I have heard optical discs (CD, DVD, BD) like being stored "protected from light". But how bad is it if they are on a shelf where they are exposed to some scattered light from the window and room lamp?
This obviously means no direct sunlight.
When downloading many emails to ".eml" files using Thunderbird, the downloading is interrupted if one email has an excessively long subject name.
Every time this happens, the email that causes it has to be located manually. This makes exporting a high number of emails impractical.
Is there any way to save all emails as ".eml" without being interrupted by excessively long file names?
It is well known that hard drives don't like humidity while running. But I couldn't find any source on how humidity affects hard drives in storage.
Use case: putting video player in corner with "always on top" enabled so I can see through it and watch and browse at the same time without sacrificing screen space for the video player.
From what I remember, Xfce has it (I haven't used it for some time), but which others do?
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Email providers sadly are killing the option to compose plain text mail. Recently, the German email provider "web.de" removed that option, even though plain text emails have benefits like saving space and being less likely to be marked as spam.
HTML is overkill for simple text communication, like using a lorry truck to carry a load that a small car could carry. See also https://useplaintext.email .
In any case, having both options is better than having only one option. So why are they killing plain text email? Do they want people to consume the space faster so they are compelled to pay for a subscription?
I know, plain text is still possible through a third-party tool like Thunderbird, but why remove the option from the web interface?
Their removal of plain text mail co-incided with their unfortunate removal of "lightmailer" (lightmailer-bs.web.de), a lightweight non-javascript web interface that worked on old browsers and loaded ten times faster than their bloated JavaScript web app that they are now forcing down the users' throats. It feels like some kind of perverted trend on online services.
Is there any way to make the bottom cell of the table in this demo extend until the bottom of the screen, regardless of how much it contains?
One possible way would be to "cheat" using JavaScript by detecting the screen height and setting the table to that height whenever the screen height changes. But is there any way to accomplish this using bare HTML and CSS?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" style="height:100%;">
<head>
<title>Variable height demo</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { background-color: #222; color:#ccc; font-family: sans-serif; }
</style>
</head>
<body style="height:100%; margin:0;">
<table style="width: 100%; height:100%; table-layout: fixed;" border="1">
<tr style="height:50px;">
<th>Fixed-height row</th>
</tr>
<tr style="height:100%;">
<td style="overflow-y: scroll; vertical-align:top;">
<ul>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
<li>Scrollable list</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I would like to move only read messages to a different folder, but there seems to only be a search filter to only see unread messages.
The closest thing would be to turn on the "Status" column (right click on header above message list, check the "[] Status" box), and then clicking on the "Status" column, but this would still not allow selecting all messages using Ctrl+A, and also no sorting by any other column.
I tried searching "status:read" but it looks like there is no such feature.