67 is just the “E” meme again. Change my mind.

This typically involves being in desktop mode.

So OP is joking about waiting to go back to gaming mode.

Not a shitpost+dodgy link, and it’s your first lemmy post?

Well, yes.

The air doesn’t actually harm the cat, and if one realizes that or doesn’t care, the effect stops.

The point is to set up something that punishes the cat without your involvement. Another example is the way I set a metal measuring cup atop the toilet paper roll, for it to fall down whenever my cat went to rip it up. It only worked because the sound of metal hitting the tile floor scared the shit out of my boy. It took about a week for him to stop touching the tp, after thay he’s never heard the sound again.

If you have a fearless beast, then this stuff isn’t gonna work. But if you DO notice something that your cat avoids or doesn’t like, find a way to use it (without harming your cat, ofc).

That depends on how you trained them.

If you stopped them from jumping up on the coubter, the cat will just wait for you to not be around.

What I did was set a motion activated can of pressurized air up on the counter. Now the cat get’s “punished” for going up there whether I’m there or not.

A couple weeks of this was enough to not have him jump up there for years. In fact he seems to avoid ALL kitchen counters, because he doesn’t jump onto them when visiting relatives or friends, either.

He still climbs all over everything else, just not kitchen counters.

With the Likebook Mars I got used to charging it often. I was exepecting the same with the Boox, but it has suprised me in a good way.

It came configured to power off within a couple hours when unused. Which is one solution. If you only read every few days, setting it to turn off when unused does ensure it will have juice to spare the next time you pick it up, though you’ll have to wait about a minute to actually be reading again.

To avoid booting it all the time, I currently have it set to power off after 2 days of inactivity. Which is essentially never, unless I take a weeklong pause in reading.

This has meant I’m plugging it in once a week or so. Still more often than the month my Kobo used to last, but not bad at all. I can still empty it in one day if spend all day reading with the frontlight on, but that’s true for any reader.

If I queue up a bunch of manga downloads, it can drain from fully charged to empty in about 2 hours.

When it does go unused, power off within two days means it only wastes about 10% of the battery sleeping before powering off entirely. (That translates to about 5% per day when sleeping, that’s with network off during sleep and all apps suspended). Meaning I’ve not had to charge it when I go to use it after a longer break.

I don’t use koreader myself, but it’s on f-droid and hence extremely easy to install on the Boox.

So he’s still doing it?

Currently on a Boox Go Color 7. My previous reader was a Likebook Mars, not color. Both are android based, meaning I can install Tachiyomi for manga. I now use syncyomi with TachiSY, allowing me to sync my Tachiyomi collection between my phone and ereader, so I can manage my library and read the occasional chapter on my phone, while syncing all that to my ereader so I never need to manually do any library management on it.

The Go 7 is just a tad small for western comics, but it’s usable. It’s in the sweet spot for manga. I really like it. I technically prefer the size of the Mars, but the smaller footprint on the Go 7 has meant I’ve actually brought it with me a lot more, and the physical page buttons are simply superior.

The two ways to do color that currently exist, are Triton/Kaleido and Spectra.

Triton and the newer Kaleido, consist of a normal black and white panel overlayed by a color filter that divides it into RGB sub-pixels. For example, to do red, the bw screen goes white under the red sub-pixels, and black below the rest. This produces red, though to maintain the brightness of full white the filter isn’t very strong, so it’s a fairly pale result. The filter means it can’t go as white as a pure bw screen, but in my experience the difference is tiny. You can just barely see the difference, even side-by-side. And even tho the colors are pale, seeing book covers and comics with even a little bit of color is really nice.

The other way is having actual colored ink, or multi-color cells, and some other ways. What these all have in common is that the refresh rate is truly glacial. Like ten seconds for a single page turn slow. You’ll find these in digital picture frames and such, no ereaders have been made using these methods.

I would not consider a Kindle unless you can be sure you can jailbreak it. I had a Kobo at one point, and while I really liked it, having gotten used to Tachiyomi I could not go back to manually converting manga into .CBZ files and syncing them to my reader.

The ability to install android apps enables so many options for finding things to read, and ways to read them.

They’ve made several e-ink phones by now.

It’s just not suited for it. Even though it CAN do fairly smooth animation, it always looks like absolute ass due to the ghosting.

The tech is doing fine tho. There are two decent ways to do color now (one fast, one slow), and the picture quality is mind-boggling when you let it refresh properly. It’s absolutely fantastic for reading books, but it’s only gotten better for my favorite use-case, which is comics and manga. The ability to do color adds so much.

It’s also in use in a ton of industries. There are re-usable eink price-tags for store shelves that you can put price and product info on. While just sitting there showing info, they use no power, while still being able to be updated digitally when needed.

I also realized the live timetable at my local bus-stop is actually a giant eink panel. Which makes so much sense. Compared to a giant LCD panel it uses orders of magnitude less power, and is even more readable in daylight without any kind of backlight, and it only needs to update once a minute. It doesn’t show any info with more than 60 second precision anyway.

But eink simply cannot compete with LCD/OLED in terms of emissive color quality and refresh rate. While it straight up wins in terms of daylight readability, longevity and power efficiency. Supposedly the panels lose contrast over time, but I’ve never noticed it happening myself, even on decades old devices.

For normal use tho, eink sucks. I avoid ever using my ereader for anything except actually reading. Writing, doing any kind of browsing, (even to find something to read), is horrible. It’s like using a phone with gloves on, but all the time.

The experience is at its best when you just continue reading something you already had open, and only ever interact with the display or a button to turn the page. The moment you need to pan, zoom, select something, use and on-screen keyboard, etc. you start wishing you could use something else.

I literally use my phone to find what to read, then switch to the ereader to actually read.

Me, with massive lung capacity: Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrp

They’re literally using rainbow coloring and sparklies to try and catch your attention.

That should tell you everything you need to know.

I don’t think it’s an instancing problem.

It’s not like reddit doesn’t have duplicate communities for some things. People set out to do the same thing. It happens, and that’s fine.

Sometimes they find each other, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they combine their efforts, sometimes they compete.

Same as individual posts. The good rises and grows, the bad is forgotten and disappears.

He was being lit by my second monitor, looked neat.

It depends on the kid.

I’m one of three adult kids that our still-working parents have.

As someone who has accepted a lot of support from them, I feel extremely motivated to do something useful with that support.

But others might be inclined to freeload, and use that support to put off developing as a person. I think I’m a little guilty of that myself, but even in retrospect it’s hard to say whether that stuff was a well-needed break, or just lazyness.

That said, I’ve kept track of every cent my parents have floated for me, and I’ve started slowly reducing the number as I’m making enough to sometimes pay for things in their stead.

Obviously the passage of time has changed the value of the currency, and I’m sure my parents don’t care whether I “pay them back” as they never considered their support a loan. But it matters to me, and keeping the idea in my head that I have to pay them back, kept me from thinking of their support as “free money” since I always planned on returning it some day.

I also do pay rent. But it’s essentially symbolic. It’s an agreed upon arrangement, there to remind me that living space isn’t free. It’s not as though my mom would actually evict me if I genuinely couldn’t afford a payment, and if I did get hit with some surprise expense, I know my parents would immediately offer to share the burden.

Basically, we’re simulating what life would be like for me without them, but with the security of knowing that they’re there for me if needed.

But I also know people my age, where giving them money would be little more valuable than setting it on fire. People who are able to accept charity without it instilling any kind of motivation or inspiration.

Another thing to be careful of, is that financially supporting an adult might make them feel indebted in ways that make them lead miserable lives. If my parents had supported me with the expectation I become a doctor of any kind, combined with my depression, it may well have killed me.

My student years made me miserable, and it took me a long while to recover. But I was lucky enough to have parents that didn’t have carreer dreams for me. They only put pressure on to motivate me, when I expressed interest of my own, first.

So I think to a massive extent it’s between each parent and kid. Even my siblings don’t have identical arrangements with my parents.

Good news everyone (bad news for most of you)! In order to meet production targets (satisfy investors), we are optimizing workflows and cutting unneeded redundancies (firing most of you).

Neat. But can you steal the cars?

Also we’re making more than ever and projects are launching with thundering success.

Unfortunately we’ve hit on some hard times and are going to have to let some of you go.

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Sounds like you might like https://github.com/Nezreka/SoulSync

It can automate grabbing your streaming platform playlists as files from soulseek.

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Extremely.

But he was also narcissistic enough to basically drop hints the whole time, even as he actively hides. While he knows he needs to stay hidden, he yearns for everyone to know that he is Kira, and to worship him for what he is doing.

He wants to openly taunt his detractors while never giving them actual evidence, but that’s stupid as fuck.

Ha nailed the lie to start, but fucked himself because of his arrogance and ego.