I got ads removed on mine by asking chat support. The only caveat is it needs to be registered to an account. If you get a patient employee and ask kindly that the ads are not appropriate for children, it usually works.

I didn’t have ads either but being able to use KoReader is a good enough motivation for me.

• You can customize it a lot to your own liking and they do something clever with page changing that it seems a lot more responsive.
• Another thing is I used to have to convert epubs to KFX to get nice hyphenation and good typography but on KoReader you seem to be able to customize all those typography things with whatever epub you throw at it.
• Also, I have a local Calibre OPDS endpoint, you can add that in KoReader and download books over wirelessly. WiFi needs to be on when doing that but with a few tweaks you have read only root partiton so Kindle shouldn’t update.

Overall there are a lot of steps to it, if you’re comfortable with your current setup it’s not worth the hassle/time.

Anna’s Archive, Libgen, Mobilism, IRC (I use a self-hosted service called OpenBooks for this). I use Calibre for metadata sorting, plug Kindle in and move books that way and keep it on airplane mode.

Also, new Kindle jailbreak for <= 5.16.2.1.1 if anyone’s interested. Managed to get KoReader on my 10th Gen Basic.

I like Halls of Torment and Boneraiser Minions, both really nice on the Steam Deck.

Not at the moment, no. But it’s worth it for the range of things you find on there.

This might be an issue with opensearch.xml, which is a standard for how browsers recognise search engines.

See here:

https://github.com/hnhx/librex/blob/main/opensearch.xml.example

I don’t know how you’re hosting it, but when I was hosting LibreX, I had to make an opensearch.xml with the correct domain and bind mount it to the correct location. I don’t exactly remember the details since I moved to Searxng.

Also, if you’re not aware, LibreX was forked to LibreY, which is the updated repo.

Navidrome replaced Spotify for me, with Symfonium on Android, I’m never going back. On PC you can use any Subsonic client, and there are plenty I threw Tailscale on top to access it when I go out.

Org-mode, with Orgzly on Android, sync via a WebDav server, which you can also mount on you PC and literally use any editor to edit.

Okay I think I might know what you mean? I just tried doing that and got it to work. We can compare what we did. Here’s mine.

I created a shared folder called “Shared”

then I create a group called “All” and mount the “Shared” folder to /shared

I went to a user and add them to group “All”

Examining that user’s files

I can navigate into that shared folder and access everything (I have stuff in there already).

To set up the folder, which I called “shared”, I set the home directory for it to /srv/sftpgo/data/shared. For reference, my user home directory is /srv/sftpgo/data/user1. Then to allow user1 to access it, I mount it as a virtual folder. Is this what you did?

Please look up what you’re using next time, and keep in mind that on Linux, a lot of GUI tools for hardware config are community made, so you’re lucky someone already tried to make something for the streamdeck. With the exception of big software backed up by an organisation, most utilities started by one or two devs start small and are not perfect, but will get better over time as PRs and maintainers come in, so you also have to be patient and work with what you’re offered, or submit PRs yourself to improve it. If that’s something you can’t do because of time or whatever, then in the long run Linux isn’t for you yet.

Documentation for the streamdeck

Tip: when looking up a software for Linux, append Reddit at the end, like “streamdeck Linux Reddit”, plenty of people have already discussed this exact software and some others. Hope you find the tools you need.

CW: slurs, bigotry

Well this was apparently their chat log. I found the link through the comments on Hacker News. Whatever you think of Drew, he’s not wrong at all, they sound like they just discovered 4chan.

I see 4 here.

Being downvoted for a Wikipedia link? You have ghosts following you, it seems.

slsk forever

In French culture, wearing them is not something French people would do.

Explain to me what French people wear in French culture. Are you trying to stereotype French people here? What do you call the Muslim population who migrated to France, hold citizenships, have children, speak French, work in France? Are they not French? Or are you implying that French people cannot be Muslims? What about white French who converted to Islam? Are they no longer French?

SSH into my PC, from there pretty much anything is possible. Neovim works pretty well.

Capitalism 1 billion dead

Agree with your analysis, just pointing out that Phoronix forums have always been like this, or at least the tendency is to insult each other. Their culture is more toxic than any other Linux forums I’ve seen, maybe besides /g/.

Weird, did they not enforce the use of a VPN if you want to SSH outside the network or was this done by someone on campus?