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EPUB (encrypted) means you have to use their reader app or maybe Adobe Digital Editions or some other walled-garden horseshit to read it. It seems to be up to either the author or the publisher on whether to offer it DRM-free. I haven’t found much rhyme or reason, but it looks like the ones from Simon and Schuster are available without DRM about 5 years after it’s been published.

I only buy DRM-free since I like to read on multiple devices (Kobo, Phone, or CalibreWeb in a browser in a pinch) and get tired of jailbreaking them myself. I’d gladly pay more for DRM free than not be able to read it without asking for permission every time or being locked to specific reader apps.

Depends on the device.

Some I flash LineageOS which requires an extra step to install MicroG or the Google Services. I just skip that optional step.

Some that aren’t supported by LineageOS but are able to be rooted: I just remove / disable all the Google services and apps.

Even on stock phones that can’t be rooted or bootloader unlocked, you can still disable things like Google Play Services. You may have to deal with and manually silence notifications saying Play Services are unavailable.

In the latter two cases, you’ll often need to find alternative apps (like the phone dialer, SMS messenger, etc) before you can disable the built-in Google ones.

Years ago, before I de-googled, I set the language in Android to “English (UK)” so the assistant voice would be British. The side effect of that was minor UI labels such as my “Flashlight” quick action changing to “Torch”.

Okay, care to elaborate on its shortcomings?

Are screenshots of other platforms like Reddit, X, Bluesky ‘off topic’? Or, do they count as memes?

I’m not a fan of them but they’re not something I would report as off-topic. But given the chance to voice an opinion on them, I’d say they’re more appropriate for the “people Twitter”-style social-media inception communities.

2. Does a meme require an attempt at humor?

I would say yes. I don’t subscribe here to be preached at. But there’d be some potentially awkward judgement calls for the purposes of enforcing that.

3. What about news? (What if a headline is funny?)

There’s [email protected] and similar for those and news/politics permeates everything. It’s nice to have a place away from that.

4. Is an image required? Should a picture of text (not from another platform) be removed?

That’s a tough one. I’ve seen pictures of book text being presented, but that often (but not always) bumps up against #2 (attempt at humor)

8 PoE ports. Nice. I’ve got a separate 5 port PoE switch currently and wouldn’t be sad about getting rid of that.

Definitely looking into it as my spring project.

I’ve been wanting to dive into the 10" rack space for a while now. Even saw there were some designs I could mostly 3D print. I recently decommissioned my last 19" rack appliance, so I guess I’m closer than ever now though I’d need to find a 16 port switch that would fit (would prefer that to linking two 8-port switches).

Haven’t really hosted anything on a Pi (except Kiwix on a spare Pi Zero W2) since I have a bunch of thin clients that I got dirt cheap in a bulk drunk eBay purchase. They’re more capable (though the Pi 5 is close if not entirely surpassing them now) and a bit easier to shove together.

How are the Orange Pis? I’ve not messed with them, but the specs look too good to be true.

Ugh, tell me about it. I downsized from rack servers to a bunch of mini PCs with the laptop-style power bricks and the rats nest went from “ugly but manageable” to “complete fustercluck”.

Recently splurged on some USB-C power-delivery adapters and the appropriate USB-C to laptop-style charger cables and that made things infinitely better. Wasn’t cheap (though not super expensive) but well worth it.

True, but the cost of my freedom has gone from $0.09 to $0.21 per KWh over the last 3 years lol.

It starts with one home server. Then you’re like “But if I just add another server, I can do this. Oh, well, this other thing really needs its own server, too, so what’s one more? Oh, I should separate the traffic from my home network, so I’ll need to get a managed switch. But now I need another server so I can do testing and maybe one more for development. And I can’t go without backups, so throw in a storage server. Ugh, what if the power goes out? Better get a couple of beefy UPSs to hold me over.”

Before you know it, you have:

• 12 terabytes of storage
• 11 servers serving
• 10 VLANs
• 9 cron jobs running
• 8 cables tangled
• 7 things a beeping
• 6 dead ports
• 5 rats nests of coooords
• 4 UPSs beeping
• 3 failing drives
• 2 loud switches
• And a soaring electric bill

https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/136101/q-squared/peter-david/

At best. And it’s probably gonna be a <= $2 Google Play Store gift card.

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Well, removed yes. Deleted, not always.

That gave me an idea for an April Fool’s Day easter egg in Tesseract. Represent upvotes as negative downvotes and downvotes as negative upvotes.

Here’s hoping I remember to do that lol.

I remember both of those going downhill in real time but the one that hit me the hardest was Discovery Channel. One day it was Bill Nye, Mythbusters, Shark Week, and science documentaries and the next it was Pawn Stars, Swamp Loggers, and American Chopper. At least we got a nice meme template out of that last one.