u/Prodigle

I've been using a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 2021 with KOreader and it's 90% of the way towards what I want. There are a couple niggling issues:

• The size is a little too small for some manga pages. Often the panels can stretch fine and be readable, but sometimes it's a pain and I'll need to zoom on each panel.
• Contrast can be hit or miss. I find myself messing with the B/W contrast a lot when reading manga. The way the line art and strokes are, they can easily blend together or feel completely separate.
• CPU - I know you can't do much without affecting battery (and the Paperwhite battery is incredible), but it will often hang on routine functions

Ideally my replacement would have similarly great battery life, with just a slightly bigger screen, maybe slightly better CPU/refresh rate, etc. I do still read normal books too, and I'm not particularly interested in colour or writing functions. I'd also like to stick within the KOreader system if possible

I have a lot of art friends and there doesn't seem to be any good consensus on how to manage commission intake. A lot of people use Trello, but that's an AI data harvesting landscape now. I've seen excel spreadsheets, a personal discord server, etc.

I know there a lot of like subscription sites for this kind of thing, but to my knowledge they're all very overly complex or cost a sub.

I'm a programmer, and it seems like it shouldn't be hard to build something that does just enough to be useful (intake, task tracking, simple stats and financials, chat & image upload, etc.) without really getting in the weeds.

So I guess my question largely is, what are the things you absolutely want universally for something to manage your commissions? The bare necessities, I guess.

I have a lot of art friends and there doesn't seem to be any good consensus on how to manage commission intake. A lot of people use Trello, but that's an AI data harvesting landscape now. I've seen excel spreadsheets, a personal discord server, etc.

I know there a lot of like subscription sites for this kind of thing, but to my knowledge they're all very overly complex or cost a sub.

I'm a programmer, and it seems like it shouldn't be hard to build something that does just enough to be useful (intake, task tracking, simple stats and financials, chat & image upload, etc.) without really getting in the weeds.

So I guess my question largely is, what are the things you absolutely want universally for something to manage your commissions? The bare necessities, I guess.

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I've spent the last little while building a pipeline that screens GTDB for placeholder clades with no name attached to them, then characterises the ones that come back clean. It's turned up five phylum-level lineages that nobody has named, and I've gone about as far as I can with it on my own.

They're all bacteria, all uncultivated, known only from metagenome-assembled genomes. Cold seeps, hypersaline soda lakes, landfill leachate, Arctic sulfur springs. Nobody has ever grown one or seen one under a microscope. The SeqCode exists precisely so that lineages like this can be named from sequence, which is what I'd like to do.

What I have: 296 genomes annotated, AAI against sister lineages, branch length placement in the GTDB reference tree, and a 41 marker concatenated phylogeny where all five come out monophyletic at full support. Type genomes designated to SeqCode standard.

What I don't have is a microbiologist. I can compute things and I can be careful, but I can't judge which rank any of these actually supports, and my ability to both verify my data and rank its importance is obviously limited.

I'm unaffiliated and doing this as a programming side-project. If I have something,it might be good enough for co-authorship

Happy to share the full evidence with anyone curious.

I've read the book, but not played it.

I see it get a lot of praise here as a game that emulates JRPGs but with a more narrative focus and that really excited me.

Upon reading it, though, it seems like combat is just a separate mode you go into where you emulate video game combat?

The classes seemed to do some variation of damage/heal/status effect with not much that tied into the rest of the world. There's a system of objectives in combat but it seemed very much like "I give up my turn to do a basic roll to move a clock forward", and that didn't seem affected by your class rankings either.

It gets so much praise that I feel like I MUST be missing something, but as written I don't really get it. It seems like a fine enough narrative system with a very restrictive combat system added on

Dithered GB Mono

It's been a while since I last posted here and the tool has had it's internal engine completely rewritten. It should produce sharper images and give you more control over the kinds of palette limits you need, etc. It also now supports dithering even within tile limits

My GB-Image-Converter (to my knowledge) is still one of the better tools for this specific job. Input an image you like, and you can convert it to a technically accurate GB/GBC image. It will abide by palette and tile limits if you ask it to, and should give you the technically best colour distribution possible.

I've attached an image below as an example but you can:

can find more info here

You can use the tool for free here

Github

Art by Spyggt - https://x.com/spyggt

No restraints, 8 colours

Abiding by GBMono&Studio tile restrictions