LaggyKar

If you’re running Wine on a case-sensitive file system, and you it tries to open a file, it would first try to open a file whose case matches exactly. But if it doesn’t find one, it would then need to list all the files in the directory, normalize their case, and go through them all to see if there is a file with the given name but in a different case. That can take some time if there is a lot of files in the directory.

But if you’re on a case-insensitive filesystem, the FS can keep case-normalized names of all files on disk, so you can do a case-insensitive open just as fast as you can do a case-sensitive open.

BTW, another application that can benefit from this is Samba, since SMB is case-insensitive.

It does, but having case insensitivity in the file system can get you better performance.

It isn’t normally, but it, like e.g. Ext4, allows case insensitivity mostly for the sake of Wine.

Kobo store, Google Play Books, and various other places (here in Sweden for example we have Bokus and Adlibris) have Epub downloads. Usually with Adobe Digital Editions DRM (which you can get rid of pretty easily with DeDRM, or alternatively Kobo tablets support Digital Editions), but some books are sold DRM free, or with LCP DRM which I don’t have experience with. Something I’ve noticed at least on Bokus is that many books in Swedish are sold as DRM free Epubs with watermarks, even if they’re translated from an English version which is sold with DRM on the same store, though that’s probably not relevant for people in other regions.

It’s not a daemon

We’ve been without a lot of things for millennia

A robot doesn’t need to be anthropomorphic, an assembly line robot is still a robot. It does however need to be able to perform some actions autonomously, for which a vibrator hardly qualifies.