Last I heard, the official word on seamoney for pi was "just use firefox/thunderbird". RE: internet outages, while I can't speak towards the current Thunderbird, if there's one thing that's very nice about seamonkey, when I do want to move my mail/filters/etc between machines, it's a matter of copying a folder from a thumb drive, and that's it. No cloud syncing or other nonsense (my internet was out for over a week last spring and it would have been a NIGHTMARE if I relied on cloud/web)

You may want to give a look at Vivaldi. It's attempting to be a seamonkey for cromium, and it's email search is very fast/good. That said, it's devs seem to want you to use it instead of folders (it wouldn't be a stretch to call the devs 'anti-folder'), so thus, folder options are pretty limited. It's by the same people who made the old opera email client, If that gives you any idea how it operates.

I leave everything on the server except for my home machine w/seamonkey which then filters/organizes. Since gmail (and others) saves everything that's gone through the smtp, all sent email is reeled in to my home machine/filed appropriately too. I don't really need to carry every email I ever received/sent around with me. Usually a "I'll look that up when I get home", suffices. Occasionally I'll copy the seamonkey db to my laptop when I have to go out of town for extended periods.

Yeah, that's just what I use on my phone (and it's pretty good. Better than Thunderbird anyway).
For desktop I've used SeaMonkey for like the past 20 years (on mac, pc, and linux, with all versions being identical. Small, runs on anything, has everything Thunderbird has because it is Thunderbird just with the original UI)

It's not. I switched to FairEmail a few years ago and have been pretty happy

All of my folders are on my computer, where they're organized nice and tidy.

I have no idea how they're organized on gmail since I haven't looked at the web interface in at least five years. I don't need to, as that's kind of what an email client is for. I grew out of hotmail when I stopped checking my email at the public library. Just saying

"bro, who uses pop3 anymore? Are you still on a 56k modem too? LOL crying laughing emoji x8" comments. I still use pop3 (and don't use 56k anymore).

I work many temp/freelance gigs. When entering a new one I'll be at for 2 weeks, I can sit down at my assigned workstation and...

a:| enter my pop3 info into an email client and pull in new emails.
b:| enter my imap info into an email client and pull in 200,000 emails going back 15 years (and three new ones)
c:| use the browser interface which everyone on the planet hates (and gets worse about every six months or so)

which seems like the best idea?

...rather than a clear, capability-based public safety framework"

Theater over capability?? Seems like the Mamdani era has begun!

For historical posterity: When the MTA killed tokens for good, they added a fail-safe to the turnstile to prevent log-jams. In that, if the stripe-reader couldn't quite read/write the value amount of the metrocard, the rider would be instructed to "swipe again at this turnstile". If the same card was swiped, but the card value still couldn't be determined, the turnstile would unlock and the rider could pass at no cost.

Enter 'the bend' (as it was commonly called). A manner in which one could fold the metrocard in such a manner that the stripe-reader could confirm it's validity, yet the value portion of the stripe was obscured. It was probably the last stand of old school/analog/2600-level hacks out in the wild.

...'the bend'

"Swipe Again at This Turnstile"

(real heads know what I'm talking about)

I particularly love the people that have a "Arch is TRASH! Why you should install Ubuntu NOW!" video, then if you look at their feed, you notice a "Ubuntu is GARBAGE! You NEED to switch to Arch!" video.

While I'd like to take full credit, I haven't really done anything except abuse the crap out of it (i.e. the battery door is currently duct tape) and swab the head and rollers down with rubbing alcohol every five years or so.

I dunno, I got the Sony NW-E394 at B&H around a year ago for $65. Only 8gb (which is fine for me as it takes about 10 seconds to dump old music/add new, when one has the inkling. But I realize that people nowadays demand to go for a 30min jog with absolutely every album ever recorded in the history of human endeavor in their pocket, and nothing else will do).

It seems to have a tank-like build (especially compared to sandisk clips) and the price didn't exactly blow me away.

I always looked at that as a feature. Drop new batteries in your walkman and listen to the original version of the record. A few hours later you listen to the 'screwed' version.

I still have my Sony TCM-359V (from "1990??" according to the site. I think I acquired it in maybe '93? I didn't need to look up the model number because it's still in front of me on my desk). I can't comment of the difficulty in servicing it because it still works (and I use it at least once a month)

Maybe...
As an example, a couple years ago I happened upon a stash of cassettes from about 88-91 still in the shinrkwrap. All cutout promos from the basement of a hood record store that shuttered. Surprisingly, every one I listened to sounded... good. Some of the music itself was terrible, but the quality of the media was crisp and dynamic.

That said, any cassette from the same era that's received even moderate play is going to sound like there's a pillow over the speaker.

Especially when dealing with late '80s/early '90s rap/metal/etc (any genre where the majority of sales were on cassette). A lot of people don't realize this stuff was mixed/mastered specifically for cassette. Which is why I laugh when I hear someone bragging "I got a original mint copy of 'Paid in Full' on vinyl!!!"

"Congratulations, you got yourself a cassette master cut onto cheap, translucent vinyl."