I stumbled into that git issue and couldn't stop reading. He was immediately dismissive of the security suggestion, even when that person had gone out of their way to provide verifiable examples of the vulnerability. I ended up not installing the software.
You mean you didn't install Calibre because of a bug report where the author allegedly misbehaved? That's odd. A lot of open source software is riddled with ego and personality clashes, and because they play out in public forums, mailing lists and bug trackers for everyone to see, these flamewars tend to be very visible (also see: Linus Torvalds' outbursts). Do you also not use these programs?
Did you need Calibre in the first place? If so, what did you end up using instead?
I'm taking this thread as an opportunity to pay Comcast a review I owe them as I recently became a first time customer with them:
Comcast may have the best deal in most areas by virtue of monopoly, but I can guarantee you that the average customer ends up paying more. I agreed with a rep on $60 per month for just internet, nothing else. The bill comes and it's $83 with basic TV and a service charge. How they did this was they sent me a text message with a link to an agreement and asked if "everything looks right". Being on my cell phone and on my lunch break I just wanted to get it over with and said yeah.
They also assume you want somebody to come over and plug in your modem and rent you a router. I explicitly said no to this, but they signed me up for installation anyway.
I'm convinced Comcast institutionally trains reps to steer sign ups in this way.
I was refunded eventually, but it still cost me time to dispute billing.
My 2 cents: keep supporting it for free for a little bit longer, and then if there's no way to keep managing it yourself, make the leap and monetize. If people don't like ads/paying and leave, then you'll at least have a large userbase that can recover.
The potential for this kind of application is great; it allows people who would otherwise decline, postpone, or forget to get this kind of therapy. All while delivering it through a much more cost effective medium.
One time my app started crashing when I added a large async routine. I ssh'd in and topd and noticed memory and swap were maxed out. Doubled the swap and it runs just like it did before.
Does anyone know of any uber cheap monitoring services that last at least 6 months?
Also, I suggest billing Equihax for time spent changing emails, phone numbers, etc to make your identity less susceptible ("the time you spent remedying fraud, identity theft, or other misuse of your personal information caused by the data breach, or purchasing credit monitoring or freezing credit reports, up to 20 total hours at $25 per hour.")
Ive been enjoying Credit Karmas service. Great tracking and some cool tools. Their tax service is also very easy to use, much easier that when Ive used TurboTax's online service.
I learned a lot of *NIX stuff just by way of introduction through setting up a fileserver to host Plex, network shares, music server, etc. Doesn't really fall into any of your categories. It's more like:
4. People who upgraded their PC and have an old PC that is currently doing nothing (but could).
Sure I could have bought a NAS, but that would have cost more money and I wouldn't have learned nearly as much. And I wouldn't have been able to transcode streams.
