@matigo company behind the app (Overdrive) got bought by an investment firm. Their only interest is in squeezing profits from libraries. Sadly, libs are locked into multi-year or decade long contracts, it seems. So they can't go anywhere else.
@matigo no no, but the Libby app experience is pretty shit for magazines. It's passable for audiobooks and horrid for eBooks…
I always wondered why like many other libraries, Seattle Public Library doesn't have access to digital versions of magazines like Time, Vogue, NatGeo. TILL I DISCOVERED Flipster. All the magazines have a separate dedicated app instead of having to read them in Libby!
TIL Google put "Ask AI" in the Chrome Console. So if you can't understand what a GraphQL query is up to or need help with CSS, you can enable that feature. Huh.
@matigo yeah, though I discovered that tailscale ties into NextDNS on iOS to run VPN which can connect to your home network AND block ads. Good enough solution. Though I would prefer /etc/hosts on iOS too
Thanks to Chrome kicking out uBlock Origin, I've now installed an /etc/hosts editor on my Mac, and it's now blocking everything even more drastically.
I think I powered my KVM-over-IP solution… with the device it's supposed to power on. Gah!
@matigo indeed. And I did not plan to concert an effort any time soon. Partially thankful the glitch happened! :D
Gah! I accidentally purged my rss feed reader. Went from 27,000 unread down to 55. A fresh start feels so light and good though!