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Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website | Better HN
Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website
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programd
2mo ago
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bawolff
2mo ago
App showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.
yjftsjthsd-h
2mo ago
I
would
prefer it to be opt-in
e2le
2mo ago
Not too long ago, Gnome calculator would freeze and crash when it tried to download currency conversion data. It would make such requests on each startup, eventually it was fixed in Ubuntu LTS but was broken for quite some time.
anthk
2mo ago
So will qalc from libqalculate.
antisol
2mo ago
Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.
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