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right, those are the two ways.

and how does niri do it? a workspace is shared among all monitor, or it's one workspace per monitor?

can you expand on that? how does it compare to sway, for example? what's unacceptable and acceptable for you?

I think they built it. :)

I just tried the free trial (1GB, 1 year, nice and thanks!) and this is pretty impressive software. I like the mobile app: it's snappy, and Just Works. Obviously, I couldn't fully test it because I have many gigabytes of photos on my phone (which is a problem I'm trying to fix!), at least not without going out of the free trial range. Also, uploading all that stuff takes time, and I'm not sure I want to share all that personal stuff with you fine folks, even though you seem to have your house in order.

Which brings us to self-hosting, of course: really nice that the server is open source! I found ente first through f-droid when the app landed there but put it aside because the server was closed-source then. But wow, really nice design! I like the docker-compose just shoves a minio in there, really neat and probably how I would build something like that myself if i would start from scratch.

Compared to photoprism and immich, for sure server-side machine-learning is missing, but then that's obviously a tradeoff you must live with if you want E2EE.

As I mentioned in the goodbye note, I won't be using this short term because I do need to have something on my desktop I sync photos with that's not a bulging pile of Chrome (AKA "electron"). I really appreciate you spent all that energy writing those apps, but I really need something more lightweight on the desktop.

Right now I'm syncing photos with git-annex, and I wonder if ente could be a "special remote" there, even, but for now this is not really compatible with my workflow.

But congrats on this tool, it looks really nice and I'm likely going to recommend this to friends and family as a hosted solution.

The post says:

    Edit: Case in point: this post was quietly removed by Hacker News moderators within 40 minutes of its submission.

What's the status here, was this post redacted or not? Or did it just drop off the frontpage?

Is there any transparency with regards to moderation here, now that I think of it?

This is actually what I want Calibre the most for. It sorts things in folders quite nicely.

I am one of those weirdos that really appreciated iTunes setting up my music by Artist/Album/Track.mp3 format back in the days... until I realized how much badly-tagged garbage I had in there at which point, yeah, I was upset. :p

But nowadays I just have books setup by Author/Book/book.epub and that ... works okay. I mean it's one way to sort things around. I am actually considering a fully flat structure now so that koreader can show me previews, and I think Calibre could allow that, as I can customize its naming patterns...

But yeah, it can be kind of annoying for software to rename files for you especially if you're not starting from scratch. But Calibre is the first thing I used to sync books on my ebook reader (a sony PRS-T2 i think!) so i did start from scratch and just kept going, so i didn't get many bad surprises, and it in fact forced me to keep my metadata clean to a certain extent (otherwise books end up in the wrong folder).

wow. that is courageous!

looks like an interesting project... but I must admit it's not really something I use or need anymore. I used to do some book conversions when I would only find (say) a `azw` or a `mobi` file and would need to convert to `epub` but these days (a) I just find a `epub` but even if not (b) koreader can read `mobi` files and a lot more i can throw at it and (c) `azw` files are basically unconvertible, if I followed that correctly.

Speaking of which, do you do the DeDRM dance?

thanks!

interesting project! added, thanks!

I use syncthing to sync my library around now, as mentioned in the article (I believe). This works great for Koreader, which stores read stats in a plain text file next to the ebook file. That can lead to syncthing conflicts sometimes, unfortunately but I suspect that might be more because of my combined use of git-annex and syncthing to archive my collection than anything specific to syncthing.

It does mean I need to use koreader everywhere though, I don't have a way to sync read progress back into Calibre, but then I don't really have read progress there anyways. I have a "read/not read" flag there, but it's some custom thing I added somehow, Calibre doesn't support that out of the box anyway.