Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird

I'm a long-term TB user. I have noticed fairly severe UI lag in recent releases - say, the last couple of years. E.g. I click on a folder in the left pane, and it takes up to a second for the contents to appear and the folder be highlighted. Not every time, but often enough to cause input mistakes. Other applications running at the same time do not exhibit this lag.

I haven't reported a bug; it's so noticeable, I assume someone else already has.

but not to the person telling you they do not agree with you.

so you're basically cherry picking. it is called selection bias.

> By my colleagues from many different nationalities and age groups does not share your sentiment.

selection bias again.

maybe they are too kind to tell you the truth,

who knows?

> Oh. Normally I'm not like that, but today's very stressful. I might have lost some of it today. Honestly, sorry.

that's what happens to anybody when misread.

So, again, acceptance and tolerance are much more important than blindly applying the rules or trying to be kind at all costs.

Honestly goes a long way among friendly, fallible, human, people.

Enforcement does not.

You don't know until you don't know.

> If they think you’re a jerk they won’t want you to join in.

Which is why Mozilla as a brand is as toxic as the inside of Chernobyl reactor core.

> You’re arguing against your own position!

Not really.

I'm arguing against the hypocrisy of "openess".

Proud boys say they are for free speech, but then, as you correctly state, they wouldn't let me speak at one of their rallies.

Mozilla says they are open, but then their bans are written by someone who's in love with medieval torture.

The only missing bit of fun in their e-mail is being forced to sleep in an iron maiden.

i.e. until he was ~50 years old, when he stepped aside

his words (Sun, 16 Sep 2018):

This is my reality. I am not an emotionally empathetic kind of person and that probably doesn't come as a big surprise to anybody. Least of all me. The fact that I then misread people and don't realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good. [...] I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.

Which is the same things Stallman said after they tried to push him out.

Linus is just smarter than Stallman, was preoccupied at the time that Linux development was being taken over, and released a public statement that made people happy, bu also he haven't changed much [1], because, in the end, he is who he is and we should appreciate him for what he's achieved.

[1] a year later he released this statement

people take me seriously in a way they didn't do back in 1994.

And that's absolutely not some kind of complaint about how I wasn't taken seriously back then – quite the reverse. It's more me grumbling that people take me much too seriously now, and I can't say silly stupid crap anymore.

So I'll still call out people (and particularly companies) for doing dumb things, but now I have to do it knowing that it's news, and me giving some company the finger will be remembered for a decade afterwards.

Whether deserved or not, it might not be worth it.

He realized that people were trojan horsing his words against Linux.

But he's Linus Torvalds, he's in the unfortunate position of being the face and image of the most successful OSS project ever, not some guy on a mailing list about Thunderbird, that nobody cares of.

However, I had a lot of difficulties to obtain a unified inbox/sent for each of my mail account. I succeeded by creating saved search under local folders for each mail account that unifies inbox and sent. Unfortunately I got some issues (sometimes empty title for mail, and a delay upon reception of new mails).

I previously tried to obtain the same thing with unified view.