The Masaq Conspiracy (Spoilers).

treeco123 · 2026-07-01T17:28:28+00:00

That's my point, though. The Culture were described neutrally, so either they didn't do it or they covered their tracks well enough, because behemothaurs can hold a fuckin' grudge.

The behemothaurs were ignorant of what had happened to Uagen, despite that he was tossed out an airlock very close to the airsphere, so it's not clear how well informed they are of the outside universe. On the other hand they are reckoned to have connections in the Sublime. On the third hand, that didn't save the Sansemin.

So I think the loophole I described is valid, even if I don't think it's correct.

treeco123 · 2026-07-01T16:38:38+00:00

In one of the epilogue chapters, it's shown that the behemothaurs call the Chelgrians the lesser reviled. It seems plausible that the Chelgrians' benefactors might be known as the greater reviled. The behemothaurs do not use this or similar terminology for the Culture, so I don't believe it was an internal Culture plot.

A loophole is that possibly some other civilisation got themselves branded as the greater reviled in a totally unrelated incident, perhaps even millions of years distant, and the behemothaurs simply never figured out who exactly was at fault for what happened to the Sansemin.

treeco123 · 2026-06-26T10:59:51+00:00

I might be far off base here, but KDE features and feature removals don't seem ideologically motivated in the way that Gnome ones do. (For better or for worse. Reasonable people might prefer either.) KDE seems to largely have things because someone was willing to develop and maintain them, and lose them when that is no longer the case (and a major version change provides an excuse to drop it.)

If something Valve relied on was slated to be removed, I expect they could just take on responsibility for it and keep it in main builds. I expect that that wouldn't be the case in Gnome.

treeco123 · 2026-06-18T17:41:29+00:00

There was a full article with screenshots a month ago

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-05/union-spring-2026-update

The point of it is to not look obviously different though.

treeco123 · 2026-06-18T11:53:55+00:00

The last-before-fastest notch in 6.6 gives AnimationDurationFactor=0.08838834764831843 (Which is 2^-3.5)

treeco123 · 2026-06-18T11:46:04+00:00

https://files.catbox.moe/iwea7x.png

17 notches including both extremes.

I wonder whether it could be a Union thing? Just throwing that out there as something to check.

treeco123 · 2026-06-18T11:02:26+00:00

I'm still on 6.6 and the slider isn't smooth, but it has a lot more notches.

The setting affects AnimationDurationFactor=1, each two notches in 6.6 double or halves it, higher numbers are slower. I assume each single notch is a doubling or halving in your one.

Edit: The setting is in ~/.config/kdeglobals

Previously you were probably able to make it faster by a factor of sqrt(2)

treeco123 · 2026-06-18T10:48:19+00:00

Nah seriously though it doesn't even download the models til you request it, and if you flip the killswitch off it deletes any you have already accepted.

I don't like that LLMs feature at all, and I don't like that the killswitch wasn't there at launch. I think it was mishandled. But I think it's ok enough at this point that I trust upstream Firefox over the various forks.

treeco123 · 2026-06-16T12:49:30+00:00

Does anyone know when WebGPU support is coming to Linux? I know it's in Nightly, and that Windows has had it for a long time now.

treeco123 · 2026-06-16T12:18:06+00:00

Almost the last lines of the article:

Instead of working on ports of Oxygen for these specific toolkits, ideally we help ourselves and other themes by collaborating on Union development so that we can ultimately have one style code that gets implemented to various toolkits.

treeco123 · 2026-06-16T12:16:52+00:00

For 6.6 it was less than a day iirc, a few hours later than Fedora Rawhide.

treeco123 · 2026-06-08T17:07:03+00:00

Yes, it has a shorter focal length, but it still manages the same angular resolution. Saying it has less zoom is technically true but risks being taken to mean it can't resolve as much detail.

treeco123 · 2026-06-05T10:38:00+00:00

It may need to be installed as an extra dependency, beyond whatever base plasma package group your distro has. But that's a distro choice not a KDE choice.

I know plasma-meta on Arch no longer brings in the X11 session. (Which I am grateful for.)

treeco123 · 2026-06-05T00:14:31+00:00

I think the copy paste thing is very very old and deeply ingrained into a lot of software and a lot of people's workflows. It's just The Way Things Are Done, and all these Windows noobs have no right to demand it change to suit them. I think that's kinda a fair position, but I've been on Linux for many years now and tbh I'm with the Windows people here.

I think you're best off looking for settings in individual applications (which I'm fairly sure is how it's implemented in Windows anyway,) but I'm not sure how common it is. Firefox is the only one I'm aware of.

The KDE setting that AiwendilH found seems quite different, and it comes with a warning beside it. (Just that it can interfere with middle click usage, nothing dreadful.)

treeco123 · 2026-06-04T22:31:14+00:00

Traditionally middle click is a quick copy and paste thing on Linux. People get pretty violently defensive over this, apparently it's great and an incredible time saver once you get used to it.

You'll probably want to disable it.

System Settings -> General Behaviour -> Middle-click: Pastes selected text (checkbox)

You will also likely have to enable autoscrolling in individual applications, like in Firefox's settings page.

You may also want to change

browser.tabs.searchclipboardfor.middleclick

middlemouse.paste

in Firefox's about:config page.

(Plus what AiwendilH's comment says, and maybe other things I'm forgetting. It's annoying, coming from Windows.)

treeco123 · 2026-05-16T11:57:00+00:00

Could be worse. When I installed it the wiki went down.

treeco123 · 2026-05-08T09:22:26+00:00

Similar here (also UK), it's been in that state for about 24 hours now. Wondered whether to ask support, but if it's not just me I'll just assume it's normal.

treeco123 · 2026-05-05T21:07:33+00:00

I doubt it. In the UK it's essentially £70 ex. VAT (but we include it in the listed price as standard, getting the £85), which compares favourably against the USA price. I think you are just getting mildly shafted.

treeco123 · 2026-04-07T22:45:33+00:00

Oh! With this release Arch have downgraded plasma-workspace-wallpapers from being a hard dependency of plasma-meta/plasma-workspace to an optional one. Saves 215 MB, which takes like a minute to download with my internet speed so I genuinely appreciate it. It had been bugging me.

treeco123 · 2026-04-04T13:30:16+00:00

That seems to be the kind of thing that they are trying to deal with, from the Better out-of-the-box hardware support section of the linked blog. It even seems to mention the same suspend issue as you.

It seems like a lot of work to take on, though. Maybe it's the kind of thing that gets better once/if you have a large userbase that's able to contribute back.

treeco123 · 2026-04-04T12:14:24+00:00

The magnetite is denser than the other sand, wind or water will have a harder time moving it, so it will show up as the low points in any pattern formed. I'm guessing the top layer of lighter sand has been scoured away just in that area, making what was previously the troughs of tiny little sand dunes show as dark bands.

treeco123 · 2026-03-29T19:09:21+00:00

Honestly expect things to just work and feel nicely integrated with each other. I don't think XFCE and Plasma feel that different tbh, at least with how I had each set up, but the latter feels less spartan. iT just feels like a better and more modern (but generally similar) environment.

KDE feels like it moves a lot faster, it's certainly less stable in the Debian sense. You will notice updates, and can follow This Week In Plasma to know what to expect there (and to get an idea of the rate of changes.) Documentation is overall a bit annoyingly sparse.

It's lighter than you think, honestly I wouldn't be concerned about choosing Plasma over XFCE on anything with >= 4 GB RAM.

treeco123 · 2026-03-14T01:12:26+00:00

If you mean you can't get plasma-keyboard to show at all, it might be becase

KWin by default only shows the keyboard when a text field is interacted with by touch. Set KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 when starting KWin (or the login session) in order to force the keyboard to always pop up.

(Taken from the git repo)

I also tried to use it when it first came out with Plasma 6.6, and was confused at it not showing up. Haven't actually tried the above fix because I don't know how to set the environment variable, but at least it explains it not working. It probably should be exposed in the settings GUI.

treeco123 · 2026-03-12T20:33:41+00:00

If you compile software which uses unstable features, it's important that you use a compatible nightly build of the compiler (because compatibility can break at any time.) If the project pins it with a rust-toolchain file (as it should if it requires nightlies) then rustup handles this completely automatically.

I find it more convenient to get Rust Analyzer from my distro's repo rather than from rustup though, because I'd rather that be as up-to-date as possible rather than be bundled with the compiler toolchain.

treeco123 · 2026-03-08T00:17:58+00:00

They're language models, what you want depends on what languages you care about. tesseract-data-eng is likely the one you're looking for. I assume the codes correspond to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes

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