Oh I meant “piracy” friendly. Drop books into calibre, plug kobo into laptop, sync calibre to kobo. Boom, 1000 books loaded up and ready to go.

That said: it’s also very privacy friendly for me, because I’ve literally never connected it to WiFi or any kind of network.

My daily driver for reading is the Apple Books app on my phone, which syncs to my iCloud Drive containing my calibre library as well. But my kobo is the bomb for travel.

Kobo , hands down.

That’s how “I am legend” started.

It’s still electron. No thanks.

For the emperor

Canceled my sub, dusted off my torrent tracker logins.

Removed by mod

now build a box fort. Fort kickass.

You’re in the wrong side of history here, bud.

Ayuuuup. Libgen, calibre, and Apple Books for me these days.

I’ve bought around 1000 kindle books over the years, but that shit ended this year when I found out about this stuff. Spent a week stripping the drm from all my purchases (the ones Amazon didn’t burn up in the memory hole, anyway; bout a dozen of the books I paid for are no longer available for download), adding them to calibre, and backing the data up.

Now I use the apple books app on my phone to read them. It’s not as convenient, but fuck Amazon.

That’s why i don’t connect mine to the internet and I black hole suspicious traffic

As if i would buy an American car, anyway.

That’s not very cache money of you

Oh no kidding? Gruber must be getting more open these days!

Daring fireball has always been very pro apple

Give it up, you sound like either a you don’t know what you’re talking about or a you’re a bootlicker for facebook.

You’re never going to win a pro Facebook argument in this community.

Oh hell yes, hyperlinks! No more weird kitty alias to inject hyperlinks

Yeah she’s from letterkennt. Same actress.

Holy shit I never made that connection.

Having worked at square (before it became the joke it is now), I saw some people get pipped. One person survived, and this person used it to get diagnosed with adhd, get treatment, and turn shit around. She eventually became a manager, then a director, and is up for a job as Ciso at a different company.

So it’s possible to survive a pip, just fairly rare.

I am so glad I don’t work there now, seeing what it’s become makes me really sad. If you saw the news a couple months ago about the 18h+ outage they had, it was from software I worked on. They subverted guardrails I specifically wrote to prevent them from rolling out 100k iptables rules to every host, which is what happened.