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Could #KDEConnectSMS or its GNOME equivalent be made to work as a #libpurple plugin for #Pidgin? I do like how Pidgin allows me to have my Matrix, IRC, Whatsapp, and Telegram all together, and it would really ice the cake to have access to my text messages there too.

#KDE #KDEConnect #GSConnect #SMS

After losing about a week to (a) installing Arch for the first time and working through the accompanying learning curve and (b) illness, I'm back. I think I've caught up with the backlog of spam, but if you see any I missed please let me know!

One thing I'm missing is the ability to control individual frames. Does anyone have a #recommendation for an extension that restores the frame commands (reload, show only this, open in new tab) to a modern version of #Firefox?

Looks like the #Firefox extensions situation is finally back to acceptable after all the XPCOM ones got dropped years ago. I kind of grew to like #PaleMoon and #Waterfox Classic in the meantime, but I can't say I'll miss constantly fiddling with the configuration just to unbreak another website.

Today I found out the hard way that trying to get a double-double at Starbucks results in three ounces of straight espresso (two ounce-and-a-half double shots).

Also if you ask for a hot tea with milk you have about a one-in-two chance, over the long run, of getting a chai latte instead.

In case anyone at the company happens upon this and would care to update the recipes, those drink orders are for (1) coffee with two measures each of cream and sugar, and (2) boiling water with a teabag and a measure of milk, respectively.

One of today's winners of QOTO's spam-to-ban prize had a bio which invited the reader to "[d]iscover the world of cats mating near you [...] ." I did a double and triple take on reading that, but that's exactly what it said.

@peterdrake Not according to the documentation:

Mastodon’s full-text search allows logged in users to find results from their own toots, their favourites, and their mentions. It deliberately does not allow searching for arbitrary strings in the entire database.

Note that QOTO also has bookmarks in addition to favourites, which allows you to mark a post for later on without notifying others. Bookmarking a post also makes it searchable.

Here's a trick for #volvo #windshieldwiper blades. Volvo, in its wisdom, decided to invent a new nonstandard attachment style, which means that cheap blades you get at retail can't be mounted. However, you can make it work in a pinch if you don't feel like paying fifty dollars for new high-end ones.

1. Buy some cheap truss-style wiper blades and remove the rubber piece from the metal frame holding it. It's easiest to pull it out starting at the barbed end. Discard the flexible metal strips embedded in the groove on each side.
2. If the groove doesn't go all the way to both ends, get a sharp knife and carefully extend it. Be sure not to cut all the way through!
3. Cut the rubber edge completely away from the metal beam on the original Volvo blades. The top lip is actually an extension of the rubber edge, so this will come away too, leaving a thin gap along the length of the beam.
4. Squeeze the beam in the middle to disengage the clips holding the plastic mount to the metal rails, and remove the plastic mount. With the mount removed, you can now move the rails independently to make the gap between them wider.
5. Thread the new rubber blade into the gap such that the metal rails fit into the grooves from which you removed the flexible strips earlier. Make sure the blade goes firmly all the way into each end cap, then work inwards to seat the rubber onto the metal.
6. Snap the mount back onto the metal rails. There is a small plastic stub which fits into a corresponding notch in each rail to make sure the mount is positioned correctly, and a clip at each corner to hold it on. Make sure all are engaged correctly.