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Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by inetknght »

thrill wrote: post #217
inetknght wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I resurrected my late 2012 Mac Mini recently and "upgraded" it to Mojave. I can't even SSH into the box. The SSH daemon accepts connections, firewall is off, and login sharing is enabled. But the daemon refuses my key, my password. I can't even figure out how to get it to display the reasons for the denied access. At least on Linux I can turn off the daemon, turn on logging, turn the daemon back on, and get somewhere…

SSHd is now very picky about permissions of the .ssh directory and underlying files and may quietly fail if they're not set properly.

Yup :) I learned this early on as a Linux user. It was the first thing I checked.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by sephware »

jammygit wrote: post #44

All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd

I know you're not necessarily looking for specific advice to this one problem, and I agree and would rather pay for software than be the product, but since email is the topic, have you looked into FastMail? You pay for it, there's no ads, and they don't sell your info.

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Post by jenscow »

_uhtu wrote: post #47

Amazon has lately been putting ads on prime video for other prime video shows. I have a feeling we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads. Also, on prime video, occasionally, pressing the fast forward button won't skip the ad. I'm sure it's one of those "bugs" that just happens to force the user to do something the company wants but the user doesn't but I have a feeling it might just stop working all…

Sort of makes sense. Those who have paid for a service are the most lucrative.

Vote with your wallet.

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Post by swiley »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #222
inetknght wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I like having software that is up to date and delivered direct from the developer. I really think your argument against package managers on Linux is incorrect. Many linux distributions provide "some recent version" of common tools, but of course you can get the latest package directly from the developers. Nothing stops you from getting the latest packages directly from the developer (assuming the developer provides…

Compiling most things is decidedly nontrivial. Half an hour of wasted time is not appropriate just to install something in a different directory. A package manager really should be able to do prefixed installs on any package, but that's far from a universal feature right now.

Gentoo can do prefixed installs, I'm reasonably certain alpine can as well. If you're on debian you can always just make a chroot with debootstrap.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by swiley »

reading-at-work wrote: post #18

What does HN recommend as a better Win10 email client? I'm familiar with Thunderbird and I'll probably switch to it if nothing else, but I'm not a huge fan of the UI/UX.

I like mutt+fetchmail quite a bit. There are probably a dozen ways to run it on windows.

Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by swiley »

bdz wrote: post #11
Meai wrote: post #7

This wouldn't be bad if I could uninstall that app but the button is gray on my machine. Same for the Xbox apps that I am guaranteed to never need. Weird feeling.

https://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10... Open the PowerShell as admin and copy: Get-AppxPackage * windowscommunicationsapps * | Remove-AppxPackage (remove space at the two asterisks, HN turns the text into italicized) voilà, Mail and Calendar uninstalled. You can do this with all of the preinstalled stuff (Xbox as well), see the link above.

>Open the PowerShell as admin and copy:

Having to do this has in the past been the main argument I've seen used against using Linux based OSes. If you have to do it anyway you might as well actually own your computer.

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Post by beamatronic »

eutropia wrote: post #95
jammygit wrote: post #44

All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd

I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the preinstalled apps, as well as disabling and deleting all of the scheduled tasks which try to re-install and re-enable those settings. All this trouble so I can play modern PC games..…

Is it any better if you get the Enterprise version?

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Post by twalla »

eutropia wrote: post #95
jammygit wrote: post #44

All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd

I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the preinstalled apps, as well as disabling and deleting all of the scheduled tasks which try to re-install and re-enable those settings. All this trouble so I can play modern PC games..…

i recommend https://boxstarter.org/ and something like https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 for dealing with installing win10

source: configured windows10 manually once, decided i'd like to never experience that particular circle of hell again

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