I also think that the quality and choice of e-mail clients on Android is poor. That said, I've been successfully using K-9 mail for some time now, and I've somehow learned to live with its shortcomings, the most significant probably being that while it has the option for several identities it still doesn't allow to configure separate outgoing SMTP servers for them, although it has been a feature request for years now and wouldn't really need rocket science or witchcraft to implement, either.
(I'm quite sure that K-9 works with GMail accounts, too, and it even does PGP encryption, if wanted.)
Thunderbird is what I've been predominantly using over the last few years, whether on Windows or Linux, but it isn't without severe flaws, either. The probably most annoying: As soon as an account surpasses a critical number of messages and/or folders, notification of new messages does not work reliably anymore and I have to actively click on the bloody folders to see if there's something new even if I've configured them to be updated whenever the account is being checked for new mail...
So that's just a few weeks from (an of course premature and ill-conceived) "oh, my server's CPU doesn't seem to be affected" (because in the beginning of the spectre/meltdown aftermath it wasn't even on Intel's official list) to "oh, my server's CPU not only is very much affected indeed, it won't even get the necessary microcode anymore". And no, that server is definitely not being used in a closed environment. And no, it is neither uncommon nor unreasonable to use ten-year-old servers for purposes which need limited horsepower, while still profiting from all the bells and whistles of a server like a lights-out feature with its own network interface and a full-fledged RAID controller.
Thank you, Intel, for giving me such a determining reason for future purchase decisions, the next of which seems to be closer than I thought until a few minutes ago (or wanted, for that matter).
... be an expert in every aspect of only one single field of those supposed to comprise the 'full stack', let alone an expert in everything within every field of the 'full stack'.
As a good and experienced developer, though, you might have had the chance to look into several of those fields, and are, of course, able to learn what you do not yet know. As it is, a specific 'full stack' job can't possibly require every theoretically existing aspect within every field of the 'full stack', either.
... I see no big problem here, which, of course, is a positive exception in Google's history of service discontinuations.
Those few parts of Google's own services which produced short goo.gl links themselves when clicked on, which are primarily Google's own problems now, if they even still exist. It's not as if goo.gl would have been the only or just the best URL shortener service. Personally, I like tinyurl.com, because it has been there for such a long time – and because it gives cautious folks the option to look up what's behind a shortened link before they go there.
It's not like if IT doesn't do their job, that absolves workers. Security is something that needs to be thought about by everyone, from janitor to CFO.
Simply declaring such a responsibility, whether rightfully or not, doesn't improve security an inch. That would be magical thinking.
Obvious fact is, people who are no IT specialists tend to lack the awareness and knowledge to be able to fulfill such a responsibility. If employers, or, in case of public service, we as a society, want employees to care for security, employers have to make sure that they get proper training. Something that obvously has been neglected in the cases we're talking about here. It's as simple as that.
It's always the same – the best things go away, because either they can't be produced to bring their companies enough profit; sometimes they fail because – like the Moto Z Mod system – they get designed proprietary and thereby limiting the attractiveness and the wish for people or companies to design something for that system; or the company makes mistakes in marketing and promotion...
Capitalism is not about the best things winning in competition, it's about being able to sell the cheapest things for the highest possible price.
One of the greatest mods just came out, the "Livermorium Slider Keyboard Mod", that's a real keyboard for the Moto Z, and I can't wait to get mine. If you use the phone to write real texts, or remotely administer servers or PCs, or do some of the many other things which get hampered by a virtual keyboard overlaying a large part of the screen, the physical keyboard is a must.
a 854x480 projector. It'd be better to cast the phone's screen to a Chromecast
Two completely different use cases. You use a projector where you don't have a big screen.
a $200 digital camera add-on (with optical zoom)
Yes, the "Hasselblad true zoom", while Hasselblad of course did not do anything except giving their name, is a 10x zoom add-on for a smartphone, and its image quality is quite decent, too. It's for people who want something much more versatile than a usual smartphone camera, something they can always take along with their smartphone, while they don't want to carry a whole extra camera all the time. Plus it is very well built, handles well and seems to be very durable, too.
a game controller add-on. I still don't know who seriously games on a phone
There are millions of people who do not take games too seriously and therefore play on smartphones – quite a lot of them still might want to use a game controller. Why shouldn't they?
And then there are other mods – several battery-pack add-ons to choose from which don't make the phone too bulky, or really good speakers to clip on (one's from JBL, if I remember correctly).
Even if it's a proprietary connector that, in a sensibly organized world, would have been designed open and for anyone else to use, too, it was a good idea that makes the Moto Z phones some of the most interesting and attractive phones to date, IMHO.
Yes. They are costing us and the whole planet too much, but still we need them to successfully maximize their profits so a little bit of money gets through for us to live off.
And as long as the system is one with the latter as a rule, and with money as a prerequisite for being able to feed ourselves, there will never be a real remedy for the aforesaid.
From my limited experience: if it comes to older Windows applications, the chances to get something to run properly might actually be higher under Wine than under a current Windows, and that was already true before 3.0. (And if something doesn't run, as was already said, there's still Virtual Box, VMware etc.)
Yes, OSS has changed many a thing, but, no, it hasn't changed the world much. The world is still based on profit as the single exclusive control quantity for things being done, which stays the primary reason why the world is in its dire and further deteriorating state. And of course OSS is only able to flourish where it doesn't harm profit, and that's not going to change within an economic operating system that would break (and lose its capability to feed people, as limited as that capability ever was) without the continued maximization of profit.
Most importantly, the tendency is that unemployment in Europe is higher where wages are lower.
If you include Eastern Europe, you have to admit there is still a hangover from decades of under-investment during the time behind the iron curtain.
It's not only those countries, and it's not as if even they would suffer from high unemployment rates simply or primarily because they used to be "behind the iron curtain" long ago, either. There's Southern Europe, too; Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece. (And just as a side note, if you were thinking of the Balkan states: former Yugoslavia was never "behind the iron curtain".)
I didn't think it was controversial to point out that higher employment costs correlates to higher unemployment.
It is, and it doesn't, and it gets even worse when causality is implied in the assumption of correlation.
As we're already looking at Europe: Germany is one recent example of a country where unemployment drops since the introduction of minimum wages 2015 and a general increase in actual wages. And Britain has doubled its minimum wage since 2000, with no observable effect on unemployment (the linked article elaborates further on the subject, too).
As opposed to the European way of making employees so expensive that you have 20% youth unemployment
There is no homogeneous "Europe" with a unified "way", there are no fixed Europe-wide labor costs and there is no meaningful Europe-wide unemployment rate figure.
Most importantly, the tendency is that unemployment in Europe is higher where wages are lower.
And as in every other part of the world, increasing unemployment comes from industry needing less human labor to produce what gets produced. And replacing people by machines is usually just a matter of time, making labor less expensive can only delay the process. When the machine becomes cheaper than the worker, the machine will substitute the worker.
In 2012, a better netbook, upgraded to full RAM capacity and HDD replaced with SDD, was a device that could be put to some good use. In 2018, I'd expect to be able to buy something which is, relative to today's standards, what the 2012 netbook used to be back then. And I'd expect it not to be extremely more expensive, either.
That would, today, include at least 8 GB RAM.
The Cube Mix, at first glance, looks like a strong contender for what I'm after! Neither 4 GB RAM nor 128 GB SSD are enough, though.
Yes, that would work. They are kind of heavy though. I have a refurb X220 with me all time time. I got it for 159€, but I upgraded it to 16GB RAM and with a 120GB SSD (it runs Linux). So, add another 150€ for that.
I have an X220T which actually is my primary computer, but there's no way I could have it with me all the time, especially not when I'm already carrying my photography gear. I couldn't see myself using such a big thing sitting in a café, either. Which are two of the reasons why I still have and use my old netbook although it frequently puts my patience to the test.
Used corporate is a good advice as such, which is how I got my Thinkpad X220T which is my primary computer these days. It cannot replace my netbook, though.
And if you REALLY want mega-light, there's some models that do that too, I'm sure.
I would gladly learn to be wrong, but the problem is, to the best of my knowledge, there aren't.
At least not to the best of my knowledge. Yes, I'm facing the same problem for some time now, although I'm still slightly better off with a year 2012 model netbook (1.6 GHz Atom) that I've upgraded to 4 GB (only 3 of them usable even with a 64 bit OS though) and SSD.
The last device I know of that would have fitted my needs in size vs. capability would have been the 10.6" Surface Pro 2 with the best of available options back then (8 GB/512 GB IIRC), but that was a design/lifestyle object sold for too high a price when it came out. Actually I might go and try to find a used one, one of these days, though – even if the mechanical design makes it less usable for many occasions than even the cheapest netbook.
(I need a Windows OS for my preferred photo editor, too, which unfortunately doesn't run with Wine, but with a sufficiently capable machine it does run in a Windows VM, which is how I mostly use it these days. Not on the netbook, of course.)
Why shouldn't he? It's a perfectly valid application for a netbook. I'm doing it for many years now, including RAW development, while I'm facing the same problem, although my netbook is already more powerful than the querist's – I'd like to have a faster CPU and more RAM, and sightly more screen resolution. Everything else could stay the same. Such machines don't seem to be manufactured anymore, though.
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I also think that the quality and choice of e-mail clients on Android is poor. That said, I've been successfully using K-9 mail for some time now, and I've somehow learned to live with its shortcomings, the most significant probably being that while it has the option for several identities it still doesn't allow to configure separate outgoing SMTP servers for them, although it has been a feature request for years now and wouldn't really need rocket science or witchcraft to implement, either.
(I'm quite sure that K-9 works with GMail accounts, too, and it even does PGP encryption, if wanted.)
Thunderbird is what I've been predominantly using over the last few years, whether on Windows or Linux, but it isn't without severe flaws, either. The probably most annoying: As soon as an account surpasses a critical number of messages and/or folders, notification of new messages does not work reliably anymore and I have to actively click on the bloody folders to see if there's something new even if I've configured them to be updated whenever the account is being checked for new mail...
So that's just a few weeks from (an of course premature and ill-conceived) "oh, my server's CPU doesn't seem to be affected" (because in the beginning of the spectre/meltdown aftermath it wasn't even on Intel's official list) to "oh, my server's CPU not only is very much affected indeed, it won't even get the necessary microcode anymore". And no, that server is definitely not being used in a closed environment. And no, it is neither uncommon nor unreasonable to use ten-year-old servers for purposes which need limited horsepower, while still profiting from all the bells and whistles of a server like a lights-out feature with its own network interface and a full-fledged RAID controller.
Thank you, Intel, for giving me such a determining reason for future purchase decisions, the next of which seems to be closer than I thought until a few minutes ago (or wanted, for that matter).
... be an expert in every aspect of only one single field of those supposed to comprise the 'full stack', let alone an expert in everything within every field of the 'full stack'.
As a good and experienced developer, though, you might have had the chance to look into several of those fields, and are, of course, able to learn what you do not yet know. As it is, a specific 'full stack' job can't possibly require every theoretically existing aspect within every field of the 'full stack', either.
... I see no big problem here, which, of course, is a positive exception in Google's history of service discontinuations.
Those few parts of Google's own services which produced short goo.gl links themselves when clicked on, which are primarily Google's own problems now, if they even still exist. It's not as if goo.gl would have been the only or just the best URL shortener service. Personally, I like tinyurl.com, because it has been there for such a long time – and because it gives cautious folks the option to look up what's behind a shortened link before they go there.
It's not like if IT doesn't do their job, that absolves workers. Security is something that needs to be thought about by everyone, from janitor to CFO.
Simply declaring such a responsibility, whether rightfully or not, doesn't improve security an inch. That would be magical thinking.
Obvious fact is, people who are no IT specialists tend to lack the awareness and knowledge to be able to fulfill such a responsibility. If employers, or, in case of public service, we as a society, want employees to care for security, employers have to make sure that they get proper training. Something that obvously has been neglected in the cases we're talking about here. It's as simple as that.
The chip could be read. At least that's what German IT news site Golem claims.
It's always the same – the best things go away, because either they can't be produced to bring their companies enough profit; sometimes they fail because –
like the Moto Z Mod system – they get designed proprietary and thereby limiting the attractiveness and the wish for people or companies to design something for that system; or the company makes mistakes in marketing and promotion...
Capitalism is not about the best things winning in competition, it's about being able to sell the cheapest things for the highest possible price.
One of the greatest mods just came out, the "Livermorium Slider Keyboard Mod", that's a real keyboard for the Moto Z, and I can't wait to get mine. If you use the phone to write real texts, or remotely administer servers or PCs, or do some of the many other things which get hampered by a virtual keyboard overlaying a large part of the screen, the physical keyboard is a must.
Two completely different use cases. You use a projector where you don't have a big screen.
Yes, the "Hasselblad true zoom", while Hasselblad of course did not do anything except giving their name, is a 10x zoom add-on for a smartphone, and its image quality is quite decent, too. It's for people who want something much more versatile than a usual smartphone camera, something they can always take along with their smartphone, while they don't want to carry a whole extra camera all the time. Plus it is very well built, handles well and seems to be very durable, too.
There are millions of people who do not take games too seriously and therefore play on smartphones – quite a lot of them still might want to use a game controller. Why shouldn't they?
And then there are other mods – several battery-pack add-ons to choose from which don't make the phone too bulky, or really good speakers to clip on (one's from JBL, if I remember correctly).
Even if it's a proprietary connector that, in a sensibly organized world, would have been designed open and for anyone else to use, too, it was a good idea that makes the Moto Z phones some of the most interesting and attractive phones to date, IMHO.
Yes. They are costing us and the whole planet too much, but still we need them to successfully maximize their profits so a little bit of money gets through for us to live off.
And as long as the system is one with the latter as a rule, and with money as a prerequisite for being able to feed ourselves, there will never be a real remedy for the aforesaid.
From my limited experience: if it comes to older Windows applications, the chances to get something to run properly might actually be higher under Wine than under a current Windows, and that was already true before 3.0. (And if something doesn't run, as was already said, there's still Virtual Box, VMware etc.)
To put nitpicking to the highest degree, there is not even such a thing as a 'degree' of 'K'.
Yes, OSS has changed many a thing, but, no, it hasn't changed the world much. The world is still based on profit as the single exclusive control quantity for things being done, which stays the primary reason why the world is in its dire and further deteriorating state. And of course OSS is only able to flourish where it doesn't harm profit, and that's not going to change within an economic operating system that would break (and lose its capability to feed people, as limited as that capability ever was) without the continued maximization of profit.
Most importantly, the tendency is that unemployment in Europe is higher where wages are lower.
If you include Eastern Europe, you have to admit there is still a hangover from decades of under-investment during the time behind the iron curtain.
It's not only those countries, and it's not as if even they would suffer from high unemployment rates simply or primarily because they used to be "behind the iron curtain" long ago, either. There's Southern Europe, too; Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece. (And just as a side note, if you were thinking of the Balkan states: former Yugoslavia was never "behind the iron curtain".)
I didn't think it was controversial to point out that higher employment costs correlates to higher unemployment.
It is, and it doesn't, and it gets even worse when causality is implied in the assumption of correlation.
As we're already looking at Europe: Germany is one recent example of a country where unemployment drops since the introduction of minimum wages 2015 and a general increase in actual wages. And Britain has doubled its minimum wage since 2000, with no observable effect on unemployment (the linked article elaborates further on the subject, too).
As opposed to the European way of making employees so expensive that you have 20% youth unemployment
There is no homogeneous "Europe" with a unified "way", there are no fixed Europe-wide labor costs and there is no meaningful Europe-wide unemployment rate figure.
Most importantly, the tendency is that unemployment in Europe is higher where wages are lower.
And as in every other part of the world, increasing unemployment comes from industry needing less human labor to produce what gets produced. And replacing people by machines is usually just a matter of time, making labor less expensive can only delay the process. When the machine becomes cheaper than the worker, the machine will substitute the worker.
Any of them available with a half-decent CPU, 8+ GB RAM, 512+ GB SSD?
The cafés I tend to visit don't even have large enough tables to put the X220T on...
In 2012, a better netbook, upgraded to full RAM capacity and HDD replaced with SDD, was a device that could be put to some good use. In 2018, I'd expect to be able to buy something which is, relative to today's standards, what the 2012 netbook used to be back then. And I'd expect it not to be extremely more expensive, either.
That would, today, include at least 8 GB RAM.
The Cube Mix, at first glance, looks like a strong contender for what I'm after! Neither 4 GB RAM nor 128 GB SSD are enough, though.
Yes, that would work. They are kind of heavy though. I have a refurb X220 with me all time time. I got it for 159€, but I upgraded it to 16GB RAM and with a 120GB SSD (it runs Linux). So, add another 150€ for that.
I have an X220T which actually is my primary computer, but there's no way I could have it with me all the time, especially not when I'm already carrying my photography gear. I couldn't see myself using such a big thing sitting in a café, either. Which are two of the reasons why I still have and use my old netbook although it frequently puts my patience to the test.
Used corporate is a good advice as such, which is how I got my Thinkpad X220T which is my primary computer these days. It cannot replace my netbook, though.
And if you REALLY want mega-light, there's some models that do that too, I'm sure.
I would gladly learn to be wrong, but the problem is, to the best of my knowledge, there aren't.
Problem is, functionally, they don't.
At least not to the best of my knowledge. Yes, I'm facing the same problem for some time now, although I'm still slightly better off with a year 2012 model netbook (1.6 GHz Atom) that I've upgraded to 4 GB (only 3 of them usable even with a 64 bit OS though) and SSD.
The last device I know of that would have fitted my needs in size vs. capability would have been the 10.6" Surface Pro 2 with the best of available options back then (8 GB/512 GB IIRC), but that was a design/lifestyle object sold for too high a price when it came out. Actually I might go and try to find a used one, one of these days, though – even if the mechanical design makes it less usable for many occasions than even the cheapest netbook.
(I need a Windows OS for my preferred photo editor, too, which unfortunately doesn't run with Wine, but with a sufficiently capable machine it does run in a Windows VM, which is how I mostly use it these days. Not on the netbook, of course.)
Why are you editing photos on a netbook?
Why shouldn't he? It's a perfectly valid application for a netbook. I'm doing it for many years now, including RAW development, while I'm facing the same problem, although my netbook is already more powerful than the querist's – I'd like to have a faster CPU and more RAM, and sightly more screen resolution. Everything else could stay the same. Such machines don't seem to be manufactured anymore, though.
The difference between a 10" netbook and a 12~13" laptop is significant. You can't replace one with the other.
Thanks to all comments, much appreciated.