A docker container is preferred, but again, CW isn’t Calibre. Same database but completely different management system + also lacking a lot of the sync opportunities.

The issue is that there’s no open protocol for library syncing. It doesn’t exist because all big players (Amazon, Kobo/Rakuten, B&N, etc.) have their own proprietary system, and need no open alternatives.

OPDS is a thing but it’s meant to replicate a physical library (one you can walk into) in behaviour and approach, not a personal library (list all books I have and give me easy access to them). It’s essentially just an RSS-style feed that has no defined structure, thus isn’t software navigable - e.g. there’s no guarantee you can list all book series, or all authors, and most implementations usually give you very roughly defined “recently added”, or “hot now” book lists…

I’ve actually been working on a solution for this, something that provides an almost Kindle library experience (see all your books from a remote server, sync down the remote ebook file, sync back read progress, filter/search based on book properties, etc.), while being flexible enough for non-readers applications as well. But I haven’t even gotten to the point where I can define the API contract properly, let alone the backing database and mapping to Calibre. Honestly at this stage I feel like the best approach is starting from scratch, establishing modern requirements, and going from there.

Yay, enshittification

Not to mention the super abusive stance of Amazon to writers and publishers, the sooner people stop buying Kindles and giving Amazon their money, the better.

Here’s a reminder that Boox makes amazingly good e-readers in all form factors Amazon does (including a variety of tablets!), with stylus support (USI 2.0 for smaller devices, EMR for their Note series and above), fully open (recent Android versions, regular updates, unlockable bootloader, straightforward to root devices), support KOReader, with a solid built in reader (plus support for cloud sync, including syncing books to a free 10GB Boox server storage), support for OPDS (a better way to access your library than Calibre’s sync, plus it can be utilised with most digital libraries too), and altogether quite well priced devices.

At the moment I have on my hands a Go Color 7 gen2, a Note Air5 C, and a Palma2 Pro. The experience is surprisingly good for a “random Chinese brand”, the hardware, compared to similarly priced devices, is superior (seriously, 4/6/8GB RAM, 64/128GB internal storage, SD card support), not to mention their customised e-ink waveforms (which give you near LCD-like scrolling with minimal trailing effect and little to no ghosting, something I can’t say about my Kindles…)

The only downside I found of these devices is the relatively bad battery life in locked/standby (due to Android, but you still easily get over a week per charge with average use, or about 20-22 hours of active use!), and the speakers… definitely not meant for audiobooks.

It’s a pity Calibre to date refuses to be refactored into a self-hosted service.

The core logic should be portable, with the app just being an interface to it, but no, the entire project is so much spaghetti it would feed the entire boot for over a year… such a shame.

Make the wings/engines detachable and have them return to base, a la reusable boosters.

Also if you turn the main body into a MIRV carrier, the main fuselage should be reusable too.

Wall Street =/= CEOs…

Daft Punk. Discovered them too late to go to an actual concert.

And same with Caravan Palace. Loved the original ensemble and style, the spirit of their concerts. The current getup is nice too, but with different vocalist and a few other band member changes, it’s just not the same…

only if it happens in realspace.

Every single CEO is a quack.

And by CEO I don’t mean every single boss - I specifically mean the head of any company with a proper C-suite.

Why?

Because 99.999999% of the time, they’re just shitty middle-manager yesmen who failed upwards, thanks only to their agreeability.

The CEO isn’t some wizard who knows the biz inside and out. They’re literally just a figurehead, someone to take the fall, sign the executive decisions, and market the company. Nothing else. Their purpose is to maximise shareholder value, even at the cost of ruining the company, and one of the methods of doing so is marketing.

so you get these absolute morons, often malicious morons, like the listed, or Musk, who know nothing about the innate workings of the company, but pretend to do so in public purely for the extra profit it brings.

Then people act shocked when the N+1th CEO turns out to be a complete dipshit who knows nothing but yapping.

Forget the store bought mayo, and try any of the older (think 18th-19th century) recipes. You can replace the whisking with a stick blender but not the slow addition of oil and vinegar.

What you’ll get is an amazing condiment/sauce that is much fluffier than mayonnaise as you know it today, much more flavourful, without the weird plasticky mouthfeel and taste, actually pleasant to eat.

Oh, is it now? I don’t deal much with it and last time I checked it was a Medium wannabe with some tools geared towards tech professionals.

It’s a Substack “article”. It’s maybe one professional step above a random blog with 17 followers…

Interesting, my PA was essentially painless.

As for actual pain… I was 15, and had to get one wisdom tooth extracted. Thing is, I have that gene that makes anesthesia fucky.

I did warn the surgeon, they doubled the lidocaine, and yet… the moment he started cutting my gum, that lidocaine went right out. They had to call FOUR more nurses to hold me down so he could finish the extraction and sew things up.

Pain was so bad I nearly passed out, and couldn’t talk for two weeks.

Off ye feck, fascist scum

Well, apparently we’ve been visited by aliens whonhave cracked FTL travel, maybe we could ask them for an assist?

Fortunately, Trump’s mass - relatively, to, say, any payload we shoot into space - is quite small. So that delta V is actually achievable with relatively small amounts of fuel.

Same, spent a few years there studying. The general casualness towards sex was… very refreshing, if unusual at first.

One thing SatW gets right is the general sluttiness of Denmark. And I mean that without any negative connotations.

I wish he’d leave… this planet, this star system, this galaxy.

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