I completely forgot that there is some AI stuff on storygraph, because you can easily turn it off in settings and then you will never see it again. But I get what you mean.

I have been using Storygraph for about 4 years and I love it. It has so many good filters and options when you are looking for a book to read. Even the automatic recommendation engine is pretty good. I picked up quite a few books from there. I have never done that on goodreads.

Only thing I am missing from Goodreads are Author’s pages. When you click on an author’s name on Storygraph, it just shows you their name and all their books in infinite scroll and in random order. Not even chronologically or alphabetically sorted, or even by series. No, nothing and you can’t change that. There is no photo of an author or their bio either.

I really hope they view change that.

Episode in Scrubs…

I am actually surprised that this isn’t law in Europe already. I hate when I go to a supermarket, I have to always check the app for coupons and discounts. Otherwise I would have to pay 30% more for my shopping list.

I am currently using Storygraph, but I might switch to Hardcover. Their app is really good looking, if a bit slow, and it is very letterboxy, which I like. They too have lists feature which is a lot better than just tags, in my opinion.

I like storygraph a lot but… I have been using it for around 3 years and in that time nothing substantial changed on that website. They still don’t have normal author page.

I just turned off notifications for everything, except Signal and banking apps. Most convenient solution IMO.

“He doesn’t care about money, political influence, or bathing. Just games.”

Does he care about games? I used to watch him years ago, but then he turned into a misogynistic drama farmer and rage baiter who occasionally plays games.

I guess I can see that, but I never said that it is cleaner. It’s the same for me. It’s not dirtier. It’s not cleaner. It’s only faster. Eating the banana sideways might look weird to other people, but there is literally no advantage for me to eat it normally.

When someone tells you that they finished a book in a really short time, the first thing you think is probably that the book is really good and they had to like it. You probably don’t think, “oh, that’s not really reading. You technically just skimmed through it, you don’t know what you even read.”

Some people read faster. Some people listen faster. It shouldn’t be that surprising.

I don’t know what to tell you. It looks like to me that you seem to think that somehow I am wasting my enjoyment of the media. Or that my consumption of the media isn’t the right one or fulfilling or something like that.

As I said before, I can understand everything. Why should I listen to or watch something in normal speed? It’s just a waste of time in my case.

When somebody can hit a target that is 300 meters away, why would you tell them to shoot at the target that is only 100 meters away? What’s the point in that for them?

I don’t know if that is a good analogy, but I don’t know how else to explain this.

When I am cooking, cleaning, etc, I listen to audiobooks. Not at those same speeds as YouTube videos. Between 1.25x and 1.8x, depends on a narrator again.

I thought that was obvious. Time.

You would not believe how much time I have saved over the years by doing this. When I can finish 30m video in less than 10 minutes.

I don’t know about you, but when I come home from work, I don’t have a whole evening to just watch yt videos.

This way I can finish the videos I wanted to watch a lot sooner and then I can go and do something else.

Gradualism

At first I watched every YouTube video on 1.5x for like 6 months.

Then I watched everything on 1.8X for another 6 months. Then 2.2x and so on.

Now I watch everything between 2.8x and 3.6x, Depends on the talking speed of the person in the video. I can understand everything.

Of course I watch some videos in normal 1x speed but those are usually just like artistic videos or movie trailers and stuff like that. If there is just a person talking to the camera, there is no reason for me to watch it in normal speed.

Still can’t set the video speed above 2.25x? Otherwise it’s useless to me.

Yep, Muskrat is playing Frostpunk and completely ignores anything that doesn’t make him money.

Edit: Actually, not a very good comparison. Because in Frostpunk, you are actively fighting for your survival. Elon probably doesn’t even know what that means.

When are we finally moving to a percentage based fines?

I use Steam Chat for playing games with family and friends. It has better audio quality than discord in my opinion, and you can make groups (something like Discord servers) too. It doesn’t have all the functionality of servers, but the basic idea is there.

I am actually surprised nobody mentioned it yet Why use some third party application, when you can use the Steam’s one.

It’s not like the OP is concerned about privacy. They were using discord. They didn’t say it has to be open source.

For talking outside of gaming or away from PC, I use signal.

At least internet historian will have material for new video.

While i dont like intel, I hope they wont sack GPU division.

I didnt know so many servers still run windows.