cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/43951539

#503 (2018-01-24)

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Do I have an account? I got an email about it

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Hey guys, I’m playing Pandemic Legacy and I was the first to eradicate the red virus so now I get to name it! Let me know if you have any good exocomics-related names :D

If you don’t know what Pandemic Legacy is then shhh don’t worry.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 hour ago

      Seems good, I just wish they’d let you fucking remove it if you don’t want to use it. Of all of the apps to stop the end user from removing, the one that’s made specifically to communicate with outside devices…

      I don’t like that.

      • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        31 minutes ago

        What? Where do you see it preinstalled that you can’t remove it? It’s an open source app, I don’t see why a vendor would install it and keep you from removing it.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          16 minutes ago

          It’s part of KDE Plasma and you cannot remove it completely. In my experience. You can kind of disable it in some ways. And block it in your firewall or whatever, but it’s part of the DE from what I understand.

          Maybe it’s just the distros I’ve chosen.

          Edit: well I’ve been on immutable for a handful of years now so maybe it’s on me. But I do remember it being annoying to remove on EndeavourOS as well but that was several years ago so maybe it’s better now

          • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            13 minutes ago

            I suppose that’s an issue in how your distro packages it and makes it a required dependency. It’s absolutely not a requires dependency of KDE Plasma and it’s optional. On Arch for instance it’s not even marked as optional and I can just do pacman -Rns kdeconnect and remove it freely.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      That is way too unreliable to recommend.

      At least based on my anecdote of trying it throughout the years across 4 phones and 5 machines, only having success on 1 phone and a laptop specifically.