When I don’t want to give money to a specific company that I dislike. EA is an example.

IRCHighway ebooks channel is great

I moved to sopuli.xyz because of this. I can still subscribe to all the communities I like so no point in staying in an instance that’s constantly down.

I do it like this. Manage calibre on my PC, and copy the ‘Calibre Library’ contents to the server through ftp.

I’m on Linux and I also use hexchat

I use Joplin. It supports syncing with OneDrive, Dropbox and NextCloud. Also supports encryption which is great if you are syncing to onedrive or dropbox.

I use keepassxc topt

Impossible. Everybody I know uses WhatsApp.

You can download the French movie and take the track with ffmpeg

for simplicity I think sxiv supports ebooks