I want TTS made better with AI so that I won't need huge audiobooks filling up my phone. The epubs that I already have would serve as audiobooks when needed.

What's so special about bluesky that people are migrating there?

Samsung phones have an option of scheduled autorestart; I have mine set to restart once every week at a scheduled time.

Supports extensions on mobile

This article is about research on self healing properties of Roman concrete. It's not all about a one on one comparison. The chemistry behind the self healing properties is interesting and not definitively established.

This article is literally about doing research to better understand the chemistry behind the self healing properties of Roman concrete to maybe use the findings to improve modern concrete. This is the aspect which I find so interesting : the chemistry. Literally no one is talking about going back to traditional values and blah blah. That's something which I personally abhor. Did you even read the article? Where did you find this in the article? Of course titles of articles tend to be over dramatic.

Great example! Just read the book recently and loved it. The whole tavern conversation between the two brothers was very philosophically dense and insightful.

Thank you for this nuanced and unbiased write up. I have been actively avoiding this topic online and this helped me to get an idea about the background of the war going on now.

One of the things I really like about Mastodon is that I can curate my feed to show only what I am interested in by following hashtags and/or people and muting those people whose posts I don't want to see. There's no hidden algorithm controlling my feed, pushing controversial posts towards me and other stuff. So I don't get why would you need the invite only feature of bluesky control your feed?

Interesting ideas..

I guess different people have different use cases. I am enjoying Mastodon and have had positive interactions with people. I have also found a lot of good quality content there. Additionally, I totally avoid political stuff so haven't had any issues of political stuff messing up my feed. IMO the invite only thing is just increasing attractiveness by creating artificial scarcity.

I have frequently used tts for listening to epubs. I have, however, not noticed much battery drain... And it's not as enjoyable as listening to an audiobook read by a narrator you like but it kind of works to a certain extent. So I wish you tts would get better.

Got fed up with youtube algorithm shenanigans among other things and am just sticking to newpipe.

I don't really collect physical objects as such. Until a few years ago I used to collect/buy books, but for a long time I ran out of space. There are probably 600-700 books in my bookcase and another 2 small trunks filled with books. Then there are further two cabinets filled with my study books. Now that I have run out of space, I am collecting epubs and pdfs on my laptop and phone.

Going well, having a relaxed Sunday.

For lemmy (on android) I use eternity, voyager, liftoff, connect. For Mastodon, for android I use moshidon and on windows pc I use elk.

Had to walk to the bank in the morning. The weather is bloody humid so it was an unpleasant, sweaty experience. Got a headache later. Now feeling better.

Sometimes I have had to go outside even when it was raining. So if I am indoors and it's raining it makes me very happy thinking that I don't have to go out and the temperature would go down a bit.

Whippet in specs is even cuter!

Day's been going pretty OK.

On my a52s I have tried with Mozilla without issue. Maybe try different browsers?

This boy definitely looks fashionable, must say.

He just looks so cute in that cap ❤️

Lol that's an interesting idea!

Really, variety of options and potential interlinkage with other kinds of Fediverse projects is what really excites me about the Fediverse.

This is exactly what I was thinking about!

It's basically the self healing properties of Roman concrete that I find fascinating.

I hardly remember my dreams and when I do (which is usually if it has been interesting) I generally wake at some crucial point which is very annoying.

That's interesting!

Glad to know you are feeling better.

Enjoying my evening tea now. Day's been going well so far

Then better to try the app. That may work.

OK understood why you prefer bluesky.

Hey that sounds really cool. I'll check that out.

Nice shot of the flying whippet

I followed the link and got the message that "you are a tester", but when I am going to play store I am only seeing "register" option and no download option. How to download this app? Never mind, I checked back after a couple of hours and could download it

Yeah, I think people got rubbed the wrong way only from the title. I don't think they bothered to read it. I don't think the article in any way emphasised that Roman concrete is better than modern; rather it talked about findings of certain researchers. It was the chemistry which I found interesting.

Oh yes, this reason makes sense.

I'm very new to using rss. Recently I have come across people mentioning about adding rss feeds of youtube channels to rss readers. I'm curious to know how to get the URL of youtube channel rss so I could add it to my reader (I hope I am wording it correctly). I am using feeder app.

Well if some research on Roman concrete can help us better understand self healing, won't that be good?