A very “surprising pattern” that people don’t want to use fucking shit that doesn’t fucking work and depends on stealing people’s work and fucking lighting the mother-fucking planet on fire while feeding their fucking money into the greedy throats of billionaires.
Michael Biel (Mick)
A Linux techie working in the Home-Lab and listening to Linux podcasts.
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Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale.
Man, That looks like it's going to be a lot of fun Jason. Have a great time hiking.
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Plasma 6.4 is out and it's' more welcoming than ever!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/
Check out the tweaked tiling that lets you have different layouts for every virtual desktop; the overhauled Spectacle that makes capturing your desktop faster; how KRunner now understands color; and in general the literally dozens of other fixes and features that make Plasma friendlier and easier to use.
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The FLOSS/fund awards @Krita with €50,000 to further the development of the Android version and improve the support of touchscreens.
Photo: CC-By 4.0 @davidrevoy 2024
https://dir.floss.fund/view/funding/@krita.org/.well-known
#funding #art #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@!krita@lemmy.kde.social
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KDE Gear 25.04.2 apps collection delivers updated translations and fixes across apps like Kdenlive, Kate, Akonadi, Konsole, and more.
https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-25-04-2-apps-collection-rolls-out-heres-whats-new/
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"This Week in Plasma" brings elegant symbolic icons for the dictionary and web browser widgets, a warning about rising the volume limits, improvements to the Bluetooth pairing wizard, and tons of tweaks and corrections for the upcoming versions of Plasma.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/31/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-stabilizes/
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If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.
@killyourfm I miss that Linux podcast. It was one of the greatest at the time.
Michael Biel (Mick) boosted:
Testers assemble: Plasma 6.4 Beta has been released!
Plasma 6.4 will be arriving in a month, meanwhile, you can try an unstable version here:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.90/
Remember: this is beta software! This means it has only been partially tested. Install it at your own risk and report bugs to
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When I think of the things I enjoy the most about New Hampshire, I think about the smell of the spring breeze delicately perfumed with the delightful scent of our state flower, the purple lilac. And, she ain't so bad to look at, either!
#spring #growth #NH #NewHampshire #stateflower #purplelilac #lilac #bloomscroll #bloomscrolling #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photo #photography #amateurphotography #getoutdoors #getoutside #S25Ultra #Samsung #pixelfed #fediverse
#spring #growth #NH #NewHampshire #stateflower #purplelilac #lilac #bloomscroll #bloomscrolling #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photo #photography #amateurphotography #getoutdoors #getoutside #S25Ultra #Samsung #pixelfed #fediverse
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In case you haven't heard, The Pragmatic Bookshelf is offering my Flask Mega-Tutorial ebook on sale at 40% off between today and May 7th. Use promo code "2025POLYGLOT" at checkout to receive the discount! https://pragprog.com/titles/d-mgflask/the-new-and-improved-flask-mega-tutorial/
Michael Biel (Mick) boosted:
This week in KDE Apps comes with the news of improvements to @Krita's text rendering feature and the progress made to its migration to Qt6 and Wayland support; that KDE's travel assistants share more features and add support for many more transport and entertainment services; and how our suite of convergent applications receive many exciting updates, among many other things.
Michael Biel (Mick) boosted:
🎉 Big Changes Ahead: We're moving to Qt6 and Launching #QGIS 4.0!
https://blog.qgis.org/2025/04/17/qgis-is-moving-to-qt6-and-launching-qgis-4-0/
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Good news from #FreeCAD 's "cousin" application #QGIS, "🎉 Big Changes Ahead: QGIS Is Moving to #Qt6 and Launching QGIS 4.0!"
https://blog.qgis.org/2025/04/17/qgis-is-moving-to-qt6-and-launching-qgis-4-0/
Michael Biel (Mick) boosted:
Fedora Linux 42 is released, and we have a ton of updates to share with you!
Announcement: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/
NEW Fedora KDE Desktop Edition: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-for-fedora-kde-plasma-desktop-42/
Fedora Workstation 42: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-42/
Fedora Asahi Remix 42: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-42-is-now-available/
Fedora Atomic Desktops in F42: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-for-fedora-atomic-desktops-in-fedora-42/
Happy upgrading!
Michael Biel (Mick) boosted:
This Week in Plasma brings a massive performance improvement to Spectacles screen recordings, a cleaner login screen for multi-monitor setups, and a less cluttered configuration page for displays.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/29/this-week-in-plasma-zero-vhi-bugs-and-much-more/
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