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Search for "Apprentice Alf" for a DRM stripping plugin for Calibre. This is how I liberated my kindle library. Once you've stripped the DRM, you can freely convert them to epub.

There are a few "kindle formats"; the most basic of which are just mobi files. Generate a mobi file and any kindle should be able to load it fine.

I'd think I'll stick with the tried and true `ebook-convert` tool from Calibre, and pandoc. There's no sense uploading your documents to a third party when that's not necessary.

How many people earnestly find fancy reports fun, and how many are just smiling and playing along to avoid being a wet noodle? In the case of Netflix, it was apparently one guy's p…

Without power steering, holding the steering wheel at the top gives you more leverage than holding it at the bottom. When holding the wheel at the top, turning right is a matter of…

There is nothing 'vile or bigoted' about pointing out that parents frequently force religions on their children. My christian parents sure as shit did, and it was common in other f…

I think it should be a choice given to the convict. Imprisonment, maybe for months or years, or intense pain and life long scaring, but you get to go home at the end of the day and…

See, go karts seem like much more fun than pencil pushers making fancy word documents. But for each their own I suppose.

Getting onto many private trackers is a real pain in the ass, involving lurking on some IRC channel for who knows how long, begging and sucking up to people until somebody gives yo…

Does Mullvad allow me to connect using wireguard without pasting my private key into their website? Their website says the private key never leaves my browser and is only used to g…

It's a hotel right? I would respond by closing my laptop, then my eyelids, then checking out the next morning.

Their marketing is the sketchiest shit ever. Any VPN that advertises like that is dead as far as I'm concerned, particularly NordVPN. They are the worst offender; listening to a fe…

> 1) Open wifi networks still exist. When last I was at my public library (a year ago... covid) they still had an open wifi network for public use. I think for them it's a matter o…

If you want fun on the company's dime, convince your boss to take your team to a go-kart track. That would provide a much better fun:money ratio.

Apple doesn't give one without the other. I think they could though; software could be sandboxed without an American corporation exerting authoritarian control over the distributio…

No matter what the PR departments of these corporations would have us believe, when push comes to shove it's always about the money. These corporations are fair-weather activists a…

It's not selling physical hardware that binds Apple here; it's having an app store that requires the cooperation of national government to process payments. Pakistan could forbid A…

Do you think Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan want Apple and the Pakistani government to forbid them from installing the software they like? Do you think they feel safe because of thi…

> Leaving Pakistan means shutting down their Pakistani App Store, so the app still won't be available. If Apple chose not to exercise totalitarian control over iOS users by making …

> Their situation is a bit stickier being hardware brands, I agree with your general point but not this part. Apple products still find their way into countries with no Apple Store…

> Nonetheless it is illegal for a US company to bribe people abroad IANAL but this is only partially true from what I understand. It's legal if the bribe is "grease money". (Grease…

> But if they choose to stop doing business in Pakistan, what would become of all of their existing customers? What happens to Pakistani users of Debian, if Debian doesn't do busin…

Does Pakistan force Microsoft to bar the installation of Ahmadiyya software on Windows? I expect not. Windows, closed source as it is, is open relative to iOS and consequently is l…

Contributing specifically to the desktop experience of Linux is another matter (unless maybe you're a GNOME developer.)

Homebrew has clear value even if you aren't a developer. It's the best way to install a whole lot of software, not just dev tools.