Interesting. I’ve heard of Arcane, but never dabbled. From the demo, it looks pretty tight. I see it also gives you ‘vulnerabilities’ kind of like Maintenant, but built in. Nice!

OK That’s cool. Didn’t know what your set up was like. So, scratch Thunderbird. LOL

That’s a respectable server set up you got going there. Kudos!

I use Calibre but I don’t have any automated, download, pipeline. I just upload the books as I buy them. I guess I’m boring and vanilla like that. LOL

Giving Mealie a run for the money. ;)

I don’t really use any e-mail clients on my computer

Curious as to why. Is it a security issue or is it just not convenient…

Thunderbird will import .mbox files but you’ll need a plugin called ImportExportTools NG.

Import:

• Mbox files (including structure)
• EML & EMLX files
• Individual or all directory files

That’s awesome news! Happy to be of what little service I can. I’m hoping the new SD card does the trick.

BlueBeam: So I get a complete set of new construction plans sent to me. Basically I count for money. Say it’s an HVAC contractor that wants all the HVAC equipment counted For example: all grilles, all air handlers, all everything it takes to complete the HVAC portion of the new construction. BlueBeam will just about count for you if you set it up with some special scripts and macros that have been programmed in. Then when I’ve counted everything for HVAC, I call vendors for pricing and work up an estimate to send to the contractor for his approval. He then takes all of that, decides what he might need to add as far as $$. We call it the ‘D’ factor or the difficulty factor because working in and around trusses, tight spaces, crawl spaces, etc takes extra. Then he puts his O&P on it and sends it out for bid.

But if you boil the ox down to the bouillon cube it goes like this: Count with the count 1, ah ah ah, 2 ah ah ah… that’ll be $4500 Mr. contractor sir.

It would be nice. I’ve hung on to my stripped down Windows 10 now because I use a program called BlueBeam for one of my business ventures that absolutely has to run on Windows. There is no Linux equivalent, and there is no running it in Wine.

MusicBee

It was, and imo, still is a great piece of software. I’m not always on a Windows machine, but MusicBee is a staple when I am. Every so once in a while, someone writes a piece of software for Windows that just kicks ass. Few and far between, but it’s pretty good stuff.

What methods do you use for managing a large music library?

I have a physical collection I have been accumulating for decades now, that goes as far back as 1937. I have converted everything to flac and it resides on a NAS drive. I have used Beets and Picard, and back in the day MP3Tag for tagging, and surprisingly, MusicBee (Windows) is great for embedding lyrics. It takes a while to embed lyrics in a large collection. Currently I have everything tagged, in their respective artists/albums, and embedded lyrics for about 75-80% of them. I run Navidrome and stream via Feishin locally, and Substreamer on my mobile.

ETAL I have also used czkawka_gui in the past to clean out duplicates.

I always look forward to this being posted. It is reminiscent of waiting at the mailbox for the current issue of Byte magazine. Of course back then, to run something you had to copy by hand, each and every line of code, for 8 pages. LOL Only to fire it up and find you have a syntax error on line # 2096. $@@^#%$!!!

https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381

translate the shopping list into a kroger cart

I’ve always had this idea for an app. Most all major grocery stores publish their sales online. I’ve always thought it would be cool if you could have an app that imported these published sales, matched that up with your grocery list, and even gave you a route from store to store so you could efficiently shop. I’m pretty sure my lady friend isn’t the only person that shops multiple stores based on good sales.

I just ran across this. It might be of interest in conjunction with Mealie: https://github.com/GerardPolloRebozado/social-to-mealie

Imports from:

• Instagram
• TikTok
• Facebook
• YouTube Shorts
• Pinterest

I collect recipes that are out of my wheelhouse or a variant of what I already consume because I like trying new things. As far as mass importing recipes, I’d get too overwhelmed and probably not use 3/4 of them. I also add my own variations on a theme. Go out to the garden, pick some fresh herbs, and veggies to accompany said dish. One of my go to, quick eggplant sides is to take slices of eggplant, egg wash and planko, a layer of parm, slices of tomatoes on top the eggplant, more parm, moz, fresh cracked sea salt and pepper corn, a spritz of evoo, and bake in the oven. So good!

Maybe I will at some point?

As far as tags, I haven’t run across any miss-tagging. That’s usually pretty straight forward. I have had some lyrics that didn’t apply to the song, that got imported, but that’s separate from beets. When it comes to importing and embedding lyrics, I found MusicBee to be quite efficient. Takes a very long while for large collections, but it works.

Haha! I didn’t notice who I was chatting with. Have you mastered automation yet?

That must be a regional thing. I run Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust and I didn’t have to provide any ID. Scanning down through the thread, it seems hit or miss as to whether companies require ID or not.

Hey bro, did you ever get Cloudflare going, or did you decide on another route?

I’m sure you are being inundated with suggestions, so I figured I’d add to the work load. /s

I’ve always found The Linux Upskill Challenge a good starting point for newcomers. Covers pretty much all the basics in easily digestible chapters. Not sure if you’re looking for anything like that, but there it is.