Boston! I enjoyed how all of the ones shared are in snuggle mode.

I’ve found this a good tool for searching communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Others have covered the practical use knots, so I want to throw a couple fun ones out there:

• Double carrick bend
• Monkey’s fist

If you’re into crafts, friendship bracelets use half hitches. Macrame and tatting are also variations on tying knots in patterns.

There’s !imadethis@lemmy.zip for any hobby that produces something, but that leaves out the activity-based hobbies

My local library uses overdrive for ebooks, which you can check out and either download for kindle, download as epub, or read online in your internet browser. I usually download to an eink reader, but if I’m reading on my phone I use the read in browser option.

Suggestion: if you plan to read on your phone, look in the settings to set the background and text color of whatever app you choose to something that doesn’t strain your eyes.

Estate sales are another option, though your mileage may vary.

I appreciate your animal posts!

Please share if you do

Download + offline listening is also something I look for in a music app. I just went through the free trials for deezer and qobuz. Deezer’s download was straight up stupid - I couldn’t find a way to force it to immediately download updates after modifying a playlist. With qobuz you could force the download immediately, but it makes you select “download only” before you start the music, or it defaults to streaming. Every single time. Sometimes the playlist got corrupted too if a song was removed. I’m almost ready to start buying music again…

Oh dear. Those needles are no joke

Don’t hug the cholla!

• !twogoobers@lemmy.zip
• !birding@lemmy.world
• !houseplants@mander.xyz
• !cool_rocks@lemmy.today
• !imadethis@lemmy.zip

I love Maple’s cautious sniff

Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever seen butterflies tagged before. Cool pics!

I came across this giant comparison table of eReaders last time I was researching an upgrade. While it doesn’t list supported file types, anything running an android operating system that lets you download apps for reading from google play would meet your needs.

https://comparisontabl.es/e-readers/

As the others mentioned, there’s way too many options.

Heimat - Equilibrium (folk metal)

Score to a new beginning - Fairyland (symphonic metal)

Seven pillars of wisdom - Sabaton (power metal)

I can’t think of any short playthrough games off the top of my head, but Valheim might work if you’re open to something longer.

I’m not too familiar with what loom knitting results in, but my guess is still crochet. You can see where the yarn is twisted into a taller stitch (knitting tends to use many small stitches instead to create patterns) and how the stitches aren’t exactly aligned (taller crochet stitches sometimes slant when you turn the work). Compare the back of the couch (it’s oriented the same as if you were actively working on it) to this: (https://nordichook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PinVID_Double_crochet_blo-683x1024.jpg)

Bottom right looks like a different crochet stitch, maybe double crochet into back loop? The others have more of a shell pattern.