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[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

This is really fun, but is there an equivalent of this app for desktop linux?

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago

Use MS Word to convert PDF to DOCX then use Word to convert to EPUB. This method will still result in lossy conversion. This is inevitable.

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, as a result of SciHub’s ongoing litigation in India, they voluntarily decided to stop updating their database. This is old news. You can look it up.

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

It’s too expensive ://

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 17 points 9 months ago

Awesome! Thank you for telling me about Scribd downloader and finding the first book.

As for the Academia.edu link, it doesn’t seem like premium will provide the PDF, that’s just premium membership. The actual PDFs are governed by individual authors. Seems that author uploaded a preview of the book perhaps to indicate that they contributed to it so it counts as a citation.

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the lead, but they don’t have it.

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

I did ask them to check if they could access it through interlibrary loan. We’ll see. Buying the book seems prohibitive though. It’s highway robbery prices.

[-] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 9 points 9 months ago

Both are on Oxford Politics Trove. Would you happen to have institutional access?

Yes, I’m aware Issues has pirated versions of earlier editions available, I have those already. I’m hoping for the latest version.

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I need some books paywalled behind Oxford Politics Trove and they aren’t on Anna’s lib, Zlib, Libgen, Memory of the World, Aaarg, or the Internet Archive. Not sure to whom else to turn to. I hate that knowledge like this is paywalled, and I highly doubt the authors will be paid if I pay the highway robbery of a price.

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submitted 9 months ago by mambabasa@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Heya folks, some people online told me I was doing partitions wrong, but I’ve been doing it this way for years. Since I’ve been doing it for years, I could be doing it in an outdated way, so I thought I should ask.

I have separate partitions for EFI, /, swap, and /home. Am I doing it wrong? Here’s how my partition table looks like:

  • FAT32: EFI
  • BTRFS: /
  • Swap: Swap
  • Ext4: /home

I set it up this way so that if I need to reinstall Linux, I can just overwrite / while preserving /home and just keep working after a new install with very few hiccups. Someone told me there’s no reason to use multiple partitions, but several times I have needed to reinstall the OS (Linux Mint) while preserving /home so this advice makes zero sense for me. But maybe it was just explained to me wrong and I really am doing it in an outdated way. I’d like to read what you say about this though.

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This app has an easy downloader of music and music albums from Youtube Music, so it's definitely an awesome piracy tool.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by mambabasa@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

The original repository on Github has been taken down. I looked at the forks and none of them seem to have a compiled Linux executable.

Would anyone know if this project is still being update somewhere?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mambabasa@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Is Popcorn time still a thing? Is there a safe one to install for android phones?

Follow up: Is this a legit site? shows.cf

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