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Thank you! I was fervently hoping that the one comment on this says exactly what you said, so I wouldn't have to...

"A Psalm for the wild-built" von Becky Chambers gibt's jetzt auch übersetzt: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Psalm_f%C3%BCr_die_wild_Schweifenden

Dringende Empfehlung, sehr toll!

eingelegte gurke, zwiebel, pepperoni o.ä. (gut abgetupft) ist auch noch eine leckere zutat!

Ich liebe Gemüsesandwiches!

Für Biss finde ich dünne Scheiben eines beliebigen gemüses ziemlich gut - im Sommer Gurke, Tomate, gegrillte Zucchini etc., im winter funktionieren auch Ringelbeete, Möhre oder Rübchen. Dazu ein leckerer Hülsenfruchtaufstrich für die Proteine, und vielleicht noch bisschen Salat drauf (Winteroptionen: Feldsalat, frische Grünkohlspitzen, Krautsalat, Postelein), fertig ist mein persönliches Supersandwich! :)

How are they w.r.t. human rights abuse, enshittification or otherwise being an adverse contractual partner?

I'm not entirely sure what level of morality you are aiming for... it's an electronic device, and contains lithium and other rare substances which are won and manufactured into parts far away and in highly problematic conditions concerning human rights, as is true for most devices you are likely to own. So maybe not that.

Their cloud as well as online in general is optional for basic use (not updates and onleihe, of course), and their servers are based in Germany, so Datenschutz applies.

You own your files, and nobody asks where you got then from. If you buy from their store or do onleihe, of course there is some amount of tracking. They are linked to German book stores, the one from which you buy the device will be put in as default. However, it's not hard to choose another one from those participating in the program, or buy independently and load the file onto your reader. More details are likely to be found in their terms and conditions.

The maximum size I could find on Geizhals (tolino epos 3) was also only 8" diagonally which is a tad small. I'd prefer something closer to 10".

Yeah, they do not have a device that big. Kobo does, I think, with the Elipsa, but as I said, you'd have to import it and can't use onleihe there, which made it unsuitable for me. Might not be for you.

I've tried finding equivalents to some recommendations in this thread but it appears they're entirely different devices and some even have Android.

Tolino used to be a part of Rakuten for some time, all the current devices have virtually the same hardware as kobo devices, with customized kobo software, which is based on linux.

for more details, look here: Wikipedia

I just wanted to say, I've been very happy with both tolino and kobo, the devices last really long, and I want to pull my hair out anytime I have to deal with an amazon device of any kind instead. Take from that what you will!

A lot of people say kobo, but since you are in germany, you might want to consider tolino as well. they use kobo hardware with slightly customized software, and since you don't have to import (kobo does not have a market presence for their devices in Germany), they are cheaper.

I went to tolino from kobo because I lost my kobo and wanted to use onleihe, which is not your use case. but if you are considering kobo, in my experience the devices from tolino are very comparable. loading epub on there is easy and works, no DRM-shenanigans, and wakeup to last-read book on opening a magnet folio as well.

one caveat - while UI is identical, I had a slight dip in life quality (problems opening up specific files, longer loading tines), but I think it's mostly because I downgraded on hardware when I went from kobo libra (like tolino vision) to tolino shine (like kobo clara).

Just wanted to let you know - I am currently examining my anxiety and exhaustion generating work and study habits hard (and why they are so easy patterns to slip into), and your post helped me answer a question I had and couldn't quite grasp.

Because for me, I generate The Dread© by imagining the disappointment of my professors, my boss, or parents, or whoever gave me the task or has a stake, if I don't do it in time. Which also means that I can't really do stuff for myself unless I imagine my therapist being disappointed or something. Which leads to weird and unusual attachments to people who have no idea of their significance, and a LOT of social anxiety.

But knowing the functionality of this pattern should be quite helpful in gently disengaging from it 🙂 So thanks!

You speak about Cheddar doing stuff with Gouda you have denied yourself doing with Swiss for Gouda's sake, and it's making you vengefully jealous.

~~My question is - did Cheddar explicitly ask these sacrifices of you, or did you just assume that it would be the right thing to do?~~ edit: nevermind, gotta read better...

I feel like both of you handled some things suboptimally, but this particular aspect sounds like you've been doing this to yourself by assuming instead of communicating.

Generally I don't really understand this situation. Jealousy is not something that just happens to someone and has to be avoided. Jealousy is the flashing warning signal that something is not right (like a relationship that is unstable, or a need that isn't met), and the starting point of a conversation, not the end of it. But there doesn't seem to be a conversation around that in your story. Why not?

Thank you!

I've only ever tried ink in one of the transparent water tank ones, which works, but the plastic stains a lot. I'd rather have a cartridge one for ink, but never saw them for sale... until now :)

Uuuh, where can I get one of these? Hopefully not just in China?

Possibly a stupid question, but are you having a menstruation cycle, and if yes, are you tracking it? I was not able to infer the likelihood by your previous responses...

I'm asking because a certain amount of being high energy before and during ovulation, and more down between ovualtion and menstruation is very common, with some people having more severe bodily symptoms (PMS) in the down phase, and there is also a supercharged version of PMS with mainly depression like symptoms, called PMDD. It's caused by a sensitivity to hormonal changes and can develop at any point in life. The monthly cycling sounds a lot like it.

(Possibly not applicable to you, then please ignore it, but maybe useful info for others).

Not for me, I literally don't notice it unless I know it's happening right now and "listen" for it.

But I've been told by other patients that they feel it as light-headedness or dizziness, may feel their heart pounding or like they can't breath, or like the heart/body skips a step, and if the arrhythmia exacerbates to fibrillation, people lose consciousness very quickly (and may or may not die if untreated). Maybe that translates to your experience, but I don't know. Generally it's described more as a continuous feeling for some time, from a couple of seconds up to hours. But it varies a lot. ECG monitoring helps there.

But my specific arrhythmia were also found quite a long time ago, by chance during a standard exam for sports competition fitness as a child. So for pretty much my whole life I've been barred from stimulant and basically psychopharmaceutical medication of any kind, since pretty much all of them can cause or exacerbate heart conditions.

Seeing as I totally don't notice episodes, a scenario where someone didn't go to that exam and unsuspectingly walks around with that same or similar heart condition completely untreated, and kills themself by self-medicating and slipping into fibrillation is totally possible.

That said, it's also not a very wide-spread condition, just a rare possibility. Still, please continue to advocate for yourself to have that checked out!

(Edited for an attempt at brevity)