Maybe offer to shout them a nice dinner once a month. I know it involves money but it’s more of a gift than paying their bills.

Just got this after reluctantly going to reddit for some info. Got around it by using old reddit

Drought. When you live in the bush and only have tank water for everything, drinking water comes before showering/bathing. When things are bad, shower once per week and use a bowl of water and wash cloth to freshen up the rest of the time. Still end up with a smell though. You can smell the drought on the people in a rural areas when you go into town.

I’ve noticed the periodic deluge of updates too. I imagine that lemmy is pulling updates at set intervals, causing this. Could be a bunch of reasons to do things this way but it’s not ideal.

Mastodon has a good solution for this where the user can choose between continuous scrolling updates and manually updating the feed. Would be good to have a similar option here.

I’ll have to check them out later. Their website doesn’t like my vpn. But excluding all the superhero stuff, theres some titles listed in their wiki that I’d be interested to check out.

I really enjoyed Ray Porter narrating the Bobiverse series and am looking forward to the new book and audiobook release.

Currently listening to and really liking William Dufris narrating the Old Man’s War series.

Of a similar vein but not exactly audiobooks, I really like the old BBC radio dramas where they have a full voice acting cast doing things like Sherlock Holmes and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Audiobooks are good for doing yard work and for the books that I want to check out but find to be a bit of a slog. There are also some great narrators who really bring something extra to the story.

e-books for the last 10 years or so. Some books can be large and/or thick and are a hassle to cart around. My e-reader is slim and lightweight - very easy to take with me when I’m out and about. Also like being able to tap a word and have a definition popup. E-books are also cheaper and have great sales regularly.

Never liked jacketed books, they are silly things.

2nding this. Posts in Hot haven’t moved since I started using lemmy this morning.