Scrath

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Honestly that's just about being used to one versus the other. For me it's basically the other way around

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

My first thought was "yes", my second thought was "actually, maybe not?" and my third thought was reading the word clockwise in another comment which would need to be replaced with another word to indicate direction around an axis and its opposite

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I'm not sure about how this works in kodi but in jellyfin the client might request a different resolution which causes the server to try and reencode the provided file on the fly. In my case my server isn't fast enough for this which leads to constant buffering

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I believe it sometimes works based on when the book was published for some reason and that newer books may have a better DRM protection against this method

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I managed to do it somehow without a kindle but it was an absolute pain in the ass. For my first few books I had to download then using a specific old version of the kindle desktop app so that calibre was able to remove the encryption. Apparently the encryption used by the newer kindle desktop app is different.

For my next books that suddenly wasn't enough and I had to use an old android app version in an emulator and get the books out of the hidden app storage using adb.

I'm never buying an ebook of amazon again if I can avoid it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Not the person you replied to but that's it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I can't turn it off because none of the lightbulbs in the house would turn on anymore

Personally I try to avoid making anything in my home actually dependant on my server. I have a single lamp that can only be controlled from my phone and that's only because it's so rarely used that I didn't want to put in the effort. Everything else is local first and only gets extended functionality from my server running.

I've had a couple issues with my zigbee stuff over the years on the server side and I would be really pissed if I wouldn't be able to turn my lights on because I haven't gotten around to fixing my server yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I wasn't even aware of it being a format from google. My personal issue is that some programs and apps I use don't support webp

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Where do you see low bandwidth? Maybe over long distances but if I can give a pigeon a 1TiB USB stick and send it to the next city I bet it will be faster than uploading the data. If it arrives that is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I see how that makes sense. I typically don't buy "cheap" shoes but rather shoes for which there is likely a newer model available or the store has some other reason to get rid of the old stock and are therefore heavily discounted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Exceptions can be made for shoes that have a special purpose, e.g. hiking boots or dress shoes in my opinion. For everyday stuff I look for the cheapest neutral looking ones that fit well

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Whenever this question comes up I see myanonamouse recommended as a private tracker.

I just wanted to throw in that there is also a tracker called abtorrents which hosts audiobooks and ebooks, though I believe most or all of them are english.

I cannot speak as to the selection between those two unfortunately.

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