I saw that, too. I haven't had a lot of headaches with MTP using my Android devices, but I'm always surprised at how there always seems to be a plan to make my devices worse than they already are.

No argument here. It is insane to me that if I want content that isn't locked into a particular ecosystem, I have to seek out public domain material or pick from the small subset of books that is sold DRM-free books in an open format. For anything else, money can't buy flexibility. For most books, the only options for digital are accepting the DRM, waiting until copyright expires (good luck with that one), or privateering with out a letter of marque.

Mercator k55k knives can be had for less than $50 on Amazon. Many Opinels are available on Amazon for under $20. Great knives if they're what you're looking for.

I'm lucky I manually ran a few jobs before I started using rsync in scripts. When I didn't think things through, I saw the output in real-time. After that, I got very careful about testing any scripts and accounting for minor changes in setup.

Agreed. My old pebble lasts for over a week, not that I use it for much more than an alarm clock/metronome nowadays.

It does those jobs extremely well, though.

Amber pairs very well with retsina.

One option is to convert to txt for any text-only epubs that you have. There are a ton of lightweight options if you're willing to use format-shifted copies on your computer.

On my distro, hitting print in the Office365 web app autogenerates a searchable pdf. As mentioned by others, it is trivial to generate a searchable pdf from LibreOffice as well.

I've used Ardour to capture keyboard midi input before. Not beginner-friendly, but it works if you want to play something, pick a soundfile, edit a flubbed note or two, and add it to a project.

The bones are their money, so are the worms!

Nah. Defining Linux as 'the Linux kernel plus the GNU stuff' is what makes him angry. Defining 'Linux' as 'just the Linux kernel' and sticking to that narrow use would make his day.