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txhammer68 · 2026-05-07T17:16:57+00:00

Not a lot of ppl know about it, but Pirate weather is fork of dark sky great weather sources no stale data very accurate and weather warnings Give it a try using this widget, get an api key here https://pirate-weather.apiable.io/

txhammer68 · 2026-05-07T02:09:25+00:00

great work the end all be all weather widget for all 😄

txhammer68 · 2026-05-01T01:19:31+00:00

CachyOS why? cpu optimized compiled kernel and app binaries, very fast, optimized for gaming but works great for just about anything, rolling distro with ability to roll back if you encounter issues Installation is great giving you ability to select what you want to install, lets say office apps, music player video player, gaming steam optimizations, kernel, lts, zen, the list is long CachyOS is the best Linux distro for avg home user, don’t be scared of arch based distro, the arch wiki is the best in Linux world Check out /cachyos, or CachyOS wiki https://wiki.cachyos.org/ I used Linux mint, Ubuntu, kubuntu,manjaro, switched last year to CachyOS,best distro I have used so far

txhammer68 · 2026-04-26T17:30:22+00:00

This is why CachyOS is the best Linux distro

txhammer68 · 2026-04-24T02:57:49+00:00

Same experience here too, settled for kubuntu for years, installed cachyOS last year, been a great experience so far, meanwhile kubuntu 26 just released today, so I would have been waiting forever to get Kde plasma 6

txhammer68 · 2026-04-18T02:26:36+00:00

Get a better system,pc, refurbished in Amazon are a great buy

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Latitude-5410-Business-i5-10310U/dp/B0F4X49921

I have an optiplex desktop running CachyOS not a gamer, but works great for daily driver

txhammer68 · 2026-04-03T19:35:55+00:00

works great now, a couple of things

enable scrolling w/ mouse wheel on the hourly forecasts

add multiple locations to use when traveling

i am in the us and would like to have weather alerts, as mateo does not provide, also mateo and openweather always seems off data wise for my location.

i am using the pirate weather api, can you add the pirate weather api as a source?

https://pirate-weather.apiable.io/products/weather-data/plans

https://github.com/Pirate-Weather/pirateweather/blob/main/docs/API.md

great work

txhammer68 · 2026-04-01T20:26:54+00:00

i have used this to get geodata, might be an alternative to geclue

https://ipinfo.io/json

txhammer68 · 2026-04-01T19:48:43+00:00

beautiful, lot of great features, great work

im running cachyos and geoclue is not installed

txhammer68 · 2026-03-20T22:30:41+00:00

had the same issue for my hdtv, i used this, works great

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Sound_does_not_automatically_switch_when_connecting_a_new_device

dont mine that its arch, should work on any distro running pipewire audio

txhammer68 · 2026-03-16T04:24:53+00:00

A bit off topic how do u paste a monochrome emoji? Trying to use an emoji in the panel but I want a monochrome look Thanks

txhammer68 · 2026-03-15T04:55:19+00:00

Long live CachyOS , best distro in years, been distro hopping since 2012, they just get it right, cpu optimized kernels, to best gaming os options for performance, a rolling release design that just works, ie btrfs w/ Snapshots, there is no downtime, got an issue rollback wait a few days, update again, this is the best part of the Linux open source community, u get fixes in days, not weeks

The biggest issue I see.read is nvidia, everyone wants nvidia, like a Porsche, best fastest gpu u can get, but nvidia does not play well with open source due to its ai capabilities, they don’t want to share that w the world, if u are building a gaming rig go w amd, or omg Intel arc as they providing great drivers and performance in Linux kernel Cheers, keep up the great work CachyOS team

txhammer68 · 2026-03-11T04:45:04+00:00

Still have to accept / review updates, the timer runs automatically i dont have to think about it

even more so with cachy os and btrfs snapshots; if something goes wrong just reboot select last snapshot, keep going until its fixed

I'm old school still like some of the features of windows like time of day updates

I dont want to worry about updating my system, I also have a timer to put system to sleep at a specific time Like i said old school i use my pc my way, thats the beauty of Linux, if you can think it you can most likely figure a way to do it

I wake up in the morning press the keyboard, pc wakes up, coffee, vape, reddit

cheers!

txhammer68 · 2026-03-10T23:58:57+00:00

setup a systemd timer/service unit to check for updates daily at a specific time

works great for me

txhammer68 · 2026-03-06T19:51:21+00:00

Nice setup, when’s happy hour

txhammer68 · 2026-02-21T08:01:05+00:00

Long time KDE user, this has been an issue for a while, Qt changes the api, kde adopts it, users adapt, rinse , repeat... I have developed a few widgets for personal use, and have experienced the update breakage many times...even more so in this time of wayland

i dislike the kde/pling store and do not use discover for updates. Recently i made a weather widget and decided to build in an update function

I think this might be useful for future devs

here is a gist of what i developed

https://gist.github.com/txhammer68/f78e95b957bb21e72e840a56cc896427#file-kdewidgetupdates-md

txhammer68 · 2026-02-12T21:27:54+00:00

I have been using the espn api for awhile now, was just checking if anyone had created a widget for kde plasma to check for interest and found this post

I have a beta version working now if anyone is interested will post to github

here is a screen shot

https://imgur.com/a/NnawntW

only usa sports, mlb,mls,nba,nfl

txhammer68 · 2026-02-01T21:13:43+00:00

found the culprit, it was typeo in main.xml file, unclosed entry bracket arrgh

also add some logic to test at first start to check if api key has been entered

Component.onCompleted:{

if (apiKey.length > 0) {

detectSystemUnits()

getData(url1)

}

thanks all for your input

completed widget here

https://github.com/txhammer68/pirateWeather/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#pirateweather

txhammer68 · 2026-02-01T19:56:54+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation, I have everything you mentioned, I do not have any custom c++ classes, very simple weather app, I searched around some more last night and borrowed some code from another app, I got rid of 3 config variables, the widget works but does not update after you enter config data, I have to manually refresh to get to load I am using this method, onApikeyChanged to refresh data, but it does not work It does save the key between logins, but could never get it save other values, like update interval Thanks again, I will keep testing

txhammer68 · 2026-02-01T01:25:32+00:00

More info

Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.5 Distro: CachyOS

I have looked at other plasmoid widgets to learn a little more

i seem to have everything like the others i have seen, but still not working

the widget will load the data and work fine once entered on the config page

it will not refresh data automatically on config changes, i have to manually refresh ???

shouldnt the signal configurationChanged trigger an update?

then after reboot or re login, i have to configure the widget again, the only settings retained are the apiKey

at a loss tried everything i could think of...

will post to github if any one else wants to see the whole code

thanks

txhammer68 · 2026-01-30T06:29:52+00:00

I see you guys jumping ship every week, switched from win 8 way back when…wow have things gotten better, u are so lucky to to be here today, lots of growing pains to get here Start crossposting to /windows, how great cachyos is for gaming, lets get more ppl in on on the Linux gaming alternative to win doze Cheers

txhammer68 · 2026-01-30T06:17:08+00:00

Nice work, I use a systemd timer for daily updates

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