iac (@iac@polymaths.social)

Until next time, Love is just a choice. The Adventures of Scientiac, 2025

How are people supposed to trust you when all you give are excuses. When are you gonna learn that your actions have consequences, consequences that affect other people.

Until next time, Hate is when you are hurt seeing them happy. The Adventures of Scientiac, 2025

Don't rely on anyone to do what you can do for yourself. Angela Del Toro, Daredevil: Born Again, 2025 I don't mean it in a dangerous sense, like how she does in the series. But think it in a more general sense. It's a good advice.

This time it is a really simple thing. But, I wanted to document it anyway. Why? I am constantly in a quest of making things better for the sake of reducing my media addiction. The only social media with "status updates" that I use is polymaths.social a gotosocial(Fediverse) instance. I have stopped using Facebook and Instagram a while back and I block the shorts section of my YouTube. Having done that, the addiction has shifted from a whole range of social media to just watching YouTube videos till the end of time. So, I decided to make YouTube only show what I search with no home page or even the subscription page. (Though, I can still access them with a toggle.) I also don't want to consume YouTube on my phone. And I want to read books instead of consuming visual media. So? For a while now my YouTube recommendations were full of e-readers, dumb phones and modding kindles. I did like the idea and checked the price of those devices (Classic Consumerism). Since, they are manufactured in small quantities, they are very expensive for the specs they offer. And most of them are not available in my region. But, my stubbornness, or maybe my addiction is so bad that I need to have what I want and if I don't I just can't do any other work properly. Then I thought, I cannot convert something dumb to something advanced by itself but the reverse is possible. I remembered a device called BOOX Palma and since it is an android device I thought I could recreate it with my own phone that I already have. From the kindle modding video I also realised that KOReader is not just an old, weirdly made e-book reader app. So, I decided to base the entire personality of my phone to the KOReader app. Preparing Android Since I use a custom ROM it is much easier for me to customize my device to a greater potential than vanilla android that google offers. I use Project Infinity X. I wanted the B&W monochromatic look of e-readers, so, the first thing I did is set a white background as my wallpape