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Is there an ePub apocalypse? A case study and beyond it

August 4, 2026 Is there an ePub apocalypse? A case study and beyond it2026-08-04T09:22:28+01:00 No Comment apocalypse, apps, epub, Gemini, Google, kindle, tips

A chat with Gemini, what else? ❶ Ludditus: Back in the day, when ePub readers included models from Sony (PRS-300, 350, 500, 505) and many other brands, I was rabid…

The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup

February 20, 2025 The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup2025-02-21T23:09:43+01:00 4 Comments apps, epub, idiocy, kindle

There is one small change that will happen in relation to Kindle e-books, as noticed recently by people purchasing a book who wish to download it as a file and…

Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “Ezra Klein: Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul — ‘The Odyssey’ is the political movie of the decade. Transcript:…” Aug 10, 21:20
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “It’s understandable that you are bothered by such pronunciations. However, although it corresponds to Ὀδυσσεύς, Odysseus is more than a…” Aug 9, 08:31
George on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “Coming from a Romance (Latin) language, I know Odysseus as Ulysses, so it was a bit cumbersome to always hear…” Aug 9, 05:19
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “A last batch of updates: 17 to 20. Flatpaks in more detail, theming Qt6 and Qt5 apps under XFCE, XnConvert…” Aug 8, 21:35
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “Michel Onfray sur l’Odyssée de Nolan : « C’est Homère qu’on assassine » Je ne suis pas cinéphile, mais je suis très bon…” Aug 8, 16:21
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “A few extra quick notes.” Aug 8, 09:41
Béranger on Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all: “Updated to include two alternatives to GDebi.” Aug 8, 07:50
Béranger on AI and Linux: a bit of ranting: “Why, of course, AI will kill us. BBC: Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company. Some…” Aug 8, 07:31
Béranger on Nolan’s Odyssey—not a review: “UPDATE: Quick notes after watching the film a second time.” Aug 7, 09:10
Béranger on Chess and Go channels on YouTube: “Three more chess puzzle apps I’m currently evaluating: ❺ PuzzleMate — Chess Puzzles, by PuzzleMate. The free version is limited…” Aug 5, 22:29
Béranger on Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all: “No, because it would have been both absurd and useless. GDebi is invoked by right-clicking on a file and selecting…” Aug 5, 13:06
B. Stack on Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all: “Thanks for sharing all this! I remember learning about gksu after it was already removed/deprecated/whatever. It sounded so useful. I…” Aug 5, 12:58
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “CORRECTION: It wasn’t Vinyl the one who broke the inode/directory association with xfce4-file-manager.desktop! I tried it on a different system…” Aug 5, 09:26
HAL on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “It might have to do with Vinyl being installed locally vs. globally. Or something else somehow screwed it. I also…” Aug 4, 22:20
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “It might have to do with Vinyl being installed locally vs. globally. Or something else somehow screwed it” Aug 4, 21:34
HAL on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “So FSearch opens exactly what it should here, without needing to touch anything. A Xebian bug then? Curious.” Aug 4, 21:30
Béranger on Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux: “UPDATE: A 4th option: TuneD (an irrational one, IMO).” Aug 4, 19:04
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “It’s perfect. xfce4-file-manager.desktop is the generic file manager used by default, whereas thunar.desktop is a specific one, especially as in…” Aug 4, 07:06
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “Well, MX does some settings in non-standard ways. I wrote somewhere how I added several keyboard layouts in xfce4-keyboard-settings, and…” Aug 4, 07:05
HAL on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “Now, go to Settings Manager, Keyboard (or run xfce4-keyboard-settings), Application Shortcuts. Add or Edit xfce4-popup-whiskermenu, then press the Win key.…” Aug 4, 00:12
HAL on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “Here, in MX with Vinyl: $ xdg-mime query default inode/directory xfce4-file-manager.desktop Is it okay, doctor?” Aug 3, 23:53
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “One more update with 3 more Debian customizations (14 to 16).” Aug 3, 20:34
Béranger on One more visit to the Small Web: “A few more links from a later visit to Kagi’s Small Web.” Aug 3, 09:37
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Unlike GoComics, Comics Kingdom actually exposes all non-premium comic strips to anyone, or at least it works on my Firefox…” Aug 3, 08:38
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Hmmm, that’s true, and even though I keep on clicking many windows just to see the storyarc of Flash Gordon,…” Aug 3, 06:42
Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “💥 Michael Yingling’s Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine is dead again. This time, possibly for good. 😡🤬” Aug 2, 20:03
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “I never bothered, so I couldn’t tell. Comics Kingdom has such a clumsy navigation in time that I wouldn’t pay…” Aug 2, 19:07
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Hey, I have a question: how can I bypass the paywall from Comics Kingdom so I can read the old…” Aug 2, 18:59
Béranger on AI and Linux: a bit of ranting: “● NYT: Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations: The attacks, which date as far back…” Jul 31, 21:01
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.6.0 was released: • Added extra comic titles up to a total of 80, including serialized ones, with stories…” Jul 31, 18:12
ConEst on KDE Bug 342056: Thunar is still a great file manager: “Nautilus ROCKS! (perfect words to ragebait Ludditus)” Jul 29, 23:20
Béranger on Când Justiția poate suspenda tot ce vrea ea: cazul ROMATSA ● Acum și Justiția belgiană!: “Tribunalul de Primă Instanță din Bruxelles a stabilit termenul de 4 ianuarie 2027 pentru judecarea cererii prin care ROMATSA solicită…” Jul 29, 21:47
Béranger on AI and Linux: a bit of ranting: “Nope.” Jul 29, 21:37
HAL on AI and Linux: a bit of ranting: “Regarding FSearch, at Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It’s called FSearch…) you wrote: “Now, for a full-text search…” Jul 29, 21:20
Béranger on IONOS: One more time, I survived: “Price and convenience.” Jul 29, 12:20
Risto on IONOS: One more time, I survived: “I had similar kinds of infuriating interactions with Bluehost until I got fed up and moved my site to a…” Jul 29, 12:19
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Brewster Rockit runs extended stories, usually running several weeks at a time. I have avoided so far this kind of…” Jul 28, 09:12
Dave on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Great job – thanks. Can you add Brewster Rockit from GoComics?” Jul 28, 08:31
Béranger on AI and Linux: a bit of ranting: “Two updates already. UPDATE 1 concerns the case of GPT‑5.6 Sol and an unreleased model going rogue on Hugging Face.…” Jul 27, 10:54
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The traitor Hope: Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher & Higher) | Hope (13) & The Blues Monsters LIVE |…” Jul 27, 00:54
HAL on Future Euro banknotes: a flop?: “I would probably choose B, E, H. However, I could see them choosing A or D. I don’t know why,…” Jul 26, 20:24
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones, posted on July 24: Rolling in the Deep – Adele… cover by The Graystones ft. Evan Riley. Sock…” Jul 24, 22:19
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Well, let’s just say mine is PC.” Jul 24, 19:30
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Unless you’re using macOS, my app is the simplest way to access a limited but decent list of the most…” Jul 24, 19:27
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “I guess this might do for a while. Though I wish there were a strong userscript or extension to bypass…” Jul 24, 19:17
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “1. No, there isn’t any that I know of. 2. It’s in the page source (CTRL+U):” Jul 24, 17:25
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “So just to clear my mind, is there any extension or userscript to bypass the GoComics paywall to read all…” Jul 24, 17:20
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Rip Haywire is a serialized daily strip, and I prefer comics that are, most of the time, self-consistent and independent…” Jul 24, 16:57
annonymous32 on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “One question: do you think your program app will include the rest of the comic strips like Nancy, Heart of…” Jul 24, 16:11
Béranger on IONOS: One more time, I survived: “„Ce Respir?” are postare deosebit de instructivă: Anatomia unei breșe de 41 de secunde: cum a lovit exploitul wp2shell și…” Jul 24, 12:41
HAL on IONOS: One more time, I survived: “That’s just great! To think that IONOS runs so many ads boasting about its expertise and high quality… Deutsche Qualität…” Jul 23, 21:19
Béranger on Camomile for your Windows laptop (if you really must): “ℹ️ If you need to use Ventoy on Windows to install it or upgrade it on a flash drive, then…” Jul 22, 14:11
Béranger on Ce nu știați despre aparatele digitale de măsurat tensiunea (și nici despre Huawei): “Nu am păreri. N-a fost nici rău, dar nici nu am întinerit, iar în final am încetat să mai iau.…” Jul 19, 09:21
Laurențiu on Ce nu știați despre aparatele digitale de măsurat tensiunea (și nici despre Huawei): “Salutare! Dacă ai luat à la longue Nattokinase, ce părere ai? Aș vrea să mă apuc și eu dar mai…” Jul 19, 06:13
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Just noticed a 7-part live show by The Turnarounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3sQL6czeA8” Jul 19, 01:54
Béranger on Românii sunt handicapați și sugeraniști în masă: “Nu am aprobat comentariul unui retardat care nu înțelege că „în masă” înseamnă „în număr mare”, nicidecum „în totalitatea lor”.…” Jul 15, 23:13
Béranger on Despre cazul „Dumbrava”: “Dragoș Pîslaru pretinde că se implică. Pe FB: Clarificări privind amenda de 1.000.000 lei aplicată familiei Pașca. Pe 30 iunie,…” Jul 15, 08:09
Béranger on Despre cazul „Dumbrava”: “DIICOT-antricot a mai suferit o înfrângere: Viorel Pașca și ceilalți cinci inculpați scapă de control judiciar.” Jul 13, 14:33
HAL on Is Ubuntu LTS a bad choice?: “A bad choice… It indeed seems that this is increasingly the case.” Jul 12, 22:14
santosh on The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux: “The other issue is why does it look like MaxMind has a monopoly on geolocation IP data? If there was…” Jul 12, 06:11