How to wirelessly send docs and e-books to your Kobo

As we are a family of avid readers, having the luck of having a public library very near our house, we also ended up having several Kobo ebook readers.

I’m a life-long user of free-as-in-freedom software and I like to meddle with “low level” thingies but I can’t ask my daughters and wife to do the same even if they are quite smart themselves (we do not have Windows or MacOS or iOS running here, just Gnu-Linux and Android), so today I asked on the Fediverse

“How to Wirelessly Send Docs and E-Books to Your #Kindle
Is it possible with #Kobo?

See https://mastodon.uno/@paoloredaelli/112506334973250537

György Paksi kindly and quickly answered me to look at send.djazz.se 1that now seems to be offline which in turn uses https://github.com/daniel-j/send2ereader and https://github.com/pgaskin/kepubify. I shiftly copied that git repositories, now I “only” have to find some time to set it up.

Incoming Apple’s M4 vs Snapdragon Elite X

According to 9to5Mac the incoming M4 chip will boast impressive performance: around 14500 in multi-core. Too bad that Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite which is already roaming around beats it with 15600 1(as far as I can say they used the same benchmarks).

I bet that Snapdragon based laptop will have much more memory and cost a lot less having a far, far higher performance per dollar/euro that the M4.

Plus then Snapdragon is already actively and first-handely support Linux and free-as-in-freedom software.

I can’t wait to get one

Nice yet…

Recently I installed an unofficial Linux desktop application for WhatsApp.

Yes, I know I should ask people to use free-as-in-freedom instant messaging based on XMPP or Matrix but far too many non technical people can’t be really convinced.

I used the nice user interface of Gnome Software.

Nice app, yet… it is a little memory hog… almost six hundred megabytes of actual RAM. Isn’t it a little too much, even for a WebView in disguise?