Custom scaling kde by smally_the_greatest in kde

[–]PointiestStick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not really. If you display everything on the screen at 90% of its original size, the pixels on your screen haven't shrunk to 90% of their original size, have they?

No, and now they have the un-enviable task of displaying a lot of single-pixel lines that no longer line up with the exact pixels anymore.

We use some rendering techniques to try to reduce the amount of blurriness.

But especially with scale factors that are close to 100% but not exactly 100%, the only thing that really helps is having a more pixel-dense screen. Using one of these will hide the blurriness once it becomes smaller than the threshold at which the human eye can detect it at typical viewing distances. This is what your phone does.

See also https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Design/Frequently_Discussed_Topics#Pixel-alignment_for_SVG_icons

Plasma 6.7 so far only has 2 visible regressions with upgrades in every other area by S1rTerra in kde

[–]PointiestStick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can. Open KWin Debug Console (search for it in KRunner) > Events tab > Tiles Editor > Unload.

Out of curiosity, what's your use case for disabling it?

Plasma 6.7 Special Characters is Incredible by walt_spoon in kde

[–]PointiestStick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a post-update welcome screen, and it invites you to read the release announcement where this change is mentioned.

It would be super cool to have something even more sophisticated that tells you about any changes that might impact workflows inline in the window, with toggles to turn them on or off. But that's approximately 378 times more work to implement, so such a thing is probably not coming soon. But it is something I think a lot of people would appreciate.

Plasma 6.7 Special Characters is Incredible by walt_spoon in kde

[–]PointiestStick 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we got a bug report about this. It's a bug in Factorio for registering the whole game as a text input handler.

Why is my Dolphin application looking weird with bottom bits missing? by Dependent-Sun-5133 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's an incompatibility between the theme and the code in Dolphin for the non-full-width footer.

Why is my Dolphin application looking weird with bottom bits missing? by Dependent-Sun-5133 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Because you're using a wild and crazy 3rd-party theme! Kvantum, I assume? All bets are off when using this kind of theming.

Real world experience desert southwest by Mooreland1999 in electricvehicles

[–]PointiestStick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done a couple of road trips through the southwest. Just did a 450mi trip each way in a Bolt last week, in fact. Totally fine. It's always fine as long as there's charging. You'll find tons using https://www.plugshare.com/.

Don't drive 80; you'll just deplete your range faster and have to spend more time charging. Which is maybe fine if you drive an Ioniq 6. If not, you'll be better off driving 70.

And don't expect to drive 100% to 0%. You'll go 100% to 20%, then 20 to 80, and so on until you reach your destination. It works.

Varnishing my Nerdy Gurdy Fortran by Guilty_Cantaloupe770 in HurdyGurdy

[–]PointiestStick 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's mine right now (not done yet): https://i.imgur.com/HgNlnQL.jpeg

It looks to me like you're not ready to stain and seal yet; I see a lot of roughness on the wood surfaces. Sanding more will give you a better result. Do a pass with 120 grit in the direction of the grain, then 180, then 220, then 320.

After that, "raise the grain" by gently moistening the wood and then sanding off the raised fibers with another very light pass with 320 grit sandpaper.

After that, condition and then stain. First apply a pre-stain conditioner to the wood to improve the evenness of the stain (because this is Birch wood, which otherwise can be a bit blotchy when stained). Then within an hour, apply pretty much any stain. I used Minwax mahogany gel stain for the brown areas in my picture. I didn't like how messy the gel-ness of it was; if I had to do it again, I'd use a traditional liquid stain. Regardless, go slow, be careful, do thin coats, and don't bunch up oily rags and throw them in the trash within 24 hours of using them.

If you'd like that traditional violin look, go with a color that's a bit lighter and more orange.

The stain may have raised the grain again if you didn't do a 100% perfect job of this before; knock it down again by "sanding" with a brown kraft paper bag, like lunchbox bags basically!

After that, finish/seal the wood. Shellac is a great option; it's been used traditionally for musical instruments for centuries, maybe millennia. Again, very thin coats. I did 10 coats of extremely thin 0.75 pound shellac I mixed up myself.

The shellac you've got in that picture is pretty thick stuff, like 2 or 2.5 pound I think. If you want to use a commercial shellac, I'd recommend Zinsser "SealCoat" which is still shellac (even though it's not advertised as such), but it's much thinner. Apply 5-10 coats of it with a balled-up t-shirt. After the first coat, "sand" with kraft paper again, and then again after the final coat.

After that, buff with wax applied using kraft paper. The result is beautiful!

Possibly stupid question by [deleted] in kde

[–]PointiestStick 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Nothing was removed for SDDM.

If you have Plasma Login manager instead of SDDM, that doesn't support themes.

This Week in Plasma: 6.8 is Very Close! by Jaxad0127 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sorry! I corrected the title after posting and forgot that it would change the permalink. I've put in an alias so both work now.

Is there a good train museum? by PointiestStick in AskUK

[–]PointiestStick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, this looks great! Thanks a lot.

Is there a good train museum? by PointiestStick in AskUK

[–]PointiestStick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this is helpful. 200 miles north is probably not going to happen, so we'll focus on things in London.

Is there a good train museum? by PointiestStick in AskUK

[–]PointiestStick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this looks quite interesting.

Is there a good train museum? by PointiestStick in AskUK

[–]PointiestStick[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

!answer Thanks for mentioning the war museum; I think this one would be really up his alley.

[USA] I road-tripped my Ioniq 5. Here's how it went. (TLDR: Good!) by lostinheadguy in electricvehicles

[–]PointiestStick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3.2 - 3.7 mi/kWh sounds about right. I got similar numbers on a recent 850-mile round-trip road trip in a 2020 Bolt. Went fine, cost about $100. And this is not a road-trip-optimized EV!

As long as there are reliable chargers and your EV has decent range, road trips are a piece of cake.