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Hi! The name is Howler and I'm an extremely avid reader.

When ereaders hit the market, I wasn't a fan. Where was the smell? The pleasure of passing pages, the (not always) comforting weight? I didn't want an ereader.

But it got to a point where I could not fit a single book in my bedroom anymore, and I had to surrender. I got a Sony (the one with buttons on the lower part) and my fate was sealed.

Since then, I've owned a couple more devices (Boox, Tolino...) and they all died from exhaustion.

BUT

Then I met her. 8" screen, buttons, not part of Amazon, lightweight... The first impulsive purchase of my life.

I'm talking about Kobo Forma, my companion and best friend for the last 10 years. I've taken it to the beach. To the desert. Mountaineering. It fell in a swimming pool. A dog threw up on it and I immediately simpathy puked on the Forma too.

Good as new (well I had to tape the buttons because they fell).

Forma has an extremely crispy screen, it's almost weightless despite it's size, and though many people found that the backlight of their devices didn't work as intended, mine did.

It's so thin that even now I fear breaking it, somehow.

One would think that with such a lot of real state, I'd read mangas or comics. I'll be honest. It sucks for that. That could be a big problem for some people, obviously.

It was advertised as a good device for highlighting and note taking... But I found it so buggy, laggy and annoying that I never used the feature.

I used it ONLY to read (sideloaded books) and Heaven knows it did its job impeccably, despite the janky buttons some CEO decided they were acceptable in such an expensive device.

HOWEVER

It's going down the same road as my previous devices: burnout. The battery ain't what it used to be. Not bad for most, yet, but for a compulsive reader... It's a problem.

ENTER THE NEW DEVICE

T'was supposed to be a Kobo Libra 2 BUT THEY GOT DISCONTINUED. A minute of silence for the friend I never met, please.

ENTER MY LAST HOPE

Dun dun duuuuuun the Libra Colour which y'all knew about because it's on the title.

Right off the bat, the Colour is 7", 1 less than Forma. I'm not upset about it at all, but it's noticeable. The buttons feel functional when you click them! (In Forma they worked, but you had 0 feedback) and it uses USB-C.

The device itself feels sturdier than the forma, and since it's flat, I'm not afraid of it breaking around the handle.

Device is snappy, the backlight is a delight (hehe), I loaded all my books with no issues, battery seems durable, it's very comfortable to hold, mangas show up nicely...

BUT BUT BUT

THE SCREEN IS HELLA DARK

I know it's because of the technology it uses and that the backlight fixes the readability issue. (So don't come after me for this complaint).

I was quite baffled. Pictures online showed that it was darker, but daaaamn. The colours are indeed muted, but I like them a lot.

I've highlighted a couple of sentences and it seems to work well, but I don't have the pen so I can't draw a masterpiece for y'all to admire.

I know some people don't care. I know that some, do. Hence this post and the images attached :)

I still don't know what will I do (keep the Colour, I bet) but I hope this helps or entertains someone.

WARNING: I don't use the Kobo services (throwaway email for the win) so I have no idea about the integrations it offers.

WeeklyScape is go and "free" paid features.

This wiki can be a good place to get instructions on building and using low tech systems that will make you more self-sufficient and less dependent on centralized systems that could fail or deny you service.

My first actual plumbing project done entirely on my own, replaced leaking black 3" flex piping w pvc, about 6 feet. In the end the cement I had was old and consistency of jelly. Instead of going out and buying new I went ahead used it and now I'm haunted/scared. It came out really clean and I now have much regret for not taking the final step correctly.

The place I repaired is intake from gravity fed 3" piping direct from irrigation ditch to my yard (3" intake reduced to 1.5", 90° up, 90° over), where it comes in to my pump, so the parts I replaced aren't under direct pressure. What scares me most is once the ditch opens up, whatever the results of my work I may be stuck until the end of the season to replace/repair.

Ditch opens up in April. How fucked am I?

Reading through speculation about what the **Monsterverse’s new kaiju Titan X aka Le Gran Dios de la Mar may be (such as the article linked above), it sounds increasingly as though she may be a new protective mother figure, impacted or possibly even responding to the effects of global heating on the oceans.

If so, this season’s Titan threat may put Monarch: Legacy of Monsters in a unique position among current major science fiction streaming shows in directly taking on a Climate Change/Emergency scenario with no gloss of allegory.

It is nonetheless absolutely in keeping with the long tradition of the broader franchise in critiquing the consequences of human actions on the planet.

The 70+ year Godzilla franchise is unique in embedding the impact of humanity on the Earth’s environment from its outset.

The narrative of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as later nuclear weapons testing and nuclear power plants, calling up kaiju, literally “strange creature”, is a constant within the franchise.

In addition to atomic/nuclear radiation, films such as Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971), with its smog monster, and the more recent Monsterverse film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), which ends with Godzilla leading an ecological recovery, the franchise continues to underscore its deep theme that humanity shares the Earth and will bear the consequences for its actions.

Just a temp repair to get the chimney somewhat weather tight until the roofers can fix it properly. But I figured y'all would get a kick out of my roofing job.

So habe der Landesparteitag der Linken in Niedersachsen beschlossen, den Zionismus abzulehnen und Israel als "genozidalen Staat" sowie als "Apartheidstaat" zu bezeichnen. "Diese Beschlüsse sind für mich nicht mehr akzeptabel", erklärte Büttner.

Zudem habe er auch selbst Angriffe von Parteimitgliedern erlebt, etwa in sozialen Medien. Die Partei habe dazu weitgehend geschwiegen.

Der vorläufige Höhepunkt dieser Entwicklung sei ein gegen ihn anhängiges Parteiausschlussverfahren.

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/36900956

Reading through speculation about what the **Monsterverse’s new kaiju Titan X aka Le Gran Dios de la Mar may be (such as the article linked above), it sounds increasingly as though she may be a new protective mother figure, impacted or possibly even responding to the effects of global heating on the oceans.

If so, this season’s Titan threat may put Monarch: Legacy of Monsters in a unique position among current major science fiction streaming shows in directly taking on a Climate Change/Emergency scenario with no gloss of allegory.

It is nonetheless absolutely in keeping with the long tradition of the broader franchise in critiquing the consequences of human actions on the planet.

The 70+ year Godzilla franchise is unique in embedding the impact of humanity on the Earth’s environment from its outset.

The narrative of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as later nuclear weapons testing and nuclear power plants, calling up kaiju, literally “strange creature”, is a constant within the franchise.

In addition to atomic/nuclear radiation, films such as Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971), with its smog monster, and the more recent Monsterverse film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), which ends with Godzilla leading an ecological recovery, the franchise continues to underscore its deep theme that humanity shares the Earth and will bear the consequences for its actions.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2026-03-15/2026-nit-bracket-schedule-dates-mens-tournament

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Flemish artist Pieter de Poortere. And I don't have the slightest idea how to pronounce "Boerke" correctly, in Flemish. Would it be like in Dutch, or a little different?

Btw, English, Flemish and Dutch are all "Low Germanic" languages as I understand it, which suggests to me why the text is so easy to read. Well, "storen" in this case means "to disturb" it seems, so slightly different there.

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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/36900956

Reading through speculation about what the **Monsterverse’s new kaiju Titan X aka Le Gran Dios de la Mar may be (such as the article linked above), it sounds increasingly as though she may be a new protective mother figure, impacted or possibly even responding to the effects of global heating on the oceans.

If so, this season’s Titan threat may put Monarch: Legacy of Monsters in a unique position among current major science fiction streaming shows in directly taking on a Climate Change/Emergency scenario with no gloss of allegory.

It is nonetheless absolutely in keeping with the long tradition of the broader franchise in critiquing the consequences of human actions on the planet.

The 70+ year Godzilla franchise is unique in embedding the impact of humanity on the Earth’s environment from its outset.

The narrative of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as later nuclear weapons testing and nuclear power plants, calling up kaiju, literally “strange creature”, is a constant within the franchise.

In addition to atomic/nuclear radiation, films such as Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971), with its smog monster, and the more recent Monsterverse film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), which ends with Godzilla leading an ecological recovery, the franchise continues to underscore its deep theme that humanity shares the Earth and will bear the consequences for its actions.

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