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Rambler wrote

Thanks for the response. I may take it for a test drive in a VM and see how I like it. As far as ad-blocking goes, can always use an ad-blocking VPN... I know a guy offering just that. Ha!

I've added to my list of "things to check out" so I'll try to get around to it this week.

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Wahaha OP wrote

Biggest issue is that there isn't a feature rich adblocker. A basic one is included, but that's it. Other than that, it takes a different mindset. For example there is no build-in password manager. You're supposed to integrate your preferred tools yourself. I like that customization aspect of it. For example opening video links directly in mpv or even downloading videos directly.

Entering text is somewhat cumbersome because of different muscle memory I have from previous browsers. You need to be in 'insert mode', just like in vim, to enter text. Or set up an external editor for that. Clicking inside a textbox brings up a cursor, but you need to press 'i' to start 'insert mode'. Clicking inside the same textbox while being in 'insert mode' takes you out of it again, which makes copy/paste a little annoying.

I'd completely move over to it, if it wasn't for heavy lifting adblocking having become a necessary, though. Last time I checked, extension support was something planned for the future. Not sure how far this has gotten. I'm on an LTS distribution that doesn't have up to date versions of qutebrowser. I meant to switch to a rolling-release one, but haven't done so, yet.

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Wahaha wrote

according to Mozilla, Firefox 85.0.1 32-bit requires 512 MB of RAM.

Well, Firefox is currently using 800MB of RAM for me and 5GB of virtual RAM. It's the most memory hungry process I'm running. I don't even have that many tabs open. Only about 20.

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Rambler wrote

Good read, though found a typo, which is easy to do when you're used to dealing with GBs and not MBs:

I found Q4OS to be a very stripped-down distribution of Linux that worked reasonably well on my old PC with 256 GB of RAM a

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Rambler OP wrote

Thanks for the resposne. I actually ended up using Calibre to convert to html with some limited success. I think I need to adjust the settings more, as some of the pages had some weird formatting issues with the embedded images and text overlapping them, or in some cases lines not wrapping to the page causing horizontal scroll in the browser.

It's still something I want to get working as I have some great ebooks on alternative construction, gardening, and a lot of homestead and off-grid living stuff that I want to share. Maybe some day soon...

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CyberKat wrote

First time posting so take it easy on me please... I use Linux Mint and have found a program back when I was a windows user called Calibre which is an ebook management program. It is a Linux program that normally is in your Software Manager. Among it's features is the ability to convert ebooks to different formats. HTML is one format, I personally use it to convert them to .txt and then use text2wav and Lame to convert them to mp3 as I am an OLD computer user (53) and am slowly going blind. Hope this helps! if you want me to send you my .sh I wrote to handle the .txt to .mp3 process let me know via email fu.killme @ gmail.com

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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote (edited )

I'm very happy with Suckless Image Viewer (sxiv) and a fork of the Suckless Terminal that does the solarized color scheme (st-solarized-scrollback in the Arch User Repository). Minimalist, keyboard-friendly, and capable. Good software!

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Wahaha wrote

I'm currently using urxvt, since it was one of the ones compatible with w3m-img which is used to display picture previews in my file manager ranger.

I want to move over to st, though, since it's a suckless tool and I like the suckless philosophy.

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