Obsidian can be almost anything you want it to be. Try searching out some videos from folks who use Obsidian for journalling.

OP wants to avoid Amazon. This is still giving Amazon money and therefore encouraging Amazon’s greed, walled garden and dark patterns.

A better alternative would be using almost any other digital book seller. There’s plenty. And if the author chose or was forced to only sell through Amazon, then you can try library sources (like Overdrive) so the author at least gets something. And if you still can’t get what you’re looking for, then it’s time to sail the high seas.

At least make Amazon the last resort option.

Uh, yeah it does. Not to mention the US has killed more people through colonisation, direct and proxy wars, etc. than any other nation in human history.

Because the US is so much better?

Steam Deck is modified Arch with KDE desktop so probably not beginner friendly.

I used to be one of those people. It was a much different place then. It genuinely felt like a place to share useful information and help others or connect with folks from all over the world. If you had a question, or needed to fix something, it was usually pretty easy to find.

I used to prefer Altavista over Google as I found it served results closer to what I was looking for.

Now most of the internet is trash - pages and pages repeating the same crap, useful information or tutorials are hard to find without first wading through irrelevant search results or tutorials that are unhelpful but know how to capture the algorithms to generate cash, my ad blocker now telling me it’s blocking hundreds of ads instead of just a few, tracking and spying almost everywhere, clickbait hot takes, artificial and disingenuous lifestyle filtering, information desert eeeeverywhere…

Many days now I long for the internet of old.

We’ve used a couple of different Pis and a couple of different Odroids. The Odroids have been excellent and trouble free, the Pis not so much. Initially we got a Pi because we thought with the bigger community and better software support it would be easier to troubleshoot issues. Except that they have been regular problems that we haven’t always been able to work around or fix. One of them got relegated to a retro game ‘console’ because it was more trouble than it was worth. We’ve had little issues with the Odroids that wasn’t easily sorted.

Calibre Content Server
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

Or Calibre-Web
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

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There’s a big difference between a publicly published newspaper and shdy companies opaquely data mining people’s internet browser activity either completely secretly, burying it in a eula/tos or using shdy language to manipulate people into giving up their data.

I’m so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and enshittification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.

It might also be lasered on.

There’s also Betterbird, a fork of Thunderbird which retains some user-liked features that Mozilla removed as well as some bug fixes.

This didn’t age well. Not that Microsoft were above board back then either.

Probably because normally there’s a huge financial and social disparity between shoe shiners and the people getting their shoes done. Classism is a learned behaviour so it’s disconcerting and unpleasant seeing such young children who wouldn’t yet understand classism behaving in discriminatory or prejudiced/internalised oppression behaviours.

Additionally the shoes shining child has dark hair and is wearing what appears to be a fez/tarboush whereas the child getting their shoes shined is blonde - which brings to mind social disparaties between white people and POC/colonialism and could be seen as enforcing racist stereotypes, again in young children who wouldn’t normally have any sense of this sort discrimination.

Tl;DR: It provokes a juxtaposition of innocent children against adult behaviours that involve classism, racism and colonialism.

It’s like the Uncanny Valley of classis, racism and colonialism - it illicits feelings of discomfort but you can’t entirely put your finger on why.

Letters Live vibes

The Epic Games that ironically has monopolised exclusive titles on their platform? That Epic Games? The same Epic Games done for violating kids privacy rights? Epic Games that makes it hard to get refunds? The Epic Games partly owned by Tencent who are known to be in bed with the CCP? That one? Epic who my be selling user data to the CCP and broke GDPR laws? And the Epic Games CEO who actively shits on Linux gamers? Are we talking about that Epic Games?

Meh, they can go to hell along with Google.

About a decade ago I told my spouse I wanted to customise my PC with a perspex case and some lighting inside. He was all bleurgh, why would you want to do that?! His current PC has a glass side and rainbow lights inside.

I also stand by this claim and have since the 90s. Thank you and good day, sir.

My brain was trying to make various synonyms for “shit” work 😅

Neurons in your brain be like, use it or lose it.