smiletolerantly

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They saved lifes.

Glad to have cleared that up for you ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's just a helper. It's a way for your calendar to ask "uhhh... Should I already know of any calendars...?" and the service going "oh actually yeah, the user configured their email account, hold on, here's the corresponding calendar".

That's just basic functionality. Maybe what's tripping you up is that it's a separate service? Because I assume you have nothing against inputting your email into a mail client and a calendar separately.

If so, then for one, it's not really a difference if the mail app stores this into or the service does; and second, it's a good thing to have this standardized into a single purpose built service, rather than having each app reimplement this stuff.

CPU and RAM usage is so negligible it's laughable.

IDK.

It seems like you read something about personal data in the service description and just jumped to the conclusion that this is something nefarious.

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (9 children)

How exactly is it bloatware though? Not a KDE user myself, just had a look at the wiki. Seems it's just a convenience utility to allow you to not have to enter the same things into multiple applications?

This is VERY different from pre-installed apps in your start menu that collect and sell info about you...

Yeah, thinking more about it, I don't think the term "bloatware" (as it is commonly used) applies here at all.

How do I completely disable it forever?

To answer your question: sudo systemctl mask <servicename>.service

The much more common disable just disables autostart; masking will point the service file at /dev/null, which makes it impossible to load or start the service, even when other services or apps (like the clock widget someone mentioned in the comments) request it.

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Gabe the Diver"

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 68 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Also, hard disagree.

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"average 50-59 year old weighs 5000 pounds" factoid actually just statistical error. Average person weighs 150 pounds. Pounds Georg, who lives in a cave and weighs over 50000000000000000000000000 pounds, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Add "linux" and enjoy the empty feed

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Awesome!! And thanks for actually letting me know! :D

Edit: anything for the wishlist?

This started off as a single file in my private nix config, to see if I could get it working at all. In that initial part, some parts were indeed LLM generated (esp. testcases based on my existing intents and failures).

When I noticed that this might actually work and be useful not just for myself though, I moved everything out manually, refactored and cleaned it up, and everything since has just been myself. I guess you're still right though. I'll see about adding a disclaimer to the README until I've gotten the chance to properly rewrite everything.

Yes, you can! See the "threshold" value/slider. It's at 0.7 by default, which seems to be a good tradeoff. 1 means exact match or failure, 0 will afaik match anything to everything.

Ah, I didn't see the Edit, so we're both in the same boat ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh, interesting. Does that work with wildcards like "put x on my shopping list"? Also, what are you using for that, if I may ask?

Sorry, I don't quite follow ๐Ÿ˜…

What's the problematic response?

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