I’ll consider donating if they dump MobileCoin.

Right—just what I was about to say.

What I do is this: I use Bypass Paywalls Clean, but then I also choose one or two periodicals like our local newspapers to digitally subscribe to. Other times I will give small donations to online publications I regularly read and value.

Have you ever read House of the Dead by Dostoevsky? It contains a very interesting section which deals with the flogging of prisoners . . .

Next up to retire, Chuck Schumer! I hope.

I believe that thorium reactors can also consume nuclear waste! Not on the ship of course, probably, but elsewhere . . .

I actually think this is why a lot of rich people end up in Congress; it’s because they want to make even more money! This kind of insider trading should be made very very illegal and punishable by prison.

Pretty much.

The police unions, especially in NYC, are extremely powerful. I wonder if there’s some way ZM can appear to be working with them while reducing their power . . . 🤔

I do indeed use apt. I think that all of those are bona fide dependencies! I believe there was also a “recommended” part which listed a few other things that I didn’t install. sudo apt autoremove should remove unneeded stuff, I believe, but doing it just now, it didn’t find anything.

Just saw this, Android 2 Linux Notifications on F-Droid, anyone tried it yet? The question for my purposes, of course, will be whether or not it will show the content of the notifications, which I’ll need for 2FA codes. Might just give it a try . . .

Does Nitter actually work again?! 🙏

EDIT: Actually, Xwitter’s probably so full of crap by now that it’s not even worth looking at, but still, if Nitter’s back then that’s great. 👍

https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Sensitive_Notification_Content_(Android_15 )

I find the KDE Connect display to be a bit clunky, but if you’re on Cinnamon there are two applets which help to smooth out the experience a bit.

Ok, looks like messages deleted on the phone don’t survive a laptop reboot, and undeleted messages do survive a laptop reboot. 👍

Got it up and running. Is there any way to delete SMS messages from the desktop? Even if I delete the messages from my phone they remain on the desktop.

The megabytes of dependencies it will bring in aren’t that big of a deal nowadays, considering we have terabyte-scale hard drives now.

True, true. However:

The following NEW packages will be installed: kactivities-bin kactivitymanagerd kdeconnect kded5 keditbookmarks kio kirigami-addons-data kpackagelauncherqml kpackagetool5 kpeople-vcard kwayland-data libdbusmenu-qt5-2 libfakekey0 libhfstospell11 libkf5activities5 libkf5archive-data libkf5archive5 libkf5auth5 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5calendarevents5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5contacts-data libkf5contacts5 libkf5declarative-data libkf5declarative5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-bin libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5 libkf5guiaddons-bin libkf5guiaddons-data libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18nlocaledata5 libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kcmutils-data libkf5kcmutils5 libkf5kcmutilscore5 libkf5kiofilewidgets5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5kirigami2-5 libkf5modemmanagerqt6 libkf5notifications-data libkf5notifications5 libkf5package-data libkf5package5 libkf5parts-data libkf5parts-plugins libkf5parts5 libkf5people-data libkf5people5 libkf5peoplebackend5 libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkf5plasma5 libkf5plasmaquick5 libkf5pulseaudioqt3 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5 libkf5waylandclient5 libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libkwalletbackend5-5 libqca-qt5-2 libqca-qt5-2-plugins libqt5multimediaquick5 libqt5quickparticles5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5texttospeech5 libqt5waylandclient5 libvoikko1 libxcb-composite0 libxcb-record0 plasma-framework qml-module-org-kde-kconfig qml-module-org-kde-kirigami-addons-labs-mobileform qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2 qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons qml-module-org-kde-people qml-module-qtmultimedia qml-module-qtquick-particles2 qtspeech5-speechd-plugin sonnet-plugins sshfs 0 upgraded, 109 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 19.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 87.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.

But, I would say you are correct, 87.9 MB isn’t really all that much space in the greater scheme of things. Hopefully the version they have in the repos won’t be too out of date. Maybe I will give it a try after all . . .

But isn’t GS Connect just for GNOME? I’m using Cinnamon here.

China deserves to be on top.

Things.