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  • I have five library cards with 3 subs to Kanopy and 2 to Hoopla. I actually prefer Libby to anna’s archive or other alternative methods. If anyone has sneaky methods to get more…share them please!

    For anyone who cares here is a list of the largest e-book lenders that I found when I was library cards hunting. If you are in one of these areas—get a library card!

    The top 10 ebook and digital audiobook-circulating library systems for 2020:

    1. Toronto Public Library
    2. Los Angeles Public Library
    3. King County Library System (WA)
    4. National Library Board Singapore
    5. New York Public Library
    6. Multnomah County Library (OR)
    7. Seattle Public Library
    8. Hennepin County Library (MN) - 228/63
    9. Harris County Public Library (TX)
    10. Calgary Public Library (AB, Canada)

    The top 5 ebook and digital audiobook-circulating consortia and shared collections:

    1. Wisconsin Public Library Consortium 126k total
    2. The Ohio Digital Library
    3. Greater Phoenix Digital Library
    4. Tennessee READS
    5. Digital Downloads Collaboration (OH)

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    12 days ago

    I often need the subtitles also, but like you cannot stop reading them even if the dialog is clear and end up not seeing what is going on in the movie.

    The worst is movies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. It has beautiful visuals and action—and the versions on the streaming services lacked a dubbed version. Had to go blu-ray to getting dubs so I could watch instead of read.






  • My personal choices are slightly different than yours, but I appreciate your comment. You’re clearly an ally while not being a clone. I often tire of discussions about security and privacy—mainly because I am very pragmatic.

    Unlike OP I don’t use Proton’s suite, but considered it. Most of what I want Apple provides (Advanced Data Protection, Private Relay, etc) in a form that meets my minimum requirements. Other things that I use (Signal especially) are well-supported on iPhone.

    I’ll talk down Apple all day long in the correct context, but I still believe it is a good choice today. I may re-evaluate at some point in the future when the landscape or my needs change. For now I am very happy.





  • OneDrive does offer restoration of individual file versions or even the entire OneDrive contents (for things like ransomware attacks). Details are here

    I think OneDrive is a pretty good (but paid) backup utility especially for non-technical people. There are a lot of things that I could nitpick on, but for some of the older people (octogenarians) that I am the family support for, I set it up and anytime I interact with their computer I click on OneDrive to ensure it is replicating. I very occasionally have seen a single file not replicating, but never have I seen it fail completely. These people previous had NO backups of any kind.

    I use it myself as an additional backup location, but not in the way most people would.







  • panicnow@lemmy.worldOPtoCast Iron@lemmy.worldNewbie help
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    6 months ago

    My pan is already in the oven on self clean, but I appreciate your advice. I do think the black crud is some sort of buildup as I could feel it with my fingertips. It’s the more silver part that I think is a complete lack of seasoning.

    But I don’t really know!