ikilledlaurapalmer

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[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

100% spot on. I did this for many years, and the sysadmin stuff was actually a fun little hobby. There were many seasons in terms of deliverability. I only ran personal email, never a list or anything like that, my ip wasn’t on any black list, but from time to time emails wouldn’t be delivered, or they would start going to peoples spam folders. I’d get fixed what I could using google/outlook/whatever’s tools or reach out to the mail admin address. Many times deliverability would be fixed, but months later the cycle would repeat. Or worse, I’d get silently and suddenly banished to spam. There’s nothing more you can do about that (yes I had all the things to prevent it).

Ended up moving my mx records to fastmail and using them for email. It’s not much, if any, more cost than running a vps for email (well, if you only consider one user), but I’ve had drastically improved deliverability.

Long story short, email is terribly broken, but it’s a good idea to have your own domain so that you own your address.

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but it’s important to point out that the reason for that is that your data is encrypted at rest and they cannot decrypt it for you and your vanilla imap client.

They do have a decryption app for desktop that allows you to use your desktop email client.

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 5 points 7 months ago

Absolute tuna can

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen those bullshit rerelease editions? SAD!

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 1 points 8 months ago

Apple ProDOS yo! Then System 6 and on.

First Linux was a Debian disto packaged with Linux for Dummies somewhere in the late 90s/early 00s.

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It used to exist, and it was glorious!

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 2 points 9 months ago

The thing is, “research” doesn’t speak, humans do. If a tree falls in the woods… and so on. Part of being a scientist is communicating what you’ve done, otherwise no one else will know. It’s a skill that has to be developed in some more than others, and it was a key part of my training as a scientist. I don’t really like that part as much, but I do it because it’s what makes my work have any impact.

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 7 points 9 months ago

You wouldn’t DOWNLOAD A HANDLE would you?

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 1 points 9 months ago

Holy shit, magneto-optical. Never had a drive, but I remember thinking it sounded so high tech.

You may have stumped me with the LS120. Ima have to look that one up.

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No love for SyQuest round here?

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kettle != tea pot

[–] ikilledlaurapalmer 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Whole Foods (by Amazon) already has e-ink price tags for everything. So not out of the realm of possibility.

 

Whether you’re new to Lemmy, a refugee from /r/twinpeaks or whatever, welcome to the community!

 

For folks who move from /r/Atlanta which place will we use? This one or https://lemmy.ml/c/atlanta ? Thoughts?

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