Author: Kelson Vibber

Kmail

Ugh… I was hoping KMail had gotten more reliable since I last tried it, but just setting up an IMAP account I had multiple issues:

  • The inbox wasn’t synced. Everything underneath it was, just not the inbox.
  • It didn’t initially recognize all the special folders like Trash and Sent to begin with, either.
  • Even after I managed to get it to sync the inbox folder, it was literally impossible to move or delete anything from that folder! In some places the action was disabled, and in some it was missing!

That last one was first reported 10 years ago, supposedly fixed, and then it came back.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316153

There’s a workaround that involves messing around with the akonadi console, but apparently even that’s only temporary!

I wanted to use the defaults on this system as much as possible before bringing in other stuff, especially since I could theoretically share contacts and calendar accounts across multiple apps without signing in on every single one…but I think I’m going to just install Thunderbird and have done with it.

Gyahhh, now I’m thinking of that old Apple commercial where the actor who played Lord Refa on B5 is trying to set up a Windows program and his kid eventually gets frustrated and says, “I’m going over to so-and-so’s house. They have a Mac.”

“I think we are dealing with a dominant cultural belief—one might say a national spirit—that …

“I think we are dealing with a dominant cultural belief—one might say a national spirit—that believes that any people who suffer aren’t actually people, because if they aren’t people then we won’t have to take care of them—and so, if neglect makes them so desperate or unsightly that they cause us discomfort, then we can get rid of them, blaming them for causing the discomfort that resulted in our having to inconvenience ourselves with their disposal.”

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-die-ers

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politics (general)I figure that's how we ended up with a bunch of religious rural …

politics (general)

I figure that's how we ended up with a bunch of religious rural working-class folks voting overwhelmingly for the multiply-divorced big-city hotshot who barges in and thinks he knows how to do your job better than you can. Twice. And remolding themselves to be more like him as the years went on.

That's how you end up with people calling Liz Cheney's political suicide “cowardly,” because she “sided with the Dems” in the Jan. 6 probe

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politics (general)I mean, *everything* gets shoved into a binary. Coke vs. Pepsi, Windows vs. Mac, …

politics (general)

I mean, *everything* gets shoved into a binary. Coke vs. Pepsi, Windows vs. Mac, Twitter vs. Mastodon.

And then those binaries get lumped together, as if all Coke drinkers use Windows and all Pepsi drinkers use Macs. Even though they don't.

And then those groupings start to homogenize. The Coke drinkers who use Macs start thinking maybe they should use Windows, or maybe they should keep the Mac and start drinking Pepsi instead.

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Politics should not be a team sport…

Politics should not be a team sport with only two sides, where your team is always right and their team is always wrong, and any criticism of someone who happens to be on your team is dismissed whether it’s in good faith or not.

We should have shifting coalitions based on each issue being discussed. Not semi-permanent factions where everyone has to pledge allegiance to one side or the other.

But everything gets shoved into a binary.

Maybe (most) humans are just wired for it

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Nextcloud Apps

If you use a Nextcloud server, there’s a good collection of apps (some official, some third-party) that work with it. The ones I use:

Nextcloud – main app, does authentication, file access, optional auto-upload photos
Nextcloud Notes – kind of like Google Keep, but simpler. (IIRC Carnet is more like Keep, and also open) Nextcloud Talk – instant messaging, supposedly can do voice but I’ve never used it for that
Nextcloud News – RSS reader that syncs your feeds and read/unread through your Nextcloud server

Plus these apps that aren’t Nextcloud-specific, but work with it and other sync methods:

OpenTasks – ToDo list (needs Dav5x to sync)
DAVx5 – Syncs contacts, calendars and to-do items between any CalDav, CardDav or WebDav servers and your Android system, so you can access them with any local contacts or calendar app. (For instance: K-9 Mail can use contacts from my Google account and my Nextcloud account, and Simple Calendar can do the same with my calendars.)
Floccus – Bookmarks manager that can sync across multiple desktop browsers and the mobile app, using any of several sync options including Nextcloud

Fowl Language: Sad Hulk#comics #depression #tooReal

Fowl Language: Sad Hulk

#comics #depression #tooReal

https://tinyview.com/fowl-language/2023/05/29/sad-hulk?_branch_match_id=1369861528040571732&utm_source=tinyview&utm_campaign=viral&utm_medium=app&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXL85PzkzM0SvJzKssy0wt10vOz9UPCjEODi%2FwNEx2TLKvK0pNSy0qysxLj08qyi8vTi2ydc4oys9NBQBZZfTTQQAAAA%3D%3D

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Interesting: I only know the term “bodega” in its borrowed-into-English small-convenience-store sense, and since this …

Interesting: I only know the term “bodega” in its borrowed-into-English small-convenience-store sense, and since this clearly wasn't one, I looked up the actual Spanish meaning…

…and discovered that bodega, apothecary and boutique all come from the ancient Greek word for storehouse, ἀποθήκη.

https://pixelfed.social/p/bobfisherphoto/567679150312415191

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bodega

#language #linguistics #etymology #bodega

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Crazy idea that I can’t believe I’m considering: Building a #gemini front end …

Crazy idea that I can’t believe I’m considering: Building a #gemini front end — well, not a front end so much as the “static” views of profiles and public posts – for @gotosocial

(I really need to finish some existing side projects before starting new ones.)

(Admittedly, a full gemini-based #GoToSocial front-end that enables posting and stuff would be cool too. Though it looks like Bubble may be a better fit for that sort of thing: gemini://geminispace.org/u/skyjake/1 )