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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Thunderbird doesn’t have the same annoying stuff of Firefox, as far as I know at least. However, there is no guarantee that Mozilla wouldn’t force this on Thunderbird someday, even if Thunderbird operates mostly independent.

    By switching to another client, I didn’t mean you can takeover your offline accounts and data to another client. Just meaning you can switch, as your mail accounts are not bound to any mail client. Unlike something like Photoshop in example, that was what I meant. There is fork Betterbird, in case Thunderbird decides to go wild (we can’t know that for sure). I did not look into it much, but I’m sure alternative forks that are compatible to the current Thunderbird profile (for import) will be available.


  • Thunderbird has their own finances and operates quite independent from Mozilla. They make more money than any other project under Mozilla’s banner. Thunderbird is quite successful. And even if one day a problem occurs, one could still use a fork or switch to a different mail client. But I don’t see any problem coming, unlike with Firefox in example.








  • Agreed on your points and usually I do 2. (name) and 3. (exit instead else) sometimes. For the [[ over [, it usually matters only for word splitting and globbing behavior, if you do not enclose the variables between quotes I believe. But looking into the shellcheck entry, looks like there is no disadvantage. I may start doing this by default in the future too.

    So thanks for the suggestions, I will update the script in a minute.

    Edit: I always forget that Beehaw will break if I use the “lower than” character like in , so I replaced it in the post with cat %%EOF which requires to change that line. And the example usage is gone for the moment.

    Edit2 (21 hours later): I totally forgot to remove the indentation and else-branch. While doing so I also added a special option -h, in case someone tries that. Not a big deal, but thought this should be.



  • Just a thumb of rule to make sense of it: A column in AWK is by default any space separated part. You can change the column separator to any other character too with -F ":" in example would be a double colon. There is also a way to print all columns, but with certain exceptions. In example print all, but the third and fourth columns: ls -l | awk '{$3=""; $4=""; print $0}' . Admittely I forget this syntax often and have to look for it again.



  • Don’t make yourself (and others) false hope, it will not happen. Why? In the past Bungie officially said they don’t want support Linux. This company is quiet hostile towards Linux for whatever reason. That’s why I don’t have any hope for this game to be playable on the Deck (or in Linux general for that matter).

    Sure things can change sometimes, but I would not hope on this based on speculation. Not being the party pooper here, just trying to be realistic based on history.


  • It depends, there are no hard rules. I have a preference for the native package manager with pacman and repository of my distribution. I also would like to use AUR more often, but it depends who is maintaining that package. It also depends if there is a Flatpak available. Some AppImages have an auto update for itself, so I download it only once and use the applications own update functionality manually.

    The good thing about AppImages are that they usually don’t require super user privileges to install (in other words use) them and I can also archive them very easily.