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This reminds me of that joke where the grandmas kept pinching the cheeks of their grandchild at weddings, saying “you’re next! You’re next!”. But they stopped doing it after the grandchild started doing it back to them at funerals.

I mean they gave it to me a few years ago and I sure didn’t deserve it.

What is it with these people and children? It’s always a new angle to get themselves close to other people's children.

Could you have a setting turned on that auto jumps to your last saved page as stored by some server?

On mine, when wifi is on and I wake up the Kobo, it’ll show a dialog asking if I want to jump to my last reading spot (even though it’s the same page I was on when I turned it off). If I say yes, it inevitably jumps back several pages.

My guess is that it has some interval for syncing reading progress that’s not fast enough and when it tries to sync when the Kobo wakes back up, the current page number is too old.

I’ve been getting by by just disabling wifi unless I need to sync new books. What you’re describing sounds a lot like what I see if I click Yes on the dialog. Makes me wonder if yours is configured to automatically do whatever my dialog asks me to do…

Check out calibre-web-automated. It’s a fork of calibre-web that has some stronger auto tagging and Kobo support.

I just switched over to Booklore and think it’s a bit better.

One thing I didn’t like about the calibre-web-X apps is they don’t seem to update any book metadata on the kobo if you’ve already synced the book. So if you go and fix a typo in a title or cover art or whatever, you can’t get that update to sync to the kobo without going pretty nuclear.

It’s a throw pillow.

Kobo Libra 2 is the shit.

Slighter larger screen than the flagship Kindle. Does NOT have the power button in an annoying place on the edge where you can accidentally turn it off while reading.

It had a comparable store ecosystem to Amazon, but also makes it easy to side load books or even replace it with your self hosted book library.

There’s alternate firmwares (kind of - more like plugins) if you want custom readers with more capabilities than stock.

Physical buttons for turning pages (but you can still use the touch screen if you want).

Name one example.

“We’re integrating the Starfield plot into the Fallout universe to ensure no one is happy.”

I stopped winging it after all too often ending up with both a fridge full of rotting produce and yet also nothing to eat. Turns out grocery shopping needs some strategy that I can’t do without help.

AnyList has been an awesome tool for me. It’s got all my recipes, a meal plan building to sketch out the next week, and builds a shopping list so I can only buy the things I will for sure cook with.

It’s also made me realize I’m not about to buy fresh herbs or green onions when they’re only going to be used as a bit of garnish for one dish.

I think you have a few moving pieces you're going to grapple with. It's going to be scary. It's supposed to be scary.

I think the biggest thing everyone needs to keep front of mind is that speed is relative. Yes, your car is rocketing along at 100. But the other traffic is going 105. 100 is fast compared to something that's not moving, but the other cars are going relatively quite slow to you. Try to keep that in mind if you feel a knee jerk reaction to react.

Figure out how you sit in the car before you do anything else. You might fiddle with it a bit, but in general, you should be sitting in a way that makes you as comfortable as possible before you even start the engine. I don't mean comfortable as in your back doesn't hurt - I mean you have a high level of confidence that you can see in every direction you reasonably should be able to. Is the seat still too low? Get a pillow to boost you up. My wife and mom both do this because they're too short to properly see out of regular cars.

Blind spots? Figure those out before you move the car, too. Sit in the driver's seat and adjust your mirrors the way you want them. Now either get a friend to stand outside the car and move around, or if you're alone just drop a few things on the ground around your car. Sit in the driver's seat and look where you see those things. Can't see them? What about if you do a shoulder check? Still no? Is it critical that you have clear line of sight to that exact spot? Probably not, but use your judgment.

If you're still getting comfortable driving, stay the fuck out of downtown, major highways, and busy parking lots. Don't do that to yourself. You should practice for months and build the muscle memory of "normal" driving before diving into high stress driving scenarios.

Struggling to determine distances, or whether there's enough time to make a left turn before that oncoming car hits you? That's sadly something you just need to develop yourself with practice. It took me months and months and months to get competent. A rule of thumb: if you see a car coming at you and you're not sure if you can turn in time, don't. Instead, starting counting seconds from when you would have turned. Making a left turn takes a couple of seconds. If you're counting past 10 seconds and that oncoming car still hasn't passed you, that gives you a good sense of how much cushion there is.

I'd also really, really recommend the show Canada's Worst Driver. It's a semi-documentary/game show that has shitty drivers go through driving boot camp. It's full of driving tips, great explanations of how a lot of the physics around driving tasks works, and the entertainment value of dumbasses ignoring what they were told and crashing into styrofoam walls. I really believe that there's a lot of content in that series that would help any driver, regardless of experience.

Good luck!

Pro bono is a term for lawyers when they accept unpaid legal work.

The lawyer turns out to be a dog, who offered to work pro bono, thinking it had to do with bones, because dogs like chewing on bones.

When the client clarifies that pro bono means unpaid, the dog lawyer realized he made a bad assumption about what pro bono means and had assumed that instead of being paid money, he’d be paid with bones.