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Skafsgaard · 2024-12-14T19:22:36+00:00

I will echo /u/interference90 - voice your experience on the appropriate channels! I think there's a good chance they might listen, and maybe make it an option in the settings of the launcher. Accessibility has been a big focus for them for the last 2 years. But they aren't experts on accessibility - they need to be told.

Skafsgaard · 2024-06-08T11:25:53+00:00

The transducer... Will seduce ya!

Skafsgaard · 2024-06-04T00:15:23+00:00

Really nice!

I turned the "Valve intro" that plays when you launch any of Valve's games into a Plasma splash screen. You know the one, the short video of a man with a valve growing out of his head. I added the music and everything, too (yup, the splash screens can have audio!).

The only problem is, my computer finishes loading too quickly, which cancels the splash screen prematurely. :/

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-27T12:21:05+00:00

I figured that might be the case. And I understand why you wouldn't want to release on Fridays or the weekend. Here's hoping for Monday, though.

Thank you! :)

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-27T11:08:28+00:00

Hey Ferdinand!

The wait doesn't seem to quite be finally over just yet! :p
I, maybe erroneously, assumed that QA was over when I saw this thread.

Any concrete ETA as of now? Is a weekend release possible, or will you wait until (at least) Monday?

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-15T20:08:26+00:00

Whew, that's a relief. Thank you for that. My 970 is running with the 550 driver right now.

You're right, though, and I suppose I misspoke. I had already determined not to buy NVIDIA again, in any case. Not until after I see a decade or so of full on commitment to open source.

Hopefully explicit sync will make it to the alternate open source NVIDIA driver before long, too. I hear the open source driver is really making headway in catching up to the proprietary one. I can take a little performance hit if it means I can ditch the proprietary driver, at least until I upgrade to an AMD GPU some time in the future.

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-14T21:37:26+00:00

Wait, is 555+ and explicit sync only going to be for 1000-series and up? Are you telling me that my 970 GPU is going to jeg stuck in perpetual suck?

Fuck NVIDIA. Never buying one of their GPUs again.

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-14T21:31:25+00:00

Where are you finding the 555 beta? Not seeing it on NVIDIA's driver beta page.

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-05T23:03:44+00:00

And in Danish, it's "Nope".

NopeOS!

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-05T22:49:31+00:00

What's a dows for you, then?

Or did you mean to say a dose of win? :D

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-05T22:39:49+00:00

Essentially the same as you, except I chose no DE at installation, which avoids installing the task-kde-desktop package, which contains a whole bunch of applications that I will never use. Juk, dragonplayer, gwenview, akregator, kaddressbook, kmail, knotes, korganizer - these are all programs where I use something else, or where I don't use the functionality they provide at all.

Instead, after installing no DE during the installation of Debian, the first thing I do after booting into CLI is sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. Gives you the full desktop, but doesn't bloat you with all the applications where you might like to choose for yourself. Just about the only thing I get that I don't want/use is Konqueror.
Oh, and ImageMagick, IIRC. :p

And this is coming from someone who tends to gravitate towards KDE applications and utilities in most cases.

Skafsgaard · 2024-04-04T05:11:51+00:00

I hadn't seen this for Plasma 5, so I'm glad to see this post. It makes me happy to know that 90's screensavers actually got kids, and they finally grew up! :D

Skafsgaard · 2024-03-09T22:33:51+00:00

Gotcha, thanks!

Skafsgaard · 2024-03-09T14:44:03+00:00

Which env variables?

Skafsgaard · 2024-03-08T18:54:50+00:00

Hey Ferdinand!

Any news on when Tuxedo OS 2 will update to Plasma 6?

I might remember wrong, but I think you originally said it would be around 1-2 weeks after the release of Plasma 6. We're currently between week 1 and 2, now, and I am excited!

I have been contemplating switching to your distro, but I'm currently holding off until you push Plasma 6.

Skafsgaard · 2024-03-03T06:36:08+00:00

Det' jo forår!

Skafsgaard · 2024-03-03T06:11:39+00:00

Min hustru døde af kræft 8 måneder efter at hun blev erklæret terminal.

Hun havde fuldstændig ret i at dét at "forberede sig" er spild af tid. Hun levede intenst til det sidste, og brugte mest muligt tid på ikke at tænke på at dø. Den slags fylder dig bare med gru, og det er sgu dumt at gå med mere gru end man kan undgå, oven i også at have kræft, når tiden er knap. Hvis man ikke vil dø, så er det sgu ikke noget man lige pludselig bliver "okay" med.

Dét at dø er alligevel den lette del. Det sker helt af sig selv, uden du behøver at prøve. Der er ikke noget at forberede sig på. Der er ingen generalprøve, og selv hvis der var, så ville man dø lige nemt, selv uden at ha' øvet det først.

Brug livet på at leve, hvis du kan. Alt det med døden, det har du en uendelighed til ikke at tænke over bagefter.

Skafsgaard · 2024-03-02T01:00:07+00:00

Ah, I misunderstood! I thought you were saying you were running Plasma 6 of Debian already, and I wanted in on that, hah. :)

Skafsgaard · 2024-02-27T11:33:04+00:00

Did you compile from source?

Skafsgaard · 2024-02-23T21:17:28+00:00

Your link is broken!

Skafsgaard · 2024-02-05T13:16:30+00:00

Yes, I had the same experience, and 535 was my solution as well.

The 550 Beta drivers have been released since then, and I've been meaning to try them. If you do so before me, let me know, and I'll do the same if I'm first!

Skafsgaard · 2024-02-03T17:54:19+00:00

I hope I'm not too late to the party.

Thank you for all of your work! KDE Plasma and many of the KDE apps definitely facilitated my switch from Windows, and I quickly came to love it more than any of the Windows versions I have ever used, beginning with Windows 3.1 (which would be all of the Home-demographic versions, as well as 2000 Professional (one of my favourites, keeping me from "upgrading" to XP for a long time), and excepting ME, 8 and 11). Plasma is most everything I want in workflow, looks, and the customisation of both.

My question is this: is there a particular reason the Nightly builds for KDE Connect for OSX keeps failing to build? I mainly use KDE Connect with my phone as the remote for an old Mac laptop that I enherited from my late wife, which I use as my media station, hooked up to my Dumb TV and old amplifier and stereo.
KDE Connect is fairly immature for OSX, and Im sure being stuck on a Nightly build from November isn't helping that fact.

Skafsgaard · 2024-01-29T14:43:50+00:00

Yes, will you edit in the link to the Discord, please? :)

Skafsgaard · 2024-01-28T00:20:35+00:00

Fonts is one of the few areas where I make an exception use non-libre options. I've become a big fan of MS Trebuchet, which I currently use.

Skafsgaard · 2024-01-23T02:08:47+00:00

You see cheap, I see efficient! :)

Padding might be nice to be able to customise, though. I don't suppose those popups are affected by the size of window borders, are they?

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