@matigo I don't mean captive in that sense and you know it 😄
Yeah, tours are definitively a good way to go. Hope you find a strategy that works!
@matigo one of my favorite people to follow is Craig Mod, who while staying in one place (Japan), nevertheless keeps "moving" or "traveling" by doing super long walks. I think he's inspired by Basho and Narrow Road to the Interior.
My point is - you might have a good idea on your hands. Of course, the economics of it is something you'll have to understand - you need patrons for this sort of a venture. There's already a flood of westerners who live in and explore Japan. There are plenty of Japanese camping youtubers. There are others who visit Japan for hiking, camping, etc (I loved go4x4media's Japan video).
I'm just saying that you need to find your niche. Maybe it's solo travel, maybe it's "travel with Ayumi", or maybe it's "efficient travel" with a focus on Japan, but maybe extending it a few years down the line to other countries.
Also, you have a captive audience here on nice.social who interact with you daily. A good place to start exploring this idea.
@matigo company behind the app (Overdrive) got bought by an investment firm. Their only interest is in squeezing profits from libraries. Sadly, libs are locked into multi-year or decade long contracts, it seems. So they can't go anywhere else.
@matigo no no, but the Libby app experience is pretty shit for magazines. It's passable for audiobooks and horrid for eBooks…
I always wondered why like many other libraries, Seattle Public Library doesn't have access to digital versions of magazines like Time, Vogue, NatGeo. TILL I DISCOVERED Flipster. All the magazines have a separate dedicated app instead of having to read them in Libby!
TIL Google put "Ask AI" in the Chrome Console. So if you can't understand what a GraphQL query is up to or need help with CSS, you can enable that feature. Huh.
@matigo yeah, though I discovered that tailscale ties into NextDNS on iOS to run VPN which can connect to your home network AND block ads. Good enough solution. Though I would prefer /etc/hosts on iOS too
Thanks to Chrome kicking out uBlock Origin, I've now installed an /etc/hosts editor on my Mac, and it's now blocking everything even more drastically.
I think I powered my KVM-over-IP solution… with the device it's supposed to power on. Gah!
@matigo indeed. And I did not plan to concert an effort any time soon. Partially thankful the glitch happened! :D