> Enable cloud tunnels so you can access your apps on other devices (paid feature)
It's not much extra work to do this technique (tunnel to publicly accessible domain name from locally or privately hosted setup) with cloudflare tunnels. It's also completely free, all you need is a domain name managed by cloudflare (~10 bucks a year).
You just throw up a cloudflared container (can be part of your local docker compose stack), it will serve whatever you like from that local system at the public domain name - no port forwarding, no IP configuration, just works, over private VPN tunnel.
Unlimited cloud tunnels for 49 dollars a month is not that great - you can have up to 1000 tunnels on the free cloudflare plan, which I'm realistically never going to max out. Once you've done it once, it's a handful of lines to paste into any future compose stack with your Cloudflare API key to use again, it's incredibly simple to use, and will do the same automatic HTTPS setup.
This is correct, the 256gb is substantially slower as uses fewer physical memory chips - less ability to read/write in parallel. The 512gb or larger models have substantially higher read/write rates, and typically performs 50-100 percent faster in benchmarks than the 256.
Was a primary factor in me buying a 512gb M4 Mac Mini, even though I planned to use large external SSD - I wanted faster spec boot volume.
My only real complaint with KOReader is that the book browsing UI is file and folder based by default, while virtually all other ebook readers support some kind of cover based library view you can sort 20 different ways based on metadata rather than filenames etc.
It's not a huge issue, but I find just browsing my collection to find a read a lot more enjoyable on other ebook readers. IIRC there are plugins to add this feature, but it's not present out of the box.
On the few Kobos and jailbroken Kindles I've used it on, it also drains the battery significantly faster than the stock reader app, although not enough that I couldn't last at least a few days. On stock software I can go weeks between charges.
My experience with battery life seems to be the opposite of yours. I'm using it on a Kobo Clara BW and my battery just lasts and lasts, even with an hour or more a day of reading. I don't have any firm data on it, but I know that right now I'm at 52% battery and it's been at least a week and a half since I plugged it in anywhere.
KOReader is widely known to be less energy efficient than Nickel (the native reader on Kobo devices). It's a commonly observed issue.
It still lasts a long time! It's just not as efficient as Nickel on the same hardware.
Personally I prefer Calibre + Nickel over KOReader on Kobo devices (its trivial to convert DRM-free eBooks to formats Nickel will open, Calibre will do it automatically if you plug a Kobo in), although on Kindle devices I would still jailbreak and use KOReader.
I use KOReader a lot. After your comment, I realized file browser annoys me too. After some searching, I found an alternative view. Turns out, you can open the File browser tab, swipe down and switch "Display mode" to "Mosaic with cover images". Also seems like it's default for new versions now. This mosaic view still uses directories but it lists books as rectangles (covers) instead of lines (covers + titles), it seems more pleasant.
By the way, in the same settings I finally found how to set up KOReader to launch with a previously opened book. What a relief!
I almost never see it now, but twenty to thirty years ago when there where far more cars on UK roads with no air conditioning, you would very occasionally see someone leave the window slightly open to try and keep cabin temps a little more sane in summer. In the 90s/early 2000s there where a lot of cheap cars (Ford Fiestas, Corsas etc) sold in volume on UK roads with no AC, and on hot days those things would turn to ovens if parked in the sun with the windows up. I used to have to do this occasionally myself with a crap Ford Ka I owned with no AC. It was a pretty normal thing to do back then!
I'm not even sure if it's possible to even buy a new mass-produced car with no AC anymore in the UK, or pretty much anywhere else for that matter.
I genuinely wondered the other day how long before we see some country try to regulate the new self-hosted radio mesh messaging solutions like Meshtastic etc. Eventually some crime group somewhere is going to be busted using a homebrew encrypted radio system for messaging - they are so plentiful and easy to build with dirt cheap ESP32s etc, and it's so easy to deploy repeaters to extend range.
I think this is going to be a much more common sight in most major western economies - many of them have a rapidly growing aged retired population and a declining young working segment etc.
The effects of this change are definitely being felt, good and bad, in many countries already.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, Ultima Online and Everquest would have had circa 500k-1m subscribers between them by 2003. Ultima Online had 100k subscribers as long ago as 1998.
They are beautiful things, but the last few I rode on with BA were absolutely starting to show their age inside prior to BA retiring them in 2020. I think the last passenger models were produced in 2011 and most of BA's 747 fleet was from the mid-90s. The experience was probably better on other carriers towards the end.
It's not much extra work to do this technique (tunnel to publicly accessible domain name from locally or privately hosted setup) with cloudflare tunnels. It's also completely free, all you need is a domain name managed by cloudflare (~10 bucks a year).
You just throw up a cloudflared container (can be part of your local docker compose stack), it will serve whatever you like from that local system at the public domain name - no port forwarding, no IP configuration, just works, over private VPN tunnel.
I use this all the time for personal projects:
> https://developers.cloudflare.com/tunnel/
Unlimited cloud tunnels for 49 dollars a month is not that great - you can have up to 1000 tunnels on the free cloudflare plan, which I'm realistically never going to max out. Once you've done it once, it's a handful of lines to paste into any future compose stack with your Cloudflare API key to use again, it's incredibly simple to use, and will do the same automatic HTTPS setup.
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