Month: January 2020

Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Ditches A Feature That’s Been Annoying You For Years –
Ubuntu is removing the Amazon Icon

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when Canonical’s upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) release lands this April, that Amazon icon will be no more. “It was just a low-impact way for people to passively donate to Ubuntu without actually having to do anything but shop at Amazon,” Pope says.

Well, it hasn’t been annoying me for years. On the computer where I have Ubuntu, I have not updated in forever. The update became broken and so I just stopped updating. And so I never had that on Ubuntu. But I am getting ready to update, maybe, perhaps, I am thinking about it.

But what Ubuntu is doing got me to thinking about what I am doing here on sayata.net. Would people rather me go to a paid subscription system or a paid tip system rather than what I have been doing with the amazon advertisement / affiliate link tip system and trying to get people to buy my eBooks. Do the ads do more to piss people off than to get them to contribute to support my content?

Most of my links do not have pixels and so I don’t really share that much data with amazon, even accidentally. But of course people don’t know or understand that. I think with Ubuntu people had the idea that Ubuntu was sharing data with amazon.

I don’t really have that high of a registration / return rate. So my traffic level is part of my problem.

I don’t know. Is Unbuntu on to something that I don’t understand.???

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Day 1/3/2020

I have put “Erotic Western: Saving The Town” back into Kindle Select / Kindle Unlimited.

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A Free Day Is Scheduled for 1/5/2020

Total Giveaways = 2Update 5:00 to 6:00 PM EST Still, Total Giveaways = 2Update 8:02 PM Total Giveaways = 4 Update 10:15 PM Total Giveaways = 5 Next Update: 1/6/2020 Total Giveaway = 5

After January 5, 2020 I will see how the give away goes before I decide on whether I will put any more of my eBooks back into Kindle Select / Unlimited. It will also determine whether I will publish any more eBooks on KDP.	Because “Erotic Western: Saving The Town” did generate some sales at one time I figured it was a good eBook to act as a canary in the coal mine. As some of you may know I have not had any eBook sales since April of 2019.
I am continuing the say unit tip system. If I can schedule the time I plan to start back doing youtube videos. For right now the Hearthville Serial will continue as part of the goals for the say units.

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If you follow on me on twitter…  That statement is almost a joke because I don’t think anyone really does.  Regardless, I am pretty much finished there.All I am going do is link to my website up to 4x’s a day there and that is it.  I am not contributing any more content there. I am finished.And to be honest, part of the content I have been putting there has not been good. Like for example I was going to do a joke if Democrats were to become the D word because being called a Democrat is quickly becoming an insult. Well, obviously, if you happen to be a Democrat that is not very funny. And that kind of stuff does not help me. In my defense though, if you are sitting there reading ultra liberal Democrat crazy shit on twitter trending topics, it is enough to cause one’s head to explode. I am not doing that any more either.

——————————————————————– Tweets Used Today 1//6/2020 = 0 of 4 Updated: 11:11 AM EST

What am I politically? I believe in the social safety net. I believe there is a role for government but limited. I believe there is a role for large corporations but limited. I tend to support indie movements and small business. I am a strong supporter of free speech. I am tend to be basically libertarian but not to the extreme. I am an Independent. I have nothing against world travelers who respect the indigenous/local people and do not try to steal from them or push them out. But I dislike Carpetbaggers and Globalists who act as invaders and attempt to make the locals their bitches. I believe strongly in the free enterprise system. I think Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism are all bullshit terms to confuse the masses and to try to help the “Feudal Lords” to stop their indebted slaves from rebelling. I think all three terms are used by lying politicians to fool the masses. History shows all three terms mean very little to the actual policies the political leaders have executed against their populations. For example, lying Democrats today are attempting to use the promise of free stuff under the auspices of socialism to execute the biggest government theft from the private sector, rich and poor alike, in the history of the universe … all to the benefit of the oligarchs/feudal lords who in truth just pass the government thefts they are forced to pay on to their customers while the oligarchs/feudal lords benefit from the government contracts and massive spending and the pacification of their indebted slaves.

For KDP Amazon to have passed the test 8 to 12 eBooks would have needed to have been given away.  They failed.  I love Amazon.  I will continue to promote Amazon.  I will continue to shop at Amazon.  But I will NOT publish any more eBooks with KDP Amazon unless they begin to generate paid sales.  I can’t even give eBooks away through them.  For right now I am not going to unpublish my eBooks with them but obviously I am not going to put any more eBooks into Kindle Unlimited unless there is some change.  I will leave it at that.

There may be some outdated text you will see on some posts that indicates something contrary to that because I temporarily lost my brain and I was planning to publish more with KDP and doing Kindle Unlimited with more eBooks but no.  That is not happening.

To be clear, to the people who downloaded my eBook from Amazon, thank you.  I appreciate it more than you know.

My stories will continue here.