Neat, I will have to check that out! I’m guessing you can’t enable it on locked down work devices, however.

Ditto, NextDNS has been great for that. I tried their paid version as well but downgraded since I never ran into that many queries. I’ve heard good things about quad9 too, which I think is European.

You have your Pihole setup at work?

project it over onto the screen in our meeting room with two clicks is pretty awesome.

Didn’t know that was a feature, that’s pretty cool.

I have been looking at Boox, yes. Though their price range is seemingly not much better than reMarkable… I’m still waiting for a decent used market to develop around some of these newer models. I’m okay with being patient on e-ink tech.

Envious, that sounds like a great experience. Trial by doing is probably the best way for most people to learn. I’m very verbal, but even for me, reading things doesn’t necessarily make it stick any easier.

Oh fantastic, nice to know!

That is pretty much how I feel - like I’m putting out the fires every day, but not actually progressing on what I want or plan to do. It’s a tough balancing act that I’m still trying to figure out… time management is a tough skill to learn when it doesn’t come easily or naturally.

Unfortunately, a lot of official government services and representatives are still using it. I saw someone reference a Twitter post about that Canadian plane crash, for instance.

Thanks for bringing up the quadrants. I’ve been aware of them but feel like I haven’t been using them optimally to figure out how to best focus my time and energy. Somehow I didn’t realize important/non-urgent was the primary one to focus on…

I disable notifications for most of my apps anyway, but the neural connections are still there and hard to undo. Breaking them is a long process in my experience… or maybe I reinforce them too much still.

Ah thanks, not one for podcasts but good to be aware of!

That and the upgradeable storage… as soon as I can figure out how to solve my partition issues.

It was a bunch of diagrams from old patents.

I’ve got my eyes on some Boox models, perhaps in a year or two if prices come down for the secondhand market. (Since I think they just released a new line not too long ago.) I’ve never had a tablet sized device (my e-reader is 6 inches), so it’d be an upgrade.

I’ve wanted one of those ever since seeing a professor use it… but their price point is intimidating. I’m also not a fan of being limited to certain cloud services (I use neither Google Drive nor Dropbox).

Still, it’s a pretty nifty device, and the pen capabilities seem the best of all of them.

Hell yeah! On my previous watch, I only got through almost 2 seasons, hopefully I will finish this time. I’ve forgotten a lot, so it’s kind of nice not knowing what to expect again.

You have Safeway in Canada? Doesn’t that defeat the point of not buying American?

I got a secondhand Kobo on eBay for less than $100, almost in new condition (the seller just forgot to include the charging cable, but luckily I had plenty of spare micro-USB cables). It’s a 2018 model, but it has 8 GB of storage, plenty for most people, and a nice 6" 300 PPI screen with warm light and dark mode. It’s more than sufficient.

Point being, alternatives are out there. reMarkable and Boox aren’t exactly equivalent devices, since those are meant as more e-ink note-taking tablets, not dedicated e-readers. You could probably find a 2018 Kobo Clara HD for around $40-50 used nowadays as well… and it has more features than the equivalent 2018 Kindle.

I never even thought about the syncing capability with the Android e-ink options. I thought it was too much for a dedicated e-reader, but now you’ve got me thinking.