Yeah, I don’t think you understand Calibre at all, because you are somehow annoyed by it. I get it. But there’s no e-reader on the market that supports Calibre. Quite the contrary, there’s a titanic effort from the Calibre team (it’s been several people since 2009) to reverse engineer support with every single e-reader and tablet in the market that should not be minimized. You’re also painting a picture as if somehow Calibre is the Windows of e-book and everyone hates it but is forced to use it, when in reality that is not at all the case. Yes, it has quirks and people have constructive criticisms, but calling a guy’s name “rough” is not positive criticism. Overall, most people appreciate and like Calibre for what it has achieved and enabled for readers all around the world.

Again, it’s fine if you don’t like it, don’t understand it, and don’t want to understand it. But that doesn’t excuse insulting a person who actively is making your petty life a bit easier and free from corporate control. It takes a very weird person to feel like commenting negatively on someone’s name is somehow appropriate, it’s bully attitude. If that is all the criticism you can bring to a discussion of software, save it for yourself and stop replying. You’re all over this thread complaining, completely unprovoked like a little wuss. No one is forcing you to use Calibre, it just so happen that no one has done anything better, as you yourself admitted in another comment.

Good, so if you know what needs to be fixed it should be easy for you to make a new alternative, with modern web UX, self-hosting in mind and NO quirks whatsoever.

Really, it’s so easy to insult those who are making solutions when you have never contributed at all. There’s constructive criticisms, but calling people who are fronting free labor for your benefit as nerd aliens is not it.

Calibre is so old that it’s use case and architecture precedes the current popularity of self-hosting. It is as old as the premiere of the very first e-ink reader in 2006. It’s not obtuse or weird, it was just the way things were done 20 years ago. The problem is that adapting it to work as a self hosted app or even multi user sync requires rewritting all of its backend from scratch with fundamentally different principles and use cases in mind. And guess what? Everyone is way too lazy to face that massive undertaking. Thus the hobbled together solutions.

Fortunately, one way backup to a NAS works perfectly fine to keep libraries secure. It’s not this way out of caprice, and the Dev is definitely not an nerd alien.

There have been attempts to create modernized replacements for calibre. But they all fall through because, Calibre already does 99% of what they want to achieve. That one percent is covered by addons and shoddy workarounds? Yes. But that’s an effort to reward analysis any Dev is faced with. Calibre does much more than what the average user need, and they keep adding features. Because they’re not catering to one particular user but a community of a complex mix of users. Developing software is hard, rebuilding 20 years of features is daunting.

It’s OK, these stages are not supposed to be sequential. They can go through them in any order, and even cyclically return to other stages. Even full acceptance can be relapsed from time to time.

150 million, what?

Individual users, prompts, prompts per second, accounts, installs, subscriptions bought?

Numbers on their own have no meaning. This is still rubbish trying to cosplay as information. Active copilot users means nothing until explained how the number is calculated.

I agree wholeheartedly.

But objectively…

Good thing morality is not objective, right?

Yeah, that’s kind of the point. It was benign, you didn’t have to do it. If you didn’t do it, you wouldn’t hurt anyone. But if you did it, it displays a modicum of kindness towards an invisible fellow that speaks of a considerate moral character.

If everyone does it, it improves the overall experience of everyone, as you said, at absolutely no additional personal cost, financial or otherwise. You get home from Blockbuster, insert the tape, flop on the couch with the still warm takeout food, and begin your movie night without any friction. At the end, you placed the cassette on rewind and switched to cable to watch something else until you dozed off, or kid’s bedtime came or whatever.

The other experience, you insert the tape, flop on the couch and…wait, the VHS says the videotape is at the end. Ok, then put the VHS into rewind, it was usually slow, then use the rewinder. You have to get up, take the cassette out, put it in the rewinder, wait a few minutes. “Daddy I want to watch the movie now.” “Patience, just wait a minute.” “Honey, the food is getting cold sit down to eat.” “Wait, the rewinder is do…shit, it swallowed the tape again.” Take it out, clear the jam, manually wind the tape, put the tape back in the VHS, it is gentler. Wait some more. Now start the movie. At the end, should you rewind?

It was just one of those things that, are simple, nice and cheap for everyone. Not doing it is just a mild annoyance for others, but it costs you nothing. It was truly a test of morality back then. Good people are those who still do the right thing even if no one is watching.

Truenas apps are mere docker containers configured by someone else in the community.

If you turn them into a customized app, you gain all the docker options control and can change the image. It’s all up to the app maintainer to switch to the correct image, or yourself to do it manually.

Runs diagnosis tools on AI laptop.

No AI feature actually runs locally.

NPU stays idle 100% of the time.

Your entire digital life is uploaded to Microslop and used to train LLMs…

again.

This is why tn EU needs to invest all into developing a RISC-V hardware chain asap. Proprietary CPUs is the ultimate chain and shackles.

Well, let’s follow Umberto Eco’s dissertation (Ur-fascism) on the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

1. Cult of tradition (with strong syncretism: Chávez and Maduro proclaimed a traditional bolivarian thought. With a cult to independentist era thought. While at the same time participating in all (from Catholicism to Cuban Santeria) forms of religious rituals.
2. Rejection of modernism: the revolution cites and follows traditional indigenous practices. Going as far as to promote the use of plant fiber as female hygiene products as a replacement for menstruation pads. As well as the rejection of scientific communities and advanced industrial processes in favor of traditional and extractive economies (artisanal mining and others). Defunding universities and outright persecution of teachers.
3. Cult of action for action’s sake: there are way more examples than what can fit in here. But in 2002 Chavez fired every single worker from the state oil company PDVSA, prompting the quick collapse of oil production that never recovered. When people tried to protect themselves by accumulating US dollars, a ban was quickly established on money exchanges. Billions of dollars of infrastructure was lost and the country started the spiral that lead to 2015 humanitarian crisis and breaking all historical hyperinflation records.
4. Disagreement is treason: or Maduro’s version “dudar es traicion”.
5. Fear of difference: Chavez promoted several forms of hatred towards all sorts of groups. Mind you, calling political adversaries gay is state practice. Quite lefty isn’t it?
6. Appeal to a frustrated middle class: this is the only one that chavismo spun with originality. Instead the middle class was demonized as the source of all evil and the appeal was a populist appeal towards the impoverished. Never mind they are still just as or even poorer than they were before chavismo.
7. Obsession with a plot: I don’t need to say much here as chavista paranoia was well justified, perhaps, but also ever present in the figure of the north American empire. Even when the plot was all fantasy.
8. Enemies are simultaneously too strong and too weak: no need to say much, just watch any state communication and figure it out yourself. Also, the oligarchs are in power and impoverished the people, while all the big corporations are in the hands of chavista puppets after two decades of expropriation.
9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy: patria, socialismo o muerte. Life is warfare, every civilian is a combatant, perfect military-civilian fusion. Have been motos for two decades.
10. Comtempt for the weak: chavismo substitutes this with patronizing the weak in order to make the usual Marxists quotes not out of place. But it is comtempt all right.
11. Everybody is educated to be a hero: back to every civilian is a combatant fighting the imperialist threat. Chavismo also intervened all education to include ideological training and personality cults towards the traditional figures of the revolution.
12. Machismo: the regime in power organizes feminists rallies, while simultaneously rejecting any law that brings advancement of women’s rights and restraining funding to implement the few that do exist.
13. Selective populism: el pueblo as a concept that is entirely in the hands of the powerful elite.
14. Newspeak: just listen to anything granko says when defending chavismo.

This, along with over a 1000 political prisoners, 33 thousand or more dead in political rallies, armed groups of colectivos acting as shock forces against political dissidents, 3 thousand verified victims of torture, and a long list of etceteras. I don’t know man. It awfully sounds like fascism to me.

It’s not nuance though. It’s cowardice, fear of taking a solid stance. The fact it can be ambiguously interpreted both in favor and against Trump actions, and both interpretations are contradictory with her historical position on the matter, shows that she is just playing optics.

The fact is that the Venezuelan situation doesn’t fit neatly across the US bipartisanship lines. Doing domestic politics based on foreign affairs always creates that sort of dissonances. It’s hard to explain to people that overall Venezuelans are mostly left leaning but communist and socialist rethoric causes rejection. That, for example, most would love Mamdani’s policies, but hate him over his stance about Maduro. That most would love Petro’s policies, but hate him over his history with leftist guerrilla. This is no accident. It’s the consequence of living for almost 3 decades with a red painted, communist rethoric, but in practice fascist regime. There’s love for progress but also a deep understanding that progressive discourse is not inmune to being corrupted and coopted to oppress and bolster oligarchs in power.