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After a lot of trouble, I finally got Netflix working on my Plasma Bigscreen using a remote!
#kde

Refreshing times 🤣 When your Gentoo KDE is the most stable one around.
Although Slackware Tilers and that Broccoli thing (now with Cosmic!) are humming along nicely also. But NixOS is borked. Maintainers leaving is catching up it seems.

«KDE und GNOME diskutieren unterschiedliche Ansätze zur LLM-Nutzung»
Das @… und @… schon immer eine Ansichtssache des User*innen Geschmacks ist, ist nichts neues. Nun aber ob und wie KI zum Entwickeln eingesetzt wird, wird nun gegensätzlich aufge…

KDE und GNOME diskutieren unterschiedliche Regeln für LLM-Nutzung
KDE und GNOME haben Richtlinienentwürfe zur LLM-Nutzung veröffentlicht. Während der Vorschlag von KDE die LLM-Nutzung nicht ausschließt…

Did you know that OpenBSD has KDE 6.7.4 and Mango 0.16.2 in its repo's? Both the latest versions. I certainly didn't. Remarkable. Bigger learning curve, but verryy interesting!
EDIT: And Ungoogled Chromium and LibreWolf. Say no more.
#openbsd

TIL¹: UTF-8 basically came from² Plan 9.
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¹https://mastodon.well.com/@rk/117190782591698760
²https://…

Huge kudos to the #KDE team, #konsole now shows a little progress bar. This is nice

Yeah. I dig this.

People should always be able to search by keyword rather than navigate menus.
Especially if we (who make human-computer interfaces) do not want people to turn to life-destroying chatbot interfaces.
Are #KDE and #Gnome or others working on a standard way to do that in each program?

Nushell in Tokyo. That ThinkPad for work is ready also, after the FreeBSD Mango desktop. KDE on FreeBSD has come a long way. Dots and howto to follow later on, but it was painless.
#freebsd #bsdseptember

from my link log —
Rust in a KDE project.
https://jbbgameich.github.io/misc/2020/12/21/rust-in-a-kde-project.html
saved 2020-12-28

Bug of the day: a deadlock between dlopen(3)'s lock and OPENSSL_init_crypto()'s lock when two threads load a new library and initialize #OpenSSL.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c

On a different note: the first day of FreeBSD'ing was nice. Of course the windowmanager setup with Mango and Wayland needs some more attention at first (default sound, pipewire etc. you get it), but that KDE rocks already. An advantage of a DE: lock, stock and barrel included (mostly). In the workday all went smooth, including Joplin and Signal. Good stuff!
#freebsd

(post composed while ducking to keep below the rage and anguish flying everywhere from KDE, Debian, etc...)
So I'm cleaning up decades of old blog. I've used the Jekyll exporter to pull it all down, I've got @… 's BSSD in place, and I'm comparing what the YAML headers in the exported files look like compared to the BSSD headers (and se…

.@… deleted his toot, but I was just looking at the KDE bug closure and thinking basically the same thing that he posted.
I have an email in my drafts folders which I intend to finish at some point, asking on debian-devel and debian-project how we (debian) can claim that users are our priority when we have no official means with which to actually captur…

RE: #FreeSoftwareJobs

Mapovšní šíření zškonů o ověřovšní věku na internetu
https://proton.me/cs/age-verification
Vlšdy po celém světě činí věk podmínkou pro přístup k určitým čšstem internetu. Tato stršnka sleduje, kde jsou takové zškony v účinnosti, kde se prosazují a jak k tomu různé země přistupují.
vypad…

Ověřování věku: Sledujte celosvětovou legislativu a legislativu USA | Proton
Zjistěte více o šíření zákonů o ověřování věku po celém světě.

Desktop Linux needs better ways of managing environment variables. They are everywhere. Both Steam and KDE Plasma should have nicer UIs for them. Like Firefox's about:config, but for environment variables.
#Linux #Steam #KDE

Ich hab nun das hochgelobte CachyOS mit Cinnamon installiert, aber da scheint noch einiges im Argen zu sein, weil ich hab Programme installiert, die dann gar nicht im Menu auftauchen und ich kann sie nicht mal in der Console starten. Ok, verstehe, das KDE Plasma die eigentliche Oberfläche ist, aber .... warumkann ich denn dann andere Oberflächen installieren, wenn diese nicht mal gut an CachyOS angepasst sind. Das finde ich nicht so gar lustig
Mag den KDE nicht, komme halt nicht zurecht…

Hot take
The KDE fedora shipping on default on framework laptop is a good thing.

"Hmmmmm, this compiler is eating up all the memory... I know what to do! I'm going to kill KDE!"
Fuck you.

Not a view, exactly, but still a view. Fresh install today, hot off the press. Got myself a HP EliteOne 800 G5 for... basically nothing, so I couldn't really turn it down.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117341235426362881
Should KDE stay on my Slop-free FOSS list or should I wait for an AI Policy?
Let me know your thoughts
Yes
No
(see results)

Hello #linux and #kde people specifically!
Is there a way to tell on the OS level if the system prefers a dark/light theme?
Not talking about running:
```bash
kreadconfig6 --group "General" --key "ColorScheme" --file kdeglobals
```
But someth…

Ooh, that's getting there.... This is a BBC B captured with the RGB wired directly to a PICO GPIO and advertising USB video; now hmm, wtf is it backwards. (It's yellow because I ahem need to put the blue pin in the right place). I've not properly done sync yet and it's not bad!

Kudos to the maintainers of ChimeraLinux for putting such a gem together and quietly, but persistingly, updating it to the latest and greatest (here with KDE 6.7.3). Thanks! 🤓 🍻
#chimeralinux #kde

The network install of FreeBSD will show you the available adapters to choose from. The Ethernet adapter shows a lot of info, but the wifi one just said rtw88. Hence I never tried it and used a cheapo tp-link usb stick previously to install via wifi.
Today i did try it, and lo and behold, everything just installed fine 🤣 .
That ThinkPad will get KDE installed, on FreeBSD. Looking forward to it! It is my FreeBSD month after all 🥳

I always said i understood Slackware a bit after I understood Gentoo better. For my KDE I'm running Larry again for the last 10 days. Man, what a nice return it is. And yes, I know it has some flaws, but the Gentoo Wiki is excellent.
#gentoo

The most boring vegetable is broccoli.
Meet Bootc-Broccoli, my spin on Kinoite from Ublue.
It's boring as f...; it just keeps working.
You can find it here:
https://github.com/thedanangineer/bootc-broccoli
Now I'm gonna try to move image building local…

Usually you grab an LTS kernel for ZFS support. Chimera Linux has zfs support for the stable (atm 7.2.2) kernel. And LibreOffice 26.08 right now. And KDE 6.7.4 servicepack 2 as well. I'll be heading back soon, a gem!
#chimeraLinux

Really bummed about KDE's "AI" thing and, more important, the opinions I'm reading on their forum, the justifications for moral compromise. It might look salvageable now, but it's not going to end well.

@… in the wake of all this KDE stuff, do you have any plans to instate a no-AI policy any time soon?

@… in the wake of all this KDE stuff, do you have any plans to instate a no-AI policy any time soon?

After a month on Kalpa and a bit on my NixOS spin it's time to shake that KDE install up and go for sth else. One KDE and one Slackware tilers box are the 'production' kits here, I spend around 80% of my time there. Fedora 45 beta, Arch, TuxedoOS? Enough to choose from. First the slackosundries, updating some Slackware pkgs!

Any wireless Logitech peripheral users on KDE Plasma: There's a bug that's reporting battery charge incorrectly and has been reported https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1wgjxwk/persistent_low_battery_warning_logitech_mk540/

Of course that Gnome didn't work out for me. But if you are into Gnome Dakotaraptor with GnomeOS is great. I decided to re-bake my own Aurora-based image, bootc KDE by UniversalBlue. Of course I had deleted my previous dots. ZilchTown (as a reference to Jtown) is loaded on the work laptop and ready to go. This week I'll focus on creating that bootc image locally, instead of in the cloud. The tech is very interesting, above my paygrade but I already had a great time.

After a great month on ChimeraLinux and a week updating and running Obelix, my NixOS KDE, it is now time for a closer look at Kalpa. I'll spend a later blogpost on how I got there and what has actually been picked up very well in that project. Back on a roll!
#kalpa #opensuse

@… I'm not entirely sure it was you, but I think I read you ask about Desktop Environments. You were searching for one without "AI" or some techbro bullshit. How did that go?
I'm starting to read bad things about KDE and I'd like to plan ahead.

As if you didn't know this would happen...
#gentoo

One of the better weekend pleasures is the scrolling emerge of 232 KDE 6.7.5 packages. As long as all is successful 😁
#gentoo

Next to enshittification I'd like to introduce 'enstupidification'. That one bothers me waaaayyy more. Phone:'Please enter your passcode, so you can't forget' Tablet: 'Every 24 hours we ask you to enter your pin, so you don't forget ' Banking app 'We noticed you have KDE Connect installed. Please uninstall, so you can use our mobile banking app'. 'You cannot use this service, without signing up'.
Astonishing stupidity, wrapped in a, su…

Because I'm blabbering so much about Linux: rest assured, FreeBSD KDE on my work laptop and Mango FreeBSD at home are still humming along nicely. Mango though will be replaced with River-classic. My mango on Slackware is so good, there's no need for a second install. And, mind you, that install is on that 65 dollar i5 from 2016 and it works great 👍🏻
#freebsd

Saw a Gentoo install vid, it really made me enthousiastic for another install. Yeah, KDE, musl, openRC, zfs, some flatpak and distrobox, noice!
Then I realized Chimera Linux does all that ootb 🤣 Shelved 🤓
#chimeralinux