On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:22:59PM -0500, Draciron Smith wrote: > First on principle. The integrated PIM is mostly obsolete. Phones today > have the CPU horsepower desktops had back when KDE 3 was embarked upon. A > phone is a natural place to do contact management. So it uses just another kind of integrated PIM (as in: integrated with the accounts architecture of Android). There are Account providers, cache backends and viewers. > Getting ISPs to continue support for POP3 & IMAP is like pulling teeth and > when you do get support you gat ONE email address. What do phone e-mail clients use as their backend? Don’t tell me they open the web interface and parse its output. I had my problems with KMail, too, back in 2009 or so. At that time I moved to mutt (which is still my main MUA to this day because it is so damn fast with mass mail handling). But I still use Kontact for PIM stuff and also KMail when I am not in the mood for the terminal. > KDE 4, I disable Akondi, 4 gigs of RAM on this machine. 2 gigs fo RAM on 2 > other machines running KDE 4 with Akondi disabled. Worked great. Ubuntu > 14.04 LTS goes out of support. I have to upgrade to 16.04 and KDE 5 and my > 2 Gig machines barely boot. My 4 Gig machine acts like I'm running WIn 95. Well, I was using KDE 4 and 5 – including PIM – on an Asus Eeepc with an Atom N450, which is an in-order-SMT CPU. It worked back then. Hell, I was using Gentoo on that, too (OK, I admit, I used distcc to do the heavy lifting)! I started it up the other day and did an update (by now running Arch Linux). Firefox took 20 seconds to load a few years ago but was usable after that. It has now reached a point where it has become unusable. Software complexity (sadly) progresses constantly upwards. But even my raspi 3 is now faster than that netbook. I did a comparison by 7z'ing a 100 MB PDF. The netbook did it in 1′40″, the raspi took shy of a minute! -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ What do you call a fly without wings? — A walk.
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