GlassHalfHopeful

joined 1 year ago
[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

I was afraid of that. If this is common enough, i think it's something the devs can introduce a feature for which would propagate such a change. Doubt it's high on the totem of things to do, though.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, this is most probably true.

Honestly though, I don't even know what most of the generic domains are that were created. It's still deeply ingrained in me that any serious website should be using .com, .net, or .org. But... the amount of domains that were purchased just for the purpose of resale at an astronomical value has made so many of those unreachable.

There are some dot-coms that I have wanted for years which have been sitting stagnantly for more than two decades. I'd love to buy them, but there's no way I'd pay the asking price. At least generic TLDs break that stalemate for a lot of folks.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Ahh. I have several domains and a lot of experience with managing various services, but I'm unfamiliar with any requirements regarding the federation process itself. I imagine this may be challenging, but not impossible to handle. Yet another level of suck in this situation.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Doubt it. Top level domains by country code were created explicitly for this purpose... for use by and to be managed by the corresponding state.

Wikipedia rabbit hole:

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 101 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (27 children)

Sucks, but makes sense.

I'm surprised they even attempted to use that domain. The instance still exists and will need to be routed through a new domain. Which, again sucks, because any reference links will be broken now... which... again... has me wondering why they even went with that domain in the first place. Albeit, it was a clever use of a top level. I wonder how many others are doing the same.

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I vaguely remember what you're referring to and being pretty frustrated about it. I can't remember exactly what changed regarding clicking an emailed link. I simply don't experience that any longer. Either Amazon stopped or I changed some setting somewhere that I'm not recalling off hand... 😬

Currently, I have calibre-web (and the windows client) set to use my email's SMTP credentials. I then set the "sender" to an Amazon approved email. In my case, the email isn't actually real. I just use a forwarder.

Make sure you add that sender email to the Amazon personal document approved email list.

The most recent bump I've had with Amazon is that they no longer accept mobi files. It's no big deal though since they accept epubs without an issue.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This.

We each have an account. Login to the web interface. Choose the desired book. Click send. The epub is emailed to our Kindle.

Running calibre-web off a docker instance. Library is on my NAS.

I use the Window client to add books, handle conversions, and manage things since I have specialized plugins. You can read via the web app as well, but I prefer my ancient Paperwhite.

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