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C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was fievel@vlemmy.net

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Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less “sponsored” results, …

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As a Heliboard enthusiast and pretty happy with it, I would like to ask you what you find wrong with it, what you miss from the original ?

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A good chair for sure. I think this is the most valuable thing you can ask for.

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Finished Into the water by Paula Hawkins. I would say that it’s not as gripping as I thought. What is as much a plus and a minus point is tge change of narrator every chapter. At first, I was pleased by this “not so usual” way of writing but at some point, I just got lost about who is who and I had to search a list of characters on the web. That’s perhaps because I had not a lot of time to read, so it took a while.

I started Behind her eyes by Sarah Pinborough. I know there is a Netflix show inspired by this but I prefer to read the novel first (or only we will see).

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A good one IMHO is Omnivore.

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who love to read.

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I use SimpleHttp server but it’s not open source and available only on play store. I use this to download epub from my e-reader after having downloaded them on my phone. Now I will look into foss solutions proposed in this Post, through termux or other apps, thanks.

Edit: indeed with termux + caddy + termux widget it’s just perfect

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If it doesn’t exist, just create one ;)

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Oh yeah, yet another site to ruin my productivity. Very nice.

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Just finished Behind her eyes, by Sarah Pinborough. Found it very nice, a good page turner. The ending was unexpected.

I don’t know yet what will be next (probably I’ll find in this conversation or another from this community as almost always).

Edit: Started The three-body problem, by Cixin Liu. Seen a comment about it in this post and I remember having heard about it at the radio or so. Plus I’m thrilled to discover Chinese literature.

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My son read miss peregrine and liked it very much. He just started the sequel. Hope you enjoy it as much as him.

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