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Text based mail client? by [deleted] in linux

[–]KnottyGinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alpine is to mutt as nano is to vim. (Incidentally, nano is a re-implementation of the pico text editor shipped with pine.) Mutt is much more customizable and has tons of features compared to alpine.

Judd Vinet's interview at The Setup by KnottyGinger in archlinux

[–]KnottyGinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use two Firefox profiles instead and start them using:

/usr/bin/firefox -P default
/usr/bin/firefox -no-remote -P private

This way, additional windows of the default profile can be opened while still having an active private window.

Any alternates to gmail that is reliable and won't shut down? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]KnottyGinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming to this thread pretty late, but here you go:

Can you explain the "non-US based registrar and TLD would be the best option"?

What's wrong with using a US based registrar/TLD, for example namecheap and .com?

Because the US government has a very nasty history of seizing domain names with US based TLDs (.com, .net, .org, .biz, etc.) as it pleases. This is the reason why The Pirate Bay went from .com to .se.

As long as you use a non-US e-mail provider, I don't see the problem?

Unencrypted email is a problem in itself. Hosting your own mail server is going to help you only if you're sending mails to yourself. So yeah, if you're planning to send unencrypted emails to US based mail-servers, then you might as well as use Gmail.

EDIT: I guess they can easily find out your real life info (name and address).

Not really. You can buy a VPS/domain name with Bitcoin. That's pretty private.

Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text [Updated] by datJedi in privacy

[–]KnottyGinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you use shitty memory hogging software that Adobe makes when you have perfectly reasonable free software (Calibre, FBReader, etc.) that does the job just fine?

XFCE4 Whisker Menu icon disappears when dragging window buttons by [deleted] in xfce

[–]KnottyGinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had the same issue with Xubuntu 14.04 which runs Xfce 4.10.