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Yingwu

@ Yingwu @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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2 yr. ago

A courtyard of bamboo and late-night snow

a lone lantern a book on the table

if I hadn't encountered the teaching of no effort

how else could I have gained this life of leisure

Wei Yingwu 韋應物

  • How do I stop thinking about how many hours there are left on the weekend?

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  • Not in my country :)

  • How do I stop thinking about how many hours there are left on the weekend?

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  • For sure. I have a steady meditative practice, but still, it takes a long time to change one's mind and it's easy to forget...

  • How do I stop thinking about how many hours there are left on the weekend?

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  • I don't really hate my job to be honest. It's just that, no matter what I'd do for pay, it will never be anything I really want to do. I'd rather spend my spare time pursuing whatever studies, hobbies, exercise or random leisure I really want to do. Capitalizing on your interests doesn't lead to anything good, at least for me. People always say, "try to find your dream job!" but for some people, there will never be. Because capitalism and 40 hour work weeks are unnatural in itself. But yes, mindfulness and meditation is key, still.

  • France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.

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  • A reminder that the people voting for these laws do not understand technology. They don't get it. Yes, this law sucks, but even if it passes, I'd be really surprised if it was actually enforceable.

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    What's your sleep schedule like?

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  • Bed at 21-21:30, up 5:30 the latest pretty much everyday. Usually work out or study things I want in the morning. I really love early weekend mornings, such calm!

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    What's your sleep schedule like?

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  • I mean, 8 hours is more than enough? I'm way younger but always sleep 8 hours more or less. I don't care about sleeping in and getting up 5 AM is an amazing feeling for me.

  • YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ is for those that already have a music subscription

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  • Didn't they already have this before but removed it? At least in my country a "lite"-variant was available but they removed it like last year.

  • Self-hosted Personal Finance Suggestions

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  • Actual Budget is amazing!

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • As mentioned, this is one of the reasons why Adobe DRM couldn't longer be used according to the interpretations of the EU directive, and why they "had to" remove the option to download the DRM-protected ePub file and move to an app instead where they could make text-to-speech work.

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • At least you could easily DeDRM ADE. This seems a lot trickier due to there not being one universal solution and it being in-app.

  • Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

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  • Exactly this.

  • Do you browse the fediverse at work?

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  • That's why one should work in the same dept as the ones with the capability to check :p

  • Do you browse the fediverse at work?

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  • Ouff great call! Then I'll just keep browsing on my phone.

  • Do you browse the fediverse at work?

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  • I do a lot of personal surfing on my work computer... But in my country the employer isn't allowed to track what I do on the computer as long as I haven't committed a crime 🤷

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  • The information superhighway as we called this thing way back when. Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Gutenberg, free MOOCs, shadow libraries and what not are a godsend.

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  • I'm not even convinced that Loops was a good idea to begin with. Yes, sure, always nice to have fediverse alternatives of mainstream apps, but short-form videos like those on Tiktok wouldn't have been successful if not for Tiktoks algorithm which is much, much better than even any of the competition. It's really good at discoverability and being addictive. And Loops doesn't have anything like this (and even if this is good depending on who you ask, it definitely doesn't give Loops an advantage). Who even is the target audience of Loops?

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • At least I'm hoping that there'll still be a spectrum of both BW and color screens available. Apparently many seem to like/prefer colour screen, and the screen door effect and worse contrast doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. Some even prefer the more textured look of the screen door effect, though I don't know myself as I've never tried a colour screen. Either way, I'd be hesitant to try one, and as I kept my Kobo Aura One for like 7 years it'll be quite some time before I upgrade my current Kobo Libra 2. If I have some spare cash I might be inclined to try a colour e-reader as an alternative to my current one, but it's not high on my priority list.

    But yeah, it definitely seems that Kobo is pushing their colour screens as they're only selling the Libra in colour now. Might be that they release a B/W once the hype dies out a bit though.

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  • Wow, I just bought it last year before they discontinued it then. Interesting that only colour screens are available now. It must mean that they are at least as good though? Edit: after reading reviews, apparently not... that sucks.

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • Absurd. Glad I have a Kobo.