There’s is no such thing as absolute good in this world, you will always be choosing the lesser evil

Someone had a fun writing assignment lol

When I started playing rdr2 I thought I’d mostly be focused on the mission like most games but what ended up happening is that I mostly just roamed around the beautiful mountains and plains and forests, camping and fishing because such simple beauty is completely absent in my life, all I have for nature is some manicured gardens and artificial lakes, there’s no personal freedom of movement, no going for a walk in places unknown, no privacy to just relax without worry, I grew up in the 90s pre internet and social media and cell phones, even though I grew up in a city, life still felt enjoyable and more social in so many ways, now I live isolated and disconnected and discontent with what has become of society, if I could I’d choose to live in the world of rdr2 as well

I recently bought a Ebook from Bookshop.org thinking I could download and transfer it to my cracked Kindle and to support the author only to find out it is DRM locked and can only be read on their specific apps, so now I am asking for a refund and meanwhile downloaded a copy of the book throught other legal sources and enjoying it, all these lockin systems just screw over the paying customers and incentivize sailing the high seas, brain dead greedy pigs will dig their own grave and then pass the blame to others

If you have KOReader installed on your e-reader then you can select books in Calibre and wirelessly send them to your device in one click

You know some people beat this drum that more people should pay for good software and that it guarantees it’s longevity and independence, and so I did buy the pro version of Nova years ago and now we are here, I think when it comes to software unless it’s open source and you can have full control over it then it’s not worth anything, as it’s only matter of time before it either gets deleted or enshitified, that’s why I started shifting to open source alternatives for most things

I see, that’s good to hear, since KOreader has a direct integration with Calibre, when I connect it to my server it shows up as a external device in Calibre and I can select multiple books in Calibre and directly send to the Kindle in one click which I find more convenient than navigating a OPDS catalog from within my slow kindle and downloading books one by one, but maybe in the future when I get a better e-reader I will give Kavita a try.

I’ve looked into Kavita before and it looks good, just need to figure out a way I can wirelessly connect to it using KOreader on my Kindle to transfer books and sync reading progress

Jokes on Amazon I already jail broke mine and can directly download books from my Calibre server to it, KOreader ftw

Same I just bought a used kindle and jail broken it so now I have a huge library to go through and I have downloaded a bunch of movies and tv shows to my media server as well

Just attach your own streaming media player like Nvidia Shield or Chromecast or some other such device and you can just boot into that and bypass all smart TV features

Your state leaders weren’t stupid, they were greedy corrupt piece of shits who were in on the scam with oracle

Guy looks like a hot dog that went bad

You should do that as well, to protect the kids from those brain rot slop websites

Smart move, with the brain rot cancer that internet has become these days, it’s best to keep your kids away from it until their brains finish developing a bit

It’s installing regardless from where you get the app, by labeling it as sideloading these giant corpos want to label it as doing something outside the norm, something that is “unsafe” so they can have control over user behavior and market dominance

Not if microslop can do anything about it, you thought regular excel was bad, now checkout the new “AI enhanced” excel

Before Excel existed people had to learn it after it became common, I’m sure if something else replaces spreadsheets people will learn and adapt to it.

Exactly, spreadsheets themselves are the bottleneck, they worked back in the day but data and analytics have moved well beyond that, but companies refuse to migrate to a modern architecture because the dinosaurs in charge are afraid of change.

I mean ideally people should move away from spreadsheets altogether, keeping the data and the view and control layers mixed like that is kinda terrible and scales poorly for large data sets that require any serious transformation and computations, ideally your data should reside in a acid compliant database or some data lake for safety and ease of access, and then view and transformations should be handled by a separate software on top of that, at least this is how most companies that do big data analytics set things up, I know it’s overkill for some small to medium company that has limited needs, but there has to be something better than putting data into cells and writing functions on top of that.