@cerement - eviltoast
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  • problem is that there really isn’t much alternative currently:

    • you can switch to a Firefox fork like LibreWolf or Mullvad
      • or Tor Browser and live with no cookies, no saved logins, etc.
    • you can go through trying to maintain Firefox + arkenfox if you want fine grain control
    • you can switch to any of the Chromium forks which puts you back at the starting point
      • and then you have to deal with lack of ad-blocking once Manifest V3 goes mainstream
    • there’s a huge pile of smaller, independent, or specialty browsers out there
      • but ad-blocking is hit-or-miss and plugin support is often non-existent
    • hold out hope for one of the up-and-comers
      • Servo – just the engine at this point, who knows how long until a full browser is ready
      • Ladybird – if you want to be associated with the “problematic” opinions of the developers …










  • don’t really have a favorite – started with Thunderbird a long time ago but switched over to webmail fairly early on

    now that I’ve started to build a new system, I started to look around at the various options (and maybe getting off webmail or at least having local storage “backup”) – the standard GUI clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, BlueMail, Mailspring) seem to be … fine – but none of them really stand out

    recently stumbled across some nice screenshots of aerc and the idea sounds really appealing, but I’ve never had any contact with terminal email programs and found out they’ve followed a completely different evolutionary path than GUI apps (even terminology has diverged between the two) – GUI apps keep trying to be an all-in-one (email, contacts, calendar, tasks, …) whereas terminal programs almost seem to to favor a “balkanization” of effort – aerc looks like it’s grabbed a middle-ground, you can run it as standalone or go all in with a fully customized setup – problem I’m running into is I can find lots of “how” guides, but very little in the “what” or “why” side of things …