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I love this feature and use it all the time! Are there any apps I can replace this with?

Plus the indexer was relentless and just smashed HDDs.

I'll second the issues with the indexer. I disabled it for every disk I had because the additional I/O load for disks was ridiculous. I remember benchmarking game launches with it enabled and disabled to see how much of a difference there would be, and I saw some games take a full minute less to load into a playable state.

I don't know if I just had more files than the average consumer or what, but they didn't anticipate the load under certain scenarios.

I'll take a forehead over a notch.

Mine has also been very reliable.

The DMCA supersedes that - it's still a crime to bypass copy protection mechanisms, and there are very few exceptions to that rule.

It's not even grey - in the US it is illegal under the DMCA.

I'm not up to date on ripping tools, though.

I'm using a combination of:

• The Boox Palma reader, though they have larger tablets if you prefer. I'm not sure about the others, but the Palma runs Android with the Play Store.
• Kavita to host my ebooks online.
• FolderSync with SFTP to sync all of my books ahead of time to my SD card.
• Moon Reader to add my Kavita server's OPDS feed as an online catalog if I need to grab something manually.
• Calibre to manage and embed metadata.

PNG supports lossless compression through deflation, but there are encoders that can apply a lossy filter to the image to make the compression more effective.

PNG doesn't support lossy compression natively, to be clear.

Rust specializes in making parallel processing secure and approachable, so it's going get used in problems where parallel processing and efficiency matter.

Rust is also now allowed to be used in the Linux kernel for the same reasons, which is exciting!

There aren't too many legal concerns about it from the perspective you're talking about. I'm sure publishers could put in a licensing provision that running their software on operating systems other than Windows isn't allowed, but that's a private agreement between the publisher and consumer.

It's difficult to enforce and doesn't really benefit anyone.

That's quite playable!

Is it possible that connecting to WiFi triggers app updates in the background? Those can be somewhat intensive especially when batched.

Additionally, the Google Play Store no longer notifies when app updates occur, so this process is a little more opaque than it used to be.