I have 2 questions:

Do I understand the colors correctly in that /home is deprecated and shouldn’t be used? What’s the alternative in that case?

Where would you guys put configuration files for services? /srv seems like an adequate directory

I found it a pain in the ass to remove amazon drm ebooks. What worked for one book suddenly didn’t for the next.

Whenever possible I try to avoid them for that reason

Honestly, in my opinion it kind of is (though I’m not an expert on it). Except for convenience I don’t think a browser should be allowed to access my USB devices. Though I would welcome it if it was enabled with the same kind of request that pops up when a browser wants to access the microphone or camera.

Oh I have it disabled. Pretty much among the first things I do with any new windows install is disable and uninstall as much bullshits as microsoft preloads. It gets pretty annoying though how much there is you have to opt out of. I also like complaining about them so you’re not too wrong there.

At least they are still better than samsung in that regard who preload facebook on their phones as a system app thereby preventing the user from uninstalling it.

The difference is that these programs are not preinstalled. They are shortcuts to install said program.

I just wished they were more relevant in german politics.

It’s the typical dilemma. Vote for a party you know won’t get enough votes to do something or vote for the least bad of the established parties.

That’s basically what I’m doing right now but the web version sucks in my opinion. Embedded content takes forever to load since and it’s not cached across sessions which makes quickly switching between multiple pages annoying

What do you use on android? The main thing I want linux compatibility for is for reading my notes on my computer, not for actually creating them. I thought about just annotating PDFs directly but I’m not sure how good that will work

On the topic of note taking programms.

Is there anything like onenote that is linux compatible, especially for handwritten notes? The closest in regards to decent handwriting support I could find was xournal++ but that felt kind of limiting to me especially without the infinite canvas and the ability to switch notes within the program (think onenote sidebar)

Try debugging a distributed embedded real time system which crashes when you are in a breakpoint too long because the heartbeat doesn’t respond

My Proxmox server is named Atlas, as the titan holding up my network.

My VMs on the proxmox server are named:

• TrueNAS (I didn’t have a good name)
• Poseidon for my docker server (Something something docker -> whale -> ocean)

I also have a raspberry pi running for testing out some stuff. It’s named Eileithyia after the greek goddess of birth.

Thanks, but this is mostly for completing my collection of the volumes themselves. I already read the story using the single issues.

I think I tried that one and the formatting was offon some pages. Thanks anyway. This is more for the sake of completing my collection. I already read the story using the single issues ;D

The entire internet depends on machines running linux as servers. I highly doubt that any company has the power to change that

Oh yeah, I found that too. I just wasn’t certain whether this still works, considering the original post is from 2011.

Never heard of telemetry on e-readers.

Personally I keep wifi turned off on mine anyway to preserve battery life and keep forced updates away. The only time I had wifi on was when I set the device up because that requires an account (for kobo readers). There is a quite technical way to bypass that though as far as I know.

Edit: After reading up on it, it seems like there is actually telemetry on kobo devices…

Time to find a way to disable that shit

Hasn’t that project been around for quite a while already?

Personally I’ve had a lot of success with abtorrents. They don’t have everything of course, but especially more well known series are usually present. The search is a bit wonky though

At some point I wrote a docker container (with some help from a friend) which regularly executes yt-dlp to download my youtube playlists to my media server.

I mostly do that because I have limited mobile data and want offline copies of music

Theoretically youtube doesn’t offer as high a quality as flac or wav files do.

Practically for most people it probably doesn’t matter