lemure

I have too many books (~200) which I bought but I don’t want to have around. Mostly novels which I’m probably going to donate to local libraries or similar.

However I feel entitled of having a copy of those books in electronic format. Very slowly, I’m looking for .epub files and storing these in a hard drive.

Now, say I want to read one of them on an e-ink device. Which one is going to allow me to load these files without going through proprietary stores (I’m not going to pay twice for something I already own) or jailbreaking the device?

I simply want to spend x$ and have something which will last for a long time.

I’d like to build a machine learning server for home experiments (I briefly considered cloud providers but I want to get back building a pc from scratch, that’s part of the project). These will be mostly training midsize models and experiment with automl. With a 3090/4090 I may even get to work on larger datasets etc…

My main problem is space in the house. I’m planning to place the cabinet next to the broadband router and connect it through ethernet. However there’s no room for a desk and monitor over there.

Hence the idea of using the pc headless and connect to it from a laptop on the same network.

What’s the best way to go in this case? Simply ssh into the machine and work? A fancy solution like anydesk or even a proxmox cluster?

This is a hobby project so I’m happy to experiment. Also, suggestions on the best GPU? I’m leaning toward either RTX3090 or 4090 on the basis of VRAM only.

I've been contacted from fb for a position in London with the excuse that they're hiring 1k+ people [1].

Everything seemed legit from internal recruiter contact details and procedure: I've got a lot of reading material from them, set online meetings, etc...

I did the first coding interview and the interviewer has been overly positive throughout the 40 minutes we talked. One day later the former recruiter told me I didn't pass and now he's refusing to give me a more detailed feedback claiming that "due to compliance policy we are not able to provide you with the detailed feedback on your interview"

So...it's this for real or this is some sort of very refined scam (no idea what may be the end goal tho)?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-europe-business-idUSKBN1ZK0G4