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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Garmin Explore has a bit of a learning curve but offers a variety of very good maps and (once you’ve discovered where the web developers have hidden them) tons of nifty features. One of them is waypoints: you stick a flag somewhere and can give it a name, icon and colour. That sounds like the thing you’re looking for.
    The downside is that it’s made for outdoor stuff so you get street names and some POIs, but no turn-by-turn navigation.

    I use the website (https://explore.garmin.com/) to plan my tours and import/manage GPX files, and the Android app and an inReach 2 Mini satellite messenger while underway. The three sync seamlessly.

    Since I have a paid subscription (required for satellite access) I can’t tell you what (if anything) you get for free, but it should be relatively easy to find out if you think it might be what you’re looking for.

    For car navigation I used TomTom Go - it costs something but the quality of POIs and navigation is far superior to Google Maps in my experience. You can also add your own locations but have to do it on the phone by hand.
    In my new car I use Google Maps because it came with the car and there’s no real alternative at the moment. I do miss my TomTom app.






  • I see several issues with your SMTP session.

    First, gmail.com will be protected by SPF and DKIM and your message will likely be flagged as spam (or outright rejected) because it’s clear that you’re not sending on behalf of the real gmail.com.

    Second, commands should be in all-caps. A server may accept or reject lowercase keywords.

    Third, you need to leave a blank line between the mail headers and the body, so that part of your session would look like so: …

    DATA
    354 Go ahead
    From: ...
    To: ...
    Subject: ...
    
    This is the first line of text.
    This is the second line.
    .
    250 Queued
    

    Having said that, many servers will require an encrypted connection (SMTPS), many ISPs will block port 25 for residential customers as an anti-spam measure (so your local mail server may accept the message from your script but be unable to forward it), ESMTP should be preferred over SMTP etc.
    If at all possible, you should use a full-featured mail library for this and use your ISP’s own mail server.

    Doesn’t Pop_OS come with a sendmail command?


  • No specific suggestions, but sort of a half-anti-recommendation:

    I used to own a Tolino Vision 2. It was a great device for its purpose and time - lightweight, sturdy, very pleasant e-ink screen and backlight, easy to use and didn’t mind a little sand or water. Sadly I lost it.
    The new models I could try out look even nicer, but they all share one common problem: half of the home screen is an online book shop that can’t be changed or hidden. That was reason enough for me not to buy another one.
    If you don’t mind that and Tolino devices are available where you live, they may be worth a try. Otherwise I recommend you steer clear of them.

    As for the DRM issue, de-DRMing with Calibre for some reason didn’t work for me (quite possibly a wetware problem), so I ended up buying ePubor Ultimate, which works very well and can do a lot of things but isn’t free.