JaymesRS @ JaymesRS @midwest.social

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Thank you very much, Mr. Ducksworth. Quack, quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth!

I have a Porteus USB that I keep handy with my old Hirens USB. It’s Slackware based and a bit goofy when it comes to installing other apps, but because it’s a USB portable OS first I feel it’s one of the ones that handles that limitation best. I used to use Puppy IIRC.

Theres an ancient Apple story about how LoC is a stupid metric from when they were programming the Lisa.

My guess is that he says it just to keep his personal beliefs from being assailable and being challenged. He can ask questions of others to try and make points and insulate himself. 

Disillusioned “open minded” republicans like my brother for one. He was telling me that Dems should run him to appeal to anti-Trump Republicans to prevent Trump from winning. He’s a pretty smart guy who somehow got convinced that JAQing off is a good basis for philosophical thought and denies that he has any firm beliefs and is open to anything that he thinks sounds convincing.

The ideal would have to be some sort of AI translation. The problem is that PDF is a page layout format and EPUB is a reading format and you can’t just extract the text without understanding what parts are affected by page layout, think of reading by columns for example. And you would need to train the AI on what’s unnecessary for reading comprehension

The extent of my moderation experience has been a few old phpbb forums and a few admittedly large Facebook groups. Let me think it over and I’ll get back to you shortly.

I also wonder if it might benefit from ebooks being separate because authors could post updates about them as theoretically as well as it’d be easier to manage spam.

Do you have a place to post when we find significant discounts on ebooks?

I think I understand where you made the mistake, it’s not red dit, I think it’s supposed to be re ddit. It’s where they “did it” again (or “re did it”) but like All those other early 2000’s sites they just dropped a vowel so it’s just re ddit.

(https://i.imgflip.com/1fmxhp.jpg)[this is a picture of the guy from the history channel who suggests aliens for any ancient technology, suggesting that the skull is an alien.]

Is this what Roman Nagel had to rig up to save Livingston’s butt?

That’s why I’m still running A/UX.

Why would you want to be behind the heated seats? Seems like it’d be warmer on the seat, not to mention that there’s no 3rd row in a Tesla so you’d be in the trunk…

This isn’t a book tracker like bookwyrm et al, this is only a list of books in a series and a method to notify you when upcoming books are announced that meet criteria you set.

As long as there’s one published, there should be a shorter one listed lower on the page by the box that gets you a link to an online retailer.

Fantastic Fiction is great for this. I learned about it from a friend who worked at a bookstore.

I love my kobo. I’ve had ereaders from each of the major current eink brands, as well as iPad and iPhone.

I like having a eReader because reading on my phone makes it too easy to swipe away to go back to doomscrolling the internet.

Afton Uckers hates this company

The Music Factory? I guess this really is one of those Things That Make You Go Hmmm...