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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • Then the UK’s equally dumb: it was 10:04 pm BST (GMT+1) cos daylight savings is a thing in most of Europe too. At least it’s synchronised across Europe[1] so you just need to remember that most[2] of North America changes a few weeks earlier.

    Also, the UK says GMT/BST which is nice and clear - calling both EST and EDT “Eastern Time” makes even more of a mess!

    And yes, I’ve just rediscovered you can use footnotes, why do you ask?


    1. The EU is planning on killing daylight savings but I have no idea if the UK will do the sensible thing and go along when/if this happens ↩︎

    2. thanks for making it more confusing, Mexico ↩︎


  • But you’re misrepresenting my argument.

    Hardly, I’m directly addressing your statement that case insensitive is intuitive to users, grandmas or otherwise - I give examples where it’s not initiative or obvious which filenames match. I didn’t mention ease of implementation at all.

    The principle of least surprise is an important UX consideration, and your idea of effectively introducing collation and localising which files conflict is just trading one problem for another set of problems and suprises (e.g. copying directories between drives with different settings).










  • The latest Kindle update broke the jailbreak even if it was installed, so you’ll need to stop updates. You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

    I’m planning on getting a Kobo Clara BW when my Kindle dies (it’s currently got holes at the corners and a few dodgy-sounding rattles so soon™). Then I can use Koreader+Calibre-web to download books and sync read state like you can do with Amazon.

    So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?

    Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they’re not going into series properly.




  • Ebooks: I use Calibre locally and Calibre-web on the server (read-only metadata db, I overwrite with the Calibre version as tagging, etc is far easier on desktop).

    You can connect Koreader to Calibre-web and until maybe a fortnight ago you could jailbreak a Kindle and use Koreader instead of the default software. Now you’ll need to manually move files over, or use the email-to-Kindle option (probably a bad idea, but I expect Amazon can tell if you’ve side loaded pirated content anyway). Nowadays I buy from not-Amazon sources, strip any DRM and send it over.

    Manga/comics/graphic novels: I use Kavita on the server and I use comictagger on desktop to fix the metadata.

    I’m happy to use different set ups for the different types as they’re quite different experiences and specialist tools work better.