Not yet. I ran Calibre + Calibre Web for a while before I found booklore, and the key thing I wanted from my setup was for things to work. I was experimenting with Booklore as a “new direction,” and spent a significant amount of time troubleshooting and fixing various broken things from crashes of the ingestion job due to long file names, failure of metadata being written, OPDS problems, etc. I’ve been reading some web novels (2000+ chapters) for a while, so I didn’t check in with the state of Booklore until recently, and now that I’m coming to the end of my most recent long story, I was going to pick back up in my TBR.

Honestly, I like self-hosting and experimenting, but I do recognize that “bleeding edge” isn’t always compatible with having a relaxing experience. In this case, I want to go back to “easy,” rather than “clever,” or “new.”

I just moved off of Booklore because of the recent drama. Went back to Calibre + Calibre Web Automated.

Same place I’m falling on the spectrum. Some things I stand by on principle, and execute alignment to the best of my abilities. For other things? Spite.

I’ve been putting the switchover on hold for a month of two, and see what develops. Honestly considering going back to Calibre and Calibre Web.

Behold: The Fire Turd (what happens after forgetting that spicy food has a two-burn cycle)

Not to be confused for the Burning Bush (what happens when there may be an undiagnosed STI)

Just a home lab for fun and experimenting.

Excellent suggestion! Thank you!

Thanks! I didn’t even think about running a local app, but this may be a fun find to experiment with!

That’s a great idea! Thanks! I’ve got unbound running locally on one instance of Pihole, and I’ve got it in a LXC for the other instance. Using the configs to pull from git would make that much easier to sync.

Thanks! I’ll take a look at those!

Huh. Good tip! I’ll have to test this out.

I have a “main” Pihole on a Raspberry Pi, and I set up another instance in a VM for secondary functions.

Big fan of the Mouse.

If you’re getting something for free, you aren’t the consumer, you are the product. Open Source projects (free as in speech) need some way to pay for the beer (not free). Enshittification is accelerating the conversion of services that have some form of free tier into more aggressively finding ways to monetize those users. Even services you pay for are selling your data, to make sure they can get maximum juice.

I would guess the line between the two groups is about one plank wide.

Well, given the goal is to turn Windows into a cloud-hosted, on-demand subscription service, it makes perfect sense.

The whole point of everything they’re doing is to create an uneducated population of easily manipulated fodder. Of course people are forgetting. This effort has been running for 20-30 years (or longer) at this point, and it’s working.

This, right here, is the highest quality “Shower Thought” I’ve ever encountered. You win!

Basically, yeah.

I’m too lazy to find it right now, but there was a fascinating article from the 90’s I remember reading with a breakdown of the perspective that Through the Looking Glass was a take-down of a lot of the cutting edge mathematical theories being explored in his time.