the recent changes to thunderbird are welcome improvements. you should give it another shot.
ares35
joined 1 year ago
the standalone office application called 'outlook' is still existing.. (for now, and until microsoft comes up with a way to fk that up too)
some moron at microsoft just decided it would be a good idea to dilute the strength of the outlook name by using it on webmail and the new (cr)app version in windows.
i maintain redirects for old URLs for which the content still exists at another address. i've been doing that since i started working on web sites 20-some years ago. not many take the time to do that, but i do. so there's at least a few web sites out there that if you have a 20 year old bookmark to, chances are it still works.
's mode' is the 'no way back' wall you can disable.. stupidly requiring a microsoft account to do--in order to install stuff on your pc without needing a damn microsoft account in the first place. 's mode' is becoming more common on higher-end hardware now, too, not just the cheap atom-based crap with emmc and 4gb ram. i've seen it on i5 laptops, ffs.
the other is a setting, which is just a scary 'warning' about installing programs from outside the garden, that you can change.
it's not just windows, and not just edge. i just installed firefox mobile on a guy's android phone because even on msn.com (which he reads for 'news' daily. it's about his only online activity) via chrome they hide the annoying 'continue reading' button and have an even more annoying 'continue reading in the app' one in its place. added a firefox link directly to that page on his home screen. he's a happy camper now. the less-annoying one is back and he (for the time being, anyway) is no longer pressured into installing yet another app-that-just-shows-a-fucking-web-page app. also having a ublock-origin enabled browser now is just the icing on the cake.
plenty of users are uninstalling at one site's (yt) demand... instead of just whitelisting instead.
i've watched more than a few shows that have been brutally hacked into wide format from the original 4:3. the practice is horrible. they need to stop pulling that shit and let the viewer decide whether to crop the frame or not--or put a proper pan & scan up instead of a blind hack job and leave the original format available, too.
that effect is amplified in areas with only shit-tier internet, like half of rural america.
the latter is why you just disable the adblocker on specific sites, instead of uninstalling it completely which leaves you open to all the malware infested ads and shit everywhere.
because those workers didn't buy into that corporate anti-union nonsense.
that's how i am when the big media companies and the cable/satellite companies fight over fees and retransmission rights.
the little purple desktop buddy could come back now.. powered by ai