LiberatedLlama

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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Search for "Apprentice Alf" for a DRM stripping plugin for Calibre. This is how I liberated my kindle library. Once you've stripped the DRM, you can freely convert them to epub.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
There are a few "kindle formats"; the most basic of which are just mobi files. Generate a mobi file and any kindle should be able to load it fine.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
I'd think I'll stick with the tried and true `ebook-convert` tool from Calibre, and pandoc. There's no sense uploading your documents to a third party when that's not necessary.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
How many people earnestly find fancy reports fun, and how many are just smiling and playing along to avoid being a wet noodle? In the case of Netflix, it was apparently one guy's passion project. Great for him, but how many netflix
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Without power steering, holding the steering wheel at the top gives you more leverage than holding it at the bottom. When holding the wheel at the top, turning right is a matter of moving your hands to the right.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
There is nothing 'vile or bigoted' about pointing out that parents frequently force religions on their children. My christian parents sure as shit did, and it was common in other families in my community too. I see no reason to
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
I think it should be a choice given to the convict. Imprisonment, maybe for months or years, or intense pain and life long scaring, but you get to go home at the end of the day and don't spend a significant fraction of your only life
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
See, go karts seem like much more fun than pencil pushers making fancy word documents. But for each their own I suppose.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Getting onto many private trackers is a real pain in the ass, involving lurking on some IRC channel for who knows how long, begging and sucking up to people until somebody gives you an invite (assuming the tracker is even open to new applic
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Does Mullvad allow me to connect using wireguard without pasting my private key into their website? Their website says the private key never leaves my browser and is only used to generate the configuration file, but all I really want to do
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
It's a hotel right? I would respond by closing my laptop, then my eyelids, then checking out the next morning.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Their marketing is the sketchiest shit ever. Any VPN that advertises like that is dead as far as I'm concerned, particularly NordVPN. They are the worst offender; listening to a few different jackasses on youtube pitching their pr
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
> 1) Open wifi networks still exist. When last I was at my public library (a year ago... covid) they still had an open wifi network for public use. I think for them it's a matter of principle, since it means nobody has to ask pe
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
If you want fun on the company's dime, convince your boss to take your team to a go-kart track. That would provide a much better fun:money ratio.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Apple doesn't give one without the other. I think they could though; software could be sandboxed without an American corporation exerting authoritarian control over the distribution of software. But Apple has no interest in providing
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
No matter what the PR departments of these corporations would have us believe, when push comes to shove it's always about the money. These corporations are fair-weather activists at best .
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
It's not selling physical hardware that binds Apple here; it's having an app store that requires the cooperation of national government to process payments. Pakistan could forbid Apple from opening Apple Stores in Pakistan, but
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Do you think Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan want Apple and the Pakistani government to forbid them from installing the software they like? Do you think they feel safe because of this? It is common for totalitarian systems to cite user&#x
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
> Leaving Pakistan means shutting down their Pakistani App Store, so the app still won't be available. If Apple chose not to exercise totalitarian control over iOS users by making their App Store essential to installing software o
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
> Their situation is a bit stickier being hardware brands, I agree with your general point but not this part. Apple products still find their way into countries with no Apple Stores. I don't think selling physical products really
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
> Nonetheless it is illegal for a US company to bribe people abroad IANAL but this is only partially true from what I understand. It's legal if the bribe is "grease money". (Grease money is paying a public official to
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
> But if they choose to stop doing business in Pakistan, what would become of all of their existing customers? What happens to Pakistani users of Debian, if Debian doesn't do business in Pakistan? Nothing. Those users are fine.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Does Pakistan force Microsoft to bar the installation of Ahmadiyya software on Windows? I expect not. Windows, closed source as it is, is open relative to iOS and consequently is less vulnerable to this sort of pressure.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Contributing specifically to the desktop experience of Linux is another matter (unless maybe you're a GNOME developer.)
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Homebrew has clear value even if you aren't a developer. It's the best way to install a whole lot of software, not just dev tools.
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
I used gentoo for a few years and found it to be very pleasant, with a great wiki. The only reason I ever stopped using it is because I realized how senseless it was to build everything from source on a laptop with questionable thermal cha
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
Running untrusted software on these sort of systems is fundamentally broken, no matter what the package manager chooses chown or not chown. A malicious program could edit ~/.bashrc to modify the user's PATH, or wrap sudo with a k
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by LiberatedLlama 6y ago
I suppose their hand was probably forced by Apple in some way, but simply offering binary downloads for mpv in particular is subpar. There are a lot of unusual options for mpv that, in my experience, don't get pulled into prebuilt bi