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If you're not looking to sail the high seas, I highly recommend Libro.fm. They have had almost any audiobook I have ever wanted (e.g., Andy Weir's books in English are only available on Audible), and you can choose a local library to support with your purchase.

I subscribe to their monthly plan, $14.99/month, which gets me 1 credit per month. If you buy one audiobook a month that's $14.99, using that credit, it pays for itself. I really like using my credits on expensive audiobooks, like $25 or something (I'm basically getting the book at a discount) and then I buy cheaper audiobooks using my credit card.

You can stream your purchased books with their app, but I download the files (everything is DRM-free) and move them into Audiobookshelf. Most of their older books are just ZIP downloads of MP3s, but newer books come in M4B format (one large file with chapter markers). Both work flawlessly with Audiobookshelf.

If you buy an audiobook on Audible (e.g., Andy Weir), you can download the AAX file from Audible and use a converter to convert the file to M4B (this strips the DRM and makes it work with Audiobookshelf). This is in a legal gray-area, depending on your jurisdiction.

Here is a YouTube playlist with his build process:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmSwDz13rIwLkLphPI7xm...

Some specs are below:

- 4-core ARM CPU (NXP Layerscape LS1046A)

- Unknown memory (he mentioned ECC)

- 2x 10Gbps SFP+ cages, 3x RJ-45 ports

- 32GB eMMC

- 2x M.2 E-key slots (for WiFI cards)

- active cooling

- USB-C

- OpenWrt

I want to believe

So far, the Equinix Metal shutdown affects Freedesktop, Alpine, WireGuard, and Flathub. Why can't these organizations use VMs? Is there something special about bare-metal services, or has Equinix not offered their VM service to these organizations?

Asking because I genuinely don't know, but why not use Python's `urllib.request` instead of `ping`?

Man, this is cool! I would love if each tile would be clickable! I have a homelab and this would be a great landing page to be able to give out to family to see the status and links to all services in the house.

For anyone looking to play a modern version of TA, there is Beyond All Reason (BAR).

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

Also the entire game is open-source on GitHub.

https://github.com/beyond-all-reason

Love his content! This is my favorite video of his!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw

I switched to Planka after Focalboard went community-supported[1], but failed to appoint any community leaders. So far, I'm very happy with Planka for my needs at home.

There are more self-hosted options in this link[2].

[1] https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard

[2] https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/task-management--to-do-l...

I believe the demo doesn't connect to a database backend. Their GitHub says "without server features".

https://github.com/plankanban/planka

$6.9m/yr in 2022

Mozilla also just posted their State of Mozilla 2022 (this includes financial statements). From what I've read, it seems that expenses are up and revenue from search deals is down.

https://stateof.mozilla.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530382

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/05/mozilla-earned-close-to-60...

Firefox's market share has been on the decline since 2010.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2009...

Genuine question. What is justifying Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker's salary?

- 2022 - $6.9m/yr

- 2021 - $5.5m/yr

- 2020 - $2.6m/yr

- 2019 - $3.0m/yr

- 2018 - $2.4m/yr

- 2017 - $2.2m/yr

- 2016 - $1.0m/yr

- 2015 - $997k/yr

I thought this was the same person. Love Wanderers!

How do you get invites into private trackers? Any you recommend?

Highly recommend the Heavy Spoilers breakdown of Alien

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7lSsE-sA0

Are you the same people behind Watchy? Very cool!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sqfmi/watchy

I swear I just saw a show on HBO about this same thing...

What problems did you have?

I've stuck with InfluxDB v1.8. I dislike the new Flux language. I know there is a way to do InfluxQL queries using InfluxDB v2, but I haven't set it up yet.

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.5/query-data/influxq...

Post author here: happy to answer any questions!

Definitely! I think it comes down to a few things:

1. You need the same username/handle on all platforms (e.g., your domain name, your twitter name, your github name, etc...). This is easier if you have a weird name.

2. You need to consistently update your content on these platforms (e.g., no one will care if you have a blog with a single post from 10 years ago)

3. You need to identify a reason for the blog (e.g., is it for work, or is it for fun?) and know your audience.

4. Your "brand" lets you control what people see when they Google you. However, if you're trying for a more professional appearance, don't blog about politics, religion, etc... because you'll be bound to upset someone at some point. Also, don't write controversial Twitter posts.

I've been blogging for almost 10 years now [1]. I only write a few articles per year, but they're always about things I'm working on. I work in IT and try to apply things I learn at work to my "homelab", and then write about it. This actually landed me a DevOps job because they saw that I used Ansible, Terraform, Docker, etc... and was proficient enough to write about those tools. When I asked in the interview, they mentioned my blog and github content as reasons why I was chosen over other candidates.

I personally use Jeff Geerling [2] as my inspiration. His "brand" has blown up recently, and while I'm not trying to get YouTube famous, I think he has great posts, creates great public code (ansible playbooks and docker containers), etc...

PS - I also blog using Hugo on a VPS. I run Debian server and let unattended-upgrades do my maintenance. I use a GitHub action to publish my code to the VPS, so once I commit, I'm done.

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[1] - https://loganmarchione.com/

[2] - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/

I don't think any large corporations are using Caddy. Everywhere I've worked has used Nginx for any high-traffic applications.

As a side note, I'm looking at Traefik in my homelab and it's honestly difficult because I'm so comfortable with Nginx.

Is that playbook open source? I would love to see it.

OP here. I was mainly going off of this (2nd paragraph).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

> Embrace the suck

OP here. Can I get that printed on a t-shirt?

> Yea, I think what OP is missing is that macOS was designed to be used with a trackpad.

OP here. Yes, I'm starting to get that from reading these comments. Does everyone who uses a Mac with an external display also purchase the Magic Trackpad?

> On window snapping: why on earth would you want to obscure your desktop with two huge panes?

OP here. I typically have a browser with documentation on one half, and a terminal/IDE in the other. I'm on an external monitor, so I want the space.

OP here. This is why I wrote the article.

> I can't shake off the impression that Apple does not offer options for better window management to make your screen more cluttered and thus sell you more displays.

OP here. This is a conspiracy theory I can get behind!

> It may be useful for users of large external monitors, allowing to make better use of the screen real estate

OP here. This is exactly why I want snapping (I'm using a 27" 1440p monitor)

OP here. I like this perspective, I never thought about it this way!