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  • tocheetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldEBook Management
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    1 year ago

    For downloading, I use Readarr or manually download from where I buy the books. A lot of the time the books I buy have DRM so I end up pirating them anyway 🤷. When readarr sends a book to calibre, it tells it to convert it so I’ve always got epub and mobi available.

    For accessing my library, I use calibre-server, which I think comes bundled with the calibre desktop app. It’s got a basic web interface for uploading, editing some metadata, and downloading; and an OPDS API which my e-reader can use to download books. If I’m outside my home network I use my VPN to access it because I don’t trust calibre to be secure enough for internet exposure lol.

    Don’t recall why I chose this instead of calibre-web but it works fine for my purposes. I don’t read comics though.


  • I got a bus + sleeper from the Gold Coast to Sydney last year, loved it. Bed was fine, was cool having my own little cabin. The shower was adequate, kinda cramped but the temperature was good. Breakfast was proper food, unlike someone else’s description of the Syd-Mel. The electricity was a bit weak as I recall, just made my laptop drain a bit slower.

    Going in the other direction during the day was absolutely lovely, a much nicer experience than flying. Got to see so much scenery and felt very relaxed…until the bus ride.

    It was not much cheaper than flying and I only did it because I care about carbon emissions. Would be nice for the environment if they could bring the cost down - when NSW did free trips they included the XPTs and they were booked out, so people are obviously willing to use them if the price is low enough.

    Or just carbon tax the fuck out of air travel 😈








  • There are roleplay servers for modded RDR2 online (RedM) where you can actually do this. I just started playing on one with some mates and it’s a player driven economy, so if people need wood they either have to chop it themselves or someone has to do it for them. I haven’t tried it personally but you start with an axe and there seem to be areas where you can chop wood. I just like wandering about picking flowers and saying yeehaw to people.





  • tocheetoGaming@beehaw.orgMax Payne
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    I’ve only played the most recent one but had a lot of fun with it. Plan on playing the originals sometime. Did you play the El Paso, Elsewhere demo? It’s an occult homage to Max Payne.





  • Plenty of corrupt conduct doesn’t quite meet the criminal standard. It’s one reason bodies like ICAC exist. In this instance, it seems like Berejiklian should have declared her conflict and recused herself from dealing with these grants. But did her relationship actually change how she acted on them? That’s harder to prove even if it was the case.

    Edit: this page has info on the elements that constitute criminal misconduct

    Edit2: oh yeah, ICAC also has coercive powers that allow it to get evidence that would be inadmissible in court. There’s probably a bunch of that here.