Bought directly from Gwen Cooper. I remembered I bought a book once, directly from the author, and they sent me a PDF. I was a happy camper. There’s DRM free eBook stores, but might not be able to find what you’re looking for. I won’t buy DRM books.

Amazon likely will never sell DRM books. Why would they? Too much money, to keep DRM. They can release an update to all internet connected Kindle’s, and make a bunch or all the books on it, unreadable. Good reason to keep Kindle in airplane mode. Oh wait, the library has eBooks. Might be easier to put it on Kindle, if it’s connected to internet.

Didn’t need the BookFunnel app either. Downloaded the ePub from a web browser in Linux. I can view it in Calibre just fine. Waiting for shitty Kindle to charge.

DRM can or used to be removable from Amazon’s eBooks. But now I can’t download the eBook from a browser. Too much work. Easier to buy a proper book.

Oddly the radio station I listen to started working today finally. Thought it was rtl_tcp, SDR++ couldn’t get a good signal either, wasn’t all static though.

Want to control a Linux computer connected to a TV? Well, it might only work if you install Steam. Otherwise, unpairing it and repairing it, is what you’ll get to do.

If I want to play a game, I can stream it using Moonlight.

The good news is, I have a keyboard with a touchpad on it, that I could use. Even though I bought it for the Pi 5.

I wasn’t having any luck using it with the USB dongle either. And if Debian is too old, well the Steam Controller is ancient too.

Was trying to use the Apple TV. But to download a free app, they require me to confirm it. No iPhone? Then you’d have to enter the password with the remote. Almost had to copy and paste the password on the iPhone, cause iOS has a lot of “features”. And the Library streaming video app, isn’t easy to use on the Apple TV, can’t search using the remote app on my phone. Not manually entering text anywhere on the Apple TV.

Want to go into medical debt? Go to the right hospital, and stay there for 16 days, or however long I was there. If I get a bill, I won’t have enough money to pay them.

Wondering how much money 16 days or so costs in the hospital? Over $40,000.

Average writing speed: 164.33 MB/s

The cheap M.2 SATA SSD in a USB enclosure is faster. Big surprise.

The brand is Fanxiang. I tried canceling it, but they blamed the people that ship it in the US. Somehow I’m supposed to be able to refuse a USPS package.

Would have been cheaper to buy a NVMe drive, and put in my extra enclosure. Extra enclosure doesn’t do SATA.

Maybe M.2 SATA isn’t as hot. Don’t care about speed.

Using a USB C to A cable, connected to front USB 3 port. No idea which USB 3 version. Maybe 3.0.

Running f3read now. Have to make sure the drive has as much space as they said.

Average reading speed: 198.08 MB/s

The best part of those screen protectors, is they come with a tool for getting rid of bubbles. I’d recommend leaving that out, so you can work at those bubbles.

Easy to install? Maybe easier. But not idiot proof. Also, too tired, to follow the instructions to a T.

Can’t see the remaining bubles with screen on.

But it has the damn rainbow, on the bottom edge. The old shitty possibly Best Buy screen protector had it on the screen part. No rainbow anywhere except bottom edge. Just open Safari.

Use the other dust cover on the case. Not very effective, the wet wipe works better. And the dry wipe just got more dust on the case.

It did come with a lens protector, somehow no bubbles. I wiped lens off with the wet wipe, probably dried it with the dry wipe. But I couldn’t get all the dust on the edge of the lenses. I tried using one of the little dust stickers. Maybe a wetter wipe would have worked.

But I need the other wet wipe, for the other protector, if I ever use it. Can’t take this off and test my luck with the second one, that’s a waste of money. Also, I may have wasted all the protectors in the past, and just threw money away.

Either use a dust free lab. Or a machine, if you want no bubbles.

Didn’t want to spend more money on the other brand, some site claims has a better installer tool. Glad I didn’t, cause I’d most likely get bubbles with that one too.

The screen does look better though. Apparently that Best Buy one, may have made the display look worse.

The appliance is not to be used by persons (including children) with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities, or lack of experience and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision or instruction.

Hmm, guess I shouldn’t have bought this refurbished vacuum cleaner.

Do not allow to be used as a toy. Close attention is necessary when used by or near children, pets or plants.

Tell that to the people, that went to doctor, for experimenting with a vacuum cleaner.

Well, the battery is removable. Don’t ask me if the battery can actually be bought though. Maybe a third party one at least.

Might need to print the manual. Didn’t come with one, said Americans or somebody, uses too much paper. Sounds like I should print it then. Also, easier to look at paper.

And only one bubble now. Just wait a while, then use the fancy bubble remover. Then if it comes back, keep on trying, over, and over again. Also, dust on the screen protector, isn’t a bubble.

So these screen protectors are so good, they can be installed in a very dusty environment.

Ahh well, the rainbow on the bottom, is better then random spots all over the screen.

Rainbow, might be cause I misaligned it. Part of the bottom of screen, not covered.

To get rid of rainbow on edge, just point phone somewhere else. The light hitting it a certain way does it.

But aren’t you supposed to just put the alignment tool on top of the phone basically? Might have said something about sliding. No idea what it was talking about though.

Want to fix your website for Safari in iOS? Well, you most likely need Safari. Cause it looks fine in LibreWolf, when inspecting and changing the resolution.

Set the resolution to match phone in the inspect thing. Still looks fine. Another trick, is to disconnect from WiFi. And another is to reboot it. I already cleared all the website data.

Good news, I just had to disconnect from WiFi, load site on mobile network, then connect back to WiFi.

No need to install spyware with Wine.

On another note, my Mac mini is only worth $10, according to Best Buy. macOS and only 8 GB of RAM, isn’t very useful. But if I get rid of it, I’ll donate it or something.

It’s a Dayton Audio CS800 8" 150W Powered Subwoofer Wood, not the cheapest or most expensive subwoofer.

Got it working with Apple TV first, plugged Apple TV directly into receiver. Then I disabled ARC on receiver, and changed the input source volume to 12 DB. Turning the volume up, could have made it work too. Apple TV isn’t very loud apparently.

And nothing needs to be done in Linux, to get subwoofer working. That was a lot of time wasted.

The volume of it isn’t too much. Even if turned all the way up. Probably depends what I’m listening to. And lots of settings can be changed. Don’t want it super loud anyways.

The WordPress theme I bought for the dog’s website, requires the Unyson+ plugin, or I can’t even view a post. I could modify the theme even more, so it doesn’t. Not really worth what I paid, for that reason. It’s static right now, online. Using a ton of WordPress plugins, not a good idea. Apparently a bunch of WordPress plugin developers don’t consider security.

Unyson+ isn’t on WordPress.org, it’s the new fork that’s supposed to be better.

Hmm, think I’ll just modify the theme some more. That’s why it’s a rip off, they don’t update the theme.

Should have read the page before buying it, not just looking at it. A regular HTML theme, would have probably been cheaper.

For single.php, just remove “? fw_ext_sidebars_get_current_position() : ‘full’”.

Now I get to lookup WordPress docs. Cause the header is broken, without that plugin, and I want my header back.

Oh it does look the same now, if I inspect the page, it changes the header image.

Breadcrumbs, and then the theme will mostly work. I’ll use a plugin for that, cause I’m lazy.

And the theme is mostly done. Lots of code I could probably remove though. But I didn’t buy the theme, to do a ton of work.

Had to change the level on subwoofer to match speakers, 7 DB. Wasn’t doing anything again. Then I had to turn the volume down to halfway, cause some songs are louder. Best to keep it halfway probably, and then adjust volume on receiver.

And then turn volume down too much. Might have to change the volume to less then halfway on subwoofer.

I like to leave receiver @ 25 volume, and adjust with software.

Turned it from auto to on, cause auto just turns off apparently. So it’s a timer? Not what I want. Go look at subwoofer, light is red, and touch it, and no noise.

I forgot about my all year seasonal allergies.

Got home, and my breathing got better. Two air purifiers in the living room. Maybe I do need the one in bedroom. But I moved it off table, to put the sunrise sleep thing on the table. Knuckle on left hand started itching too, sometime at my mom’s.

Good solution, don’t go anywhere.

Apparently the anxiety as needed medicine I have, helps allergies. I took it earlier, could have taken it again before leaving. Doctor said to pick one of the as needed meds. Haven’t bothered trying the other one, which is an anti psychotic, and probably does nothing for allergies.

I like breathing, so I pick the anxiety medicine.

All I know for allergies, is the allergy over the counter stuff, and the nose spray. And this anxiety medicine, I probably can’t take forever. Bummer. Is it sleep apnea, if allergies causes it? That other air purifier, probably needs a new filter. And it would work better on a higher setting. Cat didn’t like it blowing harder.

Hmm cat is by the garbage can. That reminded me, she likes chewing on garbage bags. And she can get the garbage bag on that can. If I see her doing it, I should put the can in the bathroom. And then get a different garbage can. As if she eats plastic, that might not be good.

Just reminded myself to go look at the scratcher thing she used to use, mom said it needs to be replaced. I never even looked at it yet.

Mom wasn’t kidding, it was completely shredded. That’s the only cat scratcher I have, that she likes. The one my mom bought in the kitchen, I’ve never seen her use. The one on her condo, never seen or heard her use. She likes the recliner, that I don’t like though. But wasn’t really messing with it more so then before I went to hospital. Kind of sucks, she only likes that one scratcher, cause it’s cardboard.

She will probably get cardboard in her water soon. I switched to a regular steel dish for her water, cause I couldn’t clean the other dish I had. It was steel too, but I didn’t clean it properly, and crap got stuck on it. And it’s easier to dump out a dish without the tank on it. Why use a tank one, if she likes fresh water? I think my mom filled both of her steel dishes up with water, when I wasn’t here. She had/has plenty of water.

Can’t figure out that cats eat and drink less then dogs. At least bigger dogs.

Hospital might not be a great place to go, if somebody has allergies.

I thought my sense of smell was coming back. Well, it might be better sometimes. Might be related to anxiety medicine.

Add that to my list of things to tell doctor.

Probably the cheapest sleep sunrise thing is $25, the iHome one. Might be an old model. Better then $180 or whatever for the Philips one. And better then the Hatch one, that needs a subscription to use it all.

Also, how many dumps a day am I supposed to take? Took four so far today.

Cool, the photos I wanted to share with family, finally uploaded to MEGA. It’s uploading all my photos, not just the recent ones I took.

Need more water. Also, why am I hungry? Eating is annoying.

Middle aged also means, I can’t hold piss in as long. Or shit. Maybe seamen though. Well, might not have any seamen anymore. What do I need that for? I don’t know how middle aged people have sex. Cause my back hurts. Other pain throughout my body too. Mostly just my back today.

I remembered what Bokeh is. I had the lens set to f1.4. Those are softer, but it’s @ f1.4. That 30mm Sigma lens is my main lens. I have a lower focal length lens on the other camera. Panasonic is the main one now. Problem is, I haven’t used it much, and it has a lot of buttons.

That’s what lsusb says it is. Had to change my GRUB config, cause I had a fake HDMI display setup. After rebooting, I was able to rotate the drawing tablet.

It’s the Artist 13.3 Pro. Not sure why I bought it, cause I forgot how to draw. Only knew how to draw for a while while in the hospital.

The pressure sensitivity works though. And the pen is really thick. Might be easier to hold onto, then a skinny one. Might also, make my hand hurt. Came with a fancy glove.

And the instruction manual appears to be mostly useless. Barely any info in it. Guess I didn’t need one of the power adapter.

Can use it as a touch screen too.

I’m sure I can find a use for it, without drawing with it. Kind of cool, having a touch screen for my desktop, and Linux.

Instead of drawing, how about scribbling. I noticed if I think too much about what to draw, then I can’t draw it. Noticed that in the hospital.

Not recommended. If you want to share photos and/or videos you take.

Signed up for 500 GB plan for $6. And it’s too much of a hassle to use.

To share folders with files in it if using Linux, I’d have to manually change the file properties in a web browser. Can change the permissions with WebDAV, but not the file access option. Want to change it to hidden? One at a time in a browser.

People claim it can be done with Windows.

The permissions said 644 for all the files, including the one I shared. Also, the iOS app can’t auto backup photos.

Too much of a hassle to use it, so not worth paying for again.

Canceled PayPal subscription, and deleted my account using the iOS app.

Guess if using Linux, MEGA is the only option. There’s pCloud, but that’s super cheap, and who knows when it’ll stop working.

Also, downloading from OpenDrive is slow.

Self hosting with a 10 Mbps or less upload speed, not a good option.

And according to one Reddit comment two years ago, pCloud terminates accounts, claiming copyright infringement. People who it happened to claimed family photos. Hard to say who’s telling the truth. But pCloud is super cheap, if you get a lifetime plan. MEGA it is, a little under $6 a month, for 750 GB.

I used it, without any issues. If I store anything sensitive, I can encrypt it myself.

Looks like it works with rclone as well, no need for their software in Linux.

It’s in Euros, just like two other providers I looked at. Well, probably got the nice foreign transaction fee then.

Too lazy to use a VPS and host my own thing, also dedicated server would be more private. But not private enough, need it in my apartment. Also, Comcast likes crapping out, and more likely, if I’m uploading. Just downloading can too. Maybe doing both would be even more likely. Or maybe the modem I bought fixed that. The last modem they gave me, started crapping out too. Was only using their modem, because of the free internet, they claimed I had to use their modem to qualify.

No more free internet, and too lazy to return modems over and over again.

I was going to setup syncthing, to send photos from phone to device on network. But the app, said not for backing up data. So decided not to use it. Even though it has some feature of backing up photos.

immich not a great option, if wanting to use Podman, and a version before 5.0. Armbian doesn’t have 5.0. I did compile it on the Orange Pi 5 though. But not doing that on Pi. Wonder how outdated that is now on the Orange Pi.

Apparently my crapper can’t take much toilet paper either. After leaving hospital, I clogged my mom’s crapper up first.

Well, the other person that uses that crapper at my mom’s, uses four squares only. But I think it would be easier to use my bare hand, then a square of toilet paper.

Got a removable shower head, that can help clean it up too.

Also, good thing I’m wearing glasses to the bathroom now. Cause, I might not see shit on crapper seat without them on.

One of the kids, left shit on the crapper seat at my mom’s. And then if somebody puts the lid down, it smears it. I wonder, did I do that too, when I was a kid? I did get blood on the crapper seat once.

Well, I went to use the crapper at her house today, and a bunch of people were over there, and didn’t even look at seat before sitting down. Never checked my ass, so no idea if I sat in anything.

Well, I only need a yellow ball sack net, for the toilets at medical places. My crapper not the same, and neither is my mom’s. That reminds me, I could have peed in a “hat”, instead of a cup. Who’s hat? Somebody told me some story about somebody peeing in somebody’s boots once.

I haven’t gotten the privilege to pee in boots, nor a hat.

Also, aren’t Wasabi camera batteries supposed to swell up? Camera wouldn’t turn on, and Wasabi battery came out no problem. Put other battery in, and camera turned on. Wasabi battery is charging now. The used camera came with a Wasabi battery and charger.

I bought a Jupio battery. Are those made in Japan? Maybe. But Wasabi actually is charging. Some rechargeable AA and AAA batteries, that died completely, couldn’t recharge.

The Wasabi charger seems cheap, but it works. Not sure any of the chargers on B&H are really that much better. They all look sort of the same.

What about Green Extreme? $50 for two batteries + charger. Not the cheapest. Wasabi might be cheaper. But rather have one Jupio and another charger. Which might cost about the same, depending on the charger.

Nice charger for my Olympus camera, but don’t think I can get a plate to charge a Panasonic battery.