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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I know there's apps like Air Video HD and Plex that can stream your videos from your home server to your iOS device but is there something similar for PDFs/CBRs? Rigging up something via Calibre might be an attractive option. You can even view them via your browser these days.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:This would be the only reason I'd use a VPN. It would be a bit silly for me to spend ~$10 per month to read old video game magazines from the 80s (don't get me wrong, I don't mind spending a one-time fee on an app). No, you don’t have to subscribe to a VPN service - and that wouldn’t work anyway. You would need to run a VPN server (like OpenVPN) on your own hardware on your network. You’d also want to set up dynamic DNS. This can all be done for free, but you’ll have to put in some elbow grease - it’s either that or pay for a turnkey solution, I think.
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Feb 5, 2020 19:40
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Arcsech posted:No, you don’t have to subscribe to a VPN service - and that wouldn’t work anyway. You would need to run a VPN server (like OpenVPN) on your own hardware on your network. You’d also want to set up dynamic DNS. This can all be done for free, but you’ll have to put in some elbow grease - it’s either that or pay for a turnkey solution, I think. I don't mind if my IP address changes once every 6 months or whatever. I don't have a static IP but it seems like my IP stays the same for sometimes as long as a year, and I am kind of OK with that. Warbird posted:Rigging up something via Calibre might be an attractive option. You can even view them via your browser these days. I remember using Calibre years ago to convert Kindle to epub and PDF to epub and vice-versa and stuff like that in Windows. Are you saying it will actually host some sort of listening port/server for PDFs that my ipad can read?
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Feb 5, 2020 19:41
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I remember using Calibre years ago to convert Kindle to epub and PDF to epub and vice-versa and stuff like that in Windows. Are you saying it will actually host some sort of listening port/server for PDFs that my ipad can read?
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Feb 5, 2020 20:47
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Thanks so much for the Calibre suggestions. I am trying it out right now (it will take a bunch of hours to "process" since it's 230GB of PDFs). The only downside so far is that when I installed it I needed to point to an empty Calibre folder. For whatever reason, it needs to copy every single PDF and CBZ into this Calibre folder, even though it's already on my PC. Which might not seem like a lot but now these vidya pdfs are taking up 500GBs of hard drive space instead of ~200. I'm not sure why it needs to dump everything into that folder (it's not converting it from what I can see) but if that's the worst that I have to deal with I can suck it up for sure.
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Feb 5, 2020 22:19
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I’m fairly sure you can just throw the PDFs in there without converting friend, but don’t hold me to that. Take a look at calibre-web, it can hook into Calibre’s database and is a far better user experience. Also works fine in docker if you’re willing to get stoopid.
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Feb 6, 2020 00:27
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Thanks again for the suggestions to use Calibre's content server. It did exactly what I want. The only downside is that there's no way that I see to organize anything by folder. Since Calibre is probably expecting actual books and not magazines, all 1,400 magazines are their own separate entries. So if I want to download Nintendo Power issue 114, I have to scroll through a good 600 magazine titles before I can get to it. It would have been really nice if I could have put all the "EGM" issues in an "EGM" folder and Calibre would have had it as its own separate entry. But I guess that's my Windows/Android mindset getting in the way. I ended up buying an app called Marvin 3 that is a PDF reader with Calibre server compatibility because I found the browser method to be a bit janky. It was only $5 and well worth it, in my opinion. Thanks again for all the help!
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Feb 6, 2020 16:14
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Look into the calibre-web thing I mentioned. I think it has search functionality and I know you can group things up like shelves.
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Feb 6, 2020 16:30
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Warbird posted:Look into the calibre-web thing I mentioned. I think it has search functionality and I know you can group things up like shelves. Thanks a ton but I did a little searching and it looks like it's for Linux users; my server is just a Windows 10 desktop that I leave on 24/7 
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Feb 6, 2020 17:31
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The last couple of times I've tried to share itineraries made with Citymapper over iMessage, the shared message with the Citymapper itinerary completely fails to load for me or the person I send it to. Has anyone else had this problem? The message bubble just has a loading dial on it with the standard maps grid, but nothing else. I reached out to the devs for support but haven't heard back.
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Feb 6, 2020 19:19
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the new google maps icon is ugly as sin. just give me my dark mode in gmail, dammit
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Feb 7, 2020 17:42
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Jazz Marimba posted:the new google maps icon is ugly as sin. just give me my dark mode in gmail, dammit It looks like typical Google branding, so I don't know what you were expecting?
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Feb 7, 2020 17:59
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XBenedict posted:It looks like typical Google branding, so I don't know what you were expecting? Yeah, and Google branding sucks. 
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Feb 7, 2020 18:46
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The gmaps icon is dumb but at least I'll never open apple maps by accident now
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Feb 7, 2020 19:31
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Clark Nova posted:The gmaps icon is dumb but at least I'll never open apple maps by accident now I miss the old Apple Maps logo that showed the route as driving off a bridge, really reflected the quality of the app at the time.
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Feb 7, 2020 20:44
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Alright, I'm tired of Goodreader and its bullshit UI. Is there any replacement that'll let me: sync with ~all the services~ view and sync SMB/AFS and FTP folders download through an internal browser (or support share sheet functions out of safari) view every document format ever with cropping and universal annotation support I like that GR does like, everything ever. But... just look at it! Why!
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Feb 8, 2020 00:09
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tuyop posted:Alright, I'm tired of Goodreader and its bullshit UI. Is there any replacement that'll let me: There literally isn’t. Readdle Documents is close but struggles with OneDrive for Business and PDFs with variable page size. I’ve been using GR for over a decade; I don’t really like it, but there’s nothing better.
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Feb 8, 2020 00:53
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Are there any logging fitness/lifting apps that aren’t insanely bad on pricing models? I enjoyed fitness point free but hit the log limit. Just looking for something that lets me build different workouts, history on sets, maybe a rest timer.
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Feb 8, 2020 18:00
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Strong is the best.
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Feb 8, 2020 18:11
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I rarely pay for apps anymore but around 2009-2013 I had a bit of an impulse buy problem with iOS games. I barely played most of them but the novelty of playing "real" games on my phone really got me I guess. I was just thinking I should really redownload a few of those games since I don't have a single game on my XR atm and....Almost all of the good ones are either gone from the app store or are trying to charge me again?! Like,  how is this an acceptable business model? I paid for this poo poo and it's all gone!
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Feb 8, 2020 18:53
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Most likely they didn’t update whenever the App Store required games to switch over to 64-bit, or released a separate version of the app which supported 64-bit and charged for it separately. Usually that would bug me but the games were generally so dirt cheap that I didn’t mind. And thankfully the best game on iOS did get updated for no extra charge - Ghost Trick.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:15
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TraderStav posted:Strong is the best. Yeah, I really like it.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:15
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Question Mark Mound posted:Most likely they didn’t update whenever the App Store required games to switch over to 64-bit, or released a separate version of the app which supported 64-bit and charged for it separately. I dunno I am looking at some I paid like $15 for and now they have "HD" versions that cost $15 again with the version I bought delisted. Mostly cave co. shooters, so gently caress that company. Also apparently I bought Duke 3D and it no longer is on the store at all and I really want to play that. Although thanks for reminding me I have Ghost Trick. Gonna DL that now Anyways I'm never spending another dime on an iPhone game. extremely lovely platform for allowing stuff like that to happen.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:32
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Truly shocked that the game you paid 99 cents for once a decade ago couldn’t continue development of a new version without charging again
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Feb 8, 2020 19:33
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FCKGW posted:Truly shocked that the game you paid 99 cents for once a decade ago couldn’t continue development of a new version without charging again The Cave games were like $14
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Feb 8, 2020 19:34
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TraderStav posted:Strong is the best. This is it. A really great app and the devs actually implement suggestions.
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Feb 8, 2020 20:13
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Weedle posted:The Cave games were like $14 This man is entitled to get what he wants for free!
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FCKGW posted:Truly shocked that the game you paid 99 cents for once a decade ago couldn’t continue development of a new version without charging again truly shocked that you don't seem to be able to read. Amazing that I'm the rear end in a top hat for expecting to be able to download games I paid like $15 a piece for without paying for each of them all over again. If y'all just love throwing money in the toilet throw some my way please. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Feb 8, 2020 21:32
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veni veni veni posted:truly shocked that you don't seem to be able to read. Many someones have to sit at a computer for 40+ hours a week to make a game you bought on a 2013 phone work on a 2019/2020 phone. If you think that $15 covers the cost of maintaining that over a decade then people will continue to call you entitled. This isn't a book or a movie, they don't work perfectly forever once they're "done"(games and software are literally never done. Just acceptably complete for that moment.)
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Feb 8, 2020 21:50
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veni veni veni posted:I dunno I am looking at some I paid like $15 for and now they have "HD" versions that cost $15 again with the version I bought delisted. Mostly cave co. shooters, so gently caress that company. Also apparently I bought Duke 3D and it no longer is on the store at all and I really want to play that. Even if the original listing goes down, you should be able to find it in your Purchased list unless it really isn't compatible.
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Feb 8, 2020 21:51
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It is pretty lovely if old software can't even be downloaded anymore. Fine, don't update it, but if someone ebays a six year old phone they should be able to run whatever software they can find for it. There is an archival argument too. With old coin op games or consoles or PC games there's a ton of people out there that enjoy making emulators to allow that software to still run (and steal, but that doesn't make the hobby illegitimate). With digital distribution though that poo poo disappears into the ether and is gone forever.
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Feb 8, 2020 21:56
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Running a platform with all sorts of gray area as to how long software needs to be supported and letting companies just get rid of an old version and "update" it so people have to pay all over again means its a poo poo platform. Saying someone is "entitled" for expecting to have some sort of access to something they paid money for is the most corporate bootlicking pov I've ever heard. astral posted:Even if the original listing goes down, you should be able to find it in your Purchased list unless it really isn't compatible. I found them in my purchases but there is no way to download them.
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Feb 8, 2020 22:12
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veni veni veni posted:truly shocked that you don't seem to be able to read. Like, I get it, it sucks, but it's not like it's for no reason. An "HD remaster" from a game made a decade ago means that all the assets had to be remade for Retina and Plus sized screens and the app re-coded to take advantage of the new screen size. There's significant work that goes into it and I don't blame the dev for no longer supporting an ever shrinking number of devices.
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FCKGW posted:Like, I get it, it sucks, but it's not like it's for no reason. An "HD remaster" from a game made a decade ago means that all the assets had to be remade for Retina and Plus sized screens and the app re-coded to take advantage of the new screen size. There's significant work that goes into it and I don't blame the dev for no longer supporting an ever shrinking number of devices. There needs to be some clarity about exactly how long something will supported and what you are buying into then. If a game comes out for PS3, I can reasonably expect I may have to pay for it again if it is ported to PS4. Because it's been made clear that it is a different platform. With iOS you have no idea if something will work for a month or 10 years. There needs to be some sort of expectation of quality control which Apple seems to have zero.
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Feb 8, 2020 22:22
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veni veni veni posted:There needs to be some sort of expectation of quality control which Apple seems to have zero. They do, they warn developers their app will stop running on newer OS releases if they don't update their poo poo. All Apple cares about is the latest and greatest. If an app doesn't run on modern devices the argument is 100% with the developers of the app. If what you're really wanting Apple to do is guarantee a lifetime of compatibility for spending $15 on a piece of software, well good luck with that. It's lovely that your software goes away but this is the reality of digital distribution and it's been a concern since the day Steam first launched. The ship has loving sailed on that one.
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Google photos question. I have been uploading photos to google photos on my laptop as I want an easy way to share albums of my photography online with friends and family. I also just installed the google photos app on my iPad as it would be nice to view/organise them there. However it mixes all my photo roll phone pictures pictured with my ‘actual’ photography- I don’t want all my phone pictures there. Is there a setting to turn that off?
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xzzy posted:... if someone ebays a six year old phone they should be able to run whatever software they can find for it. To be exact, if you grab an iPad2 or something and login to the App Store with your same Apple ID then you will be able to download all the stuff you bought at the time. The number of titles that are Proper Removed from the App Store is very few.
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Feb 9, 2020 12:12
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So it's not actually removed, it's just blocked since the app store can detect that my newer phone doesn't support it?
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Correct. If you had your old phone with the old OS you could open the App Store and download and use your apps again.
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I’d be kind of salty too if apps I paid $14 for 8 years ago and that are still selling for $14 a decade later didn’t support prior purchases enough to run on current phones. I get why it happens and that it’s as much the fault of the App store lacking a solid upgrade purchase option as anything else, but it would still annoy me. I rebuy a particular $10 productivity app every 2 or 3 years because that’s the only way the developer can add features while keeping a revenue stream going. But if for whatever reason I decide to don’t need the new features, the prior versions still work. Also if the Goon who made Dungeon Raid is still around - I’d gladly pay another $5 for a 64 bit version, k thnx in advance. EDIT: poo poo now I want to play Dungeon Raid. If I find an old 5 or 5c with iOS 10 on it, I can still connect to the App Store right? I just tried charging my iPhone 3GS and it doesn't look iOS 6 connects to the App Store anymore. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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