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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

good, good, now do the rest of Windows

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Dunno, I'd say they're working pretty hard on this already:

Windows 10 is about to expire

Windows 11 has extra ads and telemetry.

Windows 11 has invasive AI recall

Windows 11 won't run on hardware < 8th* gen Intel or without TPM chips

All the new apps are getting AI components that can snitch on what you're doing. You can't even post something into notepad without it being aware of what's in your content and calling home.

edit per: @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Surveillance Economy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought had to be 8th gen or newer for Intel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

yes indeed, was preparing to write something more complicated, then decided to use a less than and didn't pay any attention that I needed to change the number :)

will edit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It’ll do older with a TPM port and module fwiw. Ran it like this on 7th gen Intel X99

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It'll run on 3rg gen if you patch out the install limiter, who knows how long they'll let that work.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While I did not use it super often, the Windows Mail app is actually one of the few I enjoyed using.

[–] gedaliyah 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It struck a balance between good design, features and lack of bloat

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

that'd why they had to remove it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That was my thought as well.

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Use Thunderbird or the Mailspring app. Or, for WinUI glory, try the WinoMail app.

[–] gedaliyah 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Outlook enshittification is why I switched to Thunderbird over a year ago. It's just gotten consistently better. Highly recommended.

[–] TexasDrunk 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been using Thunderbird for almost 20 years. It was good enough that long ago and it's pretty awesome these days.

[–] kalpol 4 points 1 month ago

Evolution is really not bad either

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Time to back to the Outlook Express.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW

Grandma's been waiting for you.

[–] sgx 2 points 1 month ago

Nope, my manager telling me I'm the first to know, and can't share it in the groups

[–] gedaliyah 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Kinda, there is a clone: OE Classic [not an ad]

[–] I_Miss_Daniel 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Windows Live Mail still living on with occasional repairs needed.

Outlook Express has died though.

So has incredimail I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man I miss Eudora back in the day. I used the mail client in SeaMonkey before I just started using my phone to check mail.

The 90s and 2000s were a simpler time.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel 1 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I set the Eudora xylophone sound as a mail notification on my phone. Nobody has noticed though.