Yeah, they’re like works of art - no need to keep adding strokes!
Yeah, they’re like works of art - no need to keep adding strokes!
Cheers, I’ll check that too.
Thank you for the heads-up. I’ve installed it and for now it’s working OK. To be honest I don’t mind that’s unmaintained, if it works (I still use a 10-year old timer app that is just perfect for me, never found the like again).
About that, see comment by @Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de in this thread. Apparently only the GPlay version is unmaintained.
Had not heard of Silence, Cheers!
Yeah there’s a mystery about completely different availability policies by the developer in GPlay and in FDroid…
Agree about the security. I use Element/Matrix. I don’t use SMS regularly, but some people message me with that in emergency situations, for instance if they don’t have wifi or mobile data. It’s also still used to get temporary authentication codes.
Ha that’s a fun mystery!!
I don’t know who’s the creator. Here’s the app – you can also see the complaints from some users:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery
Cheers, got it from F-Droid (another step in de-googling :)
Agree about the security. I don’t use SMS regularly, but some people message me with that in emergency situations, for instance if they don’t have wifi or data. It’s also still used to get temporary authentication codes.
I’m all for supporting developers. Usually I test an app for a month, and if it works well, I make a regular donation (else I uninstall it).
However, while trying out the free version of “Simple Gallery” from Simple Mobile Tools, they sent an update that suddenly made it only last for 14 days, then you had to upgrade to premium. I simply don’t like this kind of behaviour, that’s why I don’t use their products.
@youngerpants@lemmy.world @0_0@lemmy.world @InterSynth@lemmy.dbzer0.com @poudlardo@jlai.lu – thank you for QKSMS, it sounds good. Strange because it doesn’t appear with an “SMS” search on F-Droid – but now I got the link :)
Note: I read some users recently complaining about it missing some SMS; let’s see if that’s still a problem.
Oh, I didn’t know about the drama and TB-team connection.
I tried "Better"bird for around a month, a year or so ago. Until I hit a bug and submitted a bug report and got this reply:
That’s best reported as a Thunderbird issue with exact steps to reproduce.
and later this:
As a first step, we suggest to install the current ESR 91 version of Thunderbird in parallel and see whether the issue exists there.
I personally don’t see what’s the point of using an email client, if it refers to another email client for submission of some bugs, or if it asks you to install another email client to solve them. I told them and they explained that they’re a small team and that
BB is a TB downstream project (fork) and we cannot possibly fix all 14.000 upstream issues.
The turning-point for me was that they simply closed my bug report and, when I told them that that was a let-down, they said:
Users like yourself, who refuse to cooperate or support the project via a donation, are a total let-down indeed, especially if they feel entitled to get a fix.
which was unfair because I do recurring donations to all software I use regularly. But OK, I can simply donate directly to Thunderbird and use that directly.
So I went back to Thunderbird and have been using it without problems since then; they fixed that and other bugs in the meantime. Thunderbird supports all major forms of authentication from what I’ve seen, so I use it for my work account and other free accounts, all in one.
@bushvin@pathfinder.social @toikpi@feddit.uk @hevov@discuss.tchncs.de @ChonkaLoo@lemmy.world @HotBoxghost2743@lemmy.ml @c1177johuk@lemmy.world (I’m surely forgetting someone, sorry)
Thank you ALL for the great advice and guides! I’m writing from behind a laptop firewall now, and don’t notice anything :) It was smoother than I expected. In the end I used UFW because it was already installed, but I’ll take a look at firewalld too in some days! I don’t have any incoming ssh connections (not a server), so I didn’t need to worry about that :)
Really great people here at Lemmy :)
Thank you everyone, also @bushvin@pathfinder.social @toikpi@feddit.uk.
For example, if I open my settings (I’m on Ubuntu+KDE) I don’t see any firewall settings to configure. So I expect this is automatically done by the OS, but maybe I’m wrong. A bit surprised that the system itself doesn’t recommend using a firewall, to be honest.
Many firewall tutorials start speaking about “your server”. Then I wonder: is this really for me? I don’t have a server. Or do I?
I now see that the tutorial from @toikpi@feddit.uk gives a better explanation, cheers! So I see it’s good to have a firewall simply because one connects to public wifis from time to time.
I see that both UFW and firewalld are recommended… is it basically OK whichever I choose?
Thank you for the advice!
Firewall on Linux is something I still don’t understand, and explanations found on Internet have always confused me. Do you happen to know some good tutorial to share? Or maybe one doesn’t need to do anything at all in distros like Ubuntu?
Regarding ssh: you only mean incoming ssh, right?
I disagree. On one laptop I had Ubuntu, and then installed kubuntu-desktop
. It became a bit of a mess with the login screen, and it isn’t that easy to uninstall the previous Gnome stuff – had to leave it there. On another laptop I installed Kubuntu directly, and the problems above don’t appear.
Thank you for finding this gem!