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Of archeologists don’t know it: “for religious reasons”.

No, sorry, I’m dumb.

On my company mail account I have collected circa 10000 mails during the past 10 years, which is circa 80 mails a month - and that is a lot.

If you’re not following multiple high-volume mailing lists since a decade and archive every single e-mail I don’t think its normal to have 50000 mails in a mailbox.

Ask them if they can give you their phone so you can check on what they’re doing online and on their phone right now. Because, why would they trust a large company more than a good friend?

Edge cases are not the norm, though.

“So, you leave your door open because locking it is useless because someone can break in?“

This is why no-one in the right mind uses Sylpheed, but the actively maintained fork Claws Mail (which just recently had a new version released).

Maybe you can set it up for them? It’s really the easiest way + it does not cost anything that’s not paid for already anyways (electricity and an Internet connection).

Navigating a combination of the distro’s native package manager (apt, pacman, rpm, whatever), snap, flatpack and still having to set up the maintainers’ custom repositories to get stuff that’s even remotely up-to-date somehow

This sounds like a you problem, to be honest. If you want the most up-to-date software, just use a distribution that updates very often or uses a rolling-release concept.

The different UI toolkits, desktop environment, window manager and compositor seem to be fighting each other.

If you use one of them, not that much. If you start mixing them it becomes a huge mess. At one point in time I had Ubuntu installed, running Gnome, but having Openbox as window manager set. It was an absolute mess. Nowadays I think it’s even more of a mess, especially with gnome and this stupid Adwaita library with the stupid CSM.

But I happily ran pure Openbox on X11 for a decade and run labwc on Wayland since ca. 2 years now.

I do a lot of .NET programming and photo editing. I could probably replace VS with VScode or Ryder but it’s an additional hurdle. For photo editing, I haven’t found a single thing that fits my workflow the way Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop do.

Then stick with Windows. Or run this software in VM with GPU pass-through and KVM. I really don’t see an issue here. Use the tool that best fits your needs.

You can selfhost MediaWiki usingntheir official Docker image.

https://hub.docker.com/_/mediawiki

There will always be this one asshole of a coworker who happily name-dropping you in a conference call with the project owner.

After seven years of active development

I wonder where they got this from. The 2.x branch was first released 21 years ago.

Why are people still accepting this?

That’s the downside, yes.

Write an ungodly large amount of code-comments - up to a point where you add 20 lines of explanations to a 6 lines long function where two lines are variables assignments.

Source code is for humans to read. The compiler ignores the comments.

Which wasn’t a point in your original post, though.

Yeah, then I have no idea. I can tolerate Smart Launcher not being open source, because of how good it is.

Maybe have a look at Smart Launcher.

Seems like not entirely. But oh well. It looked so good on YouTube. Especially the customizations and alternate UIs.

Currently I’m angrily sticking with Firefox. But once Floorp switches to the current version of Firefox as base I’ll totally try this one. According to what I found, they will switch with the next major release.

This is the way to go!