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Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

16 points| programd | 1 month ago |github.com

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bawolff|1 month ago

App showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.

e2le|1 month 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|1 month ago

So will qalc from libqalculate.

antisol|1 month ago

Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.