and so, once again, the 'solution' isn't in the distro or legacy, it is in the wiki on the internals of Evolution where I just incidentally learn it can be a flatpak or not, and thus there are TWO .local/share folders to wipe. So I delete all accts in Evo, empty trash just in case, exit, wipe those folders, go into Settings, delete the Google connection which shows as two identical so delete them both, reboot.
On boot, go straight to settings which shows none, add Google and I'm in, quick as a wink. I start #Evolution, and lo, there it is, my account fetching emails!
Now to figure that #mastodonel thing and why mastodon.plstore is so problematic.
International law is what the US wipes its ass with.
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 (George Steer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/18e3bfc1-c2aa-49a0-8c6d-a37255a23017
Ukraine says stabilization under way in Pokrovsk, denies Russian claim that GUR commandos were wiped out: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukraine-says-stabilization-under-way.html
Worrying new simulations show that a solar storm on par with the infamous Carrington Event
could potentially wipe out every single satellite orbiting our planet,
leaving us in a precarious and expensive predicament.
And experts say such a powerful solar storm is inevitable and will hit our planet sooner or later.
On Sept. 1, 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington observed a brilliant flash of light coming from a gigantic sunspot that was about the same size as J…
#Neutrogena Recalls Bacterially Contaminated Facial Wipes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/business/ne…
Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Nobuyuki Sakai, Saran Poshyachinda, Koichiro Sugiyama, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Boonrucksar Soonthornthum, Apichat Leckngam, Busaba Kramer, Phrudth Jaroenjittichai, Bannawit Pimpanuwat, Dan Singwong, Kitipoom Kanjana, Nikom Prasert, Songklod Punyawarin, Spiro Sarris, Teep Chairin, Kamorn Bandudej, Chalunthon Nuchur, Haseng Sani, Nattawit Chanwedchasart, Pathit Chatu…
Found an obscure hint that perhaps instead of authenticating through #Evolution I should instead authenticate through the #Gnome settings for attached accounts, so I tried that approach, this time it asks for far more permissions (8 in all) but, you guessed it, a classic Sam Beckett "No Answer" and the terse response, "timed out".
So the app doesn't matter. The browser doesn't matter. The account or any legacy cruft doesn't matter.
Does this leave as the only explanation that perhaps Google no longer provides OAuth2 tokens? Surely that would be all over the news if true, but I'm running out of local culprits. Also Emacs inability to authenticate Mastodon suggests its neither google nor Debian per se? Maybe I should spend my time more productively slamming a car door on my fingers?
I have a dread feeling wiping the laptop and carefully reinstalling from scratch will not work.
When you notice your carefully uploaded Mango sub-dir on your Codeberg is actually empty and the disk has been wiped. Obviously. Eternal n00b 😆
🚨 A massive cyberattack has crippled #Mikord, the key developer behind Russia’s Unified Military Registry, wiping out over 40TB of infrastructure, including source code and backups.
https://substack.com/@jaanika/note/c-1