Deebster

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I noticed maliciouscompliance appear here, welcome!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So many don't understand that the mods need those tools, and don't care about people who need the accessibility (although I suspect that argument is popular more for having the moral high ground).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

[they] didn’t do anything wrong I just didn’t agree with them

And that's why it's disabled! That's not what it's meant to be for, it's meant to be for things that don't add to the conversation. If it's factually wrong then fine - downvote, but don't do it to suppress others' opinions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think when you're communicating, it's good etiquette to make sure people can read your post easily - your five minutes could save hundreds or thousands of people time.

That said, capitalisation isn't required, as long as it's clear. I think line breaks are more important.

I do take it as a signal that the writer might be worth listening to if they've bothered to take the care to get their thoughts and fingers in order - as opposed to some stream of conscious babble that you can read multiple times and still not sure if you've understood it.

I used to use Swype and now I use Gboard and both do capitalisation and other handy things like double space to end a sentence - maybe check your settings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I noticed one of the Lemmy instances recommending everyone change their settings to use 'hot' by default in their site rules sidebar. Makes sense, the many instances look a lot more lively that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well at least that's one thing to look forward to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It pushed a lot of people to try Lemmy/kbin/whatever which isn't nothing. It also gave Lemmy's code a thorough stress-test! When a bunch of apps stop working at the end of the month, I think we'll see another spike.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, you don't have to. I like to be able to answer when I've read a book - or, increasingly, whether I've read a book. Apparently there are books I enjoyed while reading but made zero impression on my long-term memory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You're a few ahead of me on the re-read; Lords and Ladies is my next one. I'm taking my time though, I started in 2019.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ah, I didn't realise that custom columns was a thing you could do! Makes sense then. I might see if there's a way automate adding all my last read dates into a column.

I guess you can only track books you have as an ebook, so no dead-tree versions or to-read lists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

#Calibre

As in the ebook manager? I don't see any way to track your reading or other lists on there. Is it a plugin, or are we talking about different Calibres?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've only read The Road by him, I should read more.

Huh, I didn't know (or I forgot) that he wrote No Country for Old Men - I loved the Coen brothers film so that might have to jump the queue and get read next.

What other books of his do people recommend?

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