“glass houses”

Do we really want clickbait headlines in the science community?

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list.save.1
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list.save.2

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list.disabled

This renames the problematic file so it will no longer interfere with your system updates. You can always rename it back later if you want to troubleshoot it, or just delete it.

I ultimately had a single Windows program I couldn’t live without (Notepad++) but it runs under Wine with zero issues.

Geany has the same underlying editor component as Notepad++. You might want to try it.

https://www.geany.org/

It’s wonderful what a bunch of skilled people following their passions can accomplish, isn’t it?

no easy way to get the standard set of fonts on it to replace Word’s library

I haven’t looked in years, but Microsoft’s Core Fonts might cover at least some of those. Does Mint have the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package?

Thank you for the confirmation!

Related:

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/pipewire-bluetooth-support-status-update.html

I think this could be done by running a Bluetooth Hands-Free Protocol (HFP) implementation on the linux desktop machine, so a phone would see it as a wireless headset. This project from a decade ago seems to confirm that it is possible:

https://nohands.sourceforge.net/index.html

https://github.com/heinervdm/nohands

That project looks unmaintained. If I were to try something like it today, I might start by asking around in PipeWire forums to see if anyone had tried such a thing.

(FYI, KDE Connect is very useful, but it doesn’t do phone calls.)

Good luck! If you figure it out, I hope you’ll post about it so we can all learn from your experience.

AFAICT, what matters is whether you have stardict installed and running, not whether you use Bookworm vs. Trixie. It looks like they both have the same version of the package in question, though I haven’t verified the behavior.

You have to be using X and Gnome.

I don’t think this is true. The stardict-gtk package gets installed on any system that installs the stardict package, regardless of what desktop environment is used, due to a hard dependency between those packages.

The phrasing in that quote is unclear. It could be read to mean Debian 13 installs the stardict-gtk package and enables the bad plugin if you install stardict yourself, rather than meaning that any of this is included as part of the default Debian installation.

I think this would indeed happen if you installed stardict yourself, because the stardict package depends on stardict-gtk, which recommends the stardict-plugin package, and the recommends relationship is treated as a dependency by default.

The questions on my mind are:

• Is stardict installed by default in a new Debian 13 installation, or does this only affect people who install it themselves?
• When will this malicious plugin be fixed or removed, not just in Debian, but in all distros that have it?
• When will the package maintainer who defended the plugin’s behavior be dealt with?