moonlune

moonlune wrote

Reply to comment by AnarcheAmor in Fuck the metaverse by ziq

is alienation really a bad thing thought?

Like, let your friendships be ephemeral and if they need to, burn your bridges. Leave the people who don't appeal to you anymore. And don't feel bad when people leave you.

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moonlune wrote

That sounds awesome. I hope it goes well for you :)

have you thought of buying a shitty old caravan for the first year or so, while you build your log house? you might be able to get a small one from the 70s for 200-600$, and maybe even loot stuff from it when you've built yourself a better home.

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moonlune wrote

I don't remember but I don't consider pdfs usable on mine.

I'm not that knowledgeable, but yeah the backlight and screen size are the only things that matter for me going forward. You could check on callibre's website if they're compatible with the version you want to buy.

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moonlune wrote (edited )

I have an old kindle I got second hand for 20$. It's pretty cool. I pirate everything I read, callibre is a software that automatically convert foss formats to the proprietary amazon one. My kindle is small and the conversion is not great for equations and technical books with lots of figures but it's good for stuff with words.

If I were to change anything I'd look for a kindle with backlights, so I can read it in bed without lights. And maybe a bigger screen in order to read PDFs but those are still expensive so I'll wait a few years for my kindle to break and hopefully the second hand market will have bigger screens by then.

If you want to buy new, kobo and kindle are the two main brands. Kobo slightly better software, kindle slightly cheaper. AFAIK you can find kindle source code so it's probably possible to buy the kindle with the ads for cheaper and flash the new ad-less code on it. Buy e-readers with big screens if you need to read PDFs.

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