semperverus

semperverus , 7 days ago

Im sorry but how else do you drive 2 hours into the middle of the woods where there are no other people around so you can get away from godawful society for a while if not owning your own car? Im certainly not going to pay someone else to drive me out to a favorite low/no traffic spot just to show everyone where it is and then ruin it.

semperverus , 1 month ago

rsync maybe?

semperverus , 3 months ago

Some people don’t read those popups.

Its entirely their fault, but it happens, and we should account for that by doing things like making these posts where people come specifically to read.

semperverus , 3 months ago

As someone who works in infosec, that’d honestly be an ideal outcome. Because users don’t check their sources.

What would be better is if countermeasures such as not allowing that kind of code to be run by the theming engine and also code scanning on the repository with automatic takedowns on detection were put in place.

semperverus , 4 months ago

*yet

semperverus , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I use plasma vaults! Its great for homework folders and tax information!

One frustration with vaults though is that theres no clean way to make a portable vault on a USB stick or backed up to a cloud provider (nextcloud, google drive, etc) without digging into weird dot-folder paths and manually entering links to these in a text config file. FUSE-style integration would be rad.

EDIT: The primary use case for this would be to be able to carry sensitive information around like PII, tax, password vaults, family photos, documents, and so on, in such a way that you always have it on you (like on a keychain) or backed up elsewhere, and would be especially useful in cases of disaster - but if you drop and lose it somewhere, a malicious actor doesnt suddenly have your data.

semperverus , 4 months ago

Thats a good point. I wonder how difficult it would be to package vaults as a standalone .exe or get it onto the Microsoft store like how Kate is.

If I have skills in python and mostly work on ETL-style scripts, how difficult would it be to jump in and try to make this happen? Im just now learning ADO pipelines at work, but I don’t really work with compiled code.

I feel like i’d be jumping into the deep end.

semperverus , 5 months ago

Maliit is the official kde virtual keyboard

semperverus , 5 months ago

They’ll save children but not the GNOME-ish children,

They’ll save children but not the GNOME-ish children,

It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming…

semperverus , 5 months ago

For me its all the stuff they’re not writing about.

Qt6 drastically improves wayland functionality.

HDR support with good SDR tonemapping/gamma 2.2

Variable Refresh Rate support for the whole desktop

ICC color profiles

And then yes the bugs. Right click menus going partially invisible, spectacle not dumping to clipboard properly, etc. all fixed. Just gone. Poof.

semperverus , 5 months ago

Im not huge on the curve change on the besier curve node icon. I like the thicknes, but it didnt need to become perfect U’s.

Also, for the join-node icon, its nice that you reduced the number of elements, but the nodes should be joined to show the end result. Right now the join and unjoin look the same with the arrows pointing different directions.

So it should be like:

<span style="color:#323232;">←  →
</span><span style="color:#323232;">o- -o
</span>

And

<span style="color:#323232;">→  ←
</span><span style="color:#323232;">o---o
</span>

semperverus , 5 months ago

It trips me out reading PIM as Personal Information Manager and not Privileged Identity Management (on-demand escalation of privileges, like sudo, but more granular and usually for a user-specified amount of time)

semperverus , 6 months ago

Waypipe

semperverus , 7 months ago

Check again in February after plasma 6 releases.

semperverus , 9 months ago

Except it isn’t theater, and you are not qualified to make that statement.

semperverus , 9 months ago

Wayland has the following features I need:

Multimonitor and other screen feature support:

• mixed DPI scaling (can drag a window from a 1x screen to a 1.75x screen and have it look correct on both at the same time, even when halfway across each)
• Mixed refresh rate (my center monitor is higher refresh rate than my side monitors, X11 just baselines all monitors to the lowest common denominator).
• Mixed variable refresh rate (center monitor is VRR capable, side monitors are not).
• HDR support soon (already exists in GameScope).
• Mixed HDR/SDR output across monitors

Performance:

• Lower resources
• Smoother operation (can be felt in mouse cursor movements, window drags, composited animations, etc)
• Better VR headset isolation compared to X11 (allows the headset to run separately and not interrupt regular monitor layout, and also lets it run freely at the correct refresh rate)

Other:

• Better security between apps (yes I actually use this and count it as a feature)
• App video isolation leads to pipe wire functionality, which is a bonus and makes OBS work better overall

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I know for a fact I’m forgetting something because this list was longer the last time I wrote it out, but I think you get the point.

semperverus , 9 months ago

Nope, I also use it for many of these things. They’re not alone by a long shot.

If you want to continue to use X11, you are free to simply not update your machine any further. It’s unlikely you value security, so this shouldn’t be an issue for you.