On manjero, arch linux, mail clients and imap, and being a single dad. [quotage]

/ pukeko

I have had the usual joys of setting up new email clients. I am travelling tomorrow and managed to install manjaro cleanly into a netbook. This is useful information — manjaro finds wifi easily, as does archbang, while debian (which was what was on it) does not.

But,,, manjaro defaults to mozilla products, and so I have had to do some substitution. And after some experimentation, I have got my university email working on this machine using evolution. Which makes it very useful: I live in email at work and, now, I have this working with calendar integration.

Browser? Lightweight — epiphany, with rekonq. If I did not need work emails, I would use geary — and probably chromium. But epiphany is faster and cleaner.

The judgy one has a post up advising women to date single fathers. She has hit a nerve, almost all the comments are negative. I’d just say that when the kids came to me I deliberately did not date… for years. In fact, when the kids came down I did not look for anyone to date for some years. I had to deal with the consequences of the divorce, and look after the kids, and that was enough. Besides, you do not recover from the implosion of a 15 plus year marriage overnight.

I’ve nothing very witty or clever to say. In the last 24 hours we have seen liberals be… well, liberal in the correct sense, and defend those who they have seen oppressed even if they disagree with them, and we have seen the ugly side of the intolerance (tolerance? the offended?) movement.

But those who have honour care for those around them when it is inconvenient and when it gets in the way of their pleasures. Those without honour will exploit our charity. They still deserve our prayers.