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It's largely a tough nut to crack just because Microsoft is obnoxious about integration. Thunderbird can do it (or used to) in pieces with local AD forest access. I don't know about remote IMAP access, but you can definitely sneaker net export. It's the weird formatting on the import side I'm fighting.

I saw someone piping something to local programs through the office 365 electron app, but the least work probably ends run a VM and sync off of or just use that. I didn't try wine, so others would have to verify emulation works.

Thanks for the data points!

I'm working on trying to pry local office software copies of outlook from the clutched hands of people stuck in the win 7 era.

Well done sync is a hell of a drug.

Evolution is another GUI client I don't have a ton of experience with other than proofing it was stable. It exists.

Unironically the most powerful email clients i know on any platform are retro, mutt or emacs (last time I used notmuch, but there's options). I never bothered to set it up since all the reading and half the writing I do are off my phone these days.

But I don't know the juice is worth the squeeze starting out, that's a bit of a hurdle. I'm really curious on use case, what are you missing?

Definitely worth running through vim tutor at least once.

It's beyond typing speed, things like piping out strings to utilities is using one program to write another, you aren't just getting faster because of access, it's a paradigm shift.

Edit just for fun: im a non Dev dummy who happened to grow up in a Unix household. Even having dropped vim for helix and bounced around the MS admin/Apple IT space for 30+ years. When I switched to Linux I could still remember binds I'd set up and last used at 9.

Kinda like riding a bike.

Efficiency.

There's 0 chance if you have to pick up your mouse that you can keep up with a Unix gray beard.

That's just editing, if they're from the emacs era there might be nothing you can do with text faster across their whole system.

I like vscode as a entry point, but if you care to get faster learning just vim motions and sys utils alone is going to cut time from the process.

This is incredibly true. The hardware manufacture process is a slow turning and cost centric wheel, but it's always forward looking. If it doesn't exist today you are building around compromises made outside the scope of your concerns.

Anyone whose had to work on DEC or Sun hardware can describe in excruciating detail about how minor implementation differences in hardware cascade down the chain. (Missing) Rubber washers determined a SAN max writes once, lest the platters vibrating cause the chassis to walk across the floor.

'Universal' support is always a myth, and carving up what segment to target is shooting one moving target while standing on another one unless you have exclusive control of implementation of the whole chain (apple).

So, most of the knowledge of what levers are exploited is going to come out of industry. I don't expect him to know a common persons problems, but he might know how to help.

When Obama was nominated I pretty instantly had my pulse raised over Tom Wheeler (FCC) and Tim Geitner (treasury), only to find myself surprised by Tom. His pick Jessica Rosenworcel is probably the best thing in my lifetime, and common carrier laws have only really held because he's been ready to stick it to Comcast.

Geitner should be behind bars.

It really depends, and a lot of what's on record from their time in industry is the company line. it's kind of counter intuitive, but things like 'pork' in bills in congress get cooperation because they can seek new organizations of power.

Divide and conquer works on the powerful too.

Science of identity?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ashCzbsVdFI8ves0cF4HW

I hadn't heard of it til the odd confluence of seeing Prysner's name on QAA. His own podcast eyes left covers her recent bio.

There's some evidence she's a cult member, and was posturing as some kind of Manchurian candidate.

No, really.

Mike Prysner has made a few decent podcasts (QAA, eyes left) following her political career and service. I don't think you can definitionally tie her to membership, but she's got some questionable associations.

Cisco has been clueless for awhile. The people who want speed don't trust them to do basic network stacks, they want to do something more complicated?

The HFT industry noticed Cisco was messing with routing stacks, and you can essentially look to the entire market cap of Arista as a direct result. Specifically people wanting to avoid the headaches of the nexus line (EOS is nice!).

They are the victims of their own success to the point they long ago cannibalized actual product innovation. A lot of the industry still wants their certs, but nobody I know who values speed (local stripped back switches) or stability/availability (AWS and minimal office equipment) would chose them for much. A lot of the purchases are from big players with long contracts, the "Nobody got fired for IBM" of network equipment.

This just screams moving deck chairs on the Titanic.

For the most part what kind of company you are is what kind of product you're selling or making money off of.

So you could contend that Tesla is a battery company or a car company feasibly. Nobody ahead of the AI bubble would have mentioned Tesla and artificial intelligence in the same category.

Besides, if it's what he makes money selling Tesla is a tax credit company.

I think it's grossly undersold personally. What valve has managed is getting the single target platform open source could never agree on.

It's a small miracle, and it bleeds over into stuff like device driver support in a way I don't think most people who didn't deal with Linux in the 2.x era immediately appreciate.

If Linux on the desktop has a surge, they did a lot of the legwork.

If you dive into the theory at all about how ranked choice systems are gamed I think everyone is doomed for a headache.

Don't feel bad, it's infinitely better than what we have broadly, but it demands a lot more of the average voter if you're not voting a party ticket. If you're struggling you're doing it right.