Yingwu

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[–] Yingwu 3 points 4 months ago

The Glory and Crash Landing On You were superb though

[–] Yingwu 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I dislike the small rumblings too even if the fans aren't spinning that much, thanks though!

[–] Yingwu 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I use suspend on my desktop every night at bed time. Running Pop. Could never be one of those with a 24/7 on desktop, too much noise.

[–] Yingwu 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Yingwu 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[–] Yingwu 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Yingwu 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[–] Yingwu 12 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Yingwu 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] Yingwu 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Yingwu 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Yingwu 4 points 5 months ago

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

 

Apparently this seems to be one of the best English dictionaries out there. I thought I'd post it here to make it available to some more people that might be interested. Thanks to @[email protected] for sharing!

Internet Archive Page

.zip download, IA host

.torrent download, IA host

Torrent magnet link


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Years ago someone on a certain dedicated ereader fourm shared a fixed updated stardict version of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. This is of one of the rare holy grails of digital dictionary files, as you cant find a properly working version of this dict anywhere on the usual sites just one scuffed conversion version with broken formatting.

Unfortunately it was only available a very short time before a mod removed the links on the fourm for copyright infringement policy.

So now they are gone off the public internet for good AFAIK. Every now and then I see people in the fourms asking for links to these specific files.

I was fortunate enough to save everything the generous user shared while still available and still have them locally. I would like to make these files available and easily findable to anyone who wants them. Can you please give a newbie >some guidance on how to best do this?

 

I'm only reading local manga, so not through websites like MangaDex. What's the best way to track and get notified of new chapters or volumes being released?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Yingwu to c/[email protected]
 

For myself, I'm just looking forward to getting some rest :)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Yingwu to c/[email protected]
 

I feel like everyone suggests following hashtags, but depending on the hashtag, I find the content that's being posted quite overwhelming when it comes to the amount of toots, and that it's hard to get an overview. Anyone that relates?

 

I have no affiliation with the service but I've been running Filen.io these past 2 years ever since switching away from my own Nextcloud instance. It's E2EE and been running really smoothly. Also cheap and sometimes they offer lifetime packages when their algorithm decides that they can do so (which I think is a good thing in order to not have it unsustainable for them).

My only complaint is that the Android app doesn't work half of the time, meaning you'd have to close it and re-open it 2-3 times to get it working. Otherwise it'll get stuck on the main loading screen. Seems to be a network issue with the app that's been posted on Github, but that hasn't been solved for a long time now.. Not a dealbreaker for me though.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Yingwu to c/[email protected]
 

Currently I really enjoy Literata and Vollkorn. As well as KaiTi for Chinese.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27410537

Note that there still have been no studies on its efficacy. At worst, it is a great font to avoid ambiguity between characters.

 

Cross-posted from "Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android" by @[email protected] in [email protected]


Some of you might have followed my earlier posts about the LCP ePub DRM. Here's another one of Terence's blog posts that I thought was great.

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