The DeDrm plugin and the most recent Calibre worked for me just yesterday on a brand new book. Something that's easy to miss is that you need to put in the serial number of your kindle device and make sure you download the e-book for that same device. Otherwise the plugin won't be able to decrypt it.
I feel like Walz's answer re: The ACA is his best response so far.
"Guns don't kill people, weak windows kill people...or...something."
Yup. He's very slick and relaxed up there. Completely full of horrible ideas and deception, but he's unfortunately doing better on the optics and sound bitey-ness.
Cool. It's mostly older stuff but here's some info:
Do you like swords and sorcery? Sounds more like that genre than high fantasy. Not that I'm the genre police.
Similar observations here. I certainly haven't seen everything, but what I have seen matches your description. I appreciate OP creating much-needed content.
I tried Zenni. What they sent me was not good. I'm not saying they are bad overall, this is only anecdotal evidence, but it was way off from what I needed.
At reddit, line must go up. So user experience must go down.
You're right. Here in 2024 your version is more likely than mine.
View source worked for me, but there's a couple of tricks to it I think...maybe.
First I made sure I was on the channel's main page and not one of the channel's videos. Then I did right-click "view source". The source is all smashed together (unformatted) of course. It's annoying to search and read like that, so I copy-pasted the source into my favorite text editor and was able to find "channelid" it that way.
I would assume they were exaggerating and/or were a consultant at some point.
I have a complicated prescription. I've tried the cheap glasses, no bueno.
500 seems like a lot, but I could see mine creeping up to that, given enough time. There are a lot of pedantic types online, they're a trope at this point.
Mine have a tiny little chip in the coating on the right lens, it's so annoying. If I take it in for repairs it will cost an arm and a leg so I just live with it. I have a 2nd pair but I'm keeping them pristine for as long as I can before I give up on these.
I'm glad you mentioned airplane mode. I noticed something interesting about my Kindle after I set up a Pi Hole on my home network. The kindle would constantly try to connect to the Amazon mothership. Because the Pi Hole was blocking it, it would try it over and over again and this quickly depleted the batteries (maybe trying to boost it's WiFi signal? I'm not sure). Putting it into Airplane mode helps preserve battery life noticeably, back to what it was before I installed the Pi Hole.
Glad you found something that works! And thank you for the follow-up!
This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself.
However, YSK that you are only licensing access to the book from Amazon, you don't own it like a physical book.
There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of "1984" was one such title).
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time.
Here are the terms of use:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950
Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.
I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.
Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA.
After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.
I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.
We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.
But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.
Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that's impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is our top priority, and configuring multi-factor authentication (MFA) on accounts is an important step in securing your organization. Now, you can add multiple MFA devices to AWS account root users and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users in your AWS...
Has anybody gotten this to work? If I set up multiple MFA devices with my IAM accounts, they all work flawlessly. But if I set up multiple MFA devices with my root account, only the original MFA device works. No matter how carefully I set up and synch a secondary device, it simply will not work with root. As the linked article says, this should be possible with either root or IAM (though in the past this was not the case). Thanks.
Some of the satire on there was gold. Had a wonderful lampoon vibe.
