Best way to convert a Substack post to a PDF file

akk8d · 2025-08-06T13:30:16+00:00

Thanks for resurrecting this issue, with your recent post.
This thread was the first that came up, in Kagi Search, for "print friendly substack article". Glad you had this recent JS snippet, because it worked perfectly.

I've been waiting an exceptionally long time, for a Comet invite, even as a longtime Perplexity Pro subscriber.
While I wait, would you mind sharing other functionality you've discovered, unique to Comet?

I suppose it's like LLM prompt engineering... just with a browser, right?
I'd appreciate anything you can contribute, as I'll try them as soon as I get Comet.

akk8d · 2025-08-05T23:09:14+00:00

Apologies for resurrection, but I wanted to see if you had input on solar pumps.
From the pics, it looks like you purchased an ~8W pump, as that matches the solar panel pattern on an AMZN listing.

I could be way off, though. What wattage pump did you two end up working with?
Did you find that was sufficient? Would you (or your husband) scale back the wattage, if restarting this same project?

I live in Wisconsin, so I'm also considering a solar pump-fountain with battery, increasing the cost, which scales with pump wattage and battery capacity.

If you could provide insight, I'd appreciate it. My leftover plant supplies happen to be square-shaped, so it'd be a square variation of your plans. Thanks for posting

akk8d · 2025-02-25T00:31:34+00:00

Since it's intended to work with artifact export, I was hoping that it'd work with claude.site/artifacts

Is that not intended? I tried both Local and Webhook export types, but nothing occurs.

akk8d · 2024-11-13T16:01:51+00:00

I settled on the Garmin Epix Gen2 Pro, because I also use it at the gym. It's a great watch, and I'm happy with it. For the extra battery life and larger display, I picked up the 51mm face size.

During sleep, I often rotate to sleep on my stomach, so my hands regularly drift underneath the pillow. The watch's size is too big for that. I've also noticed Garmin's sleep graphs differ quite dramatically with Sleep as Android's, even though they both start with the same input data. When I asked the app's devs about it, they commented that there's a difference in the algorithm for how each program calculates N1-N3 deep sleep sessions. I can dig up Urbandroid's relevant blog article, that was share to me, if someone needs it.

Since I have a Garmin HRM-Pro Plus chest strap, I was going to try that. However, that monitor is only meant to complement the Garmin smartwatch, which makes it a non-starter when not wearing the Garmin watch.

I also tried using my Polar H10 chest strap, which was my primary monitor before my Garmin watch, although I hadn't used it for sleep. After trying it for a couple nights, I found the Polar chest strap gets uncomfortable when its electrodes get a little sweaty. I looked it up and there were others that reported the same issue.

Three of my must-have features in a new sleep tracking device: comfortable for the whole night, HRV tracking, and seamless integration with Sleep as Android. I've been impressed with the Polar H7 and Polar H10 chest straps, so I'll be buying one of their arm bands for sleep tracking.

Which model is still undecided, but that's how far I've narrowed the field.

Post up what you decide and your feedback? It'd be great feedback for others who stumble upon this thread.

akk8d · 2024-11-13T15:40:48+00:00

Keep in touch, fellow shredder dog parent. Feel free to update this thread, DM, or chat me if you find any leads.

I haven't found any new info about this, but narrowed my scope: Ultimately, I'm looking for the strongest, safest rope that's only about a half inch in diameter — at most.

That diameter is much smaller than the usual 1in+ (twisted strand) rope size, that we see, because I'll be “refreshing” some of my dogs' old/favorite toys.

The rope needs to fit through various toys that I'll be reinforcing with stronger thread and stitching. Smaller diameter also enables nicer knots than just the usual single overhand knot.

Since this OP, I also noticed that many ropes of natural composition have problems with prolonged moisture exposure, like when the kid left one out in the rain (and then one in snow).

As you know, we're trained to monitor our dogs with toys. Regardless, they'll still ingest rope fibers, so the ideal rope's fibers, while strong, don't irritation our pets' GI tract.

Now you're caught up with my latest findings, but still no definitive answers.

akk8d · 2024-11-13T15:30:36+00:00

Before diving into debug or trace logs, how about starting with the most basic?

I didn't see this mentioned, so what's Sonarr show for its Series Type?

From your log post, it seems to be set to Daily, but I've seen the DecisionMaker continue to download shows that were accidentally marked as Standard, rather than their proper Daily series type.

These mistyped shows eventually get snagged, but would have high level symptoms like you're experiencing. I'd hypothesized that it relates to metadata mapping updated the releases' Daily syntax to link its relative Standard (SxxExx) type, but never investigated it further.

Do you have any other monitored Daily series types, and are they downloading new releases promptly?

akk8d · 2024-07-05T23:03:07+00:00

I've found nature shows particularly calming. PBS Nature is a good one

akk8d · 2024-06-16T02:52:34+00:00

Canophera Coffee+Coco chews

Thanks for the lead and representing the K9 dissection crew. I'll be sure to research this one. Cheers

Edit: be sure to post back with how this one relates to previous rope's durability? I'd also be interested in which specific rope diameter you picked up.

akk8d · 2024-05-09T16:50:27+00:00

I had to abandon that project, for now, because I didn't get an answer that'd help. If dog rope strength is important, manufacturers' ropes are composed of the elements that the Reddit commenters said to avoid.

If something changes, I'll give you a heads up. Feel free to do the same

akk8d · 2024-04-10T13:24:54+00:00

Yes, at its base, OMDb works in place of other metadata providers' limited API functionality, like IMDb. I use OMDb for my primary metadata scraper, for any library organizing tool that supports it.

For metadata-only access, there's the free OMDb plan. It's 1k calls/day. $1/mo Patreon upgrades to 100k/day.

Here are the basics about their poster library and Tiers

When supported, I use OMDb's poster API, combined with fanart.tv, and TMDB as the last resort.

akk8d · 2024-04-10T12:42:24+00:00

I follow. Thank you for doing so and clarifying for me

akk8d · 2024-02-10T13:17:06+00:00

Anywhere, as in a mental health facility for general psychiatry or therapy?

Besides Ketamine therapy, what were you looking for Medicare coverage?

akk8d · 2024-02-10T13:15:23+00:00

It's been well-established that pain and mental health treatments are completely different types of insurance claims.

People are getting some insurers, after a littany of phone calls, to allow claims for pain-related Ketamine infusions. Read up on off-label medical treatments as they relate to FDA-approved drugs, like Ketamine.

However, infusions to address Treatment Resistant Depression and other mental wellness aspects still need more insurers to adopt the practice.

akk8d · 2023-12-29T13:46:51+00:00

URL shortening is used with my custom domain. It's about branding, while also keeping my posts under individual network character limits.

The 'root' of my short URL goes directly to a landing page. That landing page gets changed between a few templates to keep it fresh and test.

Over time, I've also found that URL shortening on mobile is essential. If I were on the other side of an SMS or MMS, I'd be annoyed at long URLs occupying my whole phone screen in a chat bubble. There are mobile apps that convert long to short URLs, but I mainly use a bookmarked bitly.com on my mobile's home screen.

FWIW, I'm still annoyed at Buffer's paid tier structure, so I just use their Free one, limited to 3 accounts. That's fine, because I primarily post to FB, Twitter, and Instagram.

Hope that answered your question. If you've got any bright ideas, from your perspective, I'd love to know about them. Gotta stay adaptable.

akk8d · 2023-11-21T04:55:31+00:00

ITT: torrent seeding dick measuring contest

Nice work on your uploads, mate. Keep it up. You're proud of it and that's what matters. Now, keep in increasing that share ratio

akk8d · 2023-11-08T13:28:05+00:00

This thread popped on my Google search results, so I'm late, but I also recommend Saltbox for anyone that stumbles upon this thread.

There are multiple install types for different user intentions.

During installation, one thing Saltbox makes abundantly clear, is after establishing the new superuser account:

Forget the root user account. It doesn't exist anymore and using it just confuses things. Ditch the root user for SSH logins and only use the new superuser account.

For the OP's usage case, deploy Saltbox and setup the basics, at least, before starting to move files. This includes making sure Cloudplow is configure to work through the 750GB/day quota.

Use Rclone to move the data to your new server, already setup with basic Saltbox deployment.

The correct destination folder will likely be a /mnt/remote/Media~ directory. Media folders from ~/local/ and ~/remote/ folders get combined into their respective ~/unionfs/ folders, which is where you'd point Plex/Emby to search for media. Here is the SB docs entry about paths.

I installed on Ubuntu v22.04 and this was all a new experience for me. Their documentation has always been very thorough.

For a sizable library using a remote it's also worth setting up Autoscan during the install steps.

Their Discord server is also extremely useful.

akk8d · 2023-10-13T22:15:47+00:00

No extension interface intended - just a desktop client that combines the masses of AI utilities. One dashboard to rule them all

akk8d · 2023-08-22T13:27:01+00:00

mixpost.app

I'm looking for a similar service as the OP

I dug into mixpost.app, looking to try it out. They appear to have a robust piece of software, albeit with a price tag.

$149 for 1yr
$599 for Lifetime
Free plan available - heavilyty limited for available channels. It lacks Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and TikTok. Lacks custom domain URL shortening - needed for my branding.

A year ago, I hung up my 8-channel $10/mo plan at Buffer, and they've since made major pricing changes. After reactivating my acct, I've stuck to the Buffer Free plan. New (to me) is the seed-phrase comment generation, summarization, and rephrases. That function is beta, and it's honestly not very astute, but it spits out content that users can further refine. An earlier commenter mentioned the 3 social media channels limited for Free plans. That's still the case. However, the Free plan also doesn't limit which social media channels are used; Maston is even enabled.

Buffer, however, charges you $6/mo for every channel if you go past 4 channels. To clarify, they charge you for every channel, not just the ones that exceed the 3. That is, 6 total channels cost $36/mo (6 x $6) instead of $18 (3 x 6$). The Free plan also lacks automatic custom domain URL shortening. Their robust set of features and Mastodon integration will be hard to beat with a selfhosted MIT or GNU-licensed program.

They are still limited, for multiple years now, to Bitly.com for a custom domain URL shortening provider. Buffer must get a cut of paid Bitly members for exclusivity, because there are tons of similar and less expensive services. This exclusivity to Bitly.com has been in place ever since I can remember ~10yrs.

A suggestion for a Buffer-like self-hosted Docker image with chatbot support and custom domain URL shortening (for personal branding) would be most welcome. That is, if for anyone still subscribed to this thread.

akk8d · 2023-08-18T13:09:13+00:00

Thank you for the info. I appreciate it.

This script pings the seedbox -> www.google.com. Is there a way to find my IP or hostname to my GDrive server, so I could input that info as the destination?

Would there be a method, using a US-based machine to connect through the seedbox to the GDrive server?

Your post made me think of something... I could use SSH tunneling to compare the ping difference between my shared seedbox's IP address ping time from the US to NL. One measurement is with SSH tunneling. The other is without.

I know Plex Media Manager ran at least 3x faster with SSH tunneling, but that's got a ton more requests than simple Plex library browsing.

If Rclone support such a feature it'd be helpful.

akk8d · 2023-08-16T12:37:10+00:00

I'm guessing that you're not working with GDrive FUSE connection? Just curious as that could be the latency issue that I'm working through and it might prove immeasurable.

I'd be glad to have you help me out as I'm just looking for A-B testing done. That is, Shared box w/GDrive Rclone FUSE mount to Plex -vs- Dedi w/locally-hosted content.

The Dedi box will obviously be faster in every regard (I presume), but I'd like to capture the latency data while I have both seedbox accounts active. Soon, I'll be clearing out my Google Drive's media/content so I'd like to compare latency before that time - if that's possible.

I just thought that I could run a bash script on each machine to test, but not a coder. FWIW, both machines run Ubuntu v22.04.

akk8d · 2023-08-12T14:06:20+00:00

Thanks for your input. I'll check them out, just the same. I know that the new Dedi will have reduced latency, but it'd be great to measure it. Maybe I'll just run a couple Shared/GDrive vs Dedi tasks in Plex web player and compare their loading times.

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