I want TTS made better with AI so that I won't need huge audiobooks filling up my phone. The epubs that I already have would serve as audiobooks when needed.

What's so special about bluesky that people are migrating there?

Samsung phones have an option of scheduled autorestart; I have mine set to restart once every week at a scheduled time.

Very pretty drawing. Also the cat looks so cute and cuddly.

OK now I am uncontrollably laughing!

Thank you for this nuanced and unbiased write up. I have been actively avoiding this topic online and this helped me to get an idea about the background of the war going on now.

Definitely second Hyperion.

One of the things I really like about Mastodon is that I can curate my feed to show only what I am interested in by following hashtags and/or people and muting those people whose posts I don't want to see. There's no hidden algorithm controlling my feed, pushing controversial posts towards me and other stuff. So I don't get why would you need the invite only feature of bluesky control your feed?

She is so cute and pretty.

Great example! Just read the book recently and loved it. The whole tavern conversation between the two brothers was very philosophically dense and insightful.

I guess different people have different use cases. I am enjoying Mastodon and have had positive interactions with people. I have also found a lot of good quality content there. Additionally, I totally avoid political stuff so haven't had any issues of political stuff messing up my feed. IMO the invite only thing is just increasing attractiveness by creating artificial scarcity.

Got fed up with youtube algorithm shenanigans among other things and am just sticking to newpipe.

I don't really collect physical objects as such. Until a few years ago I used to collect/buy books, but for a long time I ran out of space. There are probably 600-700 books in my bookcase and another 2 small trunks filled with books. Then there are further two cabinets filled with my study books. Now that I have run out of space, I am collecting epubs and pdfs on my laptop and phone.

For lemmy (on android) I use eternity, voyager, liftoff, connect. For Mastodon, for android I use moshidon and on windows pc I use elk.

Going well, having a relaxed Sunday.

Seriously I had such a good laugh reading this before going to sleep. I couldn't get over the image of the person opening their bedroom door to be greeted by their cat with a knife in it's mouth! Some hold up, right!

I have frequently used tts for listening to epubs. I have, however, not noticed much battery drain... And it's not as enjoyable as listening to an audiobook read by a narrator you like but it kind of works to a certain extent. So I wish you tts would get better.

Just 👏

I enjoyed shards of earth series especially because I found the characters very engaging and relatable. How does it compare with his other books?

Had to walk to the bank in the morning. The weather is bloody humid so it was an unpleasant, sweaty experience. Got a headache later. Now feeling better.