StireFarter

Hand-wavy predictions like this scare me - it suggests people don't understand space travel or the distances involved at all.

Sure, if you think of the Earth as a game of SimCity plus Kerbal Space Program, these discussions about exponential growth are interesting. However, they miss the part where the intervening 30-100 years become literal hell on Earth while space travel ramps up.

Reddit achieves much the same effect by constantly insisting that I install the app (I never will).

The latest kindles offer a terrible user experience compared to the original - the device has just become yet another way to force ads and shopping portals into people's faces.

Are there any e-readers which do offer a simple, minimalist interface? I've given up hope of finding a low-distraction alternative to an Android tablet for reading PDFs, but have never had the opportunity to try any e-ink devices other than Kindles and Remarkables (which are too expensive and seem like imminent abandonware given the backlash against their subscription model).