This keeps the cookies separate and means you are tracked less. Yes you can manually do this with Chrome profiles, but before this feature was introduced into Firefox I had a dozen or more Chrome profiles to keep all my work, community and personal Google/Microsoft logins separate.

I use Paperless to catalog all my PDFs, Obsidian for notes and Gmail for email, Todoist for tasks and Cloze for CRM, all of which support tags.

My setup uses Autosync [1] to synchronise a folder from my desktop to the device. On my desktop I have Zotero (a Citation library) and Calibre both configured to export to that folder (in subfolders). With two way sync my notes are back on my PC almost instantly which is fantastic.

I also run Readwise and Obsidian on the Boox.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.au...

I already owned a Moonlander keyboard with the tripod mounts, so a little playing around with Small Rig mount and I have my vertical keyboard, affectionately known as the Type Fighter.

To get to vertical I started with desk mounts that I could adjust and progressively increased the angle of the tilt. Eventually I joined the two halves with a 300mm straight rod. But I don't have the photos of that handy.

Also in the picture, my left handed trackball (Elecom) and my Logitech MX Vertical. I alternate the mousing hand regularly. (Trackball for big movements, mouse for fine detail and gaming).

https://imgur.com/a/TdV502g

As an example recently talking to a Japanese friend who is the same age as me we realised she had seen less than 10% of the movies that "everyone born in the early 80's has seen". She didn't know who OJ Simpson was, nor is she familiar with Henry VIII and his 6 wives. She knew the Backstreet Boys & One Direction, but not Take That nor East 17.

Traveling in China a few years ago I was surprised to see many Hokusai images used on clothing and shop decorations.

The Mona Lisa might be the western world's most famous artwork, but you rarely see it on a T-shirt unless you're meeting a tourist near the Louvre. I suspect that if both were in still trademarked that Hokusai would be making orders of magnitude more on royalties than Da Vinci...

I then discovered VIA/QMK keyboards and now I have keycaps I can't even see on my vertically mounted split-key keyboard and more programmability than I know what to do with. But in 2012, a Japanese Keyboard was much cheaper than a Kinesis and to me the only option.

This was our 3am conversations.

An extension that was done in the 1980s has had to have its roof replaced once already due to what I have to assume was poor workmanship by the builder.

When I went into IT I quickly made myself some 30cm long Ethernet cables with a keystone on one end for just such an occasion.

I'll gladly pay one Audible credit and 3-5 hours of my time while at the gym or running to find out a book isn't worth buying than pay 2-3x as much for the paperback and 9-15 hours of my time dedicated to reading it to find out the same.

I also have TOTP and a Yubikey and a Passkey etc etc.

I was more protecting myself against a situation where my password manager was unavailable AND I needed access to my email urgently. Which has happened at least twice to me in the past.

Though to be fair once was Lastpass about 15 years ago when they reset everyone's password because of suspicious logs in an abundance of caution. That's right there was a time they were a "good" organisation.

For example, a major issue for self-containment is that EPUB content can embed external assets. A content document can legally include an image or font file whose src is a URL to a hosted server. This is not hypothetical, either; as of the time of writing, Google Doc's EPUB exporter will emit CSS that will @include external Google Fonts files. The problem is that such an EPUB will not render correctly without an internet connection, nor will it render correctly if Google changes the URLs of its font files.

The article raises some interesting ideas. Much like PDF and PDF/A, I would say an EPUB/A standard would be potentially useful.

In my Zettlekasten 5374... Wow, that's... more than I thought.

Though some of those would be from Omnivore imports Obsidian of webpages. I just counted instances of "https" in the folder it syncs to.

I tend to save pages that I've kept the tab open for more than a day so that my brain agrees that I've "done" it.

I've also starred 200ish repos on GitHub. Does that count as a bookmark?

Still no regrets, I had a fun week of arts and crafts and got to stick it to Elsevier and other academic publishers :D

But it worked, I scanned about two dozen short term library books that I needed to reference frequently during my course at a cost of about $85 per book. If I’d purchased the time limited ebooks they would have cost $125 each, and been scattered across 3 different bookstore apps.

I would scan while watching tv and could do approx 1000 pages per hour.

I also learned that I should not do carpentry and potentially saved tens of thousands by hiring a handyman or carpenter for home diy…

Having to create shortcuts to load each profile or keep about:profiles open is frustrating compared to the Chrome experience.

It's not enough to stop me using FF as my daily driver, but it is enough to stop my partner using it for theirs.

I read it several years into my management path and cringed when reading a few of the anecdotes realising I'd made the same mistakes.

The Rands' Leadership Slack is also a wealth of knowledge and advice.