(Fwiw SDM ended up being a better alternative anyways... not looking forward to their eventual acquisition and shutdown :/ )

(My E39 M5 was one of the last user-repairable BMWs, but it's getting very expensive. On the other hand, it's driving a significant market for regular people designing and building replacement parts, whether 3D-printed, CNC'd, or homemade)

It's encouraging to hear you have had a good experience with it. Maybe I'll grab one if they ever go on sale!

Is there anything beyond your minor nits that you would caution someone like me about before buying?

So I'm wondering just how bad the experience of switching is now?

QGIS is free software, so it can be somewhat excused vs a billion dollar company. But they could really benefit from some UX expertise...

(I imagine it's a much lower cost to only handle 2.4GHz?)

(I used to call my senators and house reps about things, but it never got more than a polite "thanks, but I don't care" and now they don't even bother to reply at all)

Keycloak ended up being quite extensible and powerful, but the UI and data model both sometimes made things more difficult than they had to be... this could be an interesting project to look at.

One bonus (for us) for Keycloak was that it was JVM-based, meaning it was easier to integrate our existing JVM libraries. Though its use of Hibernate was frustrating at times, heh

I've recently been replacing some of the wiring in my house as part of a renovation, and I discovered that Leviton sells outlets with PD USB-C built in now! Not talking about the useless 2A USB-A "built-in" chargers of yore, now they actually have proper PD up to 60W!

They do also sell non-PD, so it requires some careful checking of the model numbers. And the 60W one is pretty large (the in-wall part) so it might not quite fit in an existing wallbox if it is a small one. But briefly: - T5636: two USB-C PD, up to 60W total / 60W individual or 30W each if both in use - T5635: two USB-C PD, up to 30W total / 30W individual or 15W each for both - T5634: one USB-C PD and one USB-A. USB-A is 10W and USB-C is up to 50W (even if both are in use) They also make T8xx versions of these that have 20A receptacles (NEMA 5-20R) but those are harder to find.

They also make other T56xx/T58xx which have non-PD USB-C, good for places like bathrooms where shavers/etc work fine on 5V.

I've found that putting a few of these around has eliminated a lot of the Anker chargers I used to have sticking out everywhere. They're completely in-wall and they leave both outlets free. If I need 100W for my computer, I'll still use a separate charger, but otherwise these are fine.

The only point they don't hit on your list is the ports facing down, but because they're flush at the wall, that means they don't interfere with furniture (any more than having any plug plugged into the outlets at all would).

If you're in Europe/elsewhere, not sure if other manufacturers make similar devices. I know Legrand makes some 30W PD ones in the US market, and as they're French, maybe they make them for others as well.

(I'll note that I agree with the general wisdom to store data in UTC; here when I talk about zones I'm either talking about user local machine time or display)

I mean, the folks who run the tz db definitely know what they're doing, it just never 100% clicked with my thinking.

I always prefer `US/Eastern` over `America/New_York` -- it seems more "canonical" to me. New York is _currently_ the anchor city for ET, but will it always be? The place I live (Boston) is currently on ET, but in the future it might be on Atlantic Time. If there was an `America/Boston`, I would use that to be safe, but since there isn't, it just seems better to be to be specific that I mean "Eastern Time" and not "whatever the time is in NYC"... At least then if Boston switches to a different tz, I could intentionally switch to "Atlantic Time" -- doesn't that make more sense? Versus I guess what I'd have to do, which is switch to `America/Puerto_Rico`? (I had to actually search that one, too bad there's no `US/Atlantic`...)

Like you, I have a bunch of books on various bookshelves in the house. I also have a number of collapsing cardboard boxes in my basement filled with books from my parents'/grandparents' houses. At some point, I really need to sort through all of these and figure out a) what even is there b) what do I keep to put on shelves and c) is there anything worth selling to a shop or giving to the library vs tossing? Complicating this is that many of these books are ancient, and even newer ones aren't necessarily in pristine condition.

I have an old CueCat lying around I was going to use to scan barcodes on books new enough to have them... that'll be tedious enough, but going through the rest manually is going to be a giant project (which is part of why they're still there in my basement).

I don't see it on the site from a cursory review (apologies if I missed it): do you support importing from ISBNs (such as scanned by a CueCat)? I'd also be quite interested in the machine vision aspect others have mentioned here (though since they aren't on a bookshelf, it would likely be individual photos of each book as they are pulled out of the box)...

Tying into that, I'm curious what the workflow for inputting books will be like, both for my boxes-o-books case, and for the general bookcase import case. I could 100% see myself using this if it was a nice straightforward brainless process I could bang out in an afternoon while watching a show, but if it's more of a manually-search-and-input process, I'm definitely going to lose patience before I finish them all :)

Tacking onto what others have said about automated labeling, that would be extremely useful too---especially for the books in poor condition, but even for the nicer ones, just so that I could get a handle on them all. I have a Bluetooth label printer that could be fantastic here...

I'll follow this project with interest for sure!