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I'm afraid this came across as an unfortunate and disingenuous response to someone's comment about privacy. A feeble variation of "I have nothing to hide" I'd say.

For the last part: Standard Notes, Joplin, jrnl, FS Notes (possibly), nvAlt (not actively developed) etc.

At this point I think I should just switch to Firefox. It's just that Firefox still (unfairly) lags behind in performance because it's a Mac.

> Yarvin wrote a blog.

An openly racist, far right blog. By an author who has stated that he believed some races were more suitable for slavery (he also seemed to have no problem with slavery of course) and that some races have genetic superiority to have better IQs.

(Just added it since I thought you forgot mentioning it)

I have been coding for almost a decade and I don't think I have come home any day and felt like, "oh, today I will code this!". Nope. I always leave work at work - coding, studying, learning about work. It's not really a discipline, or an attempt to keep work and life separate. I just don't feel like it.

After work it's just reading, films, walks, sports etc for me. I used to get bothered by it seeing other people code and learn tricks, tools, and paradigms at home. Thinking whether I am in the wrong profession, or I am doing it wrong. But now I have accepted it as this is who I am.

I believe the Time Machine is a white elephant, a relic.

It ought to be able to do these things as good as (if not better) apps like restic, borg, backblaze etc : dedup, compression, unlimited versioning (at file level), integrity checks, granular search/restore, possibility to set a cloud destination (at least iCloud).

But a lot of these things it doesn't even try to.

Said the company is talked about here a lot and positively at that. The last bit leaves most of them out :)

[It got long. I just thought I'd share an experience]

I worked in the company for sometime. Was visiting from their subsidiary in my country for some time. There was a young lady just outside the mobility HQ main gate camped every day speaking something on the loudspeaker. I didn't understand anything except that she was speaking in a very passionate voice and it seemed a bit broken too, a little pleading. No one would go near her or talk to her or take her pamphlets. Not the employees, not a TV crew, nor reporters and she was there everyday till afternoon from morning. I also noticed some photos there, among which some were in a factory worker's uniform (jacket, head protection etc). Though I could guess but I wasn't sure.

One day I walked up to her. She thanked me and told me in her broken English that her husband had died in a factory accident and the company was not owning it. What I understood was "they are not even talking to me". She had all the pamphlets in Korean, only one piece of paper in English which she gave to me and I was going through it. It would have been 1-2 minutes max and three guards basically swooped down upon me and pretty much pulled me aside while shouting at me that what I was doing was illegal and that couldn't talk to her in their broken English. They took the photo of my ID Card and told me "this is warning" and left me alone right there. By the day end I had received a call from my manager who asked me to refrain from getting into it. It was lunch break so when I went back to my office people were looking at my suspiciously. I was just out of college. It was a scary experience.

When the guards were pulling me away the lady was the only person protesting and none of other employees pretty much even looked at me. When I asked a Korean colleague in office that afternoon why everybody is looking at me like this and why no one talking to me suddenly he didn't say anything and remained silent and then softly "we only talk work, no personal". I guess people get conditioned. Even I didn't talk to her again. But I used to nod and smile at her and she always used to smile back.

I left the company after few months. No, I wouldn't say that was the reason. It's strange but I just can't bring myself to buy a company product till today. If someone asks me for a gadget recommendation and I find something decent in their catalog I do recommend that but I personally have not been able to get one myself since then. This incident stayed with me and whenever I think of the company somehow that woman's image flashes in front of me.

Thank you :-)

> Just book a trip and see for yourself! ;-)

Yeah, it's been pending since college. My Euro Trip. Now I can't even blame affordability :)

To be fair to real life there's a reasonable chance of forgetting :)

When you say "they just wanted to make sure we had a copy" you mean - they made you buy it as a "requirement" (that there was no way around it), or they just told you and most of you bought?

And by "they" you meant the faculty (professors etc) or college administration or some other office office? Just curious about it. I am from India and there are no fixed text books here (at least the colleges I know about - central Govt. funded). There are syllabi and you are free to study the course with anything you want - books, or no books. My college library solved textbook problem for almost 40% students and rest were solved by hands-me-downs from seniors, 2nd hand book stores (some of them have very capable xerox machines too), and then there's "online".

Thanks for replying here.

My bad. I somehow missed it.

Since you are here:

- What if I am sending an email to a person who doesn’t use Mailspring? Can the tracking still be achieved? I am don’t know the technical details of how email works but I believe it can’t be done unless the mail client adds something to the mail being sent. Right? So how does it work with Mailspring IDs?

- Can I opt to not track my mails/activities and not be tracked too?

- What all the meta data leavea my local system and goes to Mailspring? Is there a complete list somewhere? Also how are they stored on your serves?

Apologies again for posting incorrect info about your OSS.

Nylas (like other apps e.g. Airmail) kept the password on their servers (Nylas ID, now it's Mailspring ID) so basically they had (could have) access to all my data even when it's not lying on my computer.

I asked them about it and they never replied. I wish it was just a native (or not) IMAP client and I definitely want out of those Link and Open Tracking features.

(Edit):

There's a GitHub issue related to it - https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/33

The dev is very clear about it

--- but for now Mailspring needs to target paying customers with great pro features so I can continue working on it full-time. The Mailspring ID is a core component of these Pro features and a lot of exciting stuff on the roadmap, like team templates, read receipt analytics and shared folders. Unfortunately, it doesn't make sense to remove the Mailspring ID and make the mail client better for you, because it pulls us further away from doing a great job on the pro features for paying users that will ultimately make this a long-lasting open source project.

Hope that helps! I'm going to flag this as a wontfix for now, but I welcome everyone's thoughts and feedback here. ---

So no, not an email client I would like to use.

Agreed. I have been using Flipkart since they launched. Amazon customer service and shopping experience are just impeccable, esp when compared to the competition. And as for Snapdeal, it's usually something just short of a nightmare.

Another aspect is user experience while using their apps and websites. Click any Flipkart link from a mobile browser or an app like Twitter, you'll reach their `Install our app` page. Nothing else. You can't do anything if you have not installed their app. While Amazon simply lets me see the product or even buy it from right there while showing install app or view in app in a corner.

Whenever I see that Flipkart page asking me to install their app to see a product I feel satisfied that I don't have it installed. I just close the browser tab.

I just checked and last time I bought something from Flipkart was around 2 years ago. It was the Xiaomi MI3 phone which was available only on Flipkart. Last Snapdeal purchase was some 1.5 years ago. I wish I could spread my purchases across these portals just to help avoid a monopoly kind of scenario but these options are just too bad to go with.

I agree with "Most mefites actually did read the guidelines page, because by the time they've decided to become a member, they know that text on that page is probably important".

But just wanted to say that I love MeFi but the interface leaves a lot to be desired. Really :(