blackbirdbiryani

joined 2 years ago
[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I've recently gotten back into reading as a way to wind down before bed without using the phone, and it has done wonders for my sleep. Pair it with a kobo ereader and downloading, uh, free books means there's no pressure to read books you don't enjoy (I find with physical books they tend to loom at you from the shelf and make you feel guilty for not reading, which only makes things worse).

Anyway to get to the point reading can be a very low investment hobby if you want it to be.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The demographics matter though.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately no, which is probably its only shortcoming. I think they're a fairly small team, it was android only until recently.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

After years of trying every budgeting app possible (including YNAB) the only app I've found that does everything well is Bluecoins. Split transactions, multiple accounts, handling of credit/debit, recurring transactions, bill reminders, automated reading of bank app notification (to parse transactions), easy reconciliation of accounts, cloud syncing, etc. Definitely well worth the single purchase price (fuck subscription pricing models).

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Except y'all have nuclear weapons and the rest of us mostly don't. When you're done with your local genocides the US will inevitably turn outwards for a scapegoat.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

It's significantly more accessible than trying to sync bookmarks with an Ereader's shitty browser

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Agree, I've used both top/side loaders and side loaders are perfectly fine despite their lower water usage.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (6 children)

It's all great until they eventually revoke your lifetime pass too and make it a subscription. If you think corporations won't do something scummy like that I have a bridge to sell to you.