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I was going to recommend Knock as an alternative to Adobe Digital Editions that can be used from a command line in Linux but I just discovered it’s gone as well 😢

https://github.com/BentonEdmondson/knock


As someone who has chronic health issues nd increasingly severe Memory Impairment (possibly early onset Alzheimers), I would give almost anything for the perfect health. Hell, I would be over the moon just for average health.

I can’t even begin to explain how much it hurts to be surrounded by people who could choose to be healthy but are just apathetic, uncaring, lazy or ignorant of how much of a blessing it is to be able to exercise, get fit, run, swim or even jut walk round without feeling utterly exhausted after or to remember the things they love and enjoy.


My spouse and I both use Arch (we use Arch BTW) on our desktop PC’s. We also have a Pi, an ODroid and now a Dell Optiplex running as a game server. Our media server has DietPi which is an option I would recommend.

My spouse just tried Arch on the Dell and found it would have done great as a server but more work required to get stuff set up, especially with ensuring dependencies are installed. So he scrapped that idea and went with tried and true DietPi.

We’ve messed about with a few different flavours of server distros over the years and it’s always come down to what we need the server to do, feature set and ease of use and configuration.

It’s been a while since we last used RaspiOS but every time we’ve given it a go, it’s never lasted long because it’s always given us problems and just hasn’t suited our needs as well as DietPi has.


Is there any self-hosted version of Microsoft’s Family Safety/Parental controls?
I REALLY want to get away from using all Microsoft products. My spouse and I use Linux but not for our kids just simply because I have yet to find anything that does what Microsoft Family does - being able to remotely set time limits, keep an eye on screen time stats, block websites and apps remotely, see what websites they've been using, etc. So far I've found some disparate apps or methods that can do some of this. But our family situation is complicated, not least of which includes disability and special needs. So basically, yeah, I need to be able to spy on what my kids are doing on their computers but I don't want Microsoft or any other companies being able to do that. I would like to be able to switch the kids laptops/PCs onto Linux as well, but again, the lack of remote parental controls or some sort of centralised access has been preventing that so far. We don't need a phone app, but would just really like some central place that we can do this from that respects privacy, isn't trying to sell us yet more crap and is preferably FOSS.
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