I still see Kobo recommended these days, so an upgrade might be a good option for you. I use a Kindle, but that obviously locks you in with Amazon. I wish I’d have gotten a Kobo myself.
That’s cool, I tried a kindle paperwhite, but returned it because I kept accidentally hitting that stupid power button they put on the bottom right where you hold it while reading.
I’m not sure if it’s the same everywhere but in Canada you can for sure. Kindle has a very slightly better selection (small press horror lit tends to be missing from Kobo) but doesn’t support Overdrive here.
My daughter reads a lot of books checked out via overdrive on her kobo (in Canada), though the search feature on the kobo itself is kind of garbage. We have better luck doing a search with the Libby app on a phone, checking it out, then syncing the kobo.
I use a Kindle myself (purchased on one of the good sales for roughly half price), though primarily via epub files transferred to the Kindle using Calibre. It’s a busy UI, but it does work well and has lots of features. Pretty good as an archive of your ebook library.
I use a Kindle, but that obviously locks you in with Amazon.
On my old Kindle I could connect it to USB and put any books I wanted on it. It supports TXT and MOBI on top of AZW. Is that no longer the case for newer Kindle models?
The parts where they go into detail about whale hunting was like reading a manual, I did not know there where other editions and just got the frost one I saw. Maybe it was my part for not investigating before.
Most of the things Psygnosis did; the Wipeout series, G-Police and Colony Wars being the most obvious choices. Tomb Raider is another good one, as are the Tony Hawk games. X-COM: Enemy Unknown is meant to be a solid port of the classic turn-based tactics game. I've heard praise for the Twisted Metal games and Syphon Filter, but haven't played them myself. While I know that old sports games are often considered anathema in the retrogaming sphere, Jonah Lomu Rugby is often considered one of the best games depicting rugby union ever made.
The mods will come very quickly. I’m sure there will even be a few on launch day. They took a long time to release the creation kit for skyrim which made making mods much more difficult, but the community still put out a lot just using modding tools from previous games.
I've heard the PS1 port of Doom is good/interesting. If you haven't played it before (or even if you have) it might be worth checking out. It has different lighting and textures, from my understanding.
Admittedly the thing I miss most about Twitter was the sorting algorithm. Creating an interesting and engaging "experience" with Mastodon has been challenging, but I'm getting there and it helps as more people join.
My advice to any new Mastodon users: spend maybe 10 mins at a time searching for good tags and users to follow. Give it a few days (maybe weeks) before you can expect to see a feed as rich as Twitters. Endlessly scrolling as a brand new user is very unproductive.
The lack of a sorting algorithm is something I have always appreciated about Mastodon. I want old-school social media, where I get shown the stuff I follow and that's it. The way to find more people to follow is organic and sensible:
You see the people you follow.
You see what's going on at your own instance and can pick out and follow what you like. (Possibly less helpful on general-interest instances, more helpful on a themed instance where you know the locals have that basic interest in common.)
You browse and/or follow specific hashtags, and can pick out and follow what you like; there's your specific interest-based discovery process.
You see stuff the people you follow boost and can follow it if you like, just like in real life where your friends introduce you to their other friends who can become your new friends.
Any algorithm doing this work for you has also been tweaked to spoil the organic factor by prioritizing ads, forcing in entities who have paid to be put into your feed because the platform sold your eyeballs to the highest bidder, as well as forcing in flamebait selected to deliberately upset you and keep you arguing, which counts as "engagement." Those have never been the reasons I used social media, I just want to build and maintain connections with real people like I always have both online and in real life. Mastodon and the Fediverse are built for that, while Twitter and Meta products are built against that.
It's only that because of the amount and type of people in there. If celebrities would join to Mastodon and their followers with them this would change. Which could be good. I have Mastodon and I think I follow good people. But I do miss some of those hits tweets that were so good that made me shown them to irl people.
I do understand the need/desire for some people of smaller semi-closed communities. But some people want also something big, with the good things that come with big communities.
Also I don't know how many people are there with a single interest in life. But I least I have so many interests that I could not choose a instance by their supported interest or community, because I would be missing a lot of things from other interests I had. That's why I mad account in generalist instances, hopping that they are federated with as much other instances as possible.
That's why I support more federation integration in the fediverse.
If celebrities would join to Mastodon and their followers with them this would change.
I've seen a few big names joining and then disappearing almost immediately. Some of those who remain active are Mark Ruffalo, Neil Gaiman, George Takei and a few other authors I like.
I’m not a fan of the “community” aspect of much of the Fediverse. I have more than one interest. My entire persona isn’t just one thing. I don’t want to log in to a different account every time I want to talk about something different.
I just join a generic-ass instance (mas.to on Mastodon, lemmy.world on Lemmy), and follow the stuff that actually interests me. (hashtags & a couple users on Mastodon; communities on Lemmy)
Following literally everything that gets farted into an entire instance is just drinking from a firehose.
This was the reason I ended up hosting my own general use instance. It’s mostly for my own benefit, but I also wanted to make something open to users that want to have a nice, short username with a silly URL.
Wayland gaming is great, especially on KDE, you can go into display settings/compositor and switch from smoother animation to lower latency for a latency that’s even lower than X11, without any of the X11 issues.
I'm not sure federation is that important on sites that aren't built around socializing. I think it is sufficient for a wiki to provide a good export mechanism so that it can be archived or mirrored by others.
I could see a setup where each server is a separate wiki around a specific topic, and federation allows people from other servers to edit or comment/discuss. Pretty much like Fandom but federated. It would be beneficial in that people wouldn’t have to make a login for every wiki they follow, and may help discoverability.
This is what I mean. Lots of small wikis, like subreddits, like the old forums, only that a wiki setup seem to me a better way to collect and present knowledge than the forums, mailing lists, facebook groups, subreddits or wherever we used to put our stuff.
I’m not a huge fan of managing in general, therefore my answer might disappoint you: I use Calibre and my columns are restricted to title, author(s), and tags. Once in a while I make a backup . On my ebook reader (a Pocketbook) all ebooks are stored on a SD card, no folders. A new ebook is send to the reader by mail, moved from internal storage to SD card and then imported to Calibre.
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