I’m bored and want to practice my Rust skills. I am the creator of open-tv. If you have any idea for a linux desktop app, even if it seems quite complex, I will take it.

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    6 months ago

    Jesus Christ.

    I use the calculator in Ubuntu tor very simple purposes. It was crashing on me every time I opened it.

    I tracked down why.

    It was trying to get a foreign currency exchange rate file - which I was horrified that you’d think about even having in a calculator.

    The reason that was failing? Because I had a VPN enabled.

    And it wouldn’t even fail gracefully. Nope it would poof, crash and disappear.

    The fix is to disable vpn, and disable foreign currency in the preferences.

    I was so pissed off. And on the next upgrade the same thing happened, which I’d forgotten all about, so went through it AGAIN!

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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      6 months ago

      This was in fact what prompted my search - the Gnome calculator is so horribly bloated, and yeah, it should have no business making network connections, at least not by default - this should be an opt-in behaviour.