My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer volumes 1 & 2
Story about an adventurer who retires young due to an injury, only to find new meaning in life raising an abandoned child as his own daughter.
I’m liking it so far. It’s a nice heartfelt story, mostly pretty chill. There are some subplots involving demons and politics and such, but a good chunk of the story focuses on the close relationship between the father and daughter.
Hell Mode volumes 1-3
Protagonist is obsessed with difficult video games. He’s reincarnated into another world where he is the only person in “Hell Mode”, whereby it becomes 100x more difficult for him to level up - but in exchange there’s no limit to his growth, and he’s granted the unique class of Summoner.
I put off this series for a while because I figured the protagonist would annoy me. And he does, especially in volume 1 where he keeps poking fun at LN tropes or explaining how his pro gamer skills mean he’s perfectly equipped for a given situation. (And for many other reasons in later volumes)
Still, protagonist aside I am enjoying the series overall. It’s your usual fantasy world of monsters and magic, guilds and classes, a demon lord to defeat, etc. Nothing particularly stand-out, but an enjoyable read nonetheless.
I have a Mac Mini M1 and Asahi Linux works very well on it. Pretty much everything I use already has an aarch64 version. The IDE I was using doesn’t, so I switched to the JetBrains equivalent, which does work on ARM.
The one big letdown is that displayport doesn’t work. Only HDMI does. But going by your other comments you’re using a macbook rather than a mac mini, so that might not matter to you.
The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy. Sensing that his end is near, the Undead King, one of the Dark Lords trying to take over the world, uses a reincarnation spell to return 1,000 years later. He awakens to a world at war with mysterious creatures called The Void.
I read volume 1 and I’m halfway through volume 2. I’m not sold on this one. The main sticking point for me is that the protagonist has been reborn as a 10 year old human boy (instead of his previous immortal Undead King self) and has his human emotions reawakened. So one minute he’s reflecting on how he single-handedly destroyed armies mercilessly in his past life, the next he’s getting bashful because a girl got too close.
It also seems like they’re building him up to be a faux villain who was just misunderstood or whatever in his past life. He wants to rule (both in his past and present life), but his goals beyond that are kinda vague. I guess I’ll stick with it a bit longer and see how it goes.
I’m sure it’ll only be a matter of time before they realize their oversight though. So thank you in advance for the powershell script ;)
I wound up installing the “Move Mouse” software to keep Microsoft Teams active. Seems to do the trick.
I used to show up as idle a lot because I have communications stuff like Teams on my (very slow, old, underpowered) work-owned laptop, and I do my actual work from my home PC. So the more I’m working, the less likely I am to show up as being active on Teams. But managers don’t understand logic. They only understand a little green check next to your name. So… Move Mouse it is.
Volumes 1-3 of The World’s Fastest Level Up. It’s a typical cheat skill fantasy story, minus the isekai. The characters go dungeon crawling to level up, gain special skills, and make money. Protag wants to use his cheat skill to rise to the top.
The first volume was okay. Nothing special, but it matched the description and adhered to the premise, so no complaints there. The protagonist wasn’t awful (as far as these types of stories go). Just a single-minded guy working solo towards his goal.
Didn’t enjoy the second and third volumes as much. The main character devolved into more of an oblivious harem protagonist, and he seemed less consistent in general. Wasn’t a fan of the twists in the story or the general direction it’s going in either.
It uses the API. They’re discussing what to do next, probably “wait and see” for now https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/785
I haven’t used the Modos Paper Monitor. Not even sure if it’s actually for sale.
You could look at the Dasung Paperlike monitors though. Or the Onyx Boox Mira. They should be much the same (ie. they’re e-ink monitors), though they are quite expensive. They’ve been out for years, so there are plenty of videos, reviews, second hand units, etc. out there.
I have one of the Onyx Boox Mira monitors (the 13" one). It’s a bit small and cost more than I’d like, but it has helped with eye strain as someone who works on a computer all day. Speed isn’t an issue. It’s plenty fast for anything except watching videos or gaming. The main caveat with any e-ink monitor is that it’s black and white, so you’ll need to tweak things on your PC to get a good experience. That usually means putting things in light mode or high contrast mode.