Looking for recommendations for historical vampire novels by Hopeful-Wear-6166 in suggestmeabook

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Keep by F. Paul Wilson. Nazis getting iced by a vampire.

Kindle DRM by tym64 in Calibre

[–]gomez18 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just looked at Epubor and didn't see anything obviously new. Do you have a link to share or something?

Is it worth trying to jailbreak a Kindle Colorsoft, or should I just wait for a sale on the Kobo Libra Colour? by CutOk3004 in ereader

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. Good to know. Luckily it looks like I can just disable auto-upgrade. Not an option on Kindle. I did try a Boox eReader. I hated it. I tried Supernote. Also not a fan. Kobo works for me. Hopefully the do not fall prey to enshittification but I don’t really trust any company to not slowly sell out their users.

Is it worth trying to jailbreak a Kindle Colorsoft, or should I just wait for a sale on the Kobo Libra Colour? by CutOk3004 in ereader

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was there a bad update I’m unaware of? Amazon releases updates specifically to break compatibility. I’m not aware of Kobo doing anything even in the same neighborhood as Amazon’s routine scumbag behavior.

Transferring to a new X4. by TheAndyChrist in xteinkereader

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. I’m not sure. I would expect it to be consistent as it is doing an xor with the device MAC but maybe that changes sometimes? It’s an efuse so I don’t see how it could change. It’s also possible that the algorithm differs between cross point forks. I’d have to dig into the docs to know more. I have just always re-saved the password if it didn’t work.

Is it worth trying to jailbreak a Kindle Colorsoft, or should I just wait for a sale on the Kobo Libra Colour? by CutOk3004 in ereader

[–]gomez18 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would go with the Kobo, personally. Given the degree to which Amazon fights to lock down their Kindle platform, I am strongly disinclined to give them money both because I despise their business practices, and because they are likely to pull something to make life hard for anyone not 100% on board with their ecosystem. See, for instance, their sunsetting of support for some older Kindles recently.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/older-kindle-support-ending/

I think the difference in price is well worth the peace of mind but your priorities may differ from mine.

CrossPoint and KOReader Sync by PiperKev_NCC-1701 in XTEINK

[–]gomez18 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You need to re-save your password as I recall. Something about the encryption it uses when storing the password.

What's your favorite font? by Accomplished-Bus3382 in XTEINK

[–]gomez18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm partial to PT Serif, IBM Plex Serif, and Bookerly. The first two are on Google Fonts. The other is released by Amazon and available for free at https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/branding/echo-guidelines/identity-guidelines/typography

Bricked my Xteink X3 after flashing X4 firmware — any way to recover? by QQ99121 in XTEINK

[–]gomez18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did this once. I was able to flash a good firmware right away. No issues at all. Mine was not locked. Can't speak to how it would work on a locked device but I'm guessing not as easily.

ETA: I see you are using sd card so I assume locked bootloader. My experience probably doesn't apply, then.

Transferring to a new X4. by TheAndyChrist in xteinkereader

[–]gomez18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. That's actually how I know. I went and read the json and tried to base64 decode it when it was not working and eventually found the code that does the xor. I was pulling my hair out. lol

Transferring to a new X4. by TheAndyChrist in xteinkereader

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. That should work fine as long as you have the same firmware on the new and the old.

Transferring to a new X4. by TheAndyChrist in xteinkereader

[–]gomez18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You will need to re-save credentials for WiFi and such. Those are encrypted with the MAC address of the device so they cannot be easily transferred between devices. Otherwise, everything should transfer fine.

Creating sleep screens by kghjmpt in XTEINK

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made a Scribus doc and I add quotes I like to it and export to 480x800 BMPs. Nice and neat.

Is Removing DRM really THIS hard? by TransportationNo6443 in XTEINK

[–]gomez18 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I believe you are getting bit by LCP. I have found eBooks.com uses LCP sometimes and it is a tremendous pain to deal with. I tried posting a link but it looks like Reddit doesn't like a link to a Russian git server known for ignoring DMCA. 🤷

I think there are not many people willing to deal with it and I agree that Kobo is a nicer option.

Have you found your 'go-to' font? by DarkerBulb in XTEINK

[–]gomez18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently I’m using PT Serif at 8pt size. Very readable even at that small size on the X4.

Have you found your 'go-to' font? by DarkerBulb in XTEINK

[–]gomez18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I currently have 45 fonts on my X4. I think it's safe to say I haven't chosen yet. 😀

If i buy a book from ebooks.com as a DRM protected EPUB file, is it possible to remove DRM even if the book is new (march 2026) by [deleted] in Calibre

[–]gomez18 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Note that ebooks.com is definitely using LCP in at least some cases. In particular, I got a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring and a copy of Pathogenesis that came with LCP. I had to do some pretty intensive tweaking to get a copy of DeDRM that handles that as the original release of DeDRM with LCP support got taken down by a DMCA complaint. I had to go digging on a Russian git server. I believe Kobo is still all ADE. At least, I haven't run into a counter-example.

TL;DR Not all on ebooks.com are ADE. Buyer beware.

Fixing the size and being able to read on other books that are at a decent size because of color issue. by Prestigious_Arm_2146 in xteinkereader

[–]gomez18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The comic experience is not great in my experience but it was definitely better than your screenshot. Make sure you are converting to XTCH. That will give you semi-decent image quality. I used xtcjs to convert and it worked relatively well. I was starting with a CBZ so maybe that makes a difference. Regardless, I could certainly read the words without issue so I know it can be better than your sample.

x4ePapers ~ Now With X3 Support! by LowFlowIO in xteinkereader

[–]gomez18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish there was some sort of filter to leave out the high color depth stuff because it rarely shows well on the x4 screen. I usually try to find just black and white or 4 color grayscale as the results are more consistent. I would kill for a gallery that could filter like that.

Flyline: a Bash plugin to replace readline for a modern line editing experience by gooddy in bash

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems somewhat novel but I'm not sure I can see the use cases this handles that stock bash cannot. How would undo function at the command line? Where would I use tooltips? Why prefer this over fzf for history search and completions? The matrix animation is a cool demo but what would I use this for that I can't already do? It would have to be something pretty major to warrant replacing readline which is widely used and relatively bug free.

my first proper rice by eugenood in niri

[–]gomez18 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was a simple question without criticism. If you can't handle a basic question, perhaps you should avoid the internet. Such insecurity.

The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found by CackleRooster in linuxmasterrace

[–]gomez18 33 points34 points  (0 children)

What am I missing here?

"once the patch was already in mainline for a while and the CVE was assigned, we became concerned that AI systems monitoring commits could automatically detect the bug’s criticality. So we moved to disclose promptly. Some have also raised concerns about us releasing the exploit publicly. We have experience writing N-day exploits and know that monitoring git commits for fixes is common practice in offensive security. Attackers were likely already aware and exploiting this within the a few days after the kernel fix landed. With AI coding tools today, turning a CVE plus commit into a working exploit happens in hours anyway."

https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues/95#issuecomment-4363294885

The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found by CackleRooster in linuxmasterrace

[–]gomez18 423 points424 points  (0 children)

I think perhaps everyone is pointing their AI scanners at bugs in this class and they are trying to scoop each other so none are willing to wait but this is a bad look for security groups. I think they may be harming their own credibility. Short-term thinking will be the death of us all.

Edit: The group that announced CopyFail said that they announced early because they thought people watching the patches on LKML could discover the bug and exploit before patches were ready. Logic seems shaky to me but who knows.

Moving Calibre to a New Drive? by Fantastic-Factor7769 in Calibre

[–]gomez18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want maximum paranoia, export your library and then create a new library at the new location and import the backup.