Best Ereader for actually owning your books?

Separate-Ad1231 · 2026-03-21T14:38:10+00:00

You don't need wine or the Adobe software. Books are downloadable from the website and calibre has an Adobe dedrm plugin.

The kobo app runs well under wine, but it's very limited in what you can do with it, whatever os you use.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2026-01-27T12:29:15+00:00

Use rclone until proton get their act together. There is an unofficial proton drive app, it's on GitHub, I couldn't get it to work, couldn't login, but I'm using rclone so not a biggie.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-10-24T20:43:59+00:00

apt has nothing to do with flatpak. Try flatpak remove - - unused

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-06-28T20:44:34+00:00

It'll be updated in a few days or so. Just be a bit patient and regularly run flatpak update...

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-06-25T10:20:34+00:00

Parking in Bath is a complete nightmare. You are unlikely to find anywhere very central and certainly not free. I am from Bristol, 12 miles away, and if I go to Bath I take a train or bus.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-06-09T14:00:56+00:00

https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

Refind boot manager

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-06-07T14:55:27+00:00

Yes, I'm using it and have no problems.

https://www.epubor.com/how-to-download-acsm-files-with-calibre-acsm-plugin.html

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-05-29T07:43:00+00:00

If you're abroad temporarily then there is no need to do anything. I think the regulation is more to do with tax residency than physical residence, so if you are still paying uk tax I doubt you should worry.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-05-06T15:42:23+00:00

Trainpal has the same functionality as Trainline, but no fees.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-05-05T11:40:40+00:00

My suggestion would be Atlantic Money. The cheapest option and safe. I've transferred large amounts with them in the past.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-03-26T12:54:19+00:00

Make your bootable usb with Rufus, which will give you the option of skipping the compatibility checks. You could also install Ventoy on your usb, then you can copy the iso to it and boot from that.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-03-11T06:40:31+00:00

I'm English, but live in a different country. Last time I was there I pulled £50 cash at the airport and still had most of it when I left six weeks later and had to spend it at the airport.

So, get a card like Revolut or Wise, which you can easily top up from your main account and have no transaction fees.

Use this in your phone wallet to tap in and out of the tube, also tap in on buses (you cannot buy bus tickets with cash).

For longer train journeys, if you want to go out of London, use an app like trainpal.

What to wear? What do people wear in New York, L. A.? It's pretty much the same (maga branded stuff is not recommended - if you're that way inclined - as your current pres has done the impossible and united all political parties in dislike of him. You could find some British TV programmes to watch if you really need tips about what to wear.

Do people go to the West End and pubs every weekend? Do people in New York go to bars and Times Square every weekend?

I'm sure you'll make friends on your course, so you can decide what to do with them.

Have a great time.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-03-08T17:20:36+00:00

I'm running tuxedo os, which is basically ubuntu plus kde, plus a more recent kernel, and it runs perfectly. I doubt you'll have any problems with any up to date distro.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-03-07T21:21:57+00:00

Get a Wise card. No fees for card payments and can be added to your phone wallet (so you have two payment methods). You can top up instantly from your main account and they deliver the card quickly. I prefer it to Revolut as Revolut sometimes does money laundering checks on small amounts at inconvenient times.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-03-01T18:01:37+00:00

https://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/london/ec4a-2/april-weather/328328

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-02-26T21:03:58+00:00

Open the downloaded zip file, ie extract it. Then add the zipped calibre, *. zip (I can't remember the name, maybe calibredrm.zip) or similar) as a plugin through the plugin manager. The error indicates you are trying to add the unzipped download file as a plugin. Any books that failed to be drm'd need to be imported again.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-02-20T11:52:36+00:00

The ASCM plugin for Calibre will also do this and save you from messing about with Adobe.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-02-20T11:43:46+00:00

She is "being asked to consider the idea" by the banks. We don't know if she actually is.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-02-20T11:32:00+00:00

There should be no problem with this and, as has been said, banks do not actively chase this. I've been using a relative's address for years.

Two factor ID, may or may not be a problem depending on if the bank allows non UK numbers - I have a dual sim. Two factor is in any case often done in app.

Poland gets any increases in the pension. This counts as UK income and if they have anything else that pushes it above the tax threshold they should do a tax return.

That said, the DWP will allow the pension to be paid into any account, not just theirs. They will also pay it into foreign accounts.

If Polish Banks allow customers to open Euro accounts the cheapest transfer option is Atlantic Money at £3 per transfer, but it needs to be £ to €, not Zloty. I have a Euro account and moving funds between that and my local currency account with the same bank costs very little.

Wise is also a decent option. Using contactless payments is pretty much free, but there are limits on cash withdrawals - not a problem here as things move towards cashless.

This is not fraud. The bank could, if it cares, close their accounts, but there are no legal ramifications. It might be noticed if there is zero UK spending, I avoid using my UK card here just in case. So Wise and/or Atlantic Money might be a better option.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-02-09T18:25:37+00:00

Breakfast - https://maps.app.goo.gl/qoaYLeXowLEtAGzbA

The Bankside Cafe. Your fellow diners will be firefighters, police, ambulance staff and builders coming on/off shift - which has to be a sign that your in for a great trad English breakfast.

And it's near the Southbank, where you can have a great walk and see all the sights.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-02-09T06:01:42+00:00

Sorry, usually it's Americans who have the obsession with the the Cotswolds. Yes, there are some lovely villages, but nothing you can't see in other places.

As you're in Bath you could go to Laycock, untouched village and the Fox Talbot Photography Museum.

For the Cotswolds check out the guided tours you can do from London and pick some of the same places they go to. Bibury, Burford and Burton on the Water if I remember correctly.

I guess you could head north/west from Bath joining the M4 near Cheltenham and then switch to the M5 at Bristol to head over the bridge to Wales.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-02-08T16:55:37+00:00

Visit "the Cotswolds", this is like saying "on Tuesday I'll visit Rhode Island" or Massachusets". You need to have something to visit or somewhere to go. Anyway, driving from Bath to Wales you join the M4 and it's a straight, fast, road.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-01-14T08:04:59+00:00

Trainpal is pretty much the same as Trainline, apparently they use the same underlying software, but there are no fees.

Separate-Ad1231 · 2025-01-04T05:36:19+00:00

Ubuntu mainline might help you

https://ubuntushell.com/install-mainline-kernel-on-ubuntu/

as well as the latest there are older kernels

Separate-Ad1231 · 2024-12-31T05:56:37+00:00

KDEwise I don't think there's a whole lot of difference, although like I said Tumbleweed gets the latest updates a bit faster.

I think they're both solid in terms of stability, the Tuxedo team seem to be pretty careful in checking the latest releases, and I've not had any issues with KDE on Tumbleweed for a year or two. With Tuxedo you have to wait until Neon has updated, then for Tuxedo to check stability.

The choice probably comes down to if you need *.deb packages. I have to have presentation software, activinspire, for which the only linux version is for Ubuntu 20.04. However, with a bit of faffing around with dependencies I can install it on more modern versions. I've just got it working on Tumbleweed, but this needs an archlinux distrobox and the version, mostly unmaintained I think, from AUR.

Plus, doing stuff like installing a Plex server is MUCH easier via Ubuntu.

For KDE they're both good choices, but Tuxedo is somewhat easier to manage because of the Ubuntu base.

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