I like to try and pick a mix. I've been leaning more mage lately. Sometimes magic is super op, sometimes it's just an interesting system. Sometimes it's neither tho, and just clunky. So it's really kind of a toss up on whether that's a good decision.

Warriors are probably the best pick lots of times - just because gear systems often incentivize them. Finding a cool sword or shiny armor isn't very exciting when you're just hurling fireballs all the time anyway.

"We built the phone in between" [a smart phone and dumb phone] is a pretty appealing tag line. In the last half of the 2010s, when I finally dragged myself into getting an actual smart phone, I really wished I could get a flip phone that was more capable. The feature phones still on the market at the time seemed to be right out of 2003.

This implementation seems a little off. It has the flip form factor, and can run most android apps, great! But then it sounds like they arbitrarily block browsers and 'social media'? I think just leave them out by default, and let people go that route if they want it. The form factor already limits how well some of those would work.

Oh, nice! I tried searching and it didn't come up, so I thought parent comment was correct. Glad to see it.

Consciousness: a Very Short Introduction.

I can't vouch for that particular book, but the VSI series is usually a good bet.

kagismallweb@lemmy.world is basically an RSS feed of little blog posts. I've randomly seen a bunch of interesting stuff on there.

I also didn't realize the community was doing the bingo thing, that's kinda cool. Might try to get into that, and I can use the summer reading stuff as a jump start.

My library is doing summer reading, and they added a version of the challenge for adults. Their goal is to read 4 books over the summer, for bonus points one can be a non-fiction book about dinosaurs (their theme).

In the spirit of that, planning to read 4 library books. I've checked out Dragon's Teeth and Thunderstones: Quest for the Meaning of Fossils (McNamara) since it was out in the display and ostensibly about dinosaurs.

So far I am not loving it, lol. It's slow, spending a lot of time reiterating that ancient people made stuff out of rocks and sometimes those rocks were fossils and they thought those looked cool. And the author has repeated the phrase 'they looked for all the world like _' like 6 times. Distractly uncommon phrase to use so much. On top of that, it's not really about dinosaurs even, most of the fossils mentioned are sea urchins. /shrug At least it's short and has pictures to make pages go quick.

But alongside it I also checked out The Memory Police (Ogawa). In the opening pages it seems really interesting and well-written. The premise is a bit on-the-nose dystopian tho, so we'll see how well it's executed.