See edits: Push is present and totally works; enabling it is just very different from K-9

On K-9 Mail, it’s in Settings -> {Account} -> Fetching Mail -> Push Folders

On Thunderbird Beta, the “Push Folders” option should be in the same place, but it is totally missing for me.

Edit: If you go into Manage Folders and then Inbox (or any folder I guess), there is an “Enable Push” option. I enabled that, but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

Edit 2: Ok, the folder-level enable push seems to work now. I had to grant the Alarms and Reminders permission before it could run in the background. It didn’t automatically get or prompt for that, but granting that in app settings fixed it

Is there any difference, currently? Aside from the logo, I can’t see anything different from K-9 Mail.

One of the biggest draws is the ability to transfer from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android

I literally just tried that, and it failed. LOL. Ended up setting up the account manually.

Edit: Also doesn’t seem to have the push mail option like K-9 has. It does have push, it’s just enabled very differently. Go into Folder Settings, select a folder (Inbox in my case), and then turn on “Enable Push”. You may also need to grant it Alarms and Reminders permission manually on newer Android versions if it doesn’t prompt for it.

I’d usually start with my suite of cleanup tools, do some manual cleanup if needed, apply all the software and security updates, and then give it a day with some light test usage. Then I’d re-run the tools to see if they picked anything back up. If not, I released it back to the customer. If anything at all came back, I’d backup their data, pull all the product keys I could (Office, Photoshop, etc), nuke the OS, and reinstall what I could as close to the original as possible.

And then of course, the least fun part of that era, the guys who would bring their machines back weekly despite very stern warnings to stop visiting “those sites”.

Hey, they were good for business lol

Cannot recommend Aurora Store enough. Play Store has been unusable for years and is only getting worse.

Can confirm 100%.

During Vista’s heyday, I worked in a PC repair shop. All the ones that came in because “Vista sucks” were all Walmart specials with the bare minimum 512 MB RAM and crappy, bottom-of-the-barrel Seagate HDDs.

The thing would start thrashing as soon it booted with the default assortment of bloatware. By the time they brought it in, the HDD was in rough shape which made the thrashing even worse.

Fix was always to upgrade the RAM and, most often, replace the dying Seagate drive with a good one. Removing the bloatware helped as well once the root problems were addressed.

The UAC stuff was also annoying, but those could be tuned.

Yeah, I read that the other day. Wish it would do more than that, but it’s a start I guess.

I can’t wait until a Senator or comparable “it’s not a problem until it happens to me” lawmaker loses access to their digital library and goes on the warpath. That’s the only way out of this “you will own nothing” hellhole we’re in and moving deeper into.

Touche

Main phone:

I finally found the source file for that. I posted a screenshot of my phone months ago and people were asking for it, but I had no idea where it was. A little late, but I guess I finally delivered lol.

Backup phone:

Lol I didn’t either.

MythTV?

Native Alpha: https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid/

Uses the system web view to make any website open in a dedicated window. Has some other niceties like applying adblock on a per “app” basis.

Doesn’t do extensions, though, but if some of the built-in tweaks are sufficient, may be worth a shot.

As a lifelong Thinkpad fan (even current gen ones), I would be seriously interested in this as long as it qualifies for bootloader unlocking. LineageOS on a Thinkpad-quality phone would be amazing and a welcome companion for my X1 Carbon.

Really, really wish bootloader unlocking was listed in the specs for devices.

I think OEM, non-carrier OnePlus phones do (someone correct me if I’m wrong or out of date). I just setup Lineage 21 on a OnePlus Nord N200 (ca 2021) and after enabling bootloader unlock in developer settings, I just had to pass the oem unlock command to fastboot. The carrier-branded ones require you to go through the unlock code request, and those take a minimum of one week (and can be cockblocked by the carrier for whatever reason).

There may be some kind of Android check, though, because the “Allow OEM Unlock” developer option was greyed out until I connected the phone to wifi for a few minutes. Not sure what that’s about, but it’s common for most/all android devices. I don’t know of any device that lets you unlock the bootlaoder without first enabling that in dev options.

Throw it on the pile of things AI has ruined lol.

Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

I don’t currently have them, but there is (or was?) a NoIR version of the Pi cameras that didn’t have IR filters. That should let the IR LED illuminators work same as most other cameras advertised with night vision.

HTC tried to make it usable with their TouchFlo (I think that’s what it was called) skin, but once you veered out of that, it was a mess, yeah. lol.

Which is kind of sad because under the hood, it was pretty advanced for its time.

6 years per term, here, but no term limits. Combine that with name recognition, low-information voters, and “the devil you know”, and they’re basically / de-facto appointed for life, as you say. They can and have been voted out before, but it seems to be rare these days. Usually they retire (Manchin, supposedly), resign (Franken), or die of old age in office (Feinstein, Byrd).