thallian

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https://code.vanwa.ch/
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Comment · 1 year ago
The progress sync is separate from how books get onto the various devices (at least as far as I know). Something OPDS capable works well to get the actual files across a network (or calibre via usb). For progress you can use their provided sync server or run your own (the original one gave me enough trouble to write my own implementation).
Comment · 1 year ago
This is basically what I do. Gitea instance with closed registration. So far I did get three different people sending me emails with patches/contributions and all the interactions were quite nice. Of course the stuff I am doing is not well known and I do not advertise it anywhere, which is its own moat I'd say.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Ha, die Streuner were the original inspiration for me to write my own dumb and small music streaming service. Seeing them mentioned here might just give me the motivation to pick that project up again.
Comment · 4 years ago
Reading this while drinking from a universal paperclips mug, I can only sigh and agree.
Comment · 4 years ago
I quite love that story and at least my age says I am an adult. Very recently I wrote a short (~320 words) review of it in preparation for my English C2 exam and it even was fun to write about it :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Not 40k but the warhammer armies project with some friends (most of them started playing fantasy back during the 6th and 7th edition).

For years I mostly painted without playing (it is a great source of calmness for me), but during the pandemic, my brother got himself a capable 3D printer and we started printing models (there is a huge amount of great and affordable ones out there) and I started building an army (beastmen) to play. We all are interested in fluff and storytelling, so that usually makes a long game go by quite quickly (and makes for great and very weird conversation pieces, even years later).

I also seem to have been lucky with the girls/women in my life, never seemed mutually exclusive (one of them actually taught me how to paint in a somewhat proper way).

Comment · 5 years ago
For what it's worth, that behaviour happens to me too (on a linux system), doesn't seem consistent though (but I never really took too much note).
Comment · 6 years ago
I am using the pbp with sway (if you don't know it, an i3 like wm for wayland), works well for me. Hoping for gles 3.3 support in mesa (3.0 is experimental but there) to be able to run alacritty :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Oh, very interesting, thanks for the hint :D
Comment · 6 years ago
I have the corresponding ebooks too, so I open up the whole audiobook as one file and guess where the chapters are from the waveform. I listen to the guess and compare to the ebook, checking whether I am too far or too early. Once I find the correct position (and I got quite good at spotting it from the waveform), I set a marker and start with the next chapter. In the end I split it along the markers.

I was planning on writing something to spot when they say "chapter" as it is always the same but I never got around to that. Also, doing all that work was almost meditative :)

A way to share the corrections would be to export the markers from audacity but sadly I don't have that data anymore, though I could calculate the markers from the files I exported if you are interested.

Comment · 6 years ago
The amount of time I spent on correcting wrong chapter marks (like the first four books of the Wheel of Time) is masochistic. But I am absolutely happy that I have the possibility of doing so after the conversion :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
https://vanwa.ch

Mainly strange poetry and photographs, maybe that's your kind of thing.

The only technical thing on it is the link to my repositories and this: https://vanwa.ch/software/ecload/

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