Ugh…

What?

erm71 could be a username he uses often…

Strong disagree with this.

Like most adults, I HATE my job. Every day I go into work I die inside. There is nothing rewarding about my job other than the pay check.

Still I try hard. Every day. It makes the lives of my co-workers easier. It makes my boss’s life easier. They are real people in my community and I care about how my actions affect them. Work ethic means a lot to me.

I get hating your job but half assing your job every day is awful for society.

I work in government.

Used to have Slackware as a daily driver in 2005ish, will arch be similar or more difficult?

Using calibre to just upload books directly.

I’ll check out KoReader. Never heard of it.

Ya good point.

Seems like I’m doing it backwards lol

Giving money to Amazon for the hardware and then stealing from the authors.

I should do some more research before buying my next ebook reader.

I bought a Kindle so I can pirate all my books. Am I resisting?

Good point. Way less staff to keep this service running as long as growth is not a priority like it is with most companies.

I don’t want it to have ads either but bandwidth is not free and someone somewhere is paying for it.

Is the donations don’t cover the bills there are few options.

Could easily see certain subreddits being like OF or Patreon. Pay for access to content. Pretty tried and true business model and it will probably work well enough to keep it around.

Even YouTube has “memberships” to channels now where you get bonus content and stuff.

The people that are interested will pay and those that aren’t won’t.

This reminds me of a site called hackerslab back in the 2000s. I think you had to ssh in to some Korean server and try to get the password for the next level.