Yeah. An eInk device that can run an Android file browser and just grab eBook files off the local network is a fantastic solution.
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9·5 months agoIt would be a shame not to shamelessly plug author (and anti-DRM activist) Cory Doctorow here. He has some really fun science fiction, and sells his audio books DRM-free through various sources.
Shamelessly, because lots of his protagonists are self-hosters of various types.
I’ve had this happen when I had too many USB devices plugged into it. It was having power underrun, and acting unresponsive while trying to compensate. I solved it with a powered USB hub.
Edit: I’ve had pairing it with an off brand power brick cause the same problem, too. Apparently the 3 and later Pi really want better power quality regulation, and some of the cheapo bricks I had lying around - while providing the right Volts and Amps, didn’t control the variation well enough for the modern Pi computer.
Keep in mind that support for SMB is technically either available or not, in each so app. I don’t believe anything hides SMB from apps, on Debian derivatives, by default. (It seems inconvenient, but, anecdotally, it causes fewer headaches. Access over SMB is different enough from local storage that lying to apps about it causes issues…specifically the kind of issues we see with network shares on Windows.)
SMB is old enough that a huge number of apps support it, but it’s still extra code that each app might not include.
For apps that don’t support SMB, I sync a folder between Synology and a local drive, using the sync app that Synology provides.
An RSS feed is such a simple plain text file. I can’t imagine using a dedicated solution for it.
If I needed a dedicated RSS Feed, I would be inclined to generate it with CRON job, and Jinja2 file, and about 3 lines of Python code.
What I typically do use is an extension for my current static site generator. At the moment, that’s EleventyJS. But I’m only using that to create RSS because it’s already creating the rest of my website.