I didn’t hate it. I liked it. I didn’t love it tbh and was disappointed because it had been overhyped in my opinion.

I think R.F. Kuang is a glorious writer if 1/ you like worldbuilding and extensive exposition and 2/ you don’t mind messy and underwhelming endings.

Political maps are a terrible tool for visualizing cultural / linguistic practices (and on this one, colonization didn’t make it even worse). Just gotta roll with it and enjoy the weird assumptions :)

I prefer to support smaller instances, but don’t have a problem with lemmy.ml specifically (whereas I do sometimes go out of my way to avoid lemmy.world)

I believe someone had asked for it and they said it was nearly impossible. You’d be able to do it in a single given app maybe, but the « download an episode by default » system, the (wonderful) variety of podcasting apps, and the variety of podcast ad services all make it nearly impossible. It’s somewhere in the issues!

This extension really changed my life, or at least my fraught relationship with YouTube!

Yeah idk, I feel like last year’s statement was good and if they said something more… questionable this year, probably some people were just being really pushy about “please shit on AI”. As far as I’m concerned everyone looks pretty bad here.

Well it’s about books. I’d be happy to crosspost to a better place if I missed it :)

Yes, it does. It will keep suffering from the same issues as long as it encourages microblogging, and there are public upvotes and likes, and you can post links on Lemmy with a single-sentence summary that people can react to without reading the link. The Fediverse social media is built on the exact same premises as for-profit social media.

What has been done on the Fediverse is taking these systems and making them less addictive. Basically, they have all the problems of for-profit social media, but for-profit social media snowballs these problems and puts them at the core of their business model. The issue without the several layers of « making it worse because money » is not nearly as bad. But I do believe it’s a « lesser evil » thing, at least for our brains and ability to interact with people.

I don’t know about the author, but I’m on Linux and Android and the apps I see on Notion Calendar are for Windows and Mac for desktop and for iOS on phone.

I’ve tried the web client a bit when it came out but it just didn’t really click for me (as in, I didn’t see how it would be better than any email client that has an integrated calendar). Also, calendar web clients just don’t answer the issue, in my opinion. And regular Notion is slow and clunky in my experience, so I haven’t given them the benefit of the doubt on the Calendar part of their tooling. :)

Depression can worsen or mimic ADHD symptoms and it’s common to tackle that first. The ADHD diagnosis is irrelevant, what matters is that your life gets better. :)

Countries in the Americas? Not sure what you don’t understand.

The book is called Free, I’m not trying to promote anything and really have nothing to gain. I’m just sharing my book reviews and felt like this might be good to share with people interested in European countries and cultures :)

Just started The daughter of Doctor Moreau yesterday.

Before that, Rana Joon and the one and only now was absolutely wonderful and I really recommend it.

I have no recommendations but please know that Gender Trouble is actually a psyop book written only to melt the brain of people who attempt to read it (/s)

I just can’t get my head around this monster of a book!

Yeah, Anna’s Archive bragged about doing it (and they did great).

Isn’t that just the metadata?

I’d recommend donating to your national Wikimedia chapter if you aren’t in the US. They’re not funded by megacorps and they often struggle financially, and they’re the ones doing a lot of work on the ground.

Ben c’est pareil que de poster sur j’ai lu, c’est pas commercial mais c’est pas à toi.

Fais juste ton truc, on s’en fout de la couleur de l’encre…

Hahaha c’est beaucoup mieux !

En vrai c’est pas le principe, mais si t’as pas d’hébergement et que tu veux écrire je pense que le plus important c’est que ce soit pas sur une plateforme commerciale. Je peux sûrement mettre un lien vers un post en indiquant qu’il est pas indieweb, mais pas non plus sur une plateforme dégueu :)

Ah non, moi je cherche personne. Je parlais de mon projet perso et je disais que si quelqu’un avait envie de participer, le sujet de jlailu pourrait être intéressant. Faut pas mettre la pression aux gens comme ça :D