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rufus, (edited ) in [Discussion] Git - How is it classified?

I think there isn’t really something “authoritative” in Git. You can upload your changes somewhere or another developer can download changes from you. You can also all make incompatible changes and then you won’t be able to sync it anymore (you’d need to fix that first and manually handle the conflict). There’s nothing authoritive in it. In practice most people choose a central place and all upload their changes there and everybody else regularly pulls them from there. But you could as well directly do it with the computer of your colleague if you have a network connection and access to it. Files including history of changes are the same on every machine and server. (If they’re all up to date). It’s like storing a directory including past versions on 10 different computers.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted, in Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9
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I do not, but only because I use ProtonMail and don’t have premium so I don’t have IMAP/SMTP bridging.

I used it all the time back around 2011/2012 and it was pretty great, but that was admittedly a long time ago so I imagine lots have changed since them.

HubertManne, in [Old 1997 story] The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was
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I honestly thought this was going to be about os2

rhythmisaprancer,
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Gosh my dad ran that in the early 90s. Was that Linux? He was then and still is a Microsoft person.

s38b35M5, (edited )
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I think it was an IBM/MS OS. Forget if it was desktop, server or “other” though.

Edit: that’s right, it was IBM hoping to privatize the OS on a hard-to-clone PC (PS/2) when they saw their market share eroding quickly. arstechnica.com/…/half-an-operating-system-the-tr…

rhythmisaprancer,
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Wow, big memory trip! It was os/2 warp, I saw that package and knew it!

Dad worked for IBM in the 70s, no surprise. I also remember him having an OS box with a penguin on it but I don't believe he ever installed it. ~95ish.

GenderNeutralBro,

I was expecting Copland (what would have been Mac OS 8, had the project survived).

revv, in Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9

I like it. My only issue with it is that it doesn’t seem to want to download attached (vs remote) images automatically.

kjo, in Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9
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I do. It suffice.

jakepi, in Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?

Have you checked out OpenSUSE MicroOS at all? It’s similar to Silverblue. Runs great on my Framework 13 with Intel 13th Gen.

I wouldn’t be too concerned with “officially” supported Linux on the Framework. It is a very Linux friendly machine. The folks they have supporting Linux are active in the Framework forums and very helpful.

I eventually went back to my tried and true Debain. I loved the immutable OS thing for all the reasons people have listed here. My one issue was direct access to external devices can be a pain. IE: I just could not get USB passthrough working with virt-viewer after all my fiddiling.

ElPresidente, (edited ) in Are older, but Linux compatible computers capable of running the newest kernel/version of various distros?

So long as the computer supports an instruction set from like the last 30 years you can run the latest kernel.

Here’s a 133 Mhz Pentium running Gentoo with a very recent kernel.

I’d probably recommend something like Debian though unless you are really pushing the limits of the hardware.

ipsirc,
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Linux Kernel 4.14.8 (Dec 2017)” - Would this be the “very recent”?

ElPresidente,

As far as I know. nothing done in that video would be impossible on the latest kernel. Everything would compile and run comparably.

Sir_Simon_Spamalot,

4.14 is close to EOL, but it is still very well supported.

rhythmisaprancer, in [Old 1997 story] The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was
@rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social avatar

This is funny because 2008 is also when I got stuck on it. Interesting read, thanks for sharing!

pan_troglodytes, in [Old 1997 story] The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was

Whatever the actual numbers, it is not unrealistic that Linux will emerge as the second operating system after Windows, especially given Apple’s currently confusing sense of direction.

curious for a 27 year old article how accurate it turned to be (androidOS notwithstanding). Windows seems to still be the “2,000-pound gorilla” but there are other options available these days…

astraeus,
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Windows has lost a ton of market share, unfortunately it gave much of that market share to MacOS

tsl, in Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9

I’ve been using it for many years with my four mailboxes and I am very happy with it!

MalReynolds, in Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?
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I like Kinoite, have been happy for a year or so (how time flies). Pretty bulletproof, automatic updates and rollbacks, lotsa good stuff. One minor but relevant gotcha is it doesn’t like docker particularly much, I found the path of least resistance was to move to podman (which is more secure, can be easily turned into (–user) system.d units and has a cool auto update feature), podman-compose is your friend…

OrkneyKomodo, (edited ) in Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9
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Hangs down, the best email client for IMAP.

movie, (edited ) in Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9

It requires 2-step verification which requires a phone number, security key or google prompt for google accounts. Hard pass :D edit: i stand corrected, this seems to have been changed

yak, in Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9
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Not tried the app version. Been using Fairemail for a while now, since k9 was unmaintained.

Fairemail is well maintained. Quick. Supports multiple accounts very well. Loads of features (could be a downside for those who like things simple). Designed with security and privacy as top priorities right from the start. Open source development. For a long time its been the best email client on Android IMHO.

falcon15500,
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I like how K-9 hooks directly into OpenKeychain for encryption. Does Fairemail do that?

yak,
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Yes.

Deebster,
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I moved from K9 to FairEmail too, and I think I’ll be staying as long as it’s maintained. I particularly like the focus on privacy.

stardreamer,
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+1 for fairmail. Never have I seen an app so functional yet so ugly at the same time.

biddy,

The same could be said for K-9. What more could you want from an email app.

stardreamer, (edited )
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Last time I checked, K-9 didn’t have OAUTH integration.

Granted, it’s been a few years, so that may have changed since then.

As much as I don’t like Gmail, I need it for work so it’s kinda important for productivity software to support that.

Edit: Nvm. Looks like they finally added OAUTH last year. Better late than never.

stella, in Interview with KDE’s lead propagandist

Love KDE. Hope they maintain their position as the ‘swiss-army knife’ of DEs.

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