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A courtyard of bamboo and late-night snow

a lone lantern a book on the table

if I hadn't encountered the teaching of no effort

how else could I have gained this life of leisure

Wei Yingwu 韋應物

  • Life's just a game

  • Great site! Thanks

  • Check out Comick or Weeb Central!

  • At least there's Nyaa, and alternative sites to Mangadex for ongoing releases.

  • Completely machine translated subtitles often lack quality and nuance to their translations. I'd rather have a human getting paid to do proper subtitling instead. But yes, if the option is having zero subtitles instead, then sure. That's not the case with Netflix etc though, they can definitely afford proper subtitling.

    Translation is an art as much as it is a science.

  • I ran Actual Budget on this for a hot minute, worked great

  • Unfortunately it's still trial and error. Check out e.g Ovpn, Astrill, Mullvad though. You can always email and ask different providers as well. Though it's best it you set it up before visiting China. A HK sim through Airalo or similar also works.

  • Yeah, I've heard Shanghai for example has zones where the GFW is much more lax?

  • It's better to pay for a VPN provider that is verified to work in China. And no, they won't kidnap you for using a VPN as some people write here. It's a non-issue just to bypass the GFW. The issue is when you write to a Chinese audience things that the CCP do not like.

  • You don't have to set up your own VPN. Many public providers work.

  • It's crazy that this is an opinion that people really have. I don't like authoritarian states and I have a lot of issues with the CCP, but this isn't true at all. Loads of native Chinese living in China uses a VPN. They don't care about it.

  • They have. I don't know what people are talking about in this post. It's bypassable easily, and the CCP won't kill you for it. There are so many Chinese using aVPN themselves to bypass GFW

  • And with it, less reading on Lemmy, more reading real books :)

  • Learning a new language, and with it, a new way to see the world, is a true life hack.

  • The future sucks.

  • This needs to be told to so many on Lemmy. The "all or nothing" mentality is pervasive.

  • Love my Boox Page

  • From my limited experience with Obsidian, I still preferred Logseq actually. And the syncing is easily done by just storing the markdown files in a cloud folder. But yeah, it's subjective for sure.

  • I'd say Logseq is better than any note-taking alternative that works in the same way. It's a bit different to regular note-taking apps as it acts more as a knowledge database based on tags, than with a regular file-folder structure. Also I prefer Actual Budget to YNAB, as it's starting to have even more features than YNAB and actually supports things like bank syncing for major parts of Europe that even YNAB doesn't. And it's free to host yourself or really cheap to host through PikaPods. But it's hard to say "objectively" because in the end, a lot of it is subjective. If people are used to running one program, it'll be hard to switch to another, even if it's "objectively" better.

    The largest issue with FOSS applications is that many contributors don't have any UX/UI knowledge, which is a huge factor in why people choose one program over another. I'd argue GIMP is a mess compared to Photoshop, even if GIMP is able to do many, many things that Photoshop is able to.

  • Simple Living @lemm.ee

    How do I stop thinking about how many hours there are left on the weekend?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    How do I stop thinking about how many hours there are left on the weekend?

  • Japanese Language @sopuli.xyz

    Anyone that learnt Japanese after Chinese?

  • Ask Android @lemdro.id

    Will buying an e-ink reader with Android 11 be an issue in a couple of years?

  • Ereader @lemmy.ml

    What's the state regarding being able to DeDRM e-books using Readium LCP?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    What's the state regarding being able to DeDRM e-books using Readium LCP?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world

    Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Advantages to using the Z-Library Linux desktop launcher? Is it safe?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems

  • Fedibridge @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    How's it going for centralized reddit-like platforms like Tildes, Discuit, Squabblr?

  • Anarchism @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Creative anarchism in praxis: Stephane Wootha Richard released 90gb of his work into public domain as an act of resistance towards "this insane order of things."

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    What's up with lemmit.online?

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps

    time.com /6836033/gen-z-ditching-dating-apps/
  • artporn @lemm.ee

    "Midsummer Dance" by Anders Zorn

  • artporn @lemm.ee

    Telemaco Signorini – Panorama di Firenze dal colle di San Miniato

  • Reddit @lemmy.world

    Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits (edit: bans are being undone)

    old.reddit.com /r/SubredditDrama/comments/1ii6qa1/rporn_rrule34_are_banned_tissue_paper_sales/
  • Simple Living @lemm.ee

    The Minimal Phone is now shipping (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard) - Liliputing

    liliputing.com /the-minimal-phone-is-now-shipping-e-ink-phone-with-a-qwerty-keyboard/
  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    One of the only legal streaming sites for anime was hacked (again), and companies wonder why people resort to piracy?

    animehunch.com /crunchyroll-premium-login-details-leaked-users-at-high-risk/
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    What is the best post sort for Lemmy?