Ich sehe das ähnlich wie du. Ich bin nach 5,5 Jahren immer noch bei meiner ersten Arbeitsstelle. Hätte ich wie viele andere seitdem mehrmals den Arbeitgeber gewechselt könnte ich vermutlich inzwischen deutlich mehr verdienen. Jede zweite Woche schreibt mich irgendein Recruiter auf LinkedIn an. Aber irgendwie ist es mir den Stress nicht wert. Meine Arbeit ist relativ stressfrei, Kollegen sind freundlich, ich schufte mich nicht zu Tode, kann von Zuhause arbeiten und muss fast nie Überstunden machen. Ich verdiene genug um ganz gut zu leben und auch etwas zu sparen. Die Karriereleiter kann mir erstmal gestohlen bleiben.

I read books for personal enjoyment, basically never for learning or self-improvement or anything like that. I only ever read one book at a time and mostly in the evening before going to sleep.

I'm in my early thirties. My reading speed varies quite a lot based on the book and my mood, but I've definitely noticed that I've become "worse" at reading in recent years. Too many digital distractions I guess. That said, if I do manage to read for 2 hours before going to sleep, I sleep so much better than if I watch a movie or doomscroll on Lemmy or whatever.

I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy, sometimes historical novels. I think this year I've finished 4 books so far, and dropped one quarter-way through. There were definitely years where I've managed way more.

Just tried this out, it seems you're right. TIL. Always thought it would be the local equivalent of defederation.

There are a couple active English-speaking communities there, like /c/europe@feddit.org, but you're right that most content on the instance is in German. It's more that their userbase is also pretty active on other, English-speaking instances and I'm pretty sure that by blocking the instance, you won't see any of those posts and comments either.

Feddit.org is bilingual and has a lot of users participating on English-language communities. So maybe better to block the individual communities if you don't want to decrease the userbase you can interact with.

Just looked this up. It looks like the new generation just shows up as an MTP device instead of an external drive. That doesn't stop sideloading books onto the device, it works as before.

However, they've seemingly stopped allowing the "download and transfer" option for Amazon-bought books, which was an easy way to get them into Calibre and remove their DRM. So that's something to keep in mind for sure if you want to buy ebooks from Amazon.

As someone who has sideloaded a ton of books onto their kindle, why?

No music, no images... two things that have defined Human culture for millennia. The Taliban must really love leading a miserable existence.

Because religion provides comfort, community and a meaning to people's existence that goes beyond "we were born of chance on an insignificant rock somewhere in the universe".

(I'm not religious BTW)

dominates the federation

Well there you have it.

Sure is.