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  • Yess, thank you. Ugly, slow, frustrating. And pay to make it bearable...

  • I feel like it's been shitty for a decade.. personal view though, clearly people like it

    Edit: well, for almost 10 years, maybe 9.

  • I feel you on the high cost of repairs costing a large portion of monthly income - I was quoted $500-700 for a (difficult model) spark plug replacement and plan to just DIY, even if it's frustrating and hard.

  • Part of why I want to keep up in my journaling at a pace of about 1 entry a week is to have the memories for the future - I don't have the best memory and I want to look back through the journal lens.

  • Yeah, it's a privacy nightmare at best, especially on Android...

    Spirals the other way round does work a bit better for me - I could also see doing my journal digitally with my ipad so that I get to doodle and have more personality in my writing, plus develop my digital handwriting.

  • Classic reddit with your comment getting a lot of down votes for answering the question fittingly

  • I will journal out, usually on my laptop. Sometimes I find it convenient to dictate to my phone but I use a lot of punctuation and bullet points so that can be frustrating. I would enjoy journalling with paper, but find carrying a journal to be more hassle than it's worth. Also, I'm left handed and if I want to journal on the go, paper has never been something I find I can write on well.

  • I would like to learn to lucid dream as well as to be able to recall more dreams. I understand that writing down dreams in the morning/after waking is best, but I don't have a ton of time in the morning. So I don't get around to keeping a dream journal.

    It's about once a week I even have a memory of a dream when I wake up.

  • Yeah, I use obsidian now for notes to self instead of Google keep but signal sounds good for things I don't want to organize in the moment. As well as a synced clipboard

  • Well done

  • For more about the 'degenerate art' Nazi issues I really like to recommend Jacob Geller on youtube, he has a video a few years old - "who's afraid of modern art".

  • I love libro.fm too, I picked it up maybe a year ago. Credit systems aren't my favorite but getting files DRM free is perfect for my standards.

  • Thank you for the podcast tip, I'd like to learn more about what you described!

  • My partner is vindicated - hooray for trackball representation. If only I could get her off the crappiest trackball you've ever seen that she must have gotten in a 20 pack

  • I'm planning to just keep buying more as he causes further declines, to my ability to do so that is.

  • My portfolio went down 1200 this Friday, 3000 since April started.

  • Sounds painful to watch YouTube on a console primarily, unless paying for Premium although then you still get to watch sponsorships.

    Even ignoring the ads, I'd be surprised if the interface wasn't at least frustrating

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    SqueakySpider @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Looking for tips on seeding more, what kind of hardware to use.

    I've been struggling to get ratios over even 1.0, most are stuck in the low 0.10 - 0.20 range. I don't seed off my gaming PC 24/7 because I don't want a VPN on all the time, plus I turn it off at night.

    So mainly wondering if anyone has tips on a good setup to keep the PC seeding overnight, I'm running linux mint currently. I also have a RaspPi but I understand they are not great for torrents?

    Is there any good way to compartmentalize a VPN? I.e., use the VPN for qBitTorrent only, and use my regular network adapter for other stuff (games, browsers, whatever).

    I've tried a seedbox in the past and they're neat, but I'd rather avoid a subscription and just use my hardware. I'm using Private Internet Access VPN until my already paid for time is up in case that's significant.

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    SqueakySpider @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    What games do you play as you watch TV, movies, etc. if any?

    I play a lot of windowed games on my PC as I watch less engaging content like TV I've seen, Youtube. Lately Balatro, Peglin, a racing game called art of rally, Mini Motorways. Interested to hear other people's preferences.

    I generally want something that runs well windowed because I use a third of my ultrawide to run the video, so no shooters or "big" games usually.

    cool websites @lemmy.ca
    SqueakySpider @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    "doodad.dev — Tools for making websites fast, expressive, accessible, and green"

    I wanted a simple way to make a fun background for my desktop, and I found it! I used the pattern generator and highly recommend messing with it and the gradient maker. Please check it out just for the UI, it's awesome. I attached the hexagon background I made.

    Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    SqueakySpider @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Looking for help with de-DRMing an eBook from yuzu reader

    Just bought an "enhanced eBook", accessible only through Yuzu (Barnes and Noble's site) and I would love to rip it to PDF and get it on libgen. Does anyone have any advice or tutorial for this?

    I don't have much experience with writing scripts but I understand I could use python to screenshot and append all 800+ pages as well. Looking for how to do this if it's what I have to do.

    Thanks, and happy to provide more relevant info if needed!