PerogiBoi

Ive got a P1S and I love it. I haven’t updated the firmware because of their aggressive and anti consumer practices. I do know there are open source self hosted programs for it like Bambuddy but I haven’t tried it. Its on my list though.

I haven’t had a print failure since the day I got it several years ago. Its fast and precise. There are probably as good or better printers now that are more open source friendly. On Lemmy, you’ll find everyone saying not to buy one because of how shitty the company is. For a Normie, I’d say it works fantastic. For a tinkerer, its not the best choice.

I’d consider myself a Normie+

I love my kobo precisely because there’s a huge community behind KOreader. Lots of YouTube tutorials, lots of flexibility. My kobo kept dying at like 50% battery and I just assumed it was a bad battery. Turns out NickelOS was trying to cache a book infinitely in the background so the battery calibration was wildly off because it never properly achieved a sleep state when powered down.

I left it sitting for a year and a half. Charged it for a full day to balance the cells, copy pasted the files needed for KOreader, changed a config file so that NickelOS would not cache items in hidden folders, and then threw all my epubs onto a hidden folder called “. books” and boom.

New life in my kobo. I use it daily now. Battery is accurate to 20% (then it sorta doesnt turn back on but whatever). Fair warning though because KOreader is so expansive that its a rabbit hole. UI takes getting used to but the customizability is huge and it runs more efficiently without bloat and you can even use LocalSend to wirelessly push epubs from any device that can run LocalSend to the Kobo so you never have to plug it in again.

I sync book progress from my Xteink X4 pro to my Kobo Clara HD using KOSync and have my own little KOSync instance running on my homelab (but you can just use the public instances if you want).

Kobo runs a light linux software called NickelOS on an esp32 board. No android at all.

One can install a custom OS over top called KOreader which expands its usability and offers tons of community led plugins.

If this sort of event were to happen, I would have bigger things to worry about than my data. What use would it be anymore? What about drinking water and food? What about my ADHD meds? Shits about to get very twisted if I stop these meds. I fear for everyone else. In fact, if this sort of event was to happen, everyone should be worried about what happens when I’m not on my meds. Data be damned.

I can tell you right now that something like a username and password is exceptionally difficult for most users. Many just have one password for every single application and if they need to use a different email or password, they will be stuck.

The vast overwhelming majority of users do not have password managers, do not know they exist, and will give up at the first sign of complexity. You’re too far into the weeds if you don’t conceptualize this.

The overall vast majority of everyone is completely tech illiterate. We can blame them for their lack of tech skills all we want but that won’t change anything. Jellyfin needs a better UX before it’s feasible to use over Plex when sharing libraries with other users.

That’s awesome!

Damn how does one amass 60 users? That’s a big ass family

I considered it pretty heavy equipment for just a single service but that’s coming from my experience running like 8 vms on an old gaming pc and tearing my hair out over how janky it all looks (it works fantastically for me tho)

“How do I convince my tech department to take on additional tech debt”

My bad. I’m so dumb that I see a shelf UPS and I assume this is some advanced network shit. I have an old gaming pc and a mini pc as 2 nodes in my home network.

Wait so you have like rack mounted server but only run jellyfin? Am I missing something here ?

NHL 2004 had those same bands as the soundtrack!!