[10:06] schestowitz[TR2][10:06] schestowitz[TR2]Several years ago, KDE retired its bespoke display manager (KDM) in favor of SDDM. However, despite the communitys best efforts, SDDMs architecture made it challenging to incorporate everything from advanced power management to specialized input methods. So, now looks like it is entering its final chapter, too.
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[10:07] schestowitz[TR2][10:07] schestowitz[TR2]Here's a wee issue you won't come across every day. Or even every week. Say you're using Linux. A Plasma desktop, to be more precise. Let's say Kubuntu. There, the default file manager is a program called Dolphin, and it's extremely capable. It can do many wondrous things. It can extract archives in various formats, like say tar, zip, and others. But most of the time, it must rely [10:07] schestowitz[TR2] on what your system has. For instance, it won't do 7z natively, unless you add a package.
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[12:57] schestowitz[TR2][12:57] schestowitz[TR2]Better known online as rachelbythebay, Kroll has a good reputation in the tech industry. She's wrangled servers for Facebook and Lyft, and has been a speaker at events from USEnix to Strange Loop. She's also collected some of her writing in books, which used to be on Amazon, but which you can now get, free of DRM, from the Gumroad store.
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[13:11] schestowitz[TR2][13:11] schestowitz[TR2]A third release of the crc32c package is now on CRAN. The package bring the Google library crc32c to R and offers cyclical checksums with parity in hardware-accelerated form on (recent enough) intel cpus as well as on arm64.
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[13:22] schestowitz[TR2][13:22] schestowitz[TR2]Immich 1.130, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution, is here with a folder view for mobile, faster timelines, and massive external library scan speed boosts.
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[13:23] schestowitz[TR2][13:23] schestowitz[TR2]Abelujo is free software for bookstores, published under the AGPLv3. It is a web application that helps booksellers register new stock and sell books. It has been used since 2020 by professional bookstores and associations in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Senegal, Spain, Uruguay, and maybe elsewhere!
[13:23] schestowitz[TR2]It began as a passion project and is now the full-time activity of a small team based in France, lead by @vindarel, who is a Pythonista turned Lisper.
[13:23] schestowitz[TR2]Craig Topham (craigt) got together with @vindarel (vindarel), the founder of Abelujo, to learn more about this useful program and its backstory.
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[13:29] schestowitz[TR2][13:29] schestowitz[TR2]Alright, before we jump into whats new, I just want to say somethingZorin OS has been really going after Windows users lately, especially folks still on Windows 10, since support for it is ending later this year.
[13:29] schestowitz[TR2]Now, theres nothing wrong with trying to grow your user base. But I plan to write an article on the topic these days because new Linux users coming from Windows often dont get the full picture beyond all the flashy marketing from some distros. Now, back to the topic.
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[13:40] schestowitz[TR2][13:40] schestowitz[TR2]Plasma's login experience is an area that we know requires some improvement it works OK in the basic case, but it's very barebones and doesn't handle anything beyond that.
[13:40] schestowitz[TR2]As a complete desktop experience, it's our job to provide support for the edge cases too.
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