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Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

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Post by programd » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website
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Post by bawolff » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 7:33 PM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #2

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

I would prefer it to be opt-in

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Post by anthk » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC

So will qalc from libqalculate.

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Post by e2le » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 8:54 PM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #2

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

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.

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Post by antisol » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 5:23 AM UTC

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

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