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  • Cool, but the title is a big oversell.

    LookingGlass basically added a pretty fast software renderer for Windows guests. Which is nice, because it’s a pretty slick interface and works better than many of the alternatives, but it probably isn’t useful for gaming.

    The main strength of LookingGlass is for GPU passthrough setups, and this new feature doesn’t seem to be relevant for that. I’d say the stuff happening with Venus and native-context on Linux guests is more interesting (if quite new) since it doesn’t rely on a second GPU.





  • vividspecter@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldcalibre 8.0
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    3 months 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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    3 months 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.