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Not this. This account is for silliness, off colour humour, complaining about Brexit (and other evil policies, politicians, and ideologies in general), and other stuff that matters to me.
May include swear words.
Cover image is a view of El Paseo de las Palmeras (Málaga) at 9ish in the am on a nice, clear, sunny day -- which is most of them.
@franklin @[email protected] @[email protected]
I like Kajongg too! But Kajongg has been unmaintained for a loooong time and has succumbed to bit rot. That said, it should not be too hard to get back on track if someone would step to maintain it again (hint hint!).
@jlow Yeah. It is great, isn't it?
@WebCoder49 @[email protected] @[email protected]
a) It is a story.
b) It portrays what Microsoft originally intended: to ship Recall switched on by default and the option to switch it off hidden deep in the settings. They only backed down when it blew up in their faces.
c) If you believe they will not try again, I have a nice bridge on sale you may be interested in.
While input and feedback is good, there are ways of delivering it without making it demoralising.
It's early days and WiP. Give them a chance.
@greenman @[email protected] @[email protected]
- I am reading "I think Adobe products are better because I know how to use them."
- There is no such thing as an "intuitive ui", just one you have become used to. See 1.
- Can you back this up with some stats?
And that would be three things, hardly 300% more things.
@greenman @[email protected] @[email protected]
But as far as I know you can.
Bitmap design ✔️
Vector design ✔️
Layout ✔️
Video editing ✔️
Photo retouching ✔️
Animation ✔️
...
Maybe you have info I am lacking. What 300% more tasks can you not do with FLOSS tools that you can with Adobe products?
Also, could you define "better"? In what way are they "better"? Because it is not in all ways, is it? The way they treat users is atrocious, so in that sense they are not "better", right?
@greenman @[email protected] @[email protected]
That's a nice round number. How did you get to it?
@[email protected] @[email protected]
Trying it out today, I had a flashback that reminded why I loved this player so much: when I pressed the "pause" button, instead of immediately cutting off, the track gradually faded into silence.
It was not the smorgasbord of features, but the small things like this that set Amarok head and shoulders above all other players. Can't wait to see it brought up to speed again.
@aral @[email protected] @[email protected]
Here, you dropped this...
Because, guess what? Plasma does not force you to use Firefox either.
@enigma @[email protected] @[email protected]
During the Clinton era Microsoft was a hair's breadth away from being broken apart for all its anti-competitive monopolistic shenanigans -- including the browser war thing that you mention.
But then Bush Junior got into power (I resist using the words "was elected") and he swept all that away.
@torben @01adrianrdgz @[email protected] @[email protected]
They also copied the slogan for KDE Plasma 5 ("Simple by default, powerful when needed") and used a thinly veiled variation to promote Windows 11.
https://twitter.com/ClauCambra/status/1466153819713191947
They were also notified and they again ignored the notification.
@torben @01adrianrdgz @[email protected] @[email protected]
Interestingly related: when KDE devs complained to Microsoft that, due to the fact that name of their new product and similarity in functionality to KDE's own Maui project
they were causing confusion and potentially violating KDE's trademark, in the Microsoft forums KDE was told to sue them or fk off.
KDE does not have much money, much less enough to embark in a costly legal battle with Microsoft with a doubtful outcome.
@01adrianrdgz @[email protected] @[email protected]
How can they ever be. one is greedy predatory megacorporation only motivated by power and money.
The other is a grassroots volunteer-powered association that explicitly advocates both in word and action improving the lot of fellow humans by giving control over technology to everybody.
They both produce software which is often functionally similar. A collision sooner or later is inevitable.
Cool KDE Plasma Tip: Quickly access task manager apps with +
Cool KDE Plasma Tip: Quickly access task manager apps with [Meta] + [number]
@[email protected]'s task manager usually lives in the panel located by default at the bottom of your desktop (see attached image).
Quickly open or display apps shown in the task manager by holding down the [Meta] (aka "Windows") key and hitting one of the number keys at the top of your keyboard.
Reach the first app on the left with [Meta] + [1], the second from the left with [Meta] + [2], etc.
Cool KDE Plasma trick: +
Cool KDE Plasma trick: [Meta] + [v]
You know how you can use [Ctrl] + [v] to paste in place the last thing you copied to the clipboard, right?
A cool and productive-enhancing variant of that available in #KDE 's #Plasma desktop is that, when copying and pasting a lot of different things, you can hold down the [Meta] ("Windows") key and hit [v], and a list of all the elements available on the clipboard will pop up so you can choose what to paste next.