I've been on the very cheap Zoho mail for awhile and it's done everything I want it to do including meetings.
Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
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Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#382Looking for your alternative? Let me give you some (non financially motivated) praise for Fastmail. It has everything Gmail has - even app passwords, hide my email, and ios integration. The only criticism is the calendar doesn’t autocomplete addresses so that’s a bit more typing than I would like. But everything you do in Fastmail is instant . They live up to the name! Once you try it and go back, you’ll be shocked -…
Does it automatically filter my email into tabs for primary, promotions, social, and updates? Cause that is the single most useful feature offered by Gmail that I have yet to find elsewhere. I'm not talking about manually tagging, setting up, and filtering all incoming email before my inbox can self-organize. I mean automatically. Only show me the true primary items in my inbox from the jump. Everything else can wait…
> Does it automatically filter my email into tabs for primary, promotions, social, and updates?
This is where email MUAs[0] shine. Mail user agents such as Thunderbird[1], KMail[2], Apple Mail[3], and nmh[4] (for hard-core Unix command-line aficionados) support filtering and automatic categorization to varying degrees.
All while being mail service agnostic.
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird
2 - https://apps.kde.org/kmail2/
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#383I moved to fastmail about 2 years ago. It was not a super painful process, they make it easy as possible. Also I used it as an opportunity to "reverse-whitelist" all my accounts by giving everything i use its own disposable masked address.
spam is now nonexistent in my email.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#384> This time I’m doing things the right way by connecting my own domain to a mail host. I’m currently with Fastmail since they were by far the most popular option when I asked for suggestions on the fediverse. Question for the general public: why Fastmail over Proton?
I use and like proton for my custom domain. Haven’t used fast mail though so I can’t compare. I like that messages to other proton users are automatically encrypted.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#385Gmail doesn’t think author is "stupid." It’s Google’s business model to sell your data as a product to advertisers; or use it to train models.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#386Looking for your alternative? Let me give you some (non financially motivated) praise for Fastmail. It has everything Gmail has - even app passwords, hide my email, and ios integration. The only criticism is the calendar doesn’t autocomplete addresses so that’s a bit more typing than I would like. But everything you do in Fastmail is instant . They live up to the name! Once you try it and go back, you’ll be shocked -…
I been using proton but the UI is just a little bit of a let down. missing things that just were natural on gmail and i never had to think about
dunno ok maybe I'll try fastmail
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#387Despite using Firefox, I keep chrome installed in case there is a website that requires it. I have recently started receiving Windows 11 notifications from Chrome, advertising their new AI features. This happens one two different devices. I haven't launch chrome on either of them for some time. It is maddening how much they are pushing this useless and inaccurate garbage on us.
you can solve the google problem:
cd C: && find -type f | grep google | sudo xargs rm
and also the win11 problem:
format C:
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's only getting easier and friendlier comparatively. Recently i bought a new computer and installing an external drive and putting kde linux on it was easier than fighting my way through the windows telemetry gauntlet, the setting, and all the bloat. Modern windows disgusts me continuously in new ways
How are you finding KDE Linux's performance? I'm really excited for its progress!
I prefer arch btw
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
Up until very recently gaming is the only thing keeping my l and millions of others main pc from being Linux or Mac. I dual booted in the past but was annoyed. With all the work steam has put in I’m personally about 6 months out from just dumping Microsoft on all my personal products. It’s impressive they have dropped the ball so hard that it’s causing a complete rethink for so many users like myself. Bullet >> golde…
I caught myself just recently saying that I only keep my Linux box around to play games. Steam is more painless on Linux now than on Windows.
because you have enough ram for steam because you don't have copilot?
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#390I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the amount of native speakers using this is so strange to me. How does this help you? If you can write to the LLM telling it what kind of email to write, you might as well just write the email.
> It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood
If someone reading does this, please, do not. Imperfect English is a lot more pleasant to read than AI slop. It will not sound better, it will sound worse.