I’ll do you one better and recommend Dostoevsky’s The Double. Way more sinister and eerie, as it deals with schizophrenia.

Check out Cloudstream. It requires extensions to function and some of them include torrent providers.

I understand where you’re coming from, and I agree. This why I made sure to mention that this does not apply to all situations and not everyone’s experience is the same in this respect.

Precisely, what the author has in mind is when expectations do not lign up with one’s reality and how this might lead to their entire worldview crashing down. We as human beings seek comfort and certainty, which is why we tend to formulate some intrinsic meaning to the world we live in. But what happens when we don’t have the capacity anymore to find any meaning to life? Is taking one’s own life the only option? These questions are of an existential nature, which places Cioran in the same tradition as authors like Camus, Schopenhauer and Sartre.

Anyhow, this is simply my review of the book and how I understood it. I don’t particularly agree with its whole philosophy.

That’s what I used to do before opting for online streaming.

Some minor gripes is that these files seemingly dont come with metadata, and you cant download a whole playlist or album at a time, both being huge bummers :/

I’m pretty sure yt-dlp can do this. Why not try Seal on F-droid.

Tested it out of curiosity. Restoring a vimusic backup crashes the app.

Yes, it is archived.

Seems like this is the closest project to be still functioning. Thank you.

The human condition is dictated by the hegemonic system that is governing.

Monopoly™ the game is structually engineered so that players kill the competition and secure the entire board. Would playing by the game’s rules make me inherently a capitalist jerk? No, because they dictate my behaviour and not following them would put me outside the realm of the game (i.e. the system) resulting in my loss (decay).

If the capitalist system incentivizes me to outcompete others and hoard my wealth and, conversely, punishes me for my altruism; then, I am forced to play by the rules of such a system.

“Human nature” is much more complex to be reduced to just greed. This is what’s so cool about being humans, we are so malleable and can be many many things either at once or separately.

Edit: I want to give some concrete examples to what I’m saying. Initially, the Google leadership was skeptical about AI funding, because of privacy and environmental concerns. Yet, as rival competition grew they backpedaled because this would mean their spot as the strongest teck company would be usurped. The late hop into AI funding and development heavily impacted their prospects and they remain falling behind in this respect (source). Here, we have an exemplary case of how the system automatically punishes hood deeds and reinforces predatory and greedy acts.

If he’s wealthy then he has a lot of assets which can serve as a guarantee for the creditor.

I have a friend who uses it religiously, and I found out they would sometimes sneak pictures of people around them, including me. Totally uncool behavior!

You thought Lemmy’s co-founder and main developer is a bot? Lmao

Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan. It’s a tale set in 5th-century Egypt and the Levant, following a coptic monk’s journey amidst the theological controversies of the early Christian curch. Apart from the protagonist (and his devilish visitor) I think all the characters are historically real as well as for the events. It’s a very interesting period during which Christians, Jews and Atheists coexisted, although perturbently.

The admins are principled Marxists so they wouldn’t sell out or concede without a fight.

Thank you for your input! I read your review and I appreciate the fact that you mentioned History, that “great disorderly Tangle of Lines.” I refrained from tackling it mainly because of a quote that I am still struggling to wrap my head around:

As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing, so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far’d. If it is undeniably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into History, and History is redeem’d from the service of Darkness,— with all the secular Consequences, flowing from that one Event, design’d and will’d to occur. (Ch. 7, p. 75)

Also, I can’t get past how relatable M. is:

Mason gapes in despair. He’ll be days late thinking up any reply to speech as sophisticated as this.

In the hidden Journal that he gets to so seldom it should be styl’d a “Monthly”

I’m afraid this is not an ebook reader, but a book tracker.

This is an offline tracker, so it doesn’t compare per se. There were talks about integrating bookwyrm into the app, but as of now there is no public API.

This project was actually my exit way from Goodreads. Unlike another commenter, I found virtually no issue with searching for books in European languages. All the statistics which GR offers are available, and you can easily import your books to the app. And of course, no ads, zero trackers and open source.

The only caveat is the social aspect, since this is an offline tracker.

Edit: If you have any concerns, hop on the matrix community where the dev is active.

See https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/issues/90#issuecomment-1722339001

Out of interest, how often do you find issues looking for books on OpenLibrary?

Neat! Thank you for sharing.