TBH the only reason I used their service was to send pirated stuff to friends. I didn’t want to compromise my own/my primary cloud.

I’ve tried keeping an offline journal, but it’s never worked out really. I still feel embarrassed of putting my thoughts onto paper for some reason, and I also felt that I didn’t have enough interesting things happen. I write a lot of poetry, and I feel the same there. It’s gotten a bit better, but it’s weird how embarrassing it still feels to make your feelings “known” in a different way. Especially because I never doubt my feelings or feel embarrassed about them as long as they stay inside my brain haha.

I love that this seems to be driven as a non-profit!

Unfortunately there are no books on local plants that I can find… thanks though! I did find some nature walks.

Thanks, I found some actually!

I strive to do this too but alas it’s easy to get distracted…

I reason the same regarding emergencies!

Tbh I don’t really have any emergencies I can imagine necessitates me responding in the middle of the night. But I guess it depends on one’s life.

Glad there’s at least 2 of us hah

It’s probably just my brain, but I’m thinking about how everything’s still received even though you can hide the notifications

It’s a really bad platform in general and has a lot of censorship issues as well. Good for Chinese content though…

It’s possible to sign up without a Chinese phone number and get a higher resolution but yes it kinda sucks. I only use it for Chinese content.

Tbh the only country I ever worry about will actively try to deport me for just trying to be a tourist, on some bogus charge after checking social media, would be the US. Can’t ever think of any other country that would care or act with the same sense of superiority as the US.

US is also like the only country, as far as I know, in the world that presumes you want to immigrate there and you have to prove them otherwise to be let through

Is corporate always the only alternative? I’ve been working in the public and non-profit sector, even in IT, and it’s always been much chiller than “corporate”. Maybe small companies are better too. Though I’d like to avoid working at all if possible, which made my returns to the working force always a bit meh anyway.

I think Linux phones are a thing? https://itsfoss.com/linux-phones/

I don’t really know how they do it, but some do run newer Android versions like Android 14 (Meebook M8, Bigme B7). Anyway, the lack of Play store isn’t really a consideration in China, it’s only for foreign markets they have to include the Play store. This also means that China has many more Android e-ink brands than are available to us (which mostly are Boox, Meebook, Bigme or Hisense).

Still, e-ink is so much better than a regular screen. If one is really strapped for cash sure, but for one’s eyes sake I’d say e-ink is a worthwhile investment if one likes to read. A phone can’t compare.

To be honest I don’t really find them prohibitively expensive if you count the value you’ll get from them over the years. I have both a Kobo Libra 2 and an Android Boox Page, which I bought for different use cases. I see them both lasting me many years. My previous Kobo Aura One lasted me 7 years in itself before I sold it 2nd hand. My reading skyrocketed once I bought an e-reader.

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