Windows has betrayed me one too many times.
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Windows has betrayed me one too many times. I'm raising money to buy a Mac for my publishing business.
Coupon code MWL gets you 10% off at my bookstore.
Tilted Windmill Press
Because Amazon will waste your money on executive salaries, and the author will use it to spoil his pets.
Tilted Windmill Press (tiltedwindmillpress.com)
(and before you shout "Linux/BSD/Inferno/whatever:" https://mwl.io/faq#tools )
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@mwl I really do just love the idea that someone might honestly suggest inferno as a desktop for an author. "I'll have whatever they're having", basically, because damn those must be some good chemicals.
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@mwl yes, yes I have. did you know they built a skyscraper over that gelato place since we were last there?
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@mwl @sng @sungo you *could* tell people that have issues that they are reading your books wrong and that they should read them under inferno
it probably would not be a sensible business decision, but you *could*
(is there even an epub reader for inferno? I've found traces of one for OEB inferno-os.org/inferno/man/1/e… , but surely that's enough for everybody, right?)
(also, I should be doing things, not wasting time looking for software for niche operating systems!)
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I would never do that.
now, a windowed release? hold back the next Beaks epub for 60 days in favor of the inferno-only version? sure.
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And now, I have to install inferno to be able to read that book, whatever it is. I may even send some extra money to Lucas just because.
Great job, everyone.
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@ParadeGrotesque @mwl @sng @valhalla @sungo Open Ebook Format (aka epub) is cross-platform. I'm just surprised someone bothered writing an epub reader for Inferno, a niche research OS (written by the Bell Labs crew who previously wrote Plan 9 and, before that, UNIX).
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@cstross While true and accurate how does this help with convincing Lucas to do something funny? @mwl @sungo @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla
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@sng @cstross @sungo @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla
Mr. Stross might have a far larger readership than I do (and well-earned, might I add).
But I will say: my readers are far, far worse.
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@mwl @sng @cstross @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla look, all it means is we have to go invent some inferno only thing so by the time that mwl finds room in his schedule, it's all ready and waiting.
remember those POC||GTFO binaries that were also PDFs and disk images containing the PDFs?
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@sungo @mwl @sng @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla You *do* know about the PDF that's doing that rounds and when you view it in a sufficiently compliant PDF browser it boots up a Linux kernel and gives you a terminal and userland?
GitHub - ading2210/linuxpdf: Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator
Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator - ading2210/linuxpdf
GitHub (github.com)
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@cstross @sungo @sng @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla
oooh... now THERE'S a worthy prank. Point init at an epub reader with the book loaded...
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