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Back in the ole Reddit days of ereyestermonth I had a habit of closing my reddit app of choice on my phone, and then as a reflex immediately open that same app back up.

The issue has evolved for me on Lemmy. I have two Lemmy apps on my home screen. I was using Voyager before Sync was released and then I started using Sync. But I also kept Voyager on my home screen since Sync didn't support posts when the beta was originally released. But now I'm too lazy to remove it. I still like Voyager anyway.

You see where this is going. I'm now stuck in a loop where I'm closing one app and opening the other, just to read through the exact same posts.

Send help. Or not. This is fine. I'm going to take a break from Lemmy for the rest of the day.

Posted from Sync for Lemmy

The NBA announced today that Philadelphia 76ers guard James Harden has been fined $100,000 by the NBA for public comments on August 14 and 17 indicating that he would not perform the services called for under his player contract unless traded to another team. The league's investigation, which included an interview of Harden, confirmed that these comments referenced Harden's belief that the 76ers would not accommodate his request to be traded.

I'm looking for a solution to easily keep bookmarks digitally of physical books I read. Previously I would type up the just I was wanting to save into a Google Keep note, but that is fairly disruptive to my reading time and really slows things down.

I just found Readwise which allows you to take a picture of the page and it OCR scans the page instantly and allows you to quickly drag and select the text you want to save.

Their other feature of aggregating your bookmarks from other sources (Kindle, Instapaper, et al) are nice, but I don't use those apps very much. Really the primary feature I'm looking for is the quick bookmarker for physical books.

Readwise is essentially $5/month (slightly cheaper annually) which is more than I want to spend on something like this. I only read one or two books a month, so the price is hard for me to justify. I would much rather something with a cheaper subscription, or perhaps a one time purchase where the data is synced to an existing notes app like Keep.

Even outside of using an app like this, I'm curious how those of you who read physical books keep track of notes and bookmarks, if you do at all.

Wanted to have a kitchen knife I didn't care about beating up to take camping and such. My wife grabbed a junk kitchen knife from a thrift store and I went to town on it.

I cut the whole thing down in order to have a proper tang. I made scales and a sheath out of poplar which I then finished with Tried and True (polymerized linseed oil with beeswax).

Did the majority of the work with an angle grinder, hand saws, and a bench top belt sander. Was going to hand chisel the inside of the sheath, but I got lazy and did it with a router.

Overall I'm happy with how it turned out. This is my first time doing any sort of "knife making" and I like how it looks. I definitely do not expect it to hold an edge well at all.

In the end the project was a failure because now I DO care about this knife because of the time I put into it.

Here's the full gallery: https://pixelfed.social/p/jaybird/597265855612303197

P.S. please let me know if there's a proper way to link a pixelfed post on Lemmy

Ever since I've switched to lemm.ee, I've been unable to upload a photo when submitting a photo post. I've tried in Voyager, Sync, and also just in my browser and received some sort of general error each time.

Is there a known reason for this? I don't submit a ton of photo posts, but the timing of it made it seem like it might be linked to switching to a different instance. Are native photo posts disabled on lemm.ee, or is it just me having issues?