They are DRMed, unlike the technical books I normally get from Humble. I should have read the fine print better and not believed the “works on all devices” summary. I trusted Humble and learned a good $18 lesson.
Can DRM be removed? Sure. But that’s not why I buy books from Humble.
Official announcement from Insulet:
Reminds me of The Gallery of Regrettable Foods.
https://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/bhgsalad/index.html
If you enjoyed Guards! Guards! Why not follow up with the rest of “The Watch” books?
See this for some possible reading orderings:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Discworld_Reading_Order_Guide_3.0_(cropped).jpg
I’ve had some luck establishing the bottleneck using strace on both the sender side and receiver side. This will show if the sending rsync is waiting on local reads or remote writes and if the receiving rsync is waiting on network reads or local writes.
This helps find the specific resources to check.