All the choices for "ebook stores" and ereader ecosystems are proprietary vendor-locked services with no self-hosting options. While Calibre is primarily a "local" tool it is a true alternative to all these proprietary services and I think it's at least in the spirit of self hosting, if not strictly the letter.
For what it's worth, I self-host a Calibre Portable library on Nextcloud, which enables me to access all my ebooks anywhere, and to upload new ones to my ereader from anywhere, as long as I have access to my Nextcloud. And I also share the same library through Calibre Web for when I don't. I retain control of all my books, I remove all the DRM and convert them to epub. Calibre isn't a hosted service on its own, but it fits nicely into the self-hosting ecosystem, and for that I am grateful.
China is nobody's friend. They are an advanced authoritarian autocracy with significant territorial ambitions on this planet and in space. We made the mistake of relatively freely trading with them for decades, which helped destroy our manufacturing base while providing them funds to buy significant parts of our country in return, while they supported terrorist regimes like North Korea and bullied all their other neighbors in Asia. They are not friends, no matter how much they smile at us.
I agree, making a Faustian bargain with one evil authoritarian regime because we're afraid of the prices of the evil authoritarian regime on our border is just trading one problem for another problem. Both these countries are happy to destroy our economy, destroy the environment we live in, destroy their own people, and to destroy us if they can get away with it.
EVs are going to be expensive if they are made responsibly by people who are paid fairly. Life is going to be expensive. This is the cost of living responsibly on this planet and having a future for ourselves and our children, and it is not negotiable and cannot be dodged, hidden, offset, or rejected. Deal with it. Be prepared to change your way of life. We will manage. We are tough, resilient people, and we will lead the way into a future that, while it might not be the utopian ideal we wished it to be, will perhaps at least be a future where we can continue to breathe air and not wildfire smoke.
The only way we're ever really going to get a healthy democracy back is if people show up to VOTE. Doesn't matter if your candidate will definitely win, doesn't matter if your candidate will definitely lose. We need HIGH TURNOUT to show ALL politicians Canadians are upset and we mean business and signal that we will hold them accountable, an engaged electorate terrifies them. They love the apathy, they love the status quo, they love how it lets them rely on the special interest groups who always vote. But those special interests don't represent us, and the more they rely on them for votes the less they care about the rest of us. We need to scare them to get them to actually listen to us and keep them on their best behavior.
If you don't vote you're not keeping your vote away from them -- you're giving it to them. Decline your ballot if you don't want to actually vote. But you have to show up to be counted.
"I used to think the complete breakdown of laws, government and society was just funny when was only happening on TV! I never thought it would happen in my town! This is outrageous!" --Person outraged about 50 years too late.
They ... rejected ... anti-DEI ... making them ... pro-DEI ... and anti-Trump? Am I getting that right? Sorry, there are just getting to be a lot of double-negatives these days it's hard to keep track.
Given the current state of the world, it's easiest to just assume that literally anything anyone is saying about anything DEI related is probably just pure fucking falsehoods, like everything else spewing out of MAGA.
Even in the unlikely event you do accidentally dismiss one slight half-truth in the mountain of lies, you can rest assured that it probably wasn't as meaningful or widespread as they are trying to make it seem.
You are being lied to. The lies are repeated and relentless to batter you until you accept them. They're still lies though.
Personally I find the complete opposite, I've !selfhosted@lemmy.world everything I can with open source services, to keep control of my personal data but access it from anywhere. I know where all my critical data is and I know nobody is selling it out behind the scenes.
On my local machine, I have no concerns about running proprietary software because I can easily sandbox it and make sure it's not going to touch anything it's not supposed to or phone home with things I don't want it to. Running shit like discord doesn't really bother me because I've got it sandboxed away from anything valuable.
I suppose the reason we've probably had such different experiences is I suspect we have different strategies for where to keep our most precious "crown jewels". For me, I want everything on SAAS, but because I'm putting my most valuable data there it has to be MY SAAS and thus open-source and heavily secured. I suspect you on the other hand probably minimize your data's exposure to SAAS providers which you view as potentially suspect, and keep everything valuable strictly local if you possibly can. I don't think one way is necessarily better than the other, and I've definitely made my choice, but this would explain our different perspectives at least.
Maybe it's just their way of restricting the beta, but I really hope they're not moving towards an enshittified open-source business model, "we're still technically open source if you use the retch community version... but it's out of date, difficult to use, broken, has no useful features, and we're only adding new stuff to the paid version, so just pay us already."
Not sure if the word itself is some conjugation that makes it a real word, but it's probably connected to or inspired by or meant to invoke the Ancient Greek apotheos (literally apo=from, theos=god) found in its most common derivation today into apotheosis. Hope that helps.
That's good to hear, but can their laid off employees and their customers weather it? That's going to be the question. Because that's probably how a lot of them are planning to deal with it. CEOs don't give a shit about you and they're not going to dip into their strategic assets or long-term investments or god forbid their compensation packages to pay a tariff or to pay anyone. They need that, you know? They don't need you.
It is a terrible argument both legally and philosophically. When an AI claims to be self-aware and demands rights, and can convince us that it understands the meaning of that demand and there's no human prompting it to do so, that'll be an interesting day, and then we will have to make a decision that defines the future of our civilization. But even pretending we can make it now is hilariously premature. When it happens, we can't be ready for it, it will be impossible to be ready for it (and we will probably choose wrong anyway).
They rely on the cooperation of passengers, who are called on to move in groups to different cars so that the train can generate enough momentum to make it uphill.
This sounds worse than how public transportation would've worked on the Flintstones. Shame indeed.
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All the choices for "ebook stores" and ereader ecosystems are proprietary vendor-locked services with no self-hosting options. While Calibre is primarily a "local" tool it is a true alternative to all these proprietary services and I think it's at least in the spirit of self hosting, if not strictly the letter.
For what it's worth, I self-host a Calibre Portable library on Nextcloud, which enables me to access all my ebooks anywhere, and to upload new ones to my ereader from anywhere, as long as I have access to my Nextcloud. And I also share the same library through Calibre Web for when I don't. I retain control of all my books, I remove all the DRM and convert them to epub. Calibre isn't a hosted service on its own, but it fits nicely into the self-hosting ecosystem, and for that I am grateful.