Update: it wasn't the ECB blocking gnome-calculator, it was an HTTP library regression breaking the connection to the ECB. Text in [] is incorrect, retained due to RTs etc.
[The ECB have remotely bricked gnome-calculator]
In the latest episode of "Why the 21st Century is impossibly stupid", GNOME calculator contacts the ECB on startup to get currency rates. It just hangs on startup if this fails, the whole calculator not just the currency stuff. [The ECB has blocked GNOME calculator].
To fix this, you can do "dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/refresh-interval 0", whatever tf dconf is, because when I tried it told me dbus-launch is missing, wtf that is, because it doesn't have a package. Turns out it's in "dbus-x11". I dunno why X11, because I use wayland, but I'm past caring at this point. I installed it and it worked.
Now I can calculate how much postage I need to pay for this parcel.
[A bloody OS-shipped desktop calculator, DDoSing a central bank, and blocking on connection failure].
@chiffchaff I am sure you searched gnome-calculators tickets and found https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calculator/-/issues/359
which CLEARLY describes that this is a regression in the used HTTP library and not gnome-calculator and it does NOT download the rates on every start. But you do your way fishing for cheap cheers, because it's GNOME, right, and everyone know they only do BS /s
@phako Dude, I'm trying to add 3% of £3.43 to send some Henry hoover bags to Dundee, then venting on an account with <100 followers that it took over 45 minutes to do it with the computer.
Sorry for not getting up to speed with HTTP/2 handling in libsoup 3.2.2 or OSS politics before tooting.
See also my toots about why measuring spoons are annoying, and how fan ovens should be the big temperature on the back of pizza boxes these days; both recklessly tooted without consulting the relevant ISO standards.
@chiffchaff I get the venting part, but you're spreading potential harmful BS information with your assumptions, and would you look at all the "GNOME BAD STUPID HAHA" replies. There is a HUGE difference in "GNOME DDoSing ECB with its calculator" and "some library is broken" and since it is FOSS you can actually take less than 45minutes to check with the project