Re: [GTALUG] Do people have opinions about the Framework modular laptop

2021-10-15 Thread Erica Peterson via talk
I am getting one of the i5 models from their October batch -- shipping any day now. I was due for a new laptop and Framework seemed like a concept that I should financially support. They have a pretty active linux section in their community discussion forums:

Re: [GTALUG] Do people have opinions about the Framework modular laptop

2021-10-15 Thread GS via talk
I've had my eye on it since the reviewers first got their hands on it. So far the reception has been overwhelmingly positive but finding opinions you can trust can be difficult. I tend to trust Cory, Leo and Linus.

[GTALUG] Do people have opinions about the Framework modular laptop

2021-10-15 Thread Dave Collier-Brown via talk
I see from Slashdot that it has an app store now: * https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/10/14/2110258/modular-framework-laptop-gets-marketplace-for-all-those-modules *

[GTALUG] War Story: Thunderbird vs my mail server

2021-10-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
TL;DR: using self-signed x.509 certs with Thunderbird is hard I run a mail server for my family. One of us uses Thunderbird's POP3 to pick up mail. This is through our LAN, not on the public internet. My server uses self-signed certificates. I don't care to become a customer of any