E-books aren’t your books.
E-books aren’t your books.
Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race.
You don’t own anything that is automatically updated or resides in the cloud.
My policy of turning off automatic updates on my computers has surprised some tech-savvy friends. Sure, there are security reasons to update a computer, but for the most part, updates never help you. I manually update VLC to accommodate new media codecs, but that’s about it.
Windows 11 doesn’t have the option to decline automatic updates. The result is that the functionality changes in noticeable ways. I used MS Video Editor to make instructional videos all through the Covid remote learning disaster. I needed it recently, and found that it was gone and was could be replaced with MS ClipChamp. I had other software available, so didn’t comply.
Google Docs and other cloud-based storage companies have considered making your own objectionable content unavailable.
Our technology is really astounding, but you can’t become complacent. If you rely on streamlined cloud storage, online services or software that magically handles everything, your life is great, until it isn’t.
