Will talk about Linux, plants, space, retro games, and anything else I find interesting.
From: https://www.baen.com/faq
Founded by Jim Baen, Baen Books has been bringing readers pulse-pounding, thought-provoking adventures straight from the heart of science fiction and fantasy for decades. We publish books in hardcover, paperback, and electronic form, and are one of the few traditional publishers that maintains its own ebooks webstore (with at least four new titles added every month). We are also perhaps the only book publisher to make our electronic advanced readers copies (eARCs) available for sale to devoted fans before a book’s official release date. In addition, we also sell ebooks from other publishers. We sell more than 2000 books from over 500 authors published by 24 different companies. Good reading to all!
One of the first and longer lasting ebook publishers for a LONG time. You get DRM free books at reasonable prices.
In many ways, open source started because of printers https://medium.com/curious-burrows/the-story-of-open-source-so-far-bfcb685d85a4
complaining (and doing something) is what started the whole thing.
Old Casio watch. Works well on the same battery.
I have an old iPod I use when I go for walks or work.
Ive used this in the past to host an email server. Eventually, my ISP actually stopped allowing people to use mail ports, so I had to discontinue. But it worked very well when I used it many years ago.
https://github.com/nodrm/DeDRM_tools is just the first one that pops up. Theres a LOT of software out there that does this. I would recommend getting a copy as GitHub has been going after “grey” repos for a bit once they are discovered (see switch emulation and the many fan games).
Most of the time, I personally just avoid by going to publishers that dont lock down books. They make things much easier than Amazon.
Nice having your own library is the way to go!
I heavily depends on where you get them. Most ebook publishers actually DONT put DRM on them. And other software can very easily remove the DRM if it is on the books.
Most systems can read the ebook format. Linux/Mac/Windows often comes with software. And if they dont, Calibre can work them.
https://github.com/Quill-OS/quill is a thing, although you have to get the exact model in order to make it work.
I really wanted https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book to be a thing, but its very hard to get the parts and assemble (in my opinion).
https://gitlab.com/guyjeangilles/piereader looks promising.
Honestly, the biggest hurtle does NOT appear to be the hardware, its getting the ebook in an open format. If Amazon removes the ability to download the files, then it really doesn’t matter what you run, you cant read your book.
Theres other publishers that give you all the file types like: https://www.baen.com/. I recommend finding and supporting those.
Looks like it’s just in relation to the ui.
It’s git is here https://github.com/miniflux
PC master race I hope. Could be phrased better but yeah.
Fresno ca also is out at city hall. I’m not near so I can’t get a pic. Only link I was able to find is on local subreddit (with bots lol)
https://old.reddit.com/r/fresno/comments/1ir2zvk/presidents_day_protest_at_city_hall_repost/
I wouldn’t mind paying a small amount to a dev who’s app pulls in ALL fedi feeds. Donation or otherwise.
…and there’s been another plane crash just a bit ago.
Nope just server
That would be cool. Closest I have is just a pinned link via Firefox.
I’ve had more luck finally throwing docker on it and letting it sit on an excising yunohost.
I have a couple of hundred RSS feeds. It has worked well past 15+ years.
The internet comes to me rather than the other way around.
Some RSS feeds that are fun:
https://questionablecontent.net/ - very long running comic.
https://www.kevinandkell.com/ - one of the most consistent oldest webcomic.
Royal road also has RSS feed support.
What I use: https://freshrss.org/ it’s kinda like Google reader back in the day.
No problem. You did all the hard work! And it was a great video. I learned a bit :)