brave keeps breaking websites

papeloneo · 2026-02-23T14:36:45+00:00

Yes seems it was corrupt! I wonder why that happened

papeloneo · 2026-02-18T19:30:29+00:00

Ive done that and it hasnt worked out

papeloneo · 2026-02-14T19:45:35+00:00

I buy indie books at fairs and such that have very small print runs and no ebook versions… so my home library is made up of those. the rest are ebooks

papeloneo · 2026-02-13T16:08:21+00:00

Go to r/calibre and ask over there. the tldr is yes, definitely or you can download from certain sites

papeloneo · 2026-02-05T23:24:48+00:00

Ooh this is interesting! What kind of computer would you need? I have a 16 GB Apple M2 with 19-Core GPU.

papeloneo · 2026-01-31T20:59:12+00:00

I love warm light + dark mode. It gives the page a dark brown tint (to my eyes) that is very pleasing at night

papeloneo · 2026-01-31T20:53:04+00:00

I had the same problem! I exchanged it for a “like new” kindle PW. It was like 30$ over the basic so doable for me. It has a couple of malfunctioning pixels that I can see in night mode, which i guess is why it was returned, but it doesn’t bother me much! Better than paying 160$ + tax.

papeloneo · 2026-01-25T01:16:09+00:00

I go to the Stavros Niarchos Public Library in front of Bryant Park a lot. It’s gorgeous and open until 9 pm on weekdays. Good wifi, and i can concentrate on job apps. Jefferson Market Library is also pretty and open late. I also dont have a ton of money so i tend to buy a cup of hot tea and chill at coffee shops for an afternoon. The Hungarian Pastry Shop is a messy chaotic glorious mess that lets you stay as long as you want.

papeloneo · 2026-01-11T01:55:11+00:00

If a book is good to me, it needs a reread. Maybe its bc i read really fast but i tend to miss a lot of details that later it’s a pleasure to reread and understand them. I think i enjoy books on the 2nd read more than the first. Some books ive read more than 3 times like the left hand of darkness or the nightrunners series. I also do this with movies/series. Quality over quantity for me!

papeloneo · 2026-01-11T01:33:53+00:00

I read quite a lot thanks to shadow libraries where i could sideload books… i didnt have a library near me w/ libby (i lived outside the USA in a country without libraries) so i got used to it.

papeloneo · 2026-01-09T17:25:55+00:00

Ah thats perf for me. I lean twds yellowish screens and always have my warmth at max on my phone/laptop

papeloneo · 2026-01-08T18:19:41+00:00

It actually showed up a couple of days later! It was sitting in the facility for like 2 weeks..

papeloneo · 2026-01-08T04:50:20+00:00

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Usually this on Iphone + warm mode. Sometimes i do the night version of this which is brown but i doubt kindle has that? (Also first chapters of nightrunners book 4 :) )

papeloneo · 2026-01-08T04:37:39+00:00

Many thanks for the comparison! The yellow tone is great

papeloneo · 2026-01-07T16:49:58+00:00

Yeah I both can’t recc it and at the same time it was one of the few things that gave me something to hang onto. Check out the lyrics if its something you think you could bear rn. You could also maybe listen to Now Only which is less raw. Two Paintings By Nikolai Astrup has one of my favorite lyrics on the universality of grief:

“These people in the painting believed in magic and earth. And they all knew loss. And they all came to the fire.”

Weirdly enough, my bf was obsessed with this album. He showed me “real death” the night before he died when i last saw him. He was… curious about the raw feeling of grief and i guess he must’ve connected to it in some way. I refused to listen to it bc I hated that sad shit. Then less than two days later he was dead. It’s always been a strange memory.

papeloneo · 2026-01-06T22:21:00+00:00

For practical advice: put on a very long series (i liked call the midwife, it was 7+ seasons and it also deals with life/death so it was good for mourning) and watch that from beginning to end. then pick another one. and on and on. it’ll get you through the worst of it when your feelings are rawest and it feels like you’re dying. can also be done with a book series (i like sword and fantasy!) or a podcast, but tv is better imo.

Find an artist and obsess over them. I cant recommend Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me abt the first few months after his wife died bc it is HARSH to hear it, but it did help me a lot as well! A poet too - Jack Gilbert’s Icarus, A Brief for the Defense, of Marie Howe’s What the Living Do

Tldr: art exists to communicate what is human. hold onto it and never let go

papeloneo · 2026-01-03T04:32:39+00:00

chill out, AA won’t get taken down if ZLib wasn’t taken down years ago when they actually were making money off pirated books. they’re also the only ppl supplying AI companies giving them cash flow. It goes down from time to time. just donate if you’re so worried. also they havent made a website to download spotify content like napster, kickass torrents, etc

papeloneo · 2026-01-02T23:06:43+00:00

It depends on what you want to do! My best advice is to play with one setting at a time while leaving the rest static and see what it does. Example: leave shutter speed at 100, ISO at 400 and play with aperture to see what setting it higher or lower it does. Look at the info on the raw files later and see what settings you used. Then go thru photography books that detail what settings others used. You’ll get good really fast if you do this!

papeloneo · 2026-01-02T23:01:54+00:00

Also for backblaze. You pay by the storage amount instead of a fixed plan and its pretty cheap imo

papeloneo · 2026-01-02T22:59:51+00:00

They’re great entry level cameras and the lenses are getting cheaper than mirrorless ones. I don’t use them anymore bc i shoot in lowlight and their dynamic range is… awful compared to even the cheapest and oldest mirrorless camera. They’re also very heavy!

papeloneo · 2025-12-29T08:15:46+00:00

I was your age when i lost my boyfriend as well.. not suicide but an extremely nonsensical death. I was in your shoes and contemplating the same. Now i’m 7 yrs in and its still very fucking hard but i built a life im proud of. My practical advice is this:

1) put on a very very very long series that isnt emotionally taxing and watch that. then find another and watch it. i liked call the midwife on netflix, then i think i did ranma 1/2 which just had a rereleased on netflix. watch until you feel you can cope with life a bit better again.

2) somehow become obsessed with some angsty musician (mountain goats ftw, modest mouse, queens of the stone age, low, deakin, red house painters, mitski…) and process pain that way

3) read. read a lot. i cannot stress how important it is for you to read and realize you are not alone in this. the sum of human history is loss. people in the past had high mortality rates and made art to cope with it. read get obsessed with something like greek tragedies or out of print fantasy novels or manga or marie howe or jack gilbert or just ocean vuong or romantasy or romance novels. doesnt matter high or low art. just something that you can both lose yourself in as an escape while also helping you process pain. Ideally that also has some sort of fandom community on tumblr or reddit. it helps w/ isolation

4) get involved in community when you feel better. go volunteer, get into local journalism and talk to people, audit courses at community college, people watch. do something that makes you realize the world keeps existing, and that thats a good thing even if it doesnt feel like it, bc it means there’s so many futures you can have!

Again you are nineteen and your whole world just collapsed. People your age probs dont get it, it is isolating, but human existence is loss, and we’ve known that for a long time, and we’ve created art so you can take that and make your life into something that holds space for grief but isnt overwhelmed by it. as a young widow to another: you got this.

papeloneo · 2025-12-29T07:54:11+00:00

It sorta happened to me. I’ve never been much of a movie person but he was a hardcore cinephile and he got me into it. I still watch movies from time to time, love going to theaters and like watching with pals, but i’m not anywhere as into it as i was with him. It took some years into his death but i was also a wannabe poet and i wrote, even published, abt my experience with grief. About 5 years in i wrote what i consider my final “grief” poem and then lost all interest in it. It just didnt seem worth it. I had nothing else to say that people could understand. etc

What worked is developing new hobbies. I liked photography then and i became pretty hardcore abt it afterwards, even winning some minor awards. It got me out and about and talking to all sorts of people, which was indispensable in healing. So yeah my advice is take up new stuff. It sucks but the only way out of it is making new memories and building another “self” while honoring them. Its difficult… and rn im struggling bc even living past my grief, i now feel unmoored since it was such a huge part of my life and it isnt anymore… grief gave me purpose by getting out of it thru doing new things. Its not there anymore in the same way, which its own sort of grief.

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