I realize they weren't very popular, but you seem to have missed BlackBerry 10 phones, which ran QNX. Still the best smartphone experience I've had, at least in the "core" apps... Hub was amazing and worked really well.
Disclaimer: I worked for BlackBerry during the BB10 era, but left before they switched to Android devices.
I don't think I can, sorry; nobody seems to publish their pricing, presumably because they want to harass you with sales goons. We're also under NDA.
I can tell you that one vendor, who didn't give us special pricing on hardware, sold us an HSM for around $5k US. This is a PCI-e card model, not an appliance, so it's probably much cheaper... there's no intrusion detection or anything like you'd get with a 1U rack mount or something like that.
I intentionally installed Win10 on two of my machines as soon as it was available... the both came with Win8, which was awful.
I'd use something else, but I like to play games when I have time, and if you do that on a computer you still need Windows. Yeah Steam has a bunch of Linux support now, but I've got a pile of games I want to play that are Windows/Mac only, and Apple hasn't made any good hardware in ages.
Other than the games, pretty much everything else I use is portable, so switching actually wouldn't be a big deal. But I don't want to dick around with rebooting or trying to get Wine to behave... the fun part for me is the game, not getting it to run.
Also, I'm not quite 50, so maybe I'm not old enough to get "tricked"... I knew what I was getting into.
Outlook on Mac can't even connect to iCal calendars anymore. This feature seems to have vanished when they "improved" the UI.
Outlook on Mac can't even search a folder, all searches are current-message only. WTF, I can read the current message, but I can't easily find something in a few thousand saved messages.
Outlook on Android can't connect to shared mailboxes or shared calendars, unless they've recently added this ability without notifying existing users about it. It's literally just an IMAP client that barely knows how to do ActiveSync with your Exchange server.
Every year or so, I go looking for a Thunderbird replacement, and every year or so, I end up back at Thunderbird. I don't even do anything weird with it, I just use it for email.
All of the other free/open source email clients are awful in one fatal way or another. They've mostly all been abandoned for years, presumably because webmail (Gmail, or ProtonMail, or whatever) got "good enough", or people are just using their phones.
Mailbird and Mailspring are sort-of promising, but they don't have local spam filters. My mail host (pobox.com; long-term user, but otherwise unaffiliated) does a good job of filtering spam, but things still get through and I like to be able to kill them automatically.
Mailspring has at least acknowledged that this would be a good feature; Mailbird seems to think your mail host's filtering should be fine. I guess none of them have had the same email address for decades...
I look forward to Thunderbird getting some attention again.
I'm planning a trip, and I was going to install Kayak to see how well that works... well, now I'm not going to use Kayak as a result of this.
*shrug* They won't notice because I'll never be part of their analytics (unless Google ends up shipping them a list of what apps I have installed on my phone, then they'll be able to see which airline(s) I use).
You might want to poke around in Firefox's settings; using Firefox Quantum on my Android device, the "default" screen is whatever I had open last time, unless I delete all the tabs, then it's some sort of thing showing recent tabs.
I don't browse much on my phone though because it's so awful. I use Firefox there so I can have uBlock Origin going... browsing without an ad blocker is like a root canal without freezing.
> All of what you say is true. But somewhere between the app and the screen there has to be a plaintext. And that's the weakness.
Obviously, if your machine is owned to the level where an adversary can read your text straight out of the decryption routine, your use of an encrypted messaging app isn't going to help. But you've got other problems at that point.
All currently-used public-key cryptography, including ECC, is vulnerable to attacks by quantum computers because the underlying hard math problems aren't hard for quantum algorithms.
There's a technique for using elliptic curves to construct schemes that aren't vulnerable; supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman for example works like ECDH.
Disclosure: I work for a company producing encryption code that's safe against attacks by quantum adversaries.
I've been using Classic Shell http://classicshell.net/ since Windows 8. I'll keep using it until MS makes it incompatible somehow, unless MS manages to actually design their Start menu in a decent way.
Pity Classic Shell's been abandoned since 2017 but if there's one thing Windows is good for, it's running legacy software...
I'm still confused as to why anyone would use Visual Studio Code or Atom (both massive Electron apps) when SublimeText is available?
It's like Atom (a LOT like Atom, I think they're cloning it), but using much less disk and RAM, and with more polish. My instance is currently using a bit over 4MB of RAM (on Win10, no files open).
Fresh install of Atom, no files loaded... 285MB of RAM.
On-disk install size for Sublime is 26MB. Atom is 668MB. FOR A TEXT EDITOR.
So, I had this idea a while back where I'd make a plugin or whatever to check for people re-using bad, pwn'd passwords. I diligently collected about 40GB of breached password data (that's after I threw out everything but the cracked passwords themselves).
After filtering for uniqueness and slapping everything into a database, it was still something like 16GB. I lost interest in the project before I found a clever way to reduce this further.
The data set is too huge to install on a mobile device, and pretty unreasonable for a browser plugin. And nobody would trust a website that says "type in your password to see if it's already part of a data breach!".
AFAIK OneNote isn't part of Office because it's free now... has been for a while.
Don't use the Windows 10 version though, it's missing probably 50% of the features of the "real" desktop version... it's on par with the Mac version and the web version.
The missing feature in Libre that stops a *lot* of industries from using it is Change Tracking in Word. This is a required feature when dealing with lawyers for patents, most (all?) publishers, etc.
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I realize they weren't very popular, but you seem to have missed BlackBerry 10 phones, which ran QNX. Still the best smartphone experience I've had, at least in the "core" apps... Hub was amazing and worked really well.
Disclaimer: I worked for BlackBerry during the BB10 era, but left before they switched to Android devices.
I don't think I can, sorry; nobody seems to publish their pricing, presumably because they want to harass you with sales goons. We're also under NDA.
I can tell you that one vendor, who didn't give us special pricing on hardware, sold us an HSM for around $5k US. This is a PCI-e card model, not an appliance, so it's probably much cheaper... there's no intrusion detection or anything like you'd get with a 1U rack mount or something like that.
Actually, you're off by an order of magnitude; you can buy an HSM for $5000-ish.
[Citation: I work with HSMs at the office.]
Get off my lawn!
I intentionally installed Win10 on two of my machines as soon as it was available... the both came with Win8, which was awful.
I'd use something else, but I like to play games when I have time, and if you do that on a computer you still need Windows. Yeah Steam has a bunch of Linux support now, but I've got a pile of games I want to play that are Windows/Mac only, and Apple hasn't made any good hardware in ages.
Other than the games, pretty much everything else I use is portable, so switching actually wouldn't be a big deal. But I don't want to dick around with rebooting or trying to get Wine to behave... the fun part for me is the game, not getting it to run.
Also, I'm not quite 50, so maybe I'm not old enough to get "tricked"... I knew what I was getting into.
That's probably just displayed by default, and then turned off by some JavaScript in their ad scripts. They don't need to get notified.
Back in the day, when Blackberries had those little track ball things, you could pair them with your desktop and use them as mice/trackballs.
LG has at least one model (G7 One) that's shipped with "Android One"... stock Android without any third-party garbage.
Still has that idiotic notch though.
The 'ROM' space is just a read-only (ish) partition in the storage, so that cuts into your on-device storage space whether you're using it or not.
Are vendor updates (hahahaha, on Android?!) going to un-Disable these bundled apps for us? Nobody knows.
Outlook on Mac can't even connect to iCal calendars anymore. This feature seems to have vanished when they "improved" the UI.
Outlook on Mac can't even search a folder, all searches are current-message only. WTF, I can read the current message, but I can't easily find something in a few thousand saved messages.
Outlook on Android can't connect to shared mailboxes or shared calendars, unless they've recently added this ability without notifying existing users about it. It's literally just an IMAP client that barely knows how to do ActiveSync with your Exchange server.
Every year or so, I go looking for a Thunderbird replacement, and every year or so, I end up back at Thunderbird. I don't even do anything weird with it, I just use it for email.
All of the other free/open source email clients are awful in one fatal way or another. They've mostly all been abandoned for years, presumably because webmail (Gmail, or ProtonMail, or whatever) got "good enough", or people are just using their phones.
Mailbird and Mailspring are sort-of promising, but they don't have local spam filters. My mail host (pobox.com; long-term user, but otherwise unaffiliated) does a good job of filtering spam, but things still get through and I like to be able to kill them automatically.
Mailspring has at least acknowledged that this would be a good feature; Mailbird seems to think your mail host's filtering should be fine. I guess none of them have had the same email address for decades...
I look forward to Thunderbird getting some attention again.
Guess we found the guy using Vimium. https://chrome.google.com/webs...
I'm planning a trip, and I was going to install Kayak to see how well that works... well, now I'm not going to use Kayak as a result of this.
*shrug* They won't notice because I'll never be part of their analytics (unless Google ends up shipping them a list of what apps I have installed on my phone, then they'll be able to see which airline(s) I use).
You might want to poke around in Firefox's settings; using Firefox Quantum on my Android device, the "default" screen is whatever I had open last time, unless I delete all the tabs, then it's some sort of thing showing recent tabs.
I don't browse much on my phone though because it's so awful. I use Firefox there so I can have uBlock Origin going... browsing without an ad blocker is like a root canal without freezing.
> All of what you say is true. But somewhere between the app and the screen there has to be a plaintext. And that's the weakness.
Obviously, if your machine is owned to the level where an adversary can read your text straight out of the decryption routine, your use of an encrypted messaging app isn't going to help. But you've got other problems at that point.
All currently-used public-key cryptography, including ECC, is vulnerable to attacks by quantum computers because the underlying hard math problems aren't hard for quantum algorithms.
There's a technique for using elliptic curves to construct schemes that aren't vulnerable; supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman for example works like ECDH.
Disclosure: I work for a company producing encryption code that's safe against attacks by quantum adversaries.
There's got to be a Rainmeter https://www.rainmeter.net/ clock that shows seconds.
I've been using Classic Shell http://classicshell.net/ since Windows 8. I'll keep using it until MS makes it incompatible somehow, unless MS manages to actually design their Start menu in a decent way.
Pity Classic Shell's been abandoned since 2017 but if there's one thing Windows is good for, it's running legacy software...
Seems fair.
We let people use whatever they prefer for their dev environment; I'd rather spend that $80 and use the CPU/RAM for compiling and debugging.
We're actually spread between a bunch of editors... Atom, VisualStudio Code, Sublime Text, Eclipse, vim, etc.
I'm still confused as to why anyone would use Visual Studio Code or Atom (both massive Electron apps) when SublimeText is available?
It's like Atom (a LOT like Atom, I think they're cloning it), but using much less disk and RAM, and with more polish. My instance is currently using a bit over 4MB of RAM (on Win10, no files open).
Fresh install of Atom, no files loaded... 285MB of RAM.
On-disk install size for Sublime is 26MB. Atom is 668MB. FOR A TEXT EDITOR.
You can set up Firefox to have separate URL and search widgets; the config setting isn't even hidden, it's right under Options on the Search panel.
Tekeli li! Tekeli li!
The shoggoths are obviously waking up due to the warmth.
Bah, that's not even one football field of CDs.
So, I had this idea a while back where I'd make a plugin or whatever to check for people re-using bad, pwn'd passwords. I diligently collected about 40GB of breached password data (that's after I threw out everything but the cracked passwords themselves).
After filtering for uniqueness and slapping everything into a database, it was still something like 16GB. I lost interest in the project before I found a clever way to reduce this further.
The data set is too huge to install on a mobile device, and pretty unreasonable for a browser plugin. And nobody would trust a website that says "type in your password to see if it's already part of a data breach!".
AFAIK OneNote isn't part of Office because it's free now... has been for a while.
Don't use the Windows 10 version though, it's missing probably 50% of the features of the "real" desktop version... it's on par with the Mac version and the web version.
The missing feature in Libre that stops a *lot* of industries from using it is Change Tracking in Word. This is a required feature when dealing with lawyers for patents, most (all?) publishers, etc.