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I checked out the site, seems they also have their own store as well. Will keep them in mind for after the KDP select period. But since I already installed a malware called Windows in a VM and started with Kindle Create, may as well not get off this train... It's a pity because my LO ePub...

That's news to me. Honestly didn't notice... Interestingly, I just checked it out and .profile has lower priority with bash than bash_profile, .bash_login, whereas .bashrc is actually appended to the aforementioned during an interactive session -- separation of concerns, I guess. I think you...

You'll find PATH is declared in .profile (and only ever should be). But do be aware that by default, .profile looks for local bin dirs first such as ~/.local/bin, ~/bin/ (depending on the distro's default setup for profile)* Then each shell will have its own little rc file to setup further...

So, installed Windows 10... Only took about 2 hours... ~45-60 min install, then a good 1 hour of the Win10 logo and "Getting Ready" across the bottom (I kid you not). Finally... Nope, I'm now greeted with "Just a moment..." I feel like I'm dating again. "Just a moment..." Could've done about 6...

Well, when you publish on KDP you have these options for the manuscript: ePUB, Doc(x), mobi, KPF (which support the KF8 spec but is backwards compatible) to upload the manuscript. Now if you used doc(x) or ePUB, it'll get converted by Kindle. Not sure about mobi as it is their format. During the...

This has been on the table for years. Basically they've been rewriting things, starting with the DE -- for obvious reasons of user engagement -- and moving forward through lots of smaller utilities and packages they're ironed out creases in. So this is probably a transition that will hopefully...

BTW, I should probably share this: You don't need Copilot to access ChatGPT (on which Copilot was/is based). Try this out: www.duck.ai DudckDuckGo's privacy AI chat. Has 4 LLMs: ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and Mixtral. No chats are saved or used as training data. More/less unlimited chats (you...

Figured... They released a DX12 implementation for Linux... but it only runs through WSL2. It's semi-propreitary. Why does this remind me of the browser wars with IE? Tried their downloads section. One page says: And then there's another page for "IT Professionals" but it wants enough info to...

I had thought of doing that, but I figure I'll need KC in the longterm, so I may as well bite the bullet, do the full PITA once and then be done with it. ...When you say free, does that mean free beer free, or still in the above context? It's not for that. I'm talking publishing on KDP. The...

There are pros and cons to this, mostly pros. I guess I have no stake in this since I only use the CLI for package management, no matter the distro. And Debian is my daily driver which means anything "new" only affects the me six years from now, by which stage I've learned to deal with them...

I've actually generated a reasonable ePub from LO (before tweaking the HTML)... Problem is Amazon converts that to .mobi/.azw and co. Basically, the conversion process can break things. So they offer you a great tool, like dangling a carrot. So I'll be forced to fire up a VM for Windows for the...

I know you're just here to troll, but let me ask you: By what measure do you define "smallest"? In the lower 33%? In the lower 25%? In the lower 10%. In the lower 1%? If you're so smart, teach us. In the meantime, for all you kiddos watching this thread, here are some English lessons...

So as some of you may know by some of my posts of late, I recently decided to dust of an old novel and actually get it published. Blood, sweat and LibreOffice tears later, I've formatted it to spec... So my bestie, who has just also dusted off an old book of his published it (we "twin think")...

Prologue + AI in answers:I recognise ChatGPT text so long as I have a good sample size. A number of members (not naming names, y'all know who you are) have used AI for answers. First time I saw it, I validated it through "reverse prompting" (my process ;) and my naming). After that I was about...

Anything <= PS2 era is more/less CPU bound (well, all emulators are compared to graphocs card needs) so you'probably get away with a low-profile GT 710 (although it's cheap, it'll handle emulation) just to offload the strain on the CPU (in PCSX2 you can hand some CPU tasks over to the GPU). For...

Yup, pretty much on the same page. As a soon-to-be author (I hope), I can say that I honestly would not mind if even 20 years from now people could have my book free. People that want to and can support authors/developers/musicians will still pay for things (where there's still a distributor)...

Well done!

Sadly, even archive.org took some damage recently for their book lending. They get their share of copyright strikes by big business. Even Vimm's Lair got hit a year or so ago and that included lots of games that weren't even available in the US (or outside Japan).

Well this certainly is a move forward, especially with a brand as big as Lenovo. Only sad thing is it won't outsell the Nintendo Switch 2 (which will be as big a marketing sham as the Nintendo Switch). Still, I reckon it's a stepping stone. I was just having a convo with a mate of mine the...

There seems to be an ever increasing number of issues with Windows 11 and Linux (almost as if intended). Anyway, there may be something odd going on with Windows 11 Fastboot. Restart, log into Windows, completely shutdown, no fastboot. It locks filesystems etc. so I would not be surprised if...