Thank you for the warning and source. I think I had read about this. Personally I use IronFox on Android, but Firefox otherwise.

Even if we take this at worst case scenario, it is a much lesser evil than Google in my opinion. And they still open source everything (I think?) and as far as I’m aware allow 100% configuration to remove or tweak anything we don’t like one way or another.

More recently I was also not happy with their introduction of AI crap in the browser which can also be disabled.

It would be better to be disabled by default and even better not to be present, yes, but well…

As long as it does not get too out of hand and as long as they keep it open so anyone con remove that crap from forks and/or through configuration… Given our choices, I think they deserve recognition for their work. Even if we don’t agree with everything they do.

I never donated for them and used Firefox for over 20 years. Even if it goes downhill really fast starting now (Which I hope it won’t, and the future would suddenly turn much bleaker in this regard), I think I should be thankful for 20+ years of good service.

I never switched away from Firefox except for 2-3 of its forks on Android. And Librewolf as non main browser on pc.

I’m also keeping an eye on ladybird but not keeping my hopes up yet.

All that being said, your concerns are valid and I do share them. I just want to reinforce that when all is said and done… No matter what the future looks like…

They were here for us for at least 20 years.

Firefox. Shouldn’t need introduction.

Yes there are forks that may be better to use but let us not forget the one main browser family who’s been giving us a chance at fighting against Malware browsers with zero respect for our privacy.

Good write up. I agree with several points

And it pains me too that everything is damn electron. Can we please go back to writing stuff that doesn’t require that?

I don’t mind an old style interface. Hell, in many cases I’ll welcome it with open arms. Modern UI is not necessarily better. Both tech wise and also style wise.

You purchase the book written 30 years ago. It still is as it was 30 years ago. The writer is dead.

Tomorrow Amazon decides some terms don’t conform to today’s society and changes the book you already purchased, changes the text. Without the writer’s or anyone else’s permission. Maybe even if the writer is not dead, who knows.

If you had bought a device you control or the physical book, you’d have kept the original thing you purchased.

The day after Trump has a Trump moment and decides you should only read the Bible. Amazon removes the book from your device. Maybe you’re refunded, maybe not, but you have no book.

You cannot read books from open formats with it but only Kindle’s. Possibly you cannot add books to it, only read books purchased from Amazon (I think they still allow you to add books via USB but maybe tomorrow you have a “surprise firmware update”).

Disclaimer : I don’t know your device, your habits, your values, or how to jailbreak it. I’m not telling you you should jailbreak it.

I’m giving you arguments for, from now on, try to purchase things that don’t lock you in, that give you as much control as possible, and if you have no such choice, try to limit their ability to control you and / or minimize your risk of losses however you can.

This one hits hard for me. I too, watched many of his content. I partially watched his last stream. Little did I know it would be the last.

You are loved.

Another reminder that if enacted, in practice this is not only for Europeans.

If games have to be reasonably playable in Europe then they will be reasonably playable everywhere.

This benefits all consumers one way or another.

More importantly though, for everything, like the comment I’m replying to mentions: If you buy something you should own it.

I’ve been playing some games in a retroid pocket 5.

Mind you, it doesn’t run all games, nor all well, but could be worth checking out.

Has it been two years?! … Damn

Can you name the exercises you were shown, or link to a video or article explaining them?

I don’t know if this could be a case of “what’s good for me might be bad for you” but bad posture must be pretty common in today’s world.

Did your back pain get as bad as OP’s?

I already keep notes in markdown format but didn’t know of Silverbullet.

I reject Obsidian and Joplin because they’re based on electron but it looks like it’s not the case for Silverbullet. Don’t know if these even support markdown tbh.

I’ll need to look into it further, looks really nice!

How did that banana become green?!

Oh no! Anyway…

Now that’s some JWST love

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Yes! Exactly the same. I can only hear it when laying down, mostly at night only when trying to sleep. If I sit or stand up I can’t hear it anymore. Not every night but I sure hear it often.

It does make sleeping harder.

Thanks for the heads up!

Try RustDesk.

It seems to have sound support. I can’t vouch for any of the qualities you are asking otherwise, honestly I just installed it recently to replace TeamViewer on the machine of someone who occasionally needs some basic remote help from me.

OBS, which others mentioned, is, as far as I know, the most popular software for streaming otherwise.

Oh doh, my bad :) Thanks again!

Fair enough :)

Hmm. I never thought about trying to organize them in a series folder.
I just let Calibre do the default folders by author.

One thing that I want to do is for a few books change the metadata to have just the main author because for a given book of a given series it will concatenate all 15 authors-or-writers-or-helpers-or-whatever, and for that reason that book, the third of 5 books, is in a different folder.

I’ll admit this sounds awesome, thank you!

I still don’t think it’s for me though, due to the sort-of-language-barrier. I feel I’d miss out on a lot of the details by trying to listen.
I followed this excerpt well enough because I had already read it.

Even if I understand the words spoken (which is not always the case), and especially for fantasy books where we make up new words (skaa), or invent concepts (burned tin), it makes it harder to follow unless I’m already familiar with them.

As an example of the first reaction when reading, the brain working: “What do you mean, burned tin? Isn’t tin a metal, let me double check. Yes, did he bring a forge? Wait, what, in his … stomach? Ok I guess I’ll understand this better later.”
When I’m reading I pause and continue at my own leisure, when I’m listening I already missed out on the next 20-30 seconds of audio if I’m trying to figure this out or end up forgetting about this to pay attention to those 20-30 seconds. Sure enough, sometimes the explanation comes right after, but not always :)

That being said, this does sound awesome and I may try it for books I already read!

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As for my previous question, which books am I missing from those collections you mentioned 15+?
I checked his bibliography and from what I could tell, either you were talking about another series or some of the short stories such as The Eleventh Metal.