For now, Thunderbird intend to keep K-9 development going “for a year or two”, but yeah. For now I’m still getting updates to K-9, let’s see what happens after that.
haverholm
I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
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Still is, it’s developed in tandem with Thunderbird Android 🙂 This is just one developer’s fond farewell.
5·11 days agoInteresting! I used KISS exclusively for years, and only changed because it broke on my latest phone. Maybe it’s time to try it again.
I will say, I didn’t have an issue with KISS’ widget handling, but more with how few modern apps actually offer widgets…
“Here on the corner is the convenience store. We call it the Amazon Fire Store, lol. And because there is no more fertile soil it doesn’t sell anything.”
“Too abstract. People might be upset that we don’t sell actual fire.”
Apologies if my criticism was misdirected at your comment — and thanks for elaborating 🤝
My general point stands that people seem to hype up Graphene unduly, to the disadvantage of other ROM development projects (I use LineageOS for microG BTW 😄).
GrapheneOS
Also, any other applicable custom ROM.
I know this is a Pixel device and Graphene develops exclusively to those, but it’s getting really tiresome to see any mention of custom ROMs followed up with “bUt gRaPhEnE…!” like it’s the only option.
Edit: I’ll take Graphene over /e/OS any day, though (provided I find a Pixel at a reasonable price).
In October 2024, he offered to donate $1 billion to Wikipedia to change the name to “Dickipedia.”
I think we have found the root of the issue. Nothing bothers Musk as much as being told he can’t buy something and slap a childish name on it.
They absolutely could, and arguably they should — will they, though?
No, that sounds accurate. Basically “Advanced protection” puts security in Google’s hands, and therefore is irrelevant to people worried about Google being the security risk…
Advanced protection
blocks side loading
disables installing apps from outside the Google Play Store
— so to me, running a degoogled Android device it is not just useless but actively harmful to the security of future apps that may become overreliant on this monopolist framework.
More to the point, WHO WAS PHONE?
25·14 days agoAfter all, it’s not your location history. It’s Microsoft’s history of where you’ve been. You never monetised it anyway.
But probably only the useful content.
Ah, makes sense!
As in a folder of text files? Because that’s what I’m doing. Syncing across devices with Syncthing and editing/adding files with whatever markdown editor works best in each platform.
Oh great, more tedious settings to fill in. I hope they keep some overarching regional defaults.
1·1 month agoFor low end dum-dums like me, https://sabre.io/baikal/ is a simpler, but very stable caldav solution. I bet Radicale has more features, but did I mention being low end? 🙂
Ditto. LOS for MicroG to be exact.
So crypto currency and advertising? Hard pass.