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KDE Plasma 6.8 offeriert nur noch Wayland-Sitzung
Die Desktop-Umgebung KDE Plasma verabschiedet sich zum 30. KDE-Geburtstag von X11, integriert das Backup-Tool Kup und macht Fortschritte beim Union-Design.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 offeriert nur noch Wayland-Sitzung
Die Desktop-Umgebung KDE Plasma verabschiedet sich zum 30. KDE-Geburtstag von X11, integriert das Backup-Tool Kup und macht Fortschritte beim Union-Design.

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:: plasma-workspace-6.8.0-1 and plasma-x11-session-6.7.5-3 are in conflict. Remove plasma-x11-session? [y/N] y
```
Goodbye, X11 🫡
#KDE #Plasma #Wayland

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!

Linux- und Unix-Desktop KDE feiert 30. Geburtstag
Vor 30 Jahren begann die Arbeit an der Desktop-Umgebung KDE. Das Jubiläum feiert das Team mit Partys, einer größeren Spendenaktion und einem Wettbewerb.
https://www.

Linux- und Unix-Desktop KDE feiert 30. Geburtstag
Vor 30 Jahren begann die Arbeit an der Desktop-Umgebung KDE. Das Jubiläum feiert das Team mit Partys, einer größeren Spendenaktion und einem Wettbewerb.

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

RE: #FreeSoftwareJobs

#KDE documentary! #foss
https://youtu.be/1Vyzla9mx4g?si=x5Vi0ihlMnn-XMy2

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

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

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…

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

«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…

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

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

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!

I sure miss the Jtown days. With a major update to KDE I'd be up and running one day later, at the most. The entitlement is the worst part of this Linux user.

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?

@… 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.

It's still worth those 2h17min.
#gentoo #kde

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

Already getting tired of 30 years of KDE celebrations. And I'm a KDE user.
But hey, I use Slackware, we don't make such a big fuss about it.

Yeah. I dig this.

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

(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…

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/

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

Ugh, apparently the KDE Plasma new 6.8 middle-click scroll feature, if you use the tap to lock option instead of the press and hold one, breaks middle-click interaction in apps and potentially middle-click paste too?
Please just look at Firefox, the autoscroll feature there does not come with any drawbacks!!
Is the compositor not capable of knowing if you're interacting with specific elements such as text boxes?
Not sure if Midscroll has the same problem

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.

Well I do not recommend trying the beta channel.
After trying that it booted into a VR KDE desktop without Steam running, and without internet. And without SteamVR package installed.
Only rescue was holding the headset button during boot, using the volume keys to select the prior boot system, and doing a factory reset to make it stick.
Crikey. Really is a linux box, complete with having to fix update breakage.
#steamFrame #vr

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

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)

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

I reached chapter 8.12 of the LFS Handbook. Never got this far. Around 6 hours. Faced with the other 67 packages still to go, before even installing anything like a system, I decided to call it a day and close my Tailscale connection. Enough madness in this world. To kick off the weekend I then installed Slackware KDE. Ten minutes.
After living for 2 years in JTown (thanks @…

@… 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?

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.

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

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

Bootc-Broccoli was turned into a Cosmic one by me. I do like Cosmic, but.... If you're always tiling and you like a keyboard driven workflow like me this setup has been surpassed by far with the likes of Dank, Noctalia and Niri (or Mango, my fav). This obviously also applies to tiling Gnome or KDE. The quickshells provide all you could want for. As a floater Cosmic rocks. Bootc broccoli? I see niri and noctalia (and dank) in the generic Fedora repos!

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

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.

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 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 🥳

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

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.

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…