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I dunno, it’s not perfect, but I tend to enjoy the experience of moonreader, librera, or other really solid apps on android better than the experience on kindles, or the others I’ve tried that aren’t android based.

That’s even on eink options; I have a boox, and a kobo that are eink, with the boox running Android, and kobo whatever they used. I tend to find less hassles on the boox, despite it being their cheapest model.

I don’t think any of them have really perfected the overall form and function, but I find the apps on android give better immersion and less hassle.

!writingprompts@literature.cafe :)

Yeah, I suspect that’s what I’ll end up doing. But for now, dual boot ftw?

It’s one of those things where screwing around with an otherwise stable system just seems pointless unless I don’t have a choice.

Mad rant props!

For real though, flatpak exists partially for exactly your use case. Simple to use, won’t break shit, and pretty much available everywhere.

You’re kinda lucky in a way. Linux in all its flavors have steadily improved over the years. Even when win10 came out and I jumped ship for all but a few niche uses, it was a higher learning curve, and came with much disappointment in what I couldn’t do that I had been able to on win 7 (which was my favorite version of Windows overall).

Now, while I still have my win 7 drive for the two things I can’t get working on linux reliably, I can do everything else. I also have a win10 partition on my laptop for one single piece of software because it’s easier to just keep it for the rare usage than try to figure out how to get it working (is Amazon’s shitty kindle author program, and since I only crank out a book every three years or so [and only one that I’ve felt like selling there], it just isn’t worth fucking with for that tiny amount of extra space.

Linux, right now, is the best it’s ever been. It’s also on par with windows. Enough so that I can’t see myself ever going back. At some point, win7 won’t work on new hardware, and I’ll have to jank a musicbee install on linux, and tackle the character sheet generator that I use formy absurdly over crunchy home brew TTRPG that I’ve yet to find a replacement for that isn’t a compromise.

Anyway, I suspect that in a year or two, you’ll be in a similar space. You’ll have figured out the bullshit, abandoned windows habits, and actually be satisfied with your distro of choice.

Truth? If I had spent as much time on linux back in the nineties, I would likely have has equal difficulty adapting to windows if things had been in reverse.

Ngl, my sense of humor runs dark as fuck, so I got a laugh out of this.

Which might piss people off, but IDGAF. I’ve had brains on my hands before, I no longer have to GAF about others’ opinions of my humor

Nah, nothing wrong with that. The problem isn’t users, it’s what the company expects from users.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/23942074

They said it better than I can

But I also get where you’re coming from; the prompt itself is weak and leaves several assumptions out that would make better answers possible from an llm.

Yeah, because that’s a useful community

Fap-fap-fap-fap-fap

What’s thefuck?

Interestingly, mint is what I daily drive as my distro and the car for it is what I prefer in terms of driving daily (I love me a hatchback).

However, Debian is a distro I would drive more often if it were more practical, and that car is my favorite ever that I wish I could have on a practical level

'Salright, we know you did it in gimp

It’s also going to be great for people with health issues that impact thermoregulation. And there’s a ton of diseases that do so. Currently, the typical cooling vest is a glorified ice pack holder, and even less comfortable than that sounds

It happens :)

Something that would be said in person in a way that makes it obvious as a joke doesn’t scan as well in text. Add in the divergent thinking so that even the text is different than what a neurotypical person would think of as a dark joke, and things can fall flat (or worse).

Keep at it though, humor is the only thing getting a lot of folks through life, even when it’s dark

Yeah, it’ll be a while yet

So it goes

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

that’s sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost

eternity

connect

and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder

annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

One problem

Batteries.

I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)

Alex Steele is bloody awesome