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

Beautiful idea, would love to see open specs, but really nice to be sharing!

(Update: the framework board is so close. The first daughtboard in the schematics <https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/blo...> is actually 9.071 inches (115 + 115.4mm, so 230.4mm if i read it right) wide! But alas the mainboard is 274mm (10.8 inches), and that is without the expansion cards added. With the cards, we're talking about 11.7 inches (297mm) and then you still need to plug in things in there! Still there's something there, i think.)

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.

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

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

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).

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!

I still use Calibre for importing books. I think I could get rid of it if I had Something that would:

1. take a book and search for missing metadata (e.g. publication date, author, title, series, publisher, cover)

2. record addition date (git-annex or filesystem m/ctime could be used for that)

3. ... well, that really is it

Really, I don't use Calibre for anything else anymore. In the article I talk about the book browser, but I don't really use that anyway. I'm actually considering "flattening" my archive so that all books are in the same directory. That would make Koreader possibly more usable as it would directly show book covers while browsing around. It might also make navigating through a file manager better for exactly the same reason.

More broadly, I wish we had better file managers on the Linux desktop. What I'm looking for, repeatedly, is something that would show me a preview of what's inside a folder, kind of a photo gallery / music browser / ebook browser all rolled into one. The generic idea is that if there's a `cover.jpg` or whatever it's named inside a folder, use that as a icon or at least some sort of overlay when displaying the folder. I'm not sure how that would work, I'm not a designer, but I can't help but think there Must Be A Better Way here.

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.

https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter

or here:

https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer

... depending on your social tech.

the actual post is also on archive.is now:

A pretty bad snapshot resides at:

https://archive.ph/fcY1H

a somewhat working one is at IA:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230718144114/https://frame.wor...

i have also just scanned the URLs underneath the left-wise expansion slot and it's still a 404 on my phone.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200668

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https://sources.debian.org/src/xterm/261-1/debian/changelog/...

so yeah, kind of a big deal, except not really, looks like some folks were already careful with that possibly dangerous setting. :)