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the recent revamp of thunderbird is really good.

em client (commercial product, but free for some--2 mail accounts, home use only) is also a solid choice.

not just login credentials, but all your mail, too, even if you aren't using a microsoft-hosted mail account.

does this link to make an account without a payment method not work anymore?
https://my.roku.com/signup/nocc

vizio also moved the tv tuner bits over to it's 'smart' bullshit, too.

buying a 'dumb' tv is getting harder and harder to do...

how long until you are forced to hook a new 'smart' one up to the internet, just to "set it up"--even if you have no plans on ever using the 'smart' features or embedded apps?

linux is great for two types of people.. those that just need a browser or libreoffice and could use even a livecd or reset-on-reboot kiosk mode type se;tup that's been set up for them, and those that want to get their hands dirty.

for everyone else, it can really be a pain in the ass sometimes when something goes wrong. help is fragmented in even more ways than the distros themselves, and every third response is usually something along the lines of 'google it' ("i did, that's how i got here") or 'rtfm' ("what fucking manual?"--documentation is lacking for soooo many things) and then silence.

at least with windows you should already know going-in that 'backup and reinstall' is probably high-up at #3 on the list of things to try/do, after you search and scan a much larger pile of resources specific to windows and its (relatively few, by comparison) different versions.

so, a pdf 'printer' basically. anything you print gets dumped to pdf files... which can be previewed, searched, annotated, organized into directories (piles) etc. as well as sent to and shared with others, or even printed on a dead tree.

most of my 'printing' is already done this way.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great ice cream.
-Ferb

if there's a 'fill in the blank' after choosing 'other'...... their 'ai' is going to melt from the responses.

i avoid google as much as possible.

my new (last year) phone is android, but it's a basic flipper. no apps or play store, no internets, not even an account needed for it. don't know what i'll do for a wireless phone when this type is no longer available.

i use gmail for one work-related email, because i need one that's not hosted on one of our own domains, but i mostly use a mail client for it.

i do not use anything else related to google, except for consuming yt videos in a private browser session with ad and script blockers and a couple userscripts--and no login.

i use duck for most of my searching. when i need to test something in a chromium-based browser, or want to utilize browser addons that are not available for firefox, i use a new portable install of opera or vivaldi and delete it when i'm done (right now, i've got one set up to watch a streaming service, using an addon to autoplay).

how about just not allowing them in the first place?

you 'heard' wrong.