@Bro666@social.tchncs.de cover
@Bro666@social.tchncs.de avatar

Bro666

@[email protected]

Writer, editor, FLOSS junkie, social media drone.

If you want serious Free Software/Hardware/Culture stuff please follow @linux_spain.

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.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

kde , to KDE
@kde@floss.social avatar

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.

@kde

Bro666 ,
@Bro666@social.tchncs.de avatar

@loutr @Kalcifer

You don't even need to connect computer anywhere. You can connect, say, your iPad with your Android phone and share stuff from one to another.

kde , to KDE
@kde@floss.social avatar

Amarok, KDE's legendary music player, is out with version 3.0.1.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/06/02/amarok-3.0.1-released/

@kde

Bro666 ,
@Bro666@social.tchncs.de avatar

@kde @kde

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.

kde , to KDE
@kde@floss.social avatar

If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/microsoft-now-says-your-pc-is-in-need-of-repair-if-youre-not-using-bing-with-edge

They are not wrong.

To mend your machine:

  1. Ditch Windows
  2. Install Plasma
  3. Your computer is ready.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

@kde

A laptop running the laters version of Plasma, Plasma 6.

Bro666 ,
@Bro666@social.tchncs.de avatar

@enigma @kde @kde

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.

Bro666 ,
@Bro666@social.tchncs.de avatar

@aral @kde @kde

Here, you dropped this...

Because, guess what? Plasma does not force you to use Firefox either.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • kbinchat
  • All magazines
    •