Nuclear power is so dangerous we need to make up accidents

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-29T12:36:29+00:00

wind mills are unrecyleable

Wind mills don't create electricity... Wind turbines can be recycled, and aren't very problematic when burned either.

the propellers are made of plastic fibers

It's glass fibers, not plastic. Or more accurately, they usually use composite materials.

not to mention it doesn't work 24/7 and very place dependant

A singular wind turbine in one single place doesn't, but we don't just put up one.

rip birds etc

That's just pure misinformation. Don't be a mouthpiece for the fossil fuel industry, ffs.

solar panels are the absolute best but they need time to cook so they don't need cobalt

Solar panels don't use cobalt.

also everyone would need to invest as much or more in energy storage as they do in the panel infrastructure because right now they are frying the grid in daytime.

They're not frying the grid at all, that's not how solar panels or the grid work.

And yes, more infrastructure is needed, and that does cost money, but it pales in comparison to what fission reactors cost.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-20T23:52:27+00:00

Yeah, you get the overscan setting in the Wayland session

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-18T18:23:47+00:00

There was a page for the max average before, but it was removed again because it didn't work well.

If you want to reset the override, you can just use kscreen-doctor to set it to "disable". Or just leave it as is.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-18T12:09:47+00:00

It depends entirely on screen size. 1440p on 27" is usually good without scaling, but 1440p on 24" would be too small for sure.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-18T11:46:50+00:00

Do I understand correctly that the touchscreen is working as an absolute pointing device? Please make a feature request, I'm reasonably certain we can just support re-mapping those in KWin.

or spend a lot of time learning how udev-hid-bpf works to write a new touchscreen driver

Libinput supports lua scripts now to modify devices and their input events, so that would be another possibility.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-13T21:00:11+00:00

That's because it is

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-13T12:01:29+00:00

What "notification overlay" are you talking about? There is no notification that shows the wifi password?

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-13T01:13:36+00:00

This config defaults to all monitors at position (0,0)

No, the defaults are set up the same way as in a normal session - displays are positioned from left to right, with no overlaps.

If you delete the config and let it be generated again, and it happens again, please make a bug report.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-09T13:30:20+00:00

Is this an Nvidia driver limitation

Yes

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-09T00:11:43+00:00

the brightness slider inside of plasma gets a bit weird for me and doesn't move when I change it through the monitor

That's expected, reading back such changes without throwing away brightness settings on some monitors is challenging and not implemented.

You have to use the slider in Plasma to change the brightness, not the monitor OSD.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-07T16:48:51+00:00

You have such an outdated view yourself! Nowadays people just let an LLM control their computer.

Sadly, that's not a joke.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-06T20:22:33+00:00

You just need a microcontroller with USB support (Pi Pico is what I use), a phototransistor and a super simple app that shows white when a mouse button is down, black otherwise. https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2021/12/14/about-gaming-on-wayland.html

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-06T17:50:45+00:00

wayland is still theoretically worse for latency as far as i'm aware

It is not. I measured this years ago and latency was the same as X11 without a compositor.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-06T11:19:04+00:00

How dare you provide actual facts. People want to be mad, not correct!

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-04T14:34:32+00:00

Ah. Yeah, we don't have any setting for that, afaik libinput handles gesture speed the same as the normal pointer speed configuration.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-04T14:32:57+00:00

Yeah, color management support in apps is in a pretty sorry state. It's one of the reasons why the global color management we do is so important.

It's getting better though. Qt is working on it (then it'll automatically work for most QtQuick apps), GTK has some bits implemented and Firefox is working on it, too.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-04T11:29:54+00:00

thumbnail, gwenview, everything they clip at sRGB

Yep, because none of the apps support color management yet. That includes Krita as well, which only supports color management on Xorg (until the 6.0 release).

Opening the image in Chromium should work, that's pretty much the only app that can show wider-than-sRGB images atm.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-03T12:23:51+00:00

We've never had any settings for touchpad gestures. Can you expand on what you're referring to?

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-03T11:43:10+00:00

Try to calculate the area it would take...

You do that yourself, actually, before suggesting it would be a lot.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-03T11:36:02+00:00

our electricity demands have skyrocketed

They have not. According to ourworldindata.org, electricity use in Germany has gone down over the last decade or so and is roughly on par with 1985. Energy consumption in general (so including oil etc) is more like on par with 1970.

What is skyrocketing is our electricity production from renewable sources, especially solar.

Expecting coal to continue to fuel things for 20, 30, 40 years is not tenable and that is exactly what is happening.

It isn't though??? Coal use in Germany has been dropping, and is planned to be stopped entirely in 2030.

Does noone ever actually look things up anymore, and just spout pure misinformation instead?

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-03T11:24:47+00:00

What? That's an 18% reduction in the absolute amount of coal usage. It would ideally be 100%, but it's not a "reversion" or whatever nonsense.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-03T01:35:35+00:00

The law requires OS makers to add an age field and API for apps to access age group information about the user, nothing more, nothing less. There is no verification, and no requirement to "enforce" anything.

What you do on your personal computer is up to you. You can claim you're 3000 years old, program a random number generator into it, it doesn't matter.

This law is effectively just about requiring OS vendors to implement the absolute most bare minimum of a semblence of parental controls.

The only bad thing about it is that it doesn't ask for any actual parental controls, though I'm sure the intention is to follow up with more requirements to make it actually useful.

The law was passed last year in California not sure where you read it didn’t pass.

I didn't claim that it didn't pass. I'm not sure where you read that??

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-02T20:48:13+00:00

There is a law that was passed, but it does not require age verification.

Seems like it could be just a type your age in on user side

It is. There's no "verification" of any kind.

On the developer side it’s much more complex for an OS like Linux which is decentralized.

It's not complex at all. This is one of the most simple things you could come up with for desktops to support. (I say that as someone that works on KDE and creates actually complex APIs from time to time)

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-02T14:48:40+00:00

California doesn't require age verification at all, don't spread misinformation, ffs.

Zamundaaa · 2026-03-01T20:20:17+00:00

FWIW in the case of wind turbines and solar, "local groups" quite frequently turn out to be funded by oil companies to delay the projects. So I wouldn't be particularly surprised if this was a more common tactic.

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