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This is how I converted all our kindle books (500+) to standard epub format for reading on Kobo readers. After this step, all books were downloaded onto two readers, no cloud storage is used. This was done on Windows 11 with a Kobo Clara BW. Downloaded kindle for windows from https://filehippo.com/download_kindle-for-pc/2.4.70904/ . Note this has to be a pre 2.5 version, as versions after that will add additional DRM to downloaded books (edit: epubor gave me a warning this was still too late a version, and downgraded it for me – I could have probably skipped this step and had epubor do it for me) [Read More]

This is how I repurposed a 2018 Mac Mini to be a Linix based house server. 2018 Mac Mini was set up with USB keyboard and mouse, and wired ethernet connection. The Mac had 8GB of RAM and a 256GB disk. Prepped the Mac with a fresh Ventura install. Then set up a 200GB partition for Linux. Followed directions from https://wiki.t2linux.org/roadmap/ , for Ubuntu 24.04 After Ubuntu install, set up an ssh server per https://documentation. [Read More]