the older generations have a more addictive relationship with tech then the younger ones.
its.always.PROJECTION
Gottem!
Checkmate Zoomers!
Heh heh.
That poor boomer looks and sounds so nervous, is this really the author's self-insert?
Boomerisms aside, once of the times I really do want an audiobook or paper book is when traveling. I am a lot less prone to get motion sick from reading paper vs. a screen for some reason.
gottem, boomers stay winning π€
I'm on team boomer in this one.
I'm team e-ink not because of the quantity of books or anything, but because I make a comical amount of notes in my books and the second I had unlimited writing space versus writing in margins was eye-opening
I prefer to read "real" books for the tactile experience but I almost always read on my e-reader because it's so damn easy to pirate books onto it
Do you go back and read your notes later, or do they just help you process?
Depends on the book. For really dense fiction it's to theory-craft/make sense of the world and characters/allegiances within it.
For non-fiction it's usually questions to explore later/see if they are answered as my knowledge grows.
It can also be fun on re-reads to see where my headspace was at the time. I've been doing this for probably 8ish years now so it can be fun to look back and see how I've grown.
I've also jailbroken my kindle so adding additional dictionaries/lookup sources has been extremely beneficial.
Same
Why is this inked and colored digitally? Can't the cartoonists today handle a pen or a brush anymore?
So this is an area that intrigues me. People say those who arenβt willing to βadapt with the timesβ will be left behind, but Iβm still team physical media until itβs clear there is an easier way to prevent capitalists from suddenly removing what I paid for because of some sort of nebulous ToS agreement
It's not a question of physical versus digital but a question of DRM.
If it's able to be cracked or not there in the first place you can do whatever you want with the content in question, including making a bajillion copies of it on whatever machines or formats you want
I have never paid money for an epub. Use library genesis or even just the pirate bay if it's popular enough.
I don't have the money to fly but isn't this what airplane mode is for?
Theoretically but nobody trusts people to use it and you can't tell if they're using it so making them switch off fully is safer.