This brings a new definition to the term “crippleware”.

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https://github.com/evan-buss/openbooks

I run that as part of my Calibre docker compose, and when it downloads a book, you don’t even save it locally because it’ll go into Calibre if you set the folder watcher in Calibre to a shared bind mount where the temp file gets dropped.

Combined with FBreader and Calibre OPDS service, and baby, you got a stack.

That’s a funny waybto spell “sexual assault”.

Because public trackers get takedown notices.

Pour one out for Aaron Shwartz

“If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing.”

I hope this guy is being well paid, he’s killing it.

Now we have to talk about that project name…

Don’t forget ads.

I’d happily pay for anything I consume if it were convenient, private, and no ads. Since I can’t get that anymore, well, it’s the high seas for me. I pay as much for high seas related services as I would for the official streamers, but the experience is 10x better.

Appreciate the post, but damn, that’s still cryptic. “Find a quality private usenet indexer”… I don’t even know where to begin to do this.

Possibly, but I encounter very, very few ads. So I might take a chance heard product and research it into a purchase, but I’m not going to do the “seven exposures and they’re sure to buy” sort of thing.

Murdered by Carmen Ortiz.

I’m well over 25 years of sailing now (40 if you count games for early PCs), and they’ll pry the sabre out of my cold, dead hands. I’ve made not watching ads a lifestyle and piracy is so much easier than dealing with the bullshit interfaces of streaming companies.

If I have a way of directly donating to creators and not via their shitty production companies, I’ll take it. Podcasts have it right, I can send money to creators and get an ad-free stream. If I can’t, I don’t donate and I don’t listen to their work.

In the end, me avoiding ads isn’t costing anyone anything, because if I hear an ad, I likely avoid that product going forward. They have at best zero effect on my buying decisions, if not a negative one.

It is now.

Yah, I remember that now.

I donate about what I figure I’d spend on proprietary products in a year, about $600-800. Mostly KDE and docker containers I use like piped, mailcow, nextcloud, as well as podcasts I listen to as long as they supply an ad-free feed.

Stuff some disks in a low-end box and install FreeNAS.

Jesus, do they have nothing better to do? Maybe go deal with Russian oligarchs or Israeli war criminals.

Then God’s the last person you should ask.