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  • Looking at the specs:

    Positives:

    • Higher refresh rate (with VRR) and slightly larger screen (so smaller bezel), higher resolution.
    • Hall effect joysticks
    • Possibly better speakers

    Negatives:

    • IPS instead of OLED display (but a good quality one at least)
    • Only one touchpad, and its tiny
    • Seems to be only 2 back buttons instead of 4 on the deck

    Neutral / unknown:

    • Long term support compared to official Valve devices (hopefully Valve is handling this for third party devices similar to Bazzite).
    • Price seems to be the similar to the Deck OLED model (depending on region)

    Going by the Verge review of the Windows version of the hardware, it seems the SOC of this isn’t that powerful (and may even be outperformed by the Deck when rendering at 720p on both systems with some games): https://www.theverge.com/reviews/617613/lenovo-legion-go-s-review-feels-good-plays-bad

    They did see framerates improve with Bazzite, so presumably the Steam OS release will have similar improvements.



  • I’ll add that it’s a meta-search engine rather than something that does the actual searching itself. That’s still useful, but you’re limited by the quality of the upstream search engines (including google, duckduckgo, qwant, etc).

    The gain from self-hosting is that you have more control over the results, and can do things like redirect social media sites to privacy friendly alternatives, and create your own bangs (or even add your own custom search engines).

    Probably not a massive privacy gain though, although if you host the instance behind a privacy VPN queries won’t be associated with your IP at least.


  • vividspecter@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldcalibre 8.0
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    11 days ago

    Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.

    calibre-web is technically not Calibre and is written and maintained by different people, although it does use the Calibre database (and I believe it must be created with desktop Calibre initially). But it’s a good option and I highly recommend it.


  • vividspecter@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldcalibre 8.0
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    11 days ago

    you just load your books from Calibre (or right through USB if you’re hardcore for some reason) and you’re basically off to the races.

    There’s also an OPDS server option with calibre-web that you can use to load books from if you’re using koreader.

    You can also use the Kobo server replacement option with calibre-web although I personally couldn’t get it to work at the time I tried it. But this will give you a sync option that works like the official Kobo server which is quite nice.