Your system is really creative. Especially the 1-way syncthing. That’s pretty cool tbh.

So I use Firefox and logged into mylibrary. overdrive .com and then checkout/play an audiobook in the browser. While it’s playing went to More Tools → Web developer tools →Network and filter by Media. The mp3s pop up there. Copy/paste the url into a new browser window and download. When you’ve finished downloading it, play it locally on your machine and your audio player will tell you how long the file lasts. Then click to the corresponding chapter to download the next mp3 file in the grouping. So for example, if the first mp3 lasts 1hr5 min, look at the audiobook and you’ll see that Chapter 5 ends at 1hr5min. So you click on Chapter 6 in your browser to begin downloading the next mp3 file. Repeat as needed until you’ve downloaded all the files in the book. The book I did yesterday had a total of 3 mp3 files.

Then you can put those mp3s into an M4B container with the proper chapter breaks. If you want, put in some cover art into that container too :)

Can you describe what you’re talking about? I’m not sure I’m doing that either.

I’ve also got a system for ripping audiobooks from Libby

Woahh, what? I’d love to learn how you do this. VLC? Where did you learn how to do this? Is there a write-up that you might point me to? Idc if it is complicated and technical. I’d love to learn how to do this.

Edit: Nevermind. I figured it out. Thanks for letting me know this was possible. I had no idea. Audiobooks are hard to find so this is fantastic. Easy to bind those mp3’s into a single m4b with chapter markers. I’ll do that from now on. This is great!

Do you run OSMC in a container on your pi or as the base image installed with the pi imager?

I’d absolutely recommend using your own modem and router. I do it and the additional control over your network is more than enough reason to make the switch. Plus, using your own modem, and router usually pays for itself in two years, so there are financial benefits as well.

You will need to make sure you get the right modem for your ISP. You can usually verify which one you need on their website.

I found the binary for the sid repo. That worked. Here is the link in case someone does a search: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/firefox/

I also use Linux. I went to the gym once in 2002… I didn’t love it.

The !remindme bot functionality would be nice

Your post is based on a supposition that doesn’t exist. It’s clickbait fear mongering with no basis in reality.

The post (and link) is admin confirmation that there is no “hypothetical v2”. Facebook’s Threads is no more likely to federate with Lemmy than Twitter is… or Reddit for that matter.

The Lemmy.world admins wrote a whole post about this. https://lemmy.world/post/1274909