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| schestowitz | > May I ask you your advice about Linux ? A couple of years ago, I decided | Feb 06 00:51 |
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| schestowitz | > to completely abandon the MS OS because it feels, like (did you say it | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > ?), like a plate of spaghettis (or something similar because I love | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > spaghettis). | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | Some people call that "spaghetti code" (I'm sure you can appreciate the metaphor) which is too tough to maintain and even enhance without breaking all sorts of things. Even accidentally. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > The MS OS was getting on my nerves for plenty of reasons: | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > Awful boot up and shutdown times. Uncontrolled updates. Impossible to | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > transfer a boot driver to another system in case of an hardware failure. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > User unfriendliness, etc.... | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | Yes, I understand. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > There is still one program I miss in the Linux environment: a simple | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > email client. I had on the MS OS a nearly experimental one : M2 from | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > Opera. Simple, small, user friendly. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | A lot of people foolishly turn to "webmail". But it's not really mail and messages become "web pages" (HTML). | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | I've used Thunderbird since 2003, I think. On KDE there's kmail, but I would not call it easy (I used it for years). | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > Of course Linux offers many client starting with Thunderbird. IMHO | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > Thunderbird is another spaghetti programming with a peanut sauce on the | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > top. I mean difficult to digest. It lacks the simplicity of M2. I have | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > tried Bluemail, it has a legible interface but it isn't FOSS. Plain text | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > clients are not for everyone... | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | Correct. They're also slower to use for some tasks or use cases. I need to better understand what you find bad in Thunderbird. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > When I offer to my friends or members of my family to upgrade to Linux, | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > I'd like to offer simplicity in the first instance. A computer doesn't | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > have to turn you into a slave (I am aware the word is banned). The | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > computer is suppose to make your life easier. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | Things used to be like that, but users became "product"; new business model. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > Therefore, the question: are you aware of an email client that would | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | > neet my expectations? | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | You can try a bunch of other well known mail clients for Linux, but Thunderbird isn't too bad, maybe you just need to get used to it. It also supports PGP encryption out of the box now. | Feb 06 00:52 |
| schestowitz | Hi Fla, | Feb 06 00:54 |
| schestowitz | What's the latest progress on JD (if any)? | Feb 06 00:54 |
| schestowitz | Kind regards, | Feb 06 00:54 |
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| schestowitz | "Dear Roy, | Feb 06 11:42 |
| schestowitz | I sincerely apologise for all tipos, errors and incomplete sentences in my last email. I am tipping on a tablet on the one side, and I feel very upset by the situation both in and outside the EPO. | Feb 06 11:42 |
| schestowitz | Now back to the EPO. I feel that many of us, not just employees of the EPO, need truth and transparency. I am very optimistic at one thing: the public will be aware of the scandals in the EPO, many of my colleagues have retired with a "big file" containing confidential documents , a kind of insurance against bullying from the office. At the end, truth will emerge. | Feb 06 11:43 |
| schestowitz | Have a nice weekend." | Feb 06 11:43 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1490305217488998402 | Feb 06 17:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: @schestowitz There is more in Stjerna's book. On my way to buy it... | Feb 06 17:36 | |
| schestowitz | Air Commodore Rooker (@JMRooker): "Well they have to enforce their burka ban somehow. Can't have a woman wearing what she chooses in the city of light now, can we? What would the rest of the world think?" | nitter ⚓ https://nitter.eu/JMRooker/status/1490285593775034368 ䷉ #nitter | more in http://schestowitz.com/2022/02/06/#latest | Feb 06 17:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-nitter.eu | Air Commodore Rooker (@JMRooker): "Well they have to enforce their burka ban somehow. Can't have a woman wearing what she chooses in the city of light now, can we? What would the rest of the world think?" | nitter | Feb 06 17:36 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-schestowitz.com | Social Control Media Posts | Feb 06 17:36 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Jahrtt/status/1490178562460114944 | Feb 06 17:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Jahrtt: @schestowitz Why won’t you discuss the Arizona “election”? | Feb 06 17:37 | |
| schestowitz | https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1306106-parallel-x86_64-cpu-bringup-linux-patches-revised-for-quicker-boot-times/page2#post1307027 | Feb 06 17:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.phoronix.com | Parallel x86_64 CPU Bringup Linux Patches Revised For Quicker Boot Times - Phoronix Forums | Feb 06 17:40 | |
| schestowitz | " | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Originally posted by schestowitz View Post | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Sorry about the latter message, posted in the wrong thread by accident, but I still need a reply to my first query. I've linked to Phoronix literally tens of thousands of times and defended it a lot from its critics. I need to see the AMD contract by which this transaction was done, dated too (to avoid it being revised in a face-saving exercise). | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Wow, that's a lot. | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | First, what's your point and why do you feel he owes you some sort of answer? | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Second, for benchmarking of different EPYC processors, he needs to have the different CPU models to swap into his server. So, he's going to have more than 2 on-hand. | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Third, you don't know if he owns them, or if they're on loan, etc. | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Fourth, you seem to presume it's EPYCs all the way down, but it could be his entire CPU collection, for all we know. | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Finally, if you want a response from Michael, your best bet is to tag him in your post. It's no guarantee, but he's unlikely to see the message otherwise. I don't know why you seem to think he personally reads & approves all forum posts, but he definitely doesn't. | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | " | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | " | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | Originally posted by Espionage724 View Post | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | I know this is the wrong thread, but I'm curious, does that only affect the Windows IoT OS for that package? | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | I think it happened when Microsoft offered VS Code on the Pi. At least, that's what I seem to recall somebody stating, the last time this came up. | Feb 06 17:40 |
| schestowitz | " | Feb 06 17:40 |
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| schestowitz | > Hi Roy, | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > Here's a piece I wrote exclusively for Cheapskate's Guide | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe you'd like to comment/post a link or something. | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > Hope you're really well, I'm back teaching at the moment so have a | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > little less time but will keep working on that resilience mini-series | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > for Techrights/Tuxmachine | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/uncharitable.html | Feb 06 22:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cheapskatesguide.org | Designing devices for long-term care and reuse | Feb 06 22:17 | |
| schestowitz | Thanks, I shall link to this later tonight in Techrights and Tuxmachines. | Feb 06 22:17 |
| schestowitz | > A new piece on Cheapskates Guide | Feb 06 22:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Feb 06 22:18 |
| schestowitz | > https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/uncharitable.html | Feb 06 22:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Feb 06 22:18 |
| schestowitz | > good wishes fellas, | Feb 06 22:18 |
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