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I just want everything colored as to hide the maximum amount of crud that tends to build up. Usually black.

How's the multi-account and desktop notification support in it? I can't find a lot of details on what it does, but there's a mailpile-desktop package that seems potentially promising?

I'm still using Thunderbird, which is barely maintained for a decent standalone IMAP client - it's beginning to feel pretty ridiculous. I was having some search issues the other day and I looked at alternatives - the options were basically Outlook, Claws Mail which is ugly as sin, eM Client which is Windows only and Mailspring which actually looked pretty good... right up until it asked me to make an account for use with my own IMAP servers - no thanks.

I didn't think this was a big ask but I guess now that most people just use a single Gmail account the market for such things is dwindling. Here I sit with 7 accounts in Thunderbird. Maybe I'm just going to be stuck with eM Client or Outlook and using RDP to check my email. I'm willing to pay, someone please give me a decent cross platform alternative with a GUI, ideally a proper, non-electron one.

The TUI clients I've looked at all seem to suffer from some mix of:

- Poor mail notifications

- Poor multi-account support

- Single maintainer that could disappear at any time

- Archaic keybindings, or perhaps I'm just too lazy to learn them

- HTML mail is used widely now as most people use webmail and just doesn't map well to console applications

Overall when I want my mail client to "just work" I've found them to be piss poor compared to Thunderbird. Which is beginning to seem rather silly, but it's still my experience.

I don't know what to do. Maybe I should fork Mailspring, strip out the account garbage and just tolerate Electron, but that'd create a whole bunch of maintenance work I just can't take on right now.

Yeah, Google needs to make this move on Android. If they're just say "okay, if you want Android 10, you need to provide your drivers in this exact ABI way, no more custom software crap, we push the updates", that'd be awesome - basically, use the Windows model.

I believe the only reason they didn't do this out of the gate is because device manufacturers wouldn't have signed on for it. Android is establish enough at this point that it's not like many device manufacturers could really step back from it at this point.

Treble is a strong step in this direction - but they need to take it farther, open up customization APIs and drop the garbage manufacturers pump into devices. The way Treble is right now it only benefits power users who have their devices rooted - who could update without the manufacturers permission anyways.

I wonder if their only hesitation at this point is the mess they're making with ChromeOS and all their other garbage... I think the Android roof was the right one to bet on, massive numbers of users with primary devices running it, but I fear they've done significant damage with their other offerings.

Isn't iPad market is shrinking or staying the same? Not growing by much certainly. And the Surface line pretty much succeeds primarily on the more laptop style models as far as I've seen at least.

A tablet and dock is clumsy and a poor experience compared to a laptop in both hardware and software. I would never consider replacing a desktop OS with iOS or Android in their current states, I think Samsung did some work to improve multi-window support so perhaps that's worth a look, but I don't want a sloppy keyboard that folds randomly when I'm trying to type or I can't position comfortably on my lap on a car, bus or while sitting outside.

After owning a few older iPads and Nexus tablets, I haven't used them in years, instead preferring to do content consumption on my phone or TV and anything more on a full PC. Most people say they even prefer to do basic shit like shopping on PCs - easier to comparison shop, bigger screens, more capable machines and user interfaces. This situation isn't going to improve for tablets, they're trying to hit on a niche that's quite limited.

We also won't be able to specify the outcome precisely even if we somehow had a guaranteed outcome in mind.

Politicians will screw up the implementation, businesses will engineer around it and the alternative solution might ultimately come out to be a better one in practice than in theory.

Trying to define economics by simple equations which you expect to define policy is a lost cause.

I don't think you can come up with a quality test for economic scenarios in a truly scientific way, many monopolies dominate for very different reasons, many industries have very different mechanics, and worse, regulations are often implemented in vastly different ways and often won't come out the way you'd like them to even if you have a perfect scientific answer to a given problem.

You can't guarantee or even approximate a given input and output for a scenario like this.

Note that most of the research referenced there isn't properly controlled - it's sort of hard to control for something like that, you'd have to have a therapy that could offer something comparable without matching it, so comparing it's effectiveness to placebo seems in some ways quite apt.

It's not forgetting where they are, but forget why they are where they are - I've had this happening occasionally in a variety of forms.