I’ve kind of been bouncing off a few things this week. I’m playing through Freedom Planet for the first time and loving it (I’ve already bought the sequel in preparation), chipping away at Brotato, playing a bit of N++, and doing a few runs in Darkest Dungeon 2. I finished Super Mario Wonder after bouncing off it when it originally came out, and now I’m just trying to cram anything into the hole.

I felt like Links Awakening was a good difficulty to be honest. I enjoyed those old school style puzzles from the GB era.

Aren’t hedgehogs nocturnal though?

That god damn kitchen scene.

IT by Stephen King was read incredibly by Steven Weber.

Stephen King got me into Audiobooks after being a bit hit-and-miss with them but I’ve been using them when I’m out walking and then read the book when I’m home and have time. It’s been a great way to zoom through his back catalogue.

They may have invented them but Japan perfected them.

Japan has ruined toilets for me.

Woah, woah, woah. You had me at babbling prostates…

There’s an app too which is how I originally found it. It’s fun to just click around every now and then.

Berserk is one of the greatest manga of all time.

You’re literally using a communist instance. The ML in lemmy.ml stands for Marxist Leninist…

The Stand by Stephen King

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I’m loving it. I’m following a lot (about 500 communities) so I’m always seeing new content. It did take a while to find everything I wanted to see though.

It’s the Fold 3. I’ve had it about a year and a half I think.

I have a foldable and I hate my foldable. I am literally counting down the days until I can get rid of it.

In the beginning, it was fine but I didn’t use the tablet mode as much as I thought I would. It was mostly just videos and manga. Then the hinge started to get dust or debris under it and wouldn’t open all the way. This has slowly gotten worse and worse and I don’t even want to open it even if I have a good use case now.

The outer screen is too thin but it does make it easy to hold and type one-handed at least.

The device is also bulky obviously which is fine but with a case, it’s about an inch thick which is a bit unwieldy.

The battery life is awful, even without using the main screen. I usually have to charge once a day and overnight.

I just miss my Note. Nice big wide screen, comfortable to hold. Massive battery. Nice stylus. :(

Oh great, the dickheads have made it to Lemmy.

Got one today actually and after removing the DRM from my kindle books. I loaded it up in 2 seconds. I also installed the Amazon and Google ereader fonts because I love Bookerly. It’s great so far. Feels nice to hold. It’s snappy. 32GB of storage.

Unfortunately at the moment it does only support Kobo audiobooks but it does let you use Libby and borrow ebooks/audiobooks from your local library. I usually use Audible on my phone anyway so I’m not really bothered by that. Would be nice to have though.

Screen is just as good as my Paperwhite with a better eye-comfort mode.

My only annoyance so far is that it’s frozen twice which required a reboot. This might be because I’ve been using I a lot today and connecting and disconnecting from my laptop etc but it’s something I’ll be keeping an eye on.

Edit: hasn’t frozen again in the entire time since.

Reassess Your Chess and Amateur Chess by Jeremy Silman are both great

I’m a recent convert after years of saying how stupid they were. I have a Galaxy Watch 5 and it’s just part of my routine now. It tracks my walks and swims and gives me notifications.

It’s snappy when I need to use it and if I need to replace my phone with it for a bit (like listening to a podcast when my phone is charging) it works fine.