blood sucking leeches versus privacy sucking websites …
blood sucking leeches versus privacy sucking websites …
don’t really have a favorite – started with Thunderbird a long time ago but switched over to webmail fairly early on
now that I’ve started to build a new system, I started to look around at the various options (and maybe getting off webmail or at least having local storage “backup”) – the standard GUI clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, BlueMail, Mailspring) seem to be … fine – but none of them really stand out
recently stumbled across some nice screenshots of aerc and the idea sounds really appealing, but I’ve never had any contact with terminal email programs and found out they’ve followed a completely different evolutionary path than GUI apps (even terminology has diverged between the two) – GUI apps keep trying to be an all-in-one (email, contacts, calendar, tasks, …) whereas terminal programs almost seem to to favor a “balkanization” of effort – aerc looks like it’s grabbed a middle-ground, you can run it as standalone or go all in with a fully customized setup – problem I’m running into is I can find lots of “how” guides, but very little in the “what” or “why” side of things …
(completely in line with Hillary being a disciple of Kissinger)
nano -m <file>
or set mouse
in your nanorc
and sometimes you just need a text editor, not an entire thesaurus
meanwhile in capitalism: “Get back to work, you can’t afford a lunch break!”
as others have mentioned, a window manager is one component of a desktop environment – under ideal conditions, a desktop environment collects and integrates a whole set of packages (both primary and supporting), unifying functional aspects as well as look-and-feel – whereas people starting with a window manager add in tools where working for them takes priority over working with other tools
such a weird dichotomy in Windows – secure kernel space and privacy-nightmare user space … “we’re the only ones allowed to steal your data”
NOT a fork of Linux, but Redox is aiming for a Unix-like OS based on Rust – but even with “source compatibility” with Linux/BSD and drivers being in userspace, my guess would be hardware drivers are still going to be a big speed bump
Firefox *might* be *thinking* about bringing back webapps: How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?
another vote for Lua – lua5.4 is available for all 8 Alpine architectures, tiny installed size (120–200 kB) (and Alpine package only installs two files)
some RSS readers allow you to run filters on specific feeds BUT if those feeds are happily padding out their off-season, chances are they’re keeping it generic enough there’s nothing to filter against :(
and not Zilla Slab (which even had an opentype feature to replace “Mozilla” with “Moz://a”)
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Pëtr Kropotkin (1902)