> Notice: This is a demo server. Text to speech is expensive. You will be able to add new articles until I have spent $300. This server will be up for about a week.
If this is offline first, then why use a server at all? Why not use the native OS text-to-speech? MacOS has built in text-to-speech and so does Windows (Narrarator?)
Good question. The short answer is that the UX of doing it with local TTS is pretty terrible. The voices will of course vary from device to device. But more importantly, control from the lockscreen doesn't work anymore (I've found you can't really use the web TTS API in a way that plays well with the MediaSession API, the position-resuming functionality, etc)
Android is not really Linux here. It normally includes the proprietary TTS engine from Google, which is quite decent. Even offline, it’s many times better than what Firefox on Linux comes with.
> You might be prompted to add an email account before you can change the setting in Mail. If you don't want to do that, check the preferences of the other email app. You might be able to set a default email app from there.
It says this, but Microsoft Outlook for Mac does not offer that setting. Apple Mail hides the 'Preferences' until you sign in to a mailbox, in which case it immediately downloads your email
True but I don't think it's necessarily malicious - simply a stupid oversight of not being able to access the Mac mail preferences before completing its setup flow. Given that they say this I don't believe there's anything preventing a third-party app (or the command line) from changing this parameter.
My next side project, this gave me the goal/hope to keep it under 1mb just to be in this club! The internet is too bloated these days, and I swipe away if it takes even a few seconds to load a webpage. We can all do a little better for our users
Yes, absolutely. But don't make the mistake of reading it in order - the first couple of books are not representative of what people love about it, as Pratchett hadn't really settled into his style at that point. Early Discworld was a straightforward piss-take of fantasy tropes, but it became wonderful when it expanded into more general social satire.
Where to start, then? It's not a series so much as a diaspora of stories set in a shared universe with occasional shared characters. Certain collections of books form little mini-series within themselves. There's a solid overview here: https://www.discworldemporium.com/content/6-discworld-readin...
