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  • Dingaling@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.mlEmail 101 Book?
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    26 days ago

    (Have read you’re not interested in self hosting - I think that’s very sensible. It’s a lot of work and even then, very difficult to do it well and be reliable)

    Suggest finding a reputable email provider, and they will require payment.

    I recently moved from gmail to proton. The migration process was very smooth, with proton copying over all my existing email and calendars from gmail. However, their web clients are very slow in comparison (since they’re encrypted - click on an email and it’s 3 seconds or so to open, an eternity!). I find that annoying enough that I’ve setup thunderbird via a proxy, but that has negated some of the ease of use.

    There are quite a few good options around, maybe others will chip in with recommendations.

    Once you have a new mail client, your [email protected] address will not be valid. However, if you want it to, you can keep your old email account with gmail as well, and have it forward all incoming email to your new home. That allows you to gradually move your accounts over at your own speed. I think this is important as there will be more than you expect of them, but the process isn’t hard.

    Most of those new providers will also allow you to use a personal domain, and multiple users. So you can register a domain that stays with you - that’s the domain.org bit of your email address, and multiple users - the bit before the @.

    The good providers will have guides and documentation about helping you through this also.


  • The Garmin stuff (I’ve used Oregon a lot - various models since 2011) auto-saves tracks as GPX and is very reliable about that.

    The newer stuff also saves as .FIT with extra info.

    When you plug these into a computer by USB they appear as a normal extra drive, with the files available natively. As /u/Shimitar says, they don’t need the cloud, or an account (unless they have changed that)

    They’re also pretty robust and weather proof.

    Downsides - expensive. Sometimes limited features. The cameras on the Oregons are useless, and you mention a camera is needed - so it depends what features you want, your budget, and the range.



  • Any arts store or online you can get a sheet of dark coloured stickers for cheaps that have become essential in modern life. Quick, easy, removable. Even on nova-quality LEDs where light still escapes, you can double up.

    On several over-bright backlit LCD screens, where I still need to read the info, I create a simple hinge with thin cardboard and a short strip of sticky tape. Cardboard flaps down but can be lifted up to see the info.



  • Whilst I love a foss drama as much as the next person; It’s clear the dev here has shown /some/ humility and self awareness after the fact.

    And whilst it doesn’t change his actions, and if it’s true, receiving death threats from people is completely unacceptable. I hope he has reported those to the police and that they are traced and appropriate action taken. (here in the UK, making a death threat over the internet would get you jailed for up to ten years). Being abusive is cowardly, unneccesary and shameful.





  • I’ll look into OpenSUSE as a potential alternative

    You could do worse!

    I’ve worked with OpenSuse for a few years and I really like the people involved. They’re stand-out in that they’re European based (no bad thing in today’s uncertain world if you’re not American yourself.) They’re a german organisation but the employees are spread through Europe and further afield and they’re a really, really small concern, but IME, they genuinely care about doing the right thing, even if that comes before financial growth. One example of that is their tutoring programs and, unlike many organisations even in the FOSS world, I get the feeling they genuinely uphold their guiding principles

    I use Debian myself at home and at work and it’s my go-to for everything, but if it didn’t exist, OpenSuse would probably be the next on my list and although I’m not working with them at present, I would happily do so again.