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Having switched to a kobo in the last week from a kindle, yes it is still possible, but involves a few steps, one of which can require an old version of the kindle for PC app. [1]

I couldn't make it work on books already downloaded to my kindle - they had to be downloaded via the app - and since it requires an old version of an app that automatically tries to update, I'm not sure how long it'll be possible, so my suggestion is to dump kindle and Amazon if you every want to have any control over your books.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/1jbsf2n/comment/mhwhx...


I can confirm this: I downloaded the old version of the app (on a Windows laptop), isolated it so that it would not auto-update, and then used it to download all my books (after the deadline had passed) and convert them with Calibre, which got rid of the DRM crap. You have to do both the downloading and the conversion on the same computer -- other than that, it worked perfectly for my more than 100 books.


Thanks, I didn't know about this change and it is too late to use the "official means".

I have to setup my Windows again and do it eventually though.


I'm not able to test this right now, but my understanding is that this was fixed (after 20+ years?) with this merge: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/156...


Oh yeah! I'll have to see why my distro isn't picking this up yet.


The storage costs coming in from 1st March feel like they're going to catch a lot of organisations out too. Private repos will cost $10/month per 100GB of storage, something that was previously not charged for. We're in the middle of a clear out because we have several TB of images that we'd rather not pay for on top of the existing subscription costs.


When will people pay their engineers to do actual engineering, instead of as a proxy for SaaS spending? Please, dear God, just hire one guy to run a mirror. Then, every time Docker et al turn the screws, we don't have to have these threads.


The storage enforcement costs have been delayed until 2026 to give time for new (automated) tooling to be created and for users to have time to adjust.

The pull limits have also been delayed at least a month.


Do you have a source for that? My company was dropping dockerhub this week as we have no way of clearing up storage usage (untagging doesn't work) until this new tooling exists and can't afford the costs of all the untagged images we have made over the last few years.


(I work there) If you have a support contact or AE they can tell you if you need an official source. Marketing communications should be sent out at some point.


Thanks, Just seems like quite poor handling on the comms around the storage changes as there is only a week to go and the current public docs make it seem like the only way to not start paying is to delete the repos or I guess your whole org.


Yep, agree that comms have a lot of room for improvement. We do have initial delete capabilities of manifests available now, but functionality is fairly basic. It will improve over time, along with automated policies.


This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and hot water in their homes unless they agree to pay a subscription fee for basic access to the app (something which is still marketed as being free) [1].

If users do agree to pay, only once they have complete the process they are told it is part of a "test", however they are shown legitimate looking Apple Pay screens [2] along the way which Tado appear to be faking. Since there's no warning that this is a test up front, many users are finding themselves effectively locked out of controlling their heating and hot water at one of the coldest times of the year unless they agree to a pay subscription.

I have a Tado system in my house, and haven't been shown the screen yet, however it's highlighted for me just how little control I actually have over my heating and hot water if a company can remotely lock users out, effectively extorting money to continue heating their homes using hardware they have already paid for. I'll be looking to switch to something that's doesn't require an internet connection just to work...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it08yq/officially_lo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it9hs7/fake_apple_pa...


This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and hot water in their homes unless they agree to pay a subscription fee for basic access to the app (something which is still marketed as being free) [1].

If users do agree to pay, only once they have complete the process they are told it is part of a "test", however they are shown legitimate looking Apple Pay screens [2] along the way which Tado appear to be faking. Since there's no warning that this is a test up front, many users are finding themselves effectively locked out of controlling their heating and hot water at one of the coldest times of the year unless they agree to a pay subscription.

I have a Tado system in my house, and haven't been shown the screen yet, however it's highlighted for me just how little control I actually have over my heating and hot water if a company can remotely lock users out, effectively extorting money to continue heating their homes using hardware they have already paid for. I'll be looking to switch to something that's doesn't require an internet connection just to work...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it08yq/officially_lo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it9hs7/fake_apple_pa...


I've previously moved from Pivotal to Shortcut (when it was still called Clubhouse) and found it to be a good alternative for our small team. I did end up having to write my own import scripts, though that only took an evening or two.


I wouldn't describe mine as particularly unique, but I did a writeup for the lobste.rs thread, so will share it here: https://jamesmcminn.com/articles/office-2024/


Not a single mention of sleep, which one would think would have a strong relationship with both coffee habits and learning and memory.


The study isn't (directly) studying sleep so that's hardly a surprise. It's perfectly possible that it's actually the disturbed sleep causing the response, and not the caffeine itself (at least from my brief skim of the paper).

Personally I place little to zero value on these "we asked people to estimate something and then found a correlation" studies, there are too many potentially confounding variables to account for. Perhaps the non-caffeine drinkers have different types of occupations, social class, health consciousness etc.


Yes, it’s very likely people with sleep trouble (caused by apnea usually) are more likely to consume greater quantities of caffeine to help fight daytime sleepiness caused by the apnea.


And how late afternoon / evening coffees maybe preventing them from getting a good sleep - https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/05/30/coffee-ca...


The UK, Scotland in particular, as a starter for 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_wildcat


Amusingly, Scottish Wildcats are rare, going extinct because they are interbreeding with feral domestic cats.

Your very post (and Wikipedia link) undermines the argument you are tying to make.


What point do you think I am trying to make, exactly? Native fauna is defined as animals which historically have naturally occurred in the local area [1], and wild cats are by definition native fauna in Scotland, and across much of Europe.

You are letting your very obvious personal bias determine your interpretation of what is an objective fact.

[1] https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/native-fauna#:~:text=N....


It's a faulty comparison, though. Domestic cats are by definition not the same as any native cat. They are domesticated animals, more equivalent to dogs, cows, and chickens.

So the discussion to have here is 'do we accept having domesticated animals in environments they didn't originate from'.


It is in no way a faulty comparison. We did not domesticate cats in the same way that we did dogs, cows or chickens [1]. Wild cats found human populations useful because they attracted rodents. Humans found cats useful because dealt with rodents. A mutually beneficial relationship lasting thousands of years during which time, cats essentially domesticated themselves.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/domestica...


> domesticated themselves

... so they are domesticated and not native... ???


Whatever do you mean? Something being domesticated has no bearing on wether or not is it native to an area.


Domesticated animals are different species than native flora and fauna. The domestic cat is taxonomically and genetically not the same as a any wild cat. The same goes for dogs, cattle, etc.

By definition, domestic animals and plants have no native home except with humans. This is why we call domestic cats who escape and live in the wild "feral," not "wild," because a feral animal is specifically a domestic animal not living with humans, not a non-domestic native animal. It does not matter whether they 'domesticated themselves' or not, they are a domestic species and therefore not equatable with a wild one.

As a result, your point simply makes no sense. Domestic cats have no 'native lands' because they are not and cannot be 'native' anywhere except in human settlements.


Replying here due to depth limits.

> Can you point out the part of the article that disagrees with the assertion "cats are domestic animals"?

This is neither relevant nor the issue being discussed. It is a straw man, and you all too well know this. No one has at any point claimed that there are not domestic cats.

The entire point made was that cats are a native species in many parts of Europe, and that research shows not only that cats domesticated themselves, but that domestic and wild cats are genetically almost identical. The fact that domestic cats exist does not prevent native wild cats from also existing.


Did you actually read the article I linked to? I ask because actual evolutionary geneticists don't agree with you, and I'm likely to side with them on the genetics of the matter.


i'm sorry, which evolutionary geneticists? the 1 sentence in a nat geo article about the genomes being similar, or...

https://www.science.org/content/article/genes-turned-wildcat...

http://www.jabg.org/view/JABG_202303_02.pdf

from the looks of it, you found an inkling of confirmation and rolled with it. you think you got a science backing for your ideas, but nah, wrong. remind yourself when you read all the articles claiming "near identical DNA!" that human DNA is ~1.6% different from gorilla DNA. geneticists are seeing larger differences between domestic and wild cat species.


Can you point out the part of the article that disagrees with the assertion "cats are domestic animals"?


not only that, but which geneticist that was quoted in the nat geo article? lol


I've found DBeaver [1] to be a good replacement after giving up with pgAdmin3 (I did love pgAdmin2, however).

Datagrip is also fine if you're a Jetbrains user.

[1] https://dbeaver.io/


+1 for DataGrip. It's not perfect, but it's miles ahead of anything else I've used in the recent past.


Datagrip’s main selling point for me is that it’s a familiar UI over most databases one uses day to day.

I hop into the native apps for more complex, database specific features (GIS etc) but generally it’s perfect.


By chance has anyone who's used DataGrip also used Sequel Pro snd be able to comment?


Agreed. I do recommend DBeaver to customers that want a GUI for PostgreSQL. It's better at almost everything and it handles ssh tunnels well. Even certificates.

I don't have any GUI client installed now. I ssh to servers and use psql there. I use psql locally and inside docker containers. I used pg-cli (?) years ago but I probably lost it during one of the various reinstalls (usually one for each Ubuntu LTS, I'm on Debian now) and I forgot about it.


DBeaver is powerful and better than anything else I found (except maybe datagrip), but honestly its UX is terrible. It takes a million clicks to do basic things, the "export results" functionality is a maze, "rename connection" is a different functionality from "edit connection", ctrl+tab doesn't work, it's generally very noisy visually...

I am using it on a daily basis and it's very powerful, but it shoves all the complexity at your face, it doesn't scale down. And it uses ~7% of my M1 CPU while sitting there unused, not even connected to any DB.


I also found DBeaver to be a huge improvement over tools I used earlier.

Recently I discovered Jailer which makes it very easy to navigate complex relational structures: https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer


DBeaver is nice, but Sequel Pro is hard to unsee.


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