LoganNineFingers @ LoganNineFingers @lemmy.ca

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Unlike Rothfuss, he seems intent on finishing ;)

I watched an interview with him at a Comic-Con a year or so ago. I think it was the multiple perspective that he took on it. Plus he had to figure out how to create new momentum within the book after everything had changed. Book four I feel like he was trying to figure out where he wanted the rest of this to go. Initially it was supposed to be a six book series with it being really too trilogies. But now it's going to be seven books. Four five and six get progressively better as you go and sex feels more like the original trilogy 👍🏻

Read 36 books and counting

• Sanderson's Mistborn
• Sanderson's Warbreaker
• Jade City (it's a trilogy, something different)
• Codex Alera

4 was worst. I think because he changed his style.

5 was better because I expected it to be different but the story moves better.

6 was like reading 1-3 again. He even said as he winds down the series he'll be writing in more the style of the first trilogy

Canada's the same to a max of 5 yrs. You can get longer ones but the rates suck

My understanding is because it's Canadian law that after 5 years banks can no longer charge you for early cancellation. In the states they can for the entire duration of the mortgage. Which, benefits the banks when rates go up, the buyer when rates go down (and the opposite in the states)

• Red Rising would be unreal
• Anything Sanderson would be nice. Especially his fantasy stuff but his Cytonic series would be good.
• The First Law Trilogy
• Codex Alera
• If Rothfuss wilould finish the friggin trilogy King killer Chronicles would be good

I hate finished the trilogy. It was at this point I learned I don't like SciFi, I like space operas

I went s7e - n10+ - s23

The s23 is a nice balance. I don't have giant hands. I found the note 10+ to be too big. I dropped it all the time

What's the most modern you could emulate on an android phone (s23)?

And is retroarch the best bet?

I've been entertaining the idea of buying a cheap laptop to play with Linux after yesterday's posts and the idea of being able to emulate some more modern stuff and maybe install steam is appealing.

You'd be surprised how much stuff you can miss in books and still be clipping along ;)

But in all seriousness, I have ADHD and sometimes my mind wanders and I have to rewind but it's not often... anymore.

I found audiobooks to be a learned habit. I started with books I knew well already (hello Harry Potter) or books I watched the movies for (Lord of the Rings). It helped if I tuned out because I wasn't going to to miss anything I didn't already know.

A couple of pluses on audiobooks is that you can increase or decrease the reading speed depending on your comfortability (I usually sit between 1.4x - 1.6x, YMMV and it depends on the pacing of the recorded person). Also, you experience the authors work entirely without skipping things (which we often do as readers)

Most public libraries have OverDrive. While not torrented, you can get lots of ebooks for free! (if there's a way to "keep" them from overdrive I'm not aware of it)

Apple exec doesn't actually understand how computers work and think that that actually might be a reasonable arguement

I think a lot of Apple users fit this bill too so it doesn't matte much if this is the messaging, a fair amount of people will believe it.

Does this avoid paying for their sync services? I'd love synced notes but to be honest, I wouldn't use the feature enough to pay for it

Seconded!

Copying is a grey area still in our country. As long as you don't upload it, you can download a copy from us

What do you mean by sandboxed?

Might be ok for Manitoba now...

Previously, all aid (covid, healthcare, etc) was just redirected to debt

Damn haha. TIL

I'm just going to stay away from it

United Church seems fine