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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

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russjr08 ,
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I'm not sure if this is a Pixel feature or if its available across all of Android, but there is an option when you connect over USB to connect your phone as a webcam - but that is of course tethered instead of being wireless.

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Since Plasma 6. Not sure about HDR wallpapers (never even heard of an "HDR Wallpaper", so I've not looked into support for it), it should work with fullscreen videos though, and Steam games work if you run it through a nested gamescope session with a special HDR Vulkan layer installed.

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It should, yep! It'll be in the Display Configuration if Plasma is properly detecting an HDR display.

https://bitforged.space/pictrs/image/96bf8ce1-f5f5-46bc-b574-0741a18ea684.png

AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease.

David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE’s software), and everything in between....

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Hey there KDE team! What is your favorite feature that is coming along with Plasma 6 (or even with the KDE Gear / KDE Framework updates)?

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I just upgraded to the RC today, and gave this a try - it looks absolutely beautiful! Major props to you and the team!

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Plasma 6 Beta 2 released! We are nearly there, but more testing needed.

Just in time for the Winter Holidays 🎄, Happy New Beta 🎉!

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta2/

After this second Beta, there will be two Release Candidates, one on the 10th and the other on the 31st of January. All these releases are not final, they are for testing and should not be used in production...

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Animations showing of the multiple desktops and wallpapers available for Plasma 6

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Hmm, if you count something based on Ubuntu as being Debian based (some people do, some people don’t) then I believe that is exactly what KDE Neon is supposed to be!

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Pretty sure it is only configured like that to show off the new wallpaper through the video. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a distro ship KDE with a rotating wallpaper (its always a static one, whether its KDE’s main wallpaper, or the distro’s selected wallpaper).

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Looks great! February can’t get here any quicker!

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Oh that’s pretty sweet! I’ve used the slideshow for a while (and have always wondered why Plasma is the only desktop I have used that lets you set wallpapers per-screen…), but I had no clue about that one!

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That I’m not sure of unfortunately. From the Plasma side of things I know telemetry has always been specifically opt-in, but I don’t know whether KDE Neon has the canonical telemetry disabled out of the box (my gut instinct says it would be disabled, but I have zero proof of this).

Is there any issue with switching frequently between Wayland and X11?

I can’t imagine there is but I’m wondering if I am missing something. I use GeForce Now and unfortunately it does not work in Plasma Wayland (issues with input redirection). Is there any problem with logging into an X11 session whenever I want to use that but using Wayland generally?

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I haven’t run into any issues doing so.

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