FOSS nerd, lemm.ee refugee

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  • The major benefit is using KOReader instead of Amazon’s reader. Main benefit of that is configurability in my opinion. I’m new to full-time use, so I’m not aware of everything it’s capable of, but it’s already way better. My headline features are direct connection to Calibre over the network, and the lack of any marketing to me whatsoever. My nice-to-haves are arbitrary lockscreen images, Wallabag support (have yet to explore this, but looks real fun), and the built-in RSS reader.

    Other than that, jailbreaking gives me the ability to fully disable ads and OTA updates.

    Everything else is pretty much toys and eye candy. KOReader is the main thing from what I can tell.














  • The answer to the text of the question is: that would continue to work. sudo doesn’t re-auth while a child process is still running, which in this case is su. Until su terminates, sudo doesn’t have anything to say about it. To be a bit more precise, the time limit for reauth would expire, but sudo doesn’t ask for authorization, and therefore wouldn’t check if that timeout has elapsed, until the next invocation.

    To answer the spirit of the question: you should probably be using sudo -i instead.


  • Yeah, my partner’s kid really enjoys being the one to read out board game instructions, and it’s …not the best way for me to absorb information…

    But, he enjoys the fuck out of it, so whatever. As long as I have access to the printed rules during my first playthrough, I’ll be fine.


  • Would be a good idea to check how close you are to the write limit, then. Pricier cards have a higher write limit, but all SD cards are limited.

    Luckily, once you hit the limit, it turns read-only, so you can move to a new card pretty easy, but it will happen eventually.

    Neat to know you’ve got a longer life out of the card you bought, though! I’ll have to look into cards that have a higher write limit for my next Pi project!


  • Beware, HomeAssistant absolutely eats SD cards.

    A pi booting from an SD card is a good way to test it out, but HA does so much logging and other writing to storage that the write limit on the card gets used up very quickly. Took my setup only like a month or two to die when I first started with HA.

    If you want to run HAOS on a pi long-term, you will need to set up a different boot drive that can handle more lifetime writes.