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A: How do I check email without depending on a mail client? This is a broad topic, and I can't address all the details fully in one post. Instead, I will post an overview with enough keywords in each area, and leave it to the reader (and other questions) to explore each one in more detail. The solution here is to separate the mail synchronization (receivin... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #288806 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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How do I check email without depending on a mail client? I use email frequently, for many things, some of them important (banks, work). From what I've seen, all the offline mail clients (like Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail) suck for a power user - mail filters are always some arcane, hard to use scheme that is difficult to version in a dotfiles repo, the pr... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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| Comment | Post #288492 |
Are you looking for a better *language*, and are okay with figuring out what programs you will use to write and read it? Or are you more concerned with the software, rather than the specifics of the language (so long as it's not markdown)? I think these are two separate questions, and it would be bet... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288492 |
Btw, I say this because there are two ways to answer your question: By taking everything you said at face value and just mechanically picking the closest thing (requirements), or by trying to read between the lines and figure out what it is you *actually* want (the context). When most people ask ques... (more) |
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A: HTML and Markdown aren't right for me. What other text markup types are around? There is always a trade off between ease of writing and reading. HTML, Latex, rich text (docx/rtf) have excellent readability if prepared right, but writing in them is difficult. Plaintext is easy to write, but limited formatting can hamper readability. Which do you pick? It depends on how much you w... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288492 |
There are two aspects to your question: The background/context for what issues you've had with Markdown and so on, and the requirements you have for what you want instead. IMO the latter is more important, although the first part does add color and helps interpret the requirements where they may be v... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288492 |
IMO the *problem* in this question is a perfect example of Q&A at its best - real questions like this about real use cases were always the most useful thing about Stack* sites, they drove traffic and promoted the most effective community collaboration. The later obsession with completely objective tr... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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| Edit | Post #288803 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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Hardware for occasional direct control of personal server Sorry if the title is weird, please feel free to suggest a rephrase. I have a personal server in my closet. I host various software on this for my family's use. The vast majority of the time I control it with SSH. There are occasional times when SSH is not possible. For example, when the server... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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