[08:08] schestowitz[08:08] schestowitzThe Calamares project just released version 3.3.2, with improvements for disk partitioning and network setup. Since Calamares 3.3, it has supported Qt 6, the toolkit used in KDE Plasma 6, which is expected in about a week's time. The latest edition removes support for older versions of Qt 5 except for the final 5.15 release.
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[08:09] schestowitz[08:09] schestowitzA few months ago, 52Pi reached out and asked if they could send a new water cooling kit they were working on for the Raspberry Pi 5. At the time, the hope was we could figure out a way to get very high overclock with adequate cooling.
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[09:39] schestowitz[09:39] schestowitzThese days, unless you know otherwise, you might as well start out by assuming that software is open-source. Even though you need to be absolutely certain before putting it into production or distributing it, in the 2020s software is as likely as not to be open-source as it is to be proprietary. Perhaps more likely than not.
[09:39] schestowitzFor example, did you know that MoonRay the renderer that DreamWorks has had in production (and under constant development) since 2019s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and Abominable, has been freely available as OpenMoonRay under the Apache 2 license for nearly a year now? Being a renderer means that MoonRay is the platform the animation studio uses to create all of the images that end up on the scre [09:39] schestowitz en in an animated film be they photorealistic or something much more stylized, such as what you might see in anime.
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