While I agree with the general sentiment that civil servants shouldn't be political, getting selected as the head of a department, or the leader of an organization has significant political overtones. Mind you, my understanding of the role is directly related to the TV series "Yes, Minister," so there's likely to be a few gaps.
Well, almost all "new" media is just repackaging the "old" media to make a buck off of a combination of nostalgia and a pivot to a different platform. No one will care because no one will feel compelled to watch the fourth or fifth reboot of Harry Potter.
Not yet. I ran Calibre + Calibre Web for a while before I found booklore, and the key thing I wanted from my setup was for things to work. I was experimenting with Booklore as a "new direction," and spent a significant amount of time troubleshooting and fixing various broken things from crashes of the ingestion job due to long file names, failure of metadata being written, OPDS problems, etc. I've been reading some web novels (2000+ chapters) for a while, so I didn't check in with the state of Booklore until recently, and now that I'm coming to the end of my most recent long story, I was going to pick back up in my TBR.
Honestly, I like self-hosting and experimenting, but I do recognize that "bleeding edge" isn't always compatible with having a relaxing experience. In this case, I want to go back to "easy," rather than "clever," or "new."
Same place I'm falling on the spectrum. Some things I stand by on principle, and execute alignment to the best of my abilities. For other things? Spite.
At some point, these stories all fade into noise, which is the intended outcome. For some reason (humans are defective, I guess), people constantly act outside their own best interests. I do it! I eat trash all the time, despite knowing I shouldn't, and that it has an effect on my health.
That's a great idea! Thanks! I've got unbound running locally on one instance of Pihole, and I've got it in a LXC for the other instance. Using the configs to pull from git would make that much easier to sync.
None of this has been about money, it’s all about ego.