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Because the shiny phone screen is unpleasant for reading?


There are matte screen covers, I have one and it's great.


I mean, I can't reach into your brain and experience your perceptions but the literal billions of people who read for hours a day on "shiny" phone screens seems to show that as a rather rare view.


That's a pretty weak argument, though. I use a vertical mouse because it helps my RSI tremendously. I don't think there's anyone else in my office with one. I'm in a tiny minority there. And yet, I like my vertical mouse and I'd rather use it than a normal one, no matter how many others prefer the horizontal kind.


They «read» for shorter amounts of time. Reading for hours on an OLED can be fatiguing, especially if you stare at a LCD at work for 8-10 hours everyday on top of your reading


Maybe a more acceptable statement than saying LCDs are unpleasant: eInk screens are generally more pleasant for reading than LCDs.


Luckly my parents got rid of socialism in the country to I could have a choice of products that fit me instead of being one-size-fits-all form shoved onto me.

I really don't understand why some of you really want that to come back.


Command economies are a component of some past socialist regimes. They are not a defining feature of socialism as a political and economic philosophy. I'm tired of socialist=bad and related categorical rhetorics. It's nuanced: where did worker unions, welfare programmes come from? And, to say that worker unions are a socialist thing is, in a way, lazy thinking too: there were specific initiatives, organizations and, above all, people that spearheaded these things we take for granted, but noone remembers them and some guy on a forum just lumps them into the "socialism" bag, which, again, is correct, but lazy and surely unuseful.




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