Holy banana bread. Just used #discord on mobile after months of not using it, and I’m just consistently amazed at how sluggish a chat app is. It’s even so sluggish that it slows down my actual iPhone and screen reader. How does a chat room application get to be so Bloated that it feels like there’s malware on my phone until I force quit the application. The website is just marginally better. Can we go back to #IRC or forums again please?
The #Audible app is the second worst! Also, I think VoiceOver is focusing on stuff that isn't even on the screen because when I look for a narrator or view the author page or narrator page, there are instances where I double tapped on a book in the results did nothing but when I swipe left and right then back again, I can enter the book. The app is super sluggish, so I wonder how this app is made. The mobile website is just awful so I use Libation to download my library and play them in another player. The app really is just poorly designed. @pixelate
Does anyone else here use #audible ? Since I work on screens all day it’s become my preferred way to read novels. Over the last couple of years, Audible has been developing Netflix-style enshittification: You have to wade through deeper and deeper swamps of garbage to find something worth reading. This has got worse recently — many books seem worse than the most amateur fan fiction and it’s difficult to understand how they ever got published. Finding my next read has become an unpleasant chore.
There's a 2 for 1 sale on Audible and I'd lie to recommend two of the offerings.
These are two sci-fi novels with very different vibes yet both excel at what they do.
Chilling Effect is a comedy adventure by Valerie Valdes.
A romping adventure where the heroine keeps jumping from the pan into the fire with a good dose of Latin American culture references and a sprinkling of Sci-Fi references that become a full homage during the end game.
Ammonite is a somber sci-fi feminist adventure drama by Nicola Griffith.
This gem from 30 years ago was recommended to me by The StoryGraph.
I had no idea such great women characters were available back in the early 90s.
The setting on a quarantined planet where only women survived a plague lends itself to a wide gamut of women characters that defy gender roles and allows the work to age well since missing technologies can be attributed to the isolation.
There are some echoes of the movie Alien and themes from the Bene Gesserit of Dune, but this is in no way Alien or Dune
Se calcula que la empresa perteneciente a Amazon tiene entre 1.500 y 2.000 empleados en todo el mundo, por lo que esta medida afectará probablemente a unas 100 personas
Where is the internet? Part of the answer lies with about 500 undersea cables that stretch across the oceans. I wrote about them, a story that links colonial history and sharks to sabotage and geopolitics. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-hidden-world-of-undersea-cables
Apparently the Audible equivalent to Apple Music Replay and Spotify Wrapped is called AudibleStats and is due to launch this month at some point. Presumably using everyone’s 2023 audiobook data.
@FredKiesche I hate everything about the #audible corporation. They pretend to be one thing while intentionally doing another.
Not to mention, audible has malicious marketing practices, like trying to get people to accidentally install audible app while specifically trying to install librefm.
Looking for your #recommendations... I have 2 (two) #Audible credits in my account. What are some of your favorite audiobooks you'd recommend to someone?
Taking any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance!
Every time I'm reminded of this novella, I want to reread it. A wonderful story and amazing audio performance by Penelope Rawlins.
It is the tale of the girl who popped the bubble, the girl who forced people to face the lies they tell themselves and face their cognitive dissonance.
She is not sorry, she is the one adjusted to the harsh reality of a blue ball apocalypse.