Dooooo youuuu have a moment to talk about the ghost-andard?
everett
joined 4 years ago
The librarian ghost in Ghostbusters is still pretty creepy, you guys.
I've got a dorkier story: I asked for speech dictation software.
I use Calibre to store and manage my library, and then serve it to KOReader clients on four devices. There are two ways to serve books from Calibre to KOReader but I prefer the "content server" approach where Calibre runs a server that I can browse from within KOReader. (The other approach, "wireless device connection," lets KOReader show up as a device you can drag-and-drop books to from within Calibre, but comes with limitations.)
When I start a new book I manually download it to each device and let KOReader's progress sync plugin store my reading progress across devices. Highlights and bookmarks don't sync between devices, but there's cross-platform desktop software called KoHighlights that I use to merge my highlights when I'm done reading a book, then I keep the merged version on my desktop KOReader library and delete the book from my other three devices. Other options for long-term storage would be using KOHighlights to export the merged highlights to plain text, HTML, CSV or Markdown, or using KOReader's built-in functionality to export notes to a Joplin notebook (or a number of other formats). I know there's also a way to send the highlights back to Calibre, and I did get this working at some point, but I remember it either being hassle or not working well.
KOReader also has a way of saving highlights directly into PDFs (and only PDF files, I believe), and I think this is the default, but it's something I've disabled.
Didn't expect this one.
PineNote exists too, though it's often out of stock. Remarkable tablet has a pretty decent hacking community, and gives you its root password in settings. Kobo devices have been able to run aftermarket software for years, and recently there's been progress in booting a complete OS. If you're okay with Android there are even more choices. @crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com you've got some options!
This came up a few days ago in another community, and it sounds like the poster may have actually had a similar use-case to your own.
bash: traitors: command not found
Give them a break, they're near-sided.
I had a similar sort of late-Windows phase before moving to Linux. While I don't think I knew about GeoShell, I would use shell replacements like LiteStep and various Blackbox clones. Customizing Windows and learning/comparing different UIs on the same system taught me concepts that made it an actual "light step" towards *nix. Sadly I don't have many screenshots from that time, and I've combed through boxshots to see if I posted any, but it looks like probably not. I did manage to find this one locally (probably from bbLean or bb4win):
I haven't had to do this in a while, but here's what worked for me. Don't try to line it up by looking directly at the tip. While holding the dropper, place your palm against your face as an anchor, then look at your reflection in a bathroom mirror to visually align the tip with the pupil. Keep pressing against your face so your hand doesn't move as you tilt your head back and squeeze.