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One notification like this and your app immediately gets notification permission revoked on my phone (if not uninstalled).

Yup, anything you can come up with will only work as well as putting “Delete after reading.” in the mail. You have to trust the recipient.

This is for display, not data processing.

Also guess what, journalctl formats date like “May 21 00:48:56” (probably according to system locale). Why would you sort your log files alphabetically? They should already be in chronological order.

No. RFC 2822 (short format) is also great. “20 Mar 2025”

I guess it was wishful thinking that the FBI just learnt their lesson regarding encryption with the Chinese phone line hack. Bastards

Is that Outlook or Outlook (New)?

Hmm, interesting. Then I don’t think I’ve ever seen that myself, I thought you were talking about the strobe effect, that’s the only thing I associate with 7-segment displays (or other lights) in dark environments. I’ll have to experiment with it sometime :P

Also, I guess I stand corrected about the response time difference!

It should probably just not refresh when you click back on Subscribed. (Would be really nice if it was the same for posts too FWIW, at least save the state of the last two open posts in the feed so you can look at another and then the previous one and not lose the position)

That similar effect happens with some 7-segment displays because they actually flicker very fast (either didn’t bother to add an AC rectifier if it’s wall power, or it uses PWM to regulate the brightness). You can see it if you point a camera at them. The visual cortex makes it appear like it’s a continuous light but that illusion is destroyed as soon as the light moves. (Pretty sure this is the same effect which makes a moving image on CRT monitors appear smoother at low frame rate than LCD monitors.)

I don’t know for sure but I don’t think there’s any significant reaction time difference between rods and cones in different light levels. There is a difference in how long they take to adjust to different light conditions (IIRC rods take longer to adjust to darkness but can achieve much higher sensitivity in darkness).

Does your phone have an OLED display? My old phone had noticeably slow reaction time on dark pixels when the brightness was turned all the way down IIRC. Might be what’s happening here.

It worked well in my experience, no problems at all. I used it for a while a couple months ago until I set the web interface back up on my server.

Tbh I haven’t had too many problems with Postfix – however it is certainly a footgun and it would be nice to have fewer parts to connect together, and better defaults. I might try it out, it looks interesting.

From its web page it sounds like it is both a MTA and MDA, has a built-in spam filter, plus has calendar, contacts and file storage. Do you know how it compares to my current setup of Postfix, Dovecot, and rspamd (and Nextcloud for the others)?

Not with --attributes-only.

To back them up, perhaps cp -r --preserve=xattrs --attributes-only (or --preserve=all if you don’t want only xattrs)

I’m partially very sad but also kinda glad that I never got to use 10.4 or other previous versions (first one I used was Ventura). The more I hear about it, the more it sounds like I would have absolutely loved it and would be incredibly mad right now at the changes they made since.

I might give you Windows 7 on functionality, it has been forever since I used either. But definitely not design. 2000 has a UI that is consistent throughout, clear, and professional. It’s a masterclass in UI usability engineering. Plus it’s also heavily customizable if you want to do so. A lot of that was lost with Vista and some with XP.

AppImages are precompiled archives with extra steps. Meh. No, some of my problems with Flatpak are:

• it conflates app sandboxing with app distribution
• it mandates using bespoke APIs to work in sandbox mode instead of the established APIs (to the point where I’ve heard “we can’t implement X, it needs to work in Flatpak”)
• these APIs are often very Flatpak-focused but regardless become the standard for non-Flatpak because there is no existing alternative
• it ships its own builds of code that should be part of the system (for example, UI toolkits which would otherwise load global plugins, breaking stuff such as IME or themes)

Some of that (and why it’s necessary in the first place) is due to Linux’s incredible fragmentation and lack of an extensive backwards-compatible system API (such as macOS’s Cocoa), which causes a lot of other problems everywhere – but a lot of it is also self-inflicted. In fact, the massive focus on Flatpak and looking like that is the direction the Linux desktop is going was partly what drove me to try out a Mac.

My three operating system hills:

• Windows peaked with 2000 (design-wise) and XP (functionality-wise)
• macOS’ separation of the application vs window concepts — i.e. an app has exactly one menu bar and dock icon, and is expected to be able to stay open without any windows (without needing nonsense like tray icons) — is much better than anything else and it sucks nobody is copying it
• Flatpak and everything related is atrocious architecture-wise in every single way and it’s a massive condemnation of Linux (desktop)’s compatibility state that it actually solves a real problem

My #1 advice is to keep domain and mail/whatever else hosting separate. You can transfer your domain to another registrar, and then get an email hosting service that allows you to use your own domain.

That way you can move your email to another provider without also having to move your domain and vice versa.

My domain registrar is INWX, and I host my mail server on my own VPS so I can’t speak to the quality of any mail service but Hostinger allows you use an external domain.

That DNSSEC status does not have anything to do with being able to transfer your domain AFAIK, that is instead generally something different called Transfer Lock.

To transfer your mails, what I did in the past was just connect the two mailboxes via IMAP to a local client and copy everything from the old mailbox to the new one (or to a local one first, whatever). As long as both sides support IMAP, you don’t have to have any special support from either provider. But it’s probably nice to have.

You can connect non-Gmail mailboxes to the Gmail app but there are better alternatives. Thunderbird as you said, for Android there’s K9-Mail. Personally I use KDE’s KMail and Apple’s Mail app on my computers/phone. YMMV.