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[–] pglpm 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I tried "Better"bird for around a month, a year or so ago. Until I hit a bug and submitted a bug report and got this reply:

That's best reported as a Thunderbird issue with exact steps to reproduce.

and later this:

As a first step, we suggest to install the current ESR 91 version of Thunderbird in parallel and see whether the issue exists there.

I personally don't see what's the point of using an email client, if it refers to another email client for submission of some bugs, or if it asks you to install another email client to solve them. I told them and they explained that they're a small team and that

BB is a TB downstream project (fork) and we cannot possibly fix all 14.000 upstream issues.

The turning-point for me was that they simply closed my bug report and, when I told them that that was a let-down, they said:

Users like yourself, who refuse to cooperate or support the project via a donation, are a total let-down indeed, especially if they feel entitled to get a fix.

which was unfair because I do recurring donations to all software I use regularly. But OK, I can simply donate directly to Thunderbird and use that directly.

So I went back to Thunderbird and have been using it without problems since then; they fixed that and other bugs in the meantime. Thunderbird supports all major forms of authentication from what I've seen, so I use it for my work account and other free accounts, all in one.

[–] pglpm 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mozilla:

Mozilla opposes this proposal...

I wish they took a stronger stance like Brave:

We won’t be shipping WEI support

C'mon Mozilla, show some gonads.

[–] pglpm 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@bushvin@pathfinder.social @toikpi@feddit.uk @hevov@discuss.tchncs.de @ChonkaLoo@lemmy.world @HotBoxghost2743@lemmy.ml @c1177johuk@lemmy.world (I'm surely forgetting someone, sorry)

Thank you ALL for the great advice and guides! I'm writing from behind a laptop firewall now, and don't notice anything :) It was smoother than I expected. In the end I used UFW because it was already installed, but I'll take a look at firewalld too in some days! I don't have any incoming ssh connections (not a server), so I didn't need to worry about that :)

Really great people here at Lemmy :)

[–] pglpm 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Any specific reason for the special emphasis of the German flag?

[–] pglpm 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Thank you everyone, also @bushvin@pathfinder.social @toikpi@feddit.uk.

For example, if I open my settings (I'm on Ubuntu+KDE) I don't see any firewall settings to configure. So I expect this is automatically done by the OS, but maybe I'm wrong. A bit surprised that the system itself doesn't recommend using a firewall, to be honest.

Many firewall tutorials start speaking about "your server". Then I wonder: is this really for me? I don't have a server. Or do I?

I now see that the tutorial from @toikpi@feddit.uk gives a better explanation, cheers! So I see it's good to have a firewall simply because one connects to public wifis from time to time.

I see that both UFW and firewalld are recommended... is it basically OK whichever I choose?

[–] pglpm 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't stop imagining a TV screen beside the shower, just outside the photo...

[–] pglpm 1 points 2 years ago

Hey you're a genius. The post title made me laugh for 10 min straight 🤣

[–] pglpm 5 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Thank you for the advice!

Firewall on Linux is something I still don't understand, and explanations found on Internet have always confused me. Do you happen to know some good tutorial to share? Or maybe one doesn't need to do anything at all in distros like Ubuntu?

Regarding ssh: you only mean incoming ssh, right?

[–] pglpm 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you, at least the explanation of the acronym helps. I'm looking for more info, it seems to refer to a setting in about:config.

[–] pglpm 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's the "RFP" frequently mentioned in the document? I can't find any setting about it and am confused by Internet search results about it.

[–] pglpm 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, difficult, they are two different and incomparable concepts :) As they are now, I think the fonts reach the first goal: give the appearance of an old and used book. Which is cool.

For the second goal maybe there's no need to go to such lengths as you did, I imagine pictures of how those fonts looked in their time maybe exist(?).

[–] pglpm 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you so much, that did it!! I hope they'll put this option explicitly in the settings, in the future.

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