That’s odd. I hate closed eco systems.

If proton supports CalDAV (I’m not sure), it should work e.g. with DAVx5 which integrates well with Android calendar.

I doubt it is even possible to be done in learning e.g. Python.

When I had the issue with mariadb demon been killed, I think either in dmesg or syslog there was an entry reading "Out of memory: Kill process… " or similar.

In principle any DAV client should work. On Android, I use DAVx5 and Tasks.org to access my Nextcloud. On Thunderbird + Lightning, you can e.g. use SOGo connector or TbSync to use the address books, calendars and tasks.

Then, maybe, Baikal a Cal-/ Card-DAV server is what you are searching for.

That would not be equivalent to ‘remote location’, as the files would be stored locally on your computer and being synced with the cloud.

I know, I’ve once messed around to install a newer QT framework which was required by some package I’ve downloaded directly. Did you install them from the repos or manually copied the files into place? At first I thought the issues were due to compiling source code, not installing conflicting libraries.

Since I bricked my Debian setup in an unfortunate accident involving compiling from source

How on earth?

Productive research is also hard to imagine with such coding practice either.

Yes, it was a course on finite deformation material models. And no, you do really, really not want to declare each and every variable in your material subroutine globally for the whole finite element program.

Yes. He really thought it was efficient and would avoid errors if literally all variables were defined in a single Matlab function he called at the beginning of the script. We students all thought: “Man, are you serious?” As we didn’t want to debug such a mess, in our code, we ignored what he was doing and kept using local variables.

I’ve once had a course involving programming and the lecturer rewrote the code, which we were usually using at our institute, making ALL variables global. - Yes, also each and every loop counter and iterator. 🤪