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Old 10-12-2025, 02:20 PM   #3376
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Old 10-16-2025, 03:49 PM   #3377
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Now that I've got more family and friends joining the Kobo ecosystem...I really wish they'd make it easier to just gift books.

If I see a book I think my niece would like, I would like the option to just buy it and have it sent to her email address to redeem, rather than having to send her a giftcard and say, "Here's monies, go redeem them to your account and buy this book while it's on sale, quick!"
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Old 10-16-2025, 04:22 PM   #3378
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Now that I've got more family and friends joining the Kobo ecosystem...I really wish they'd make it easier to just gift books.

If I see a book I think my niece would like, I would like the option to just buy it and have it sent to her email address to redeem, rather than having to send her a giftcard and say, "Here's monies, go redeem them to your account and buy this book while it's on sale, quick!"
No easy way to share wishlist, either. Compare to Steam.
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Old 10-16-2025, 05:00 PM   #3379
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Now that I've got more family and friends joining the Kobo ecosystem...I really wish they'd make it easier to just gift books.

If I see a book I think my niece would like, I would like the option to just buy it and have it sent to her email address to redeem, rather than having to send her a giftcard and say, "Here's monies, go redeem them to your account and buy this book while it's on sale, quick!"
But the Amazon system won't even work across the Border in Ireland. Irish users have to use Amazon UK for Kindle, but the "gift" ebook can only be sent to other Kindle users in Ireland (the Nation, not the bit in the UK), not in the UK.

There is a similar issue since Irish pound split from Sterling on the British Isles wide "Book token" system. You can only use the token in the country of the shop, but if you go online you can buy a Book Token for Irish redemption, or UK redemption (from same org) and it doesn't matter where you live or what currency you credit card is. The split is because the token has either UK Sterling or the euro value and they've never figured how to do one with both currencies.

Amazon is thus more broken than the book tokens.

Also for obvious reasons (ebay) Amazon won't take PayPal, but Kobo does take PayPal.

Amazon gift cards can be bought (in the past) by anyone, anywhere, but could only be redeemed on the Marketplace where they were bought. However after Irish Marketplace launched I could not find UK Marketplace gift cards, thus to gift someone in UK an ebook or other item on Amazon for me in Ireland now apparently can't be done. I'd have to send them money via IBAN (which is cheaper than PayPal and free in EU).
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Ah, that's why there is cloud computing!
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Old 10-17-2025, 03:19 PM   #3382
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Ugh, preferred backup program was discontinued with still outstanding bugs. I dislike it, but FreeFileSync seems the best option.
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Ugh, preferred backup program was discontinued with still outstanding bugs. I dislike it, but FreeFileSync seems the best option.
What program was discontinued?
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JaBuT (Just Another Backup Tool). Check for Updates failed, went to site, it's gone. Found this.
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Ugh, preferred backup program was discontinued with still outstanding bugs. I dislike it, but FreeFileSync seems the best option.
There are many alternatives to FFS ==>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...ation_software

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Oh, I've tried multiple.
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Oh, I've tried multiple.
For sync I use a mix of Syncthing and Nextcloud (privately hosted and accessed via Wireguard).

For full backups I just use Clonezilla. It mostly doesn't care about what it's backing up, except Bitlocker volumes for which it has to be inefficient.
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When an AWS service outage in US-East-1 knocks out like half the internet.

Impacts my employer's products as well. What's most frustrating is when I have clients who know there's a global AWS outage and that this is the root cause, because it's knocked out like four or five of services on their side as well...yet they still feel the need to ping us for updates every twenty minutes.

Like, dude, we're both watching the same status page. What the **** do you think I can do about it?
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Like, dude, we're both watching the same status page. What the **** do you think I can do about it?
You mean you don't have the head of AWS and Jeff Bezos on speed dial! And you expect me to PAY for your products
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