It’s awareness. If I’d really thought about it, it would have been obvious to me that I should contribute, but most mobile apps hide the sidebar, and “out of sight, out of mind” as they say.

I would find it interesting to see a sort of “state of the union” post every month or so where you tell us the cool FOSS stuff you’re working on, how the servers are evolving, and how well the donations are covering your costs. No need to beg, just let the facts of the situation be known and jog our memories that we all have to band together to keep this place running.

Honestly, this whole conversation has lit a fire under my butt. I’m going to make a Santa Claus run through all my favorite trackers and FOSS projects, and it is all because you made me think for a bit. I imagine there must be others like me who would love to help, but just get caught up with their own lives.

Do y’all hear me, fellow pirates? Our captains need us! Heed the call! Put your money where your FOSS is!

Edit: screw it, I’m going to triple my donation. You deserve it.

Honestly, I feel like such a dumbass for not realizing it was a link, but yeah, “click the pirate coffee mug below” would have saved me some confusion.

In any event, I’m more than happy to donate to you, and will definitely do what I can to keep us going. If you get in a jam, let the members know—we’ve got your back. Best instance in the Fediverse!

I’m signing up for a recurring donation because I think you personally are the GOAT, but one bit of advice:

It isn’t obvious that the images are links to the donation page. I’m relatively tech literate and I read the sidebar three times looking for a “DONATE HERE” hyperlink. Maybe consider making it a bit more idiot proof so fools like me can more easily throw money at you. 😉

So the result of the study is “it’s pretty easy to scare women into submission”? Sounds like a great use of their time and resources. 🤮

Real women use VPN’s. /s

I’m suspicious of the idea that women respond favorably to those notices.

“You wouldn’t download a car…”
Women: Gee, officer, that’s a good point.

Riiiiiiight…

It could be a huge variety of things. Maybe one company they all used went under. Maybe there was a bust. Maybe there was a global event (fire, flood, war) that has messed with the connection to an essential part of the system.

Whatever it is, it isn’t a good idea to make it public unless it really is the absolute end. Doing so only reveals how the system works, which makes it weaker. All anyone can and should do is simply wait and keep seeding.

Plex is malicious to you?

Could you say that last line one more time? Me and my MacBook Air are almost there…

Reinstalling the machine from scratch is the impulse I’m trying to grow out of!

Didn’t end up needing to add —volumes. -a did the trick.

Thanks, this worked perfectly!

Ooh, that’s pretty. Thanks for the suggestion!

That’s what I was planning to do to configure it. Glad to hear that was the right plan.

And I’ll definitely check out homepage—thank you so much for your reply!

Have you tried the docker version? Works perfectly for me. Here’s my docker config if you want to give it a shot:

sudo docker run -d
–name=kavita
-e PUID=1000
-e PGID=1000
-e TZ=YOUR/TIMEZONE
-p 5000:5000
-v path/to/kavita/config/:/config
-v path/ro/kavita/ebooks/:/data
–restart unless-stopped
lscr.io/linuxserver/kavita:latest

Edit the time zone and volume paths as needed. You can just make a new volume for config and it will fill it with settings stuff, and then point the data volume to the folder with your ebooks.

The ebooks themselves need to be sorted a little differently depending on if they are PDF’s, ePub, or comics, but it isn’t to hard once you get the hang of it. Basically ePub likes to be in a subfolder and PDF likes to be in the root folder for some reason, otherwise it puts the PDF’s in a collection named after the subfolder.

Overall, I’ve been really happy with Kavita and think it has a lot of potential, especially as an ebook extension of Plex since the layout is nearly identical.

Thanks, I will have to do some googling about that today.

Are jellyfin accounts handled through their own account system like Plex?

Over the years, as I’ve learned more and gotten better at things, I’ve occasionally had the need to try new Linux distros or remake a VM to fix a bigger problem that I’m not skilled enough to detangle yet. I could probably get away with backups and restores now, but Plex’s account management has saved my butt several times over the years, so I figured it was worth checking to see if there was something similar out there.

I’ll give you tree fiddy.