1st is the new colours, 2nd is old.
is it just me that these have changed for?? i couldnt find any posts about it but the new colours are just so jarring and harsh and it seems that i don’t have any way of changing them back :((
the old colours were so cute as well 🥲🥲
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i was thinking about this and had a quick google and couldn’t find anything like it, and i thought that surely there must be a reason that this sort of thing isn’t on the market. too expensive to make? too bulky? wouldn’t connect properly? idk
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i am diagnosed with autism and have spanish family (all of my mother‘s family live in spain, but we live in the uk) and i’ve found that it is a huuuuge effort for me to try to fit in with societal customs in spain. for example, as many autistic individuals wpuld agree, sometimes physical contact isn’t wanted at all. however, the usual spanish greeting seems to be either a hug or a kiss on the cheek (even with strangers, i’ve observed). ive found that i cannot avoid these interaction. i’ve tried offering a handshake, simply stepping back, telling people i don’t like hugs, or positioning myself in a way that it would be an effort to hug me (e.g. sitting down or standing behind an object like a bench). most of these actions (i think) would give a veeery clear hint that i do not want to be touched, and yet ive only ever had one person respect this (and ive been coming to spain 1-4 times a year every year for as long as i can remember). even my own grandmother, who ive explained to that i just don’t like hugs, and have made it clear that it’s not personal (she seems to get offended by my rejection of hugs), won’t accept this, and proceeds to get upset at me when i react negatively to contact (like if i step away or flinch, she’ll say ‘but i’m your grandmother!’ in a rather exasperated or i suppose even whiny tone)
and i don’t think it’s a regional thing either. i’ve visited madrid, el escorial, valencia, barcelona, ávil, and probably a few other places that i just can’t remember, and it’s all the same—no one can accept that i just don’t want a hug!
it’s not like that at all in the uk. sometimes i get a strange look if i reject a hug from somebody, but everyone ive met asks for permission first (and tbf it’s not very often, usually only when someone is upset or it’s your birthday or something) and it seems that everyone is much more understanding (even without telling them i have a diagnosis or anything)
is the greeting of 2 kisses on the cheek just something so deeply ingrained in the culture and i just need to get over it, or is there a way around this that i just haven’t thought of yet?
as it is shown in the photos, i am around 81% through the total number of pages in my book, but on the homepage it says i am 56% through
has this happened to anyone else? do you know why? and which number is correct (i like to track my reading on storygraph)
i've been using my kobo clara hd for around 3 days now (it was a gift 😄) and is on 44% (from 100)
i have logged 11.6 hours of reading, and i'd say that less than 1/3 of that was using the backlight, and i never use more than about 20% of the backlight strength (i'm not sure what the correct phrasing of that would be haha) but usually more like 4% ybh.
is over 50% drain in 3 days normal? it might be perfectly fine, but i have no idea after coming from an old bq ereader with no backlight or wifi, so i don't think i can compare the two devices
i have just done my first sudoku on kobo clara hd, but nothing has happened lol
is this supposed to happen? or have completed the puzzle incorrectly (highly likely, i’m a bit slow)
it just feels strange to complete a puzzle and nothing to occur, iykwim
i have just been gifted a Kobo Clara HD, and i have about 150 epub files on calibre from my old ereader (it was a bq cervantes touch, and it has just stopped working). I will convert the files to kepub because it seems to be the best format for kobo, according to google.
My question basically is how many of your books do you like to have on your kobo at a time?
what do you do when you finish a book? do you remove it from your kobo?
do you have a way of tracking what's on your kobo on calibre/whichever application you use?
any info would be super appreciated so i can decide what system i want to go with before i start moving files around!!
in the past he's owned a bq cervantes touch, then swapped it for a kobo clara bw because he wanted a backlight, but now has decided that he can't see well enough to use it (i think it's giving him too much eye strain) and has very kindly decided to give it to me, but i really want to try to help him because he loves to read
after 5 years of pathetically conforming to the (mostly) silly rules because i was scared that i might get shouted at, i have successfully dodged all the sanctions!
wait i came back to the top after having written the next paragraph cuz it lowk got deep and i hate using this term but trigger warning i suppose (i put it in spoilers) but im pretty sure it still follows sub rules after having a quick read of them but idk i feel like school‘s behaviour policies is a conversation that needs to be had
although actually i was thinking and i think thats lowk a problem i literally stressed myself out so bad esp in the first 2 or 3 years of secondary i have vivid memories of my heart rate being 190ish (i had a fitbit so i could check on it) because of something stupid like i left my biology book at home or i brought blue shorts instwad of black ones for pe like genuinely all this stress actually reduced my quality of life during that time (and i’m not even exaggerating at one point i had to do counselling cuz okay tw here so im gonna put it in spoilers >!but i would literally cut myself if id done something not right at school and had got away with it cuz i felt so guilty that i didn’t get sanctioned even tho it was something as stupid as leaving my trainers at home and i quite literally still have scars that won’t ever go away all over my arms that i have to look at every day because my freaking school couldn’t realise that fearmongering can actually be really quite damaging to some kids and the worst thing is that no experience is original and im sure that someone else has gone through something similar !<
grrr its only letting me add 8 images at a time, but there's more info for this part :(( ill post it in a min!!
sprry aout the typos and formatting and general ugliness of the slides as u can probs tell i like data more than formattign stuff but i think its readable soo
sorry to phone users, this is very readable on a laptop but i can imagine having to zoom in on a phone lmao good luck
we've hit 242 responses, and i don't think it's going to reach much higher than that.
I'm not too sure if anyone actually cares about the results lol, but if anyone does, here is some info about how I'll be publishing the results
I've made a start on compiling the data to make it more understandable, as there were so many responses under the 'other' category. What I'm doing is reading through each of these responses and categorising them. For example, if someone said that they like seeing their friends at school, and another said they like being in school to socialise, then I'll categorise it as two votes for the category 'socialising at school'. I hope this is okay, as otherwise it makes the data quite hard to interpret as there are so many similar responses that don't use the same wording so google catergorises them as separate bars on the bar chart. However, if anyone thinks that me sifting through the data isn't good, then please let me know and I'll publish the raw data too. I want to do whatever everyone finds easiest to understand whilst preserving the true results gathered from the survey.
I think that when i publish the results (which will be ASAP, when i finish making graphs and stuff) I'll make a couple of posts each about a separate thing asked about in the survey. For example, there are about 5 questions asking about the demographic of people who took the survey, so I'll make a post about that, and then I'll compile the data about opinions on study leave and have a separate post for that data too. I think I'll probably also write a conclusion about the data I've received and what that tells us about how well schools are doing regarding exam season.
thank you sooo much to anyone who answered the survey, i'm super grateful and i'm very excited to share the results with you!
its a medium length form, with only one question that requires typing (and i made it optional) and it would be super helpful if anyone has the time to answer it! it doesn’t ask for an email or any personal info and i’ll share the results in a few days time!
and i mean not like uni or any further education, but like compulsory education with exams that go toward your further education usually at the end of your time at the school (e.g. gcses in the uk)
like how if it was je it would be j’utilise wouldn’t it? is there a rule against (actually now that i think about it idk what its called when you join two words because of a vowel… different to liaison perhaps apostrophising? is that even a word haha) it when its ‘tu’ ?
not sure if this is a stupid question but basically i love wikipedia but i hate reading on an led (or oled) screen as it gives me headaches, so i made a few collections of articles that i found interesting (it's just a silly range of things from like autoimmune diseases, nihilism, machiavelli, marxism, calendar types, jellyfish, blur (the band), the space race and yeah a bunch of other random things) into an epub (which can be converted into most other file formats if needed) and eliminated unnecessary photos, downscaled image resolution etc to make them about half a megabyte per volume. i also removed the references because sometimes they take up like half of the article itself, and it's such a pain to just tap through like 15 pages of references (idk if theyre important lol i never look at them but idk maybe i should??)
anyways ive currently made 4 volumes, each with between 5 and 6 articles on them, and i was basically wondering if im allowed to share them incase anyone else enjoys wiki articles but not on a harsh screen. im just not sure if it's considered plagiarism or something since obviously i didnt write the articles.
