Never thought about that before, but it looks delicious.
kethali
joined 2 years ago
I like that clicking on Next actually starts at the top of the page for me now instead of in the middle somewhere
I might have gotten one, if you could have just easily ordered one online. Even though it's overpriced for what it is. Because I like the speedy, but I'm not spending thousands on a watch, personally.
So instead, I didn't feel bad at all about getting a $20 fake one from DHGate
On my current instance since Jun 4, I can't even remember if I had joined a different one before that or not. Beginning of June at least. Basically abandoned R* at that point.
I might have almost destroyed a monitor with bad XFree86 timings on Slackware once or twice. Pulled the plug on that thing pretty fast.
I'm pretty sure I used one that was terminal based, likely using ncurses. Without searching, I can't recall the name of it, though.
I used XMPP a bit among friends, more so when Google supported it, which was probably after ICQ/AIM/MSN wasn't as popular? I don't really talk to many people anymore, so whatever, heheh :)
It would be nice to see XMPP make some kind of "comeback" ... or some sort of popularity boost like mastodon/lemmy/etc in recent times.
I'm a big Baxter fan, never really read anything by Pratchett somehow, and I ended up with the same opinion pretty much. I gave up reading after three books, they just didn't seem to be going anywhere or anything really happening. Great idea, it just ended up being boring.
But let’s say you happen to ~~strip the drm~~ find a DRM free source of ebooks like on Humble Bundle and want an eReader and are looking for options.
If you're a sci-fi/fantasy fan, Baen is a great publisher with DRM free books. With reasonable prices, not practically the same price for the ebook or physical book like other places.
There are other sources of DRM free books that I treat just as I would my local library, without having to be on a waitlist of hundreds of people to read a digital file...
Calibre should work fine with both Kobo and Kindle for transferring your DRM free books to the device.
My daughter reads a lot of books checked out via overdrive on her kobo (in Canada), though the search feature on the kobo itself is kind of garbage. We have better luck doing a search with the Libby app on a phone, checking it out, then syncing the kobo.
I use a Kindle myself (purchased on one of the good sales for roughly half price), though primarily via epub files transferred to the Kindle using Calibre. It's a busy UI, but it does work well and has lots of features. Pretty good as an archive of your ebook library.
Planning a trip that way in a couple of weeks, hope the weather is good!