It might get a little simpler to host and busier to play again in the not too distant future if the announced free fanmade re-release works out!

It’s good but it’s also been bought out by, at least to me, an ‘unknown’ early this year. Since then, there’s been a couple outages though nothing too drastic. New owner also promised to only make changes that are ‘thoughtful and focused on making your experience better’ but I am still cautiously eyeing other options since then - I’ve learned never to trust those words by new owners.

I’ve been exclusively reading my fiction books (all epubs) on Readest and absolutely love it. Recently I also started using it for my nonfiction books and articles (mostly pdf) as an experiment, and it’s workable but a little more rough around the edges still.

You can highlight and annotate, and export all annotations for a book once you are done, for which I have set up a small pipeline to directly import them into my reference management software.

It works pretty well with local storage (though I don’t believe it does ‘auto-imports’ of new files by default) and I’ve additionally been using their free hosted offering to sync my book progress. It’s neat and free up to 500mb of books, but you’re right that I would also prefer a byo storage solution, perhaps in the future.

The paid upgrades are mostly for AI stuff and translations which I don’t really concern myself with.

Been seeing the posts pop up recently and I really like the look of your software, bookmarked for future jrnl integration possibilities.

But what a missed opportunity to not have a Journiv Ahead in your second headline :)

Sioyek really is amazing, especially for academic-style reading with a lot of jumping back and forth, and very customizable. I also heartily recommend it, but do be aware that there are some rough edges remaining.

If you ever get stuck, there are a lot of additional tricks and workarounds for some of the quirks hidden in the project’s github issues. And if there’s a feature you feel sorely missing check out the main branch version instead of the latest official point release which is a couple years behind now (e.g. still missing integrated dual-page view which the development version has for close to 2 years now)

When I was stumbling on some of his output it unfortunately felt very click-baity, always playing on your FOMO if you didn’t set up/download/buy the next best thing until the other next best thing in the video after.

In other words, I think he’s cool to check out to get to know of a thing, but to get a deeper level of understanding how a thing works I would recommend written materials. There are good caddy/nginx tutorials out there, but a linux networking book will get your understanding further yet.

If it has to be video, I would at least recommend a little more slowed down, long-form content like Learn Linux TV.

Oh is there still an active modding scene for the game?

It’s been years and years but the games were such a gem for half-way chill LAN party battles while having a snack, a chat and a bit of an interstellar romp.

Do you have some other mods you might recommend?

Are the BSDs generally good/workable on older hardware, especially laptops? I don’t really have a clue (no knowledge beyond Linux) but if so it sounds like a nice use for an old laptop, as a learning tool.

That’s a pretty crazy use of Lua if I may say so.

It is possible to craft continue-like logic in lua, however, with (out of all things) goto statements.

For example, I have the following code in my dotfiles:

	for _, lang in pairs(loopvar) do
		if condition then
			goto continue
		end
		<do whatever the loop actually does>
		::continue::
	end

Of course the continue could be called anything. Really felt uncomfortable resorting to this way but it is possible :-)

There was recently another user asking the same for a similar machine on the .ml Linux comm.

As I did there, I can only tell you I successfully ran antix on a similarly old eee-pc from 2007ish, with the same CPU. It did have 1gb of ram though iirc, but the distro ran fairly comfortably (until it came to browsing with many tabs open).

I don’t know for the other but tails doesn’t exist as a 32bit version, does it? I’m also not sure it would very comfortable on 512mb ram.

That’s a little annoying with all the others not working. Haven’t seriously tried most of them so I’m afraid I can’t really help you there - though if you ever try Q4OS that others have suggested let me know if it works well cause I may give that a whirl too on the little eee.

If you decide to stick with antix, I could maybe see if I find some of my old notes. I vaguely remember the wifi giving me some trouble and the homebrewed settings panels of the distro can be… a little funky :-)

Good luck!

I was running AntiX out of your list on my old atom eee-pc pretty successfully the last 2-3 years. Was using it as a workbench pc with an old vga screen and keyboard connected, and it worked well enough for simple pdf /datasheet reading and terminal sessions.

For specs, I think it was the same cpu but only 1gb of ram. Honestly with 2gb of ram your options are much broader, the one part you’ll run into trouble with is the browser with multiple tabs anyway. I thought to remember there was also a community-maintained 32bit Archlinux variant?

Edit: https://www.archlinux32.org/ that’s the one I believe. It has a more restricted package repo but otherwise is just Arch.

Shes the only one in the house with nvidia, which tbf, has been just perfect for her needs up to this point.

If you spend any amount of time at all in various Linux meme or Linux newcomer communities you’ll quickly see that this is one of the issues plaguing people switching over.

That’s not a dig at you but to make you realise how big and well known the issue is. The reason it persists is because nvidia refuses to play nice with Linux or an open source environment, presumably for monopolistic licensing issues.

The issue is large enough that there’s even a fairly famous video of the creator of Linux specifically giving a very vocal ‘fuck you nvidia’ middle finge specifically for their efforts at hindering cooperation with Linux at all.

Is there a specific reason you are spamming the same single-line accusatory comment 7 times in this thread?

Combined with your account only being 10 days old if there’s not more substance to a spammed accusation like that I’ll just have to assume bad faith and block.

Actually, I don’t. What am I looking at?

For the OCR process you can probably wrangle up a simple bash pipeline with ocrmypdf and just let it run in the background once until all your PDFs have a text layer.

With that tool it should be doable with something like a simple while loop:

find . -type f -name '*.pdf' -print0 |
    while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
        echo "Processing $file ..."
        ocrmypdf "$file" "$file"
        # ocrmypdf "$file" "${file%.pdf}_ocr.pdf"   # if you want a new file instead of overwriting the old
    done

If you need additional languages or other options you’ll have to delve a little deeper into the ocrmypdf documentation but this should be enough duct tape to just whip up a full OCR cycle.

Do you know if this functionality can be turned off? I’ve been stung by the ‘gibberish’ once or twice but never enough to dive into the docs for it :)

I used the recommended migration tool and it worked okay for many containers but iirc the docker ones had to have one of the security options manually changed in their config which didn’t transform properly with the tool (maybe nesting enable?).

May very well have changed in the meantime or I only made a mistake, that was in my experimentation phase.

Ultimately, I did rebuild my instances from the ground since I also switched file system, and to make better use of incus profiles (e.g. one with docker provisioned, one with monitoring and so on) so I couldn’t give you a long-term migration review.

For me that was (relatively) painless by just migrating the docker volumes in place and rebuilding the stacks, of course ymmv.

If you decide on migrating and stumble upon issues don’t hesitate to hit me up - I’m only an amateur but maybe I can still help!

After having my dinky homelab machine on proxmox for a couple years, since the start of the year I am now running basically everything under a clean Debian system using incus and docker on the individual lxc guests.

Incus has completely replaced proxmox for me and it’s so much easier to reason about (for me at least) that I wanted to maybe point your cold hands in that direction too ;)