Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@chirpbirb It's very useful for generating an inexhaustible list of server and workstation hostnames in whatever naming scheme you use.

I saw a 2024 Tesla Cybertruck for the first time with my own eyes while on foot today. It was almost new, yet it looked older, rattier, and rustier than my well-worn 1991 Mazda B2200.

If I didn't know better, I would've thought it was a redneck engineering job made from scrapyard parts, not something people with too much money paid thousands of dollars and dozens of months in waiting to buy into.

Friends, please spend this weekend learning how to make a backup copy of your PC's hard disk. Especially if your PC is too old to know what a cloud is, let alone back up your data to one.

Guess what happened in my field work today, a Friday the Thirteenth, that prompted this reminder.

When I _am_ in a terminal window, I use Mutt, & for almost precisely the same reasons as Sylpheed.
http://www.mutt.org/

The biggest differences are that Mutt's founding inspiration is ELM, not Outlook Express, & it doesn't even pretend to render HTML mail at all, instead presenting them as file attachments to plain text messages. Mutt is also more extensible, more customizable, & fully keyboard driven.

What do I use for email? When I'm not in a terminal window, I use Sylpheed:
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

It's light, it's fast, it has keyboard shortcuts for common tasks, it resists do-everything feature creep, & its UI hardly ever changes between versions.

But it doesn't render received HTML mail except as very simplified text, & it won't let you send HTML mail except as a file attachment to plain text mail. This is not a bug, todo, or fixme. This is an incredibly useful & welcome feature.

@chirpbirb Thunderbird has always been the Cinderella stepchild of the Mozilla family. Needing to download, store, index, and search every article of IMAP mail in advance instead of on the user's command is just one more reason why. :<