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Cake day: February 9th, 2025
  • It doesn’t sound like you understand what personal information is. It includes things like contacts, calendar, and emails.

    This back end service exists because, in the past, programs were all doing their own thing, but now KDE provides that information as a service. With a standard API. So you can have two programs installed that manage your contacts, and they’re both using the same list of contacts. Same with your calendar. Back in the day, if you used two different programs to store contacts, you would have two databases of contacts.

    Calling that bloatware is just stupid. It’s literally a core service that a useful operating system should provide.

    In addition, learn how to use a search engine instead of posting in the forum like this. It was trivial to find out how to disable it permanently. Trivial! Asking us to do your work for you and then tacking on a “conversation starter” at the end doesn’t make your post any less palatable.

    Here’s your answer:

    https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Archive:Speeding_up_KDE

  • It was better than clicking “Next” every second for 45 minutes trying to check out, and then failing to get one. Nothing can truly stop scalpers except the original seller doing the scalping themselves with a silent auction.

    What I mean

    I’m not suggesting this is a good system. Hence I’m hiding it in a spoiler.

    Imagine if Valve launched the sale, and everyone names their own price (with a minimum price). Everyone bids their maximum amount, and Valve just picks the top N people to get one. The rich idiots who just have to have one buy it for whatever price, and more normal people buy it for less, but probably more than the minimum.

    Would you have bid $50 more than the min to get one right away? I might have. I dunno. Do people with more money deserve a machine more? Well, no, but that’s the world we live in. The lottery is the best alternative we have.

  • You can always replace the storage yourself. A 2TB NVMe doesnt even cost $300 (most are around $250), and if you swapped it yourself, you’d have a 512 GB one to stick into an enclosure and use as a portable hard drive.

    And you don’t even have to do that immediately. 512 GB is plenty to start. Especially since not everyone plays enormous AAA games with hundreds of mods. You can upgrade at any time.