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  • What else should I selfhost?

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  • Yeah, I don't think you understand Calibre at all, because you are somehow annoyed by it. I get it. But there's no e-reader on the market that supports Calibre. Quite the contrary, there's a titanic effort from the Calibre team (it's been several people since 2009) to reverse engineer support with every single e-reader and tablet in the market that should not be minimized. You're also painting a picture as if somehow Calibre is the Windows of e-book and everyone hates it but is forced to use it, when in reality that is not at all the case. Yes, it has quirks and people have constructive criticisms, but calling a guy's name "rough" is not positive criticism. Overall, most people appreciate and like Calibre for what it has achieved and enabled for readers all around the world.

    Again, it's fine if you don't like it, don't understand it, and don't want to understand it. But that doesn't excuse insulting a person who actively is making your petty life a bit easier and free from corporate control. It takes a very weird person to feel like commenting negatively on someone's name is somehow appropriate, it's bully attitude. If that is all the criticism you can bring to a discussion of software, save it for yourself and stop replying. You're all over this thread complaining, completely unprovoked like a little wuss. No one is forcing you to use Calibre, it just so happen that no one has done anything better, as you yourself admitted in another comment.

  • What else should I selfhost?

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  • Good, so if you know what needs to be fixed it should be easy for you to make a new alternative, with modern web UX, self-hosting in mind and NO quirks whatsoever.

    Really, it's so easy to insult those who are making solutions when you have never contributed at all. There's constructive criticisms, but calling people who are fronting free labor for your benefit as nerd aliens is not it.

  • OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics' Houses With Threats and Demands

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  • Was just going to comment the same thing. OpenAI has Theranos written all over its face.

  • A true visionary

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  • It is the rare occasion when I get to explain again on the internet that constellations are like, an entire region of the sky. Thus it includes all the stars in that region. What we have now collectively conceived as the representing image of constellations is technically an asterism. Asterism is the line pattern by which we find constellations, an schematic representation of the relative pattern of some stars to others. Some constellations are defined by the asterism included in them (southern cross, e.g.) but many asterism exist that do not define constellations (Pleiades). Many popular constellations are the result of a broader perception of all the stars in their region, sort of like when seeing figures in clouds, but most are actually not, and are named due to the associated cultural tradition. However, they are less noticeable now with light pollution being the norm. All constellations have a designated asterism, usually made of the brightest stars inside the constellation that help find the general location of the constellation, but the constellation itself is the region of the sky.

  • Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

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  • the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game

    That's the point. They didn't thought it was OK and didn't.

    They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.

    That is exactly what they did, any texture left in the first version of the game was a mistake that was promptly fixed as soon as they noticed it. We have the advantage of judging four years later with new info something they did back then and have since corrected. Ethical considerations must include intent and context, and here there was definitely no intent to harm.

  • What else should I selfhost?

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  • Calibre is so old that it's use case and architecture precedes the current popularity of self-hosting. It is as old as the premiere of the very first e-ink reader in 2006. It's not obtuse or weird, it was just the way things were done 20 years ago. The problem is that adapting it to work as a self hosted app or even multi user sync requires rewritting all of its backend from scratch with fundamentally different principles and use cases in mind. And guess what? Everyone is way too lazy to face that massive undertaking. Thus the hobbled together solutions.

    Fortunately, one way backup to a NAS works perfectly fine to keep libraries secure. It's not this way out of caprice, and the Dev is definitely not an nerd alien.

    There have been attempts to create modernized replacements for calibre. But they all fall through because, Calibre already does 99% of what they want to achieve. That one percent is covered by addons and shoddy workarounds? Yes. But that's an effort to reward analysis any Dev is faced with. Calibre does much more than what the average user need, and they keep adding features. Because they're not catering to one particular user but a community of a complex mix of users. Developing software is hard, rebuilding 20 years of features is daunting.

  • Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

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  • They didn't sneak anything and they never will. Looked into it deeply. They used AI assets as placeholders during development. But everything in the shipped game is human-made. No further use of generative AI is expected, since the game awards controversy the company's management published a statement of banning AI use entirely in their company.

    The whole controversy around indie game awards was also blown beyond proportions. A company used a new technology at a time when the tech was new and the debate around it's use was still inmature. Then dismissed it for it was not good enough. They failed at quality assurance and a couple of textures weren't deleted. They replaced them as soon at they found out. By all intents and purposes, this controversy does not qualify sandfall as an AI using company, and to affirm so is ignorant of the context of all that went down in reality.

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • It's OK, these stages are not supposed to be sequential. They can go through them in any order, and even cyclically return to other stages. Even full acceptance can be relapsed from time to time.

  • Why don't cursive numbers exist?

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  • It's not hard rules, though. There's a myriad of publishing styles. Each define different rules and guidelines to when and where numbers are spelled out. Hyphen was dropped from several guides, for example. The and has also been optional for certain publishing houses for a while, but in England it is still mandatory. Academic and literary will differ in how they enforce this guides and exactly what they are. Language is relative, changing and fluid, and this was all different mere 30 years ago. It moves with the expectations of the audience.

    Also, it is six seven. Respect the memes guidelines.

  • Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

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  • 150 million, what?

    Individual users, prompts, prompts per second, accounts, installs, subscriptions bought?

    Numbers on their own have no meaning. This is still rubbish trying to cosplay as information. Active copilot users means nothing until explained how the number is calculated.

  • ...is this retro?

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  • The NES and Atari are separated by mere 6 years. The NES and Xbox 360 are separated by nearly 22 years. That's how much the perception of graphical advancement has decelerated. Sure we keep making leaps on graphical fidelity, but ever more in areas that are less and less noticeable every time.

  • What's the modern day equal of "Be Kind, Rewind"?

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  • I agree wholeheartedly.

    But objectively…

  • What's the modern day equal of "Be Kind, Rewind"?

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  • Good thing morality is not objective, right?

  • What's the modern day equal of "Be Kind, Rewind"?

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  • Yeah, that's kind of the point. It was benign, you didn't have to do it. If you didn't do it, you wouldn't hurt anyone. But if you did it, it displays a modicum of kindness towards an invisible fellow that speaks of a considerate moral character.

  • What's the modern day equal of "Be Kind, Rewind"?

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  • If everyone does it, it improves the overall experience of everyone, as you said, at absolutely no additional personal cost, financial or otherwise. You get home from Blockbuster, insert the tape, flop on the couch with the still warm takeout food, and begin your movie night without any friction. At the end, you placed the cassette on rewind and switched to cable to watch something else until you dozed off, or kid's bedtime came or whatever.

    The other experience, you insert the tape, flop on the couch and…wait, the VHS says the videotape is at the end. Ok, then put the VHS into rewind, it was usually slow, then use the rewinder. You have to get up, take the cassette out, put it in the rewinder, wait a few minutes. “Daddy I want to watch the movie now.” “Patience, just wait a minute.” “Honey, the food is getting cold sit down to eat.” “Wait, the rewinder is do…shit, it swallowed the tape again.” Take it out, clear the jam, manually wind the tape, put the tape back in the VHS, it is gentler. Wait some more. Now start the movie. At the end, should you rewind?

    It was just one of those things that, are simple, nice and cheap for everyone. Not doing it is just a mild annoyance for others, but it costs you nothing. It was truly a test of morality back then. Good people are those who still do the right thing even if no one is watching.

  • I want that sticker

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  • And, as the recent FBI agent quitting over being forced to switch a murder investigation into something is not for politics, there are no good cops. There are bad cops and cops that quit the force. Good people don't seek the rush of shooting others.

  • BentoPDF Docker Situation Update

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  • Truenas apps are mere docker containers configured by someone else in the community.

    If you turn them into a customized app, you gain all the docker options control and can change the image. It's all up to the app maintainer to switch to the correct image, or yourself to do it manually.

  • It's barely a science.

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  • Don't blame psychology, in this analogy the whole ordeal was rape. Plenty of economist still try to pass as psychology science a bunch of bullshit that was debunked half a century ago or is straight up pseudoscience from charlatans.

  • Bad Bunyy plans to don a dress during his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show...

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  • Just remember that Green day is the Opening ceremony show. Bad bunny is the halftime show. A ton of people are confused about this detail.

  • Bad Bunyy plans to don a dress during his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show...

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  • They are opening the Superbowl, not for Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny is the half-time show. We might get to hear a rad version of the star-spangled banner.

  • World Politics @lemmy.world
    dustyData @lemmy.world

    I Can Prove Maduro Got Trounced

    www.wsj.com /articles/i-can-prove-maduro-got-trounced-venezuela-election-stolen-772d66a0
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    dustyData @lemmy.world

    What is you backup tool of choice?