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kde , to KDE
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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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BennyHill ,
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It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to TRY TO work

ftfy, i wanted to give it a shot one time and it literally didnt work, at all. all of Microsofts cross device features are a hot mess, like how you are supposed to be able to share the clipboard between logged in windows PCs, never could get that working either.

silverdiamond ,

Apart from screen mirroring and sms that everyone has mentioned the proprietary alternative undeniably has more features.
I don't know whether it is phone link or link to windows but one of them has a feature where your phone can be used as a webcam over WiFi. As someone who set up ip webcam on my phone and used obs virtual camera through most of the pandemic's online classes it's quite useful and I'd like to see features like that just work and are not relying on mjpeg and proprietary software on the phone end.
Their auto hotspot feature i haven't gotten to work and i think is useless but I'm thankful that i don't have to turn off kde connect when using samsung dex.

kde , (edited ) to KDE
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KDE will be at OpenSouthCode in sunny Málaga this weekend! Visit our booth on Friday June 21 from 10am to 7:30pm and on Saturday June 22 from 10am to 2pm:

https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2024

And on Saturday you can also attend an in depth @kdenlive workshop for beginners at 10am where you will learn all the basics you need to get started in using free software.

https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2024/program/proposals/693

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kde , to KDE
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Come visit us at OpenExpo Europe happening in Madrid today and learn about Plasma and KDE apps.

For more details, visit https://openexpoeurope.com

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Paul Brown at OpenExpo Europe

desws ,

@kde @kde the HP is Omen model am I right

Bro666 Mod ,
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It is. Includes a a bug-inducing NVIDIA GPU, unfortunately. For the rest of it, it is quite good with Plasma 6.

kde , to KDE
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TUXEDO's new ARM laptops will run .

https://linuxrocks.online/@tuxedocomputers/112591022210420979

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kde , to KDE
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How does KDE measure energy consumption and the of its apps?

Pradyot Ranjan explains with a quick 4-video primer on Selenium AT-SPI, a tool used to automate tests of GUI applications.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/p/8rDdG3c3UKk55N9VcpmaTR?playlistPosition=1

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You heard . Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

  • Krita is your new design/painting app
  • Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
  • glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
  • digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

  • Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
  • Scribus - layout like a pro
  • GIMP - need we say more
  • Blender - ditto

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Kdenlive, KDE's video-editing app.
Glaxnimate, an app for 2D vector animation that integrates with Kdenlive.
digiKam, an app that helps you classify and tag large collections of images.

crocodisle ,
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@Bro666 i appreciate your reply! I'll link you to my response to a different post here outlining a bit more of my experience. tl;dr, I've used multiple programs in personal and academic settings. Some FOSS options are great and comparable! Some miss the mark, even if they get close. It's not for lack of trying, it's that out of the multiple programs I've learned over the years, the FOSS options tend to be the odd ones out.

https://woof.tech/@crocodisle/112579981685976482

Even blender is guity of this with its default control scheme being the odd one out among Maya, Unity, and Substance, but it can be modified enough to make up for this and has other attractive aspects to make it a worthy contender. Digital tools tend to be used in an ecosystem that they are integrated with. Learning new workflows if fine, but there's value in being able to do what's already being done well in a similar way without much fuss.

tokenwizard ,

@kde @kde Don't forget Darktable!

kde , to KDE
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We are looking for a new set of Community KDE Goals to work on.

What should KDE focus on over the next two years? Are you ready to share your vision, time and stamina to push KDE to the next level?

Let's evolve KDE together! Find out more here: https://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2024/06/05/what-should-kde-focus-on-for-the-next-2-years-you-can-propose-a-goal/

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boredsquirrel ,

Make Fedora Kinoite beta and nightly official testing Distros. It makes so much more sense to base off modern but tested packages, and to use an atomic distro for keeping the other issues aside.

But if you also need to support messy package based distros with their broken package managers, that is for sure problematic.

Bro666 Mod ,
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Fedora is not a KDE project.

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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/

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WeAreAllOne ,
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Cantata ftw !!

Lioh ,
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@kde @kde hopefully someone will pick it up and package it for Debian again.

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KDE Gear 24.05 is out! It comes with new versions of Dolphin, Kdenlive, Merkuro, Elisa, Kate, many more apps, and no ads or spyware.

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.05.0

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something_random_tho ,

Throwin shade at MS with "no ads or spyware" lol

Reznik ,
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Is there any chance that Merkuro will get a flatpak in the near future?

kde , to KDE
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In view of the latest news coming out of Microsoft...

Yeah, KDE's Plasma doesn't do that either. Your stuff is safe.

https://kde.org/distributions/
https://kde.org/hardware/

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Bro666 Mod ,
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Yes. You can look up recent files and locations and files by type directly from Dolphin:

https://lemmy.kde.social/pictrs/image/97876460-8a75-41d9-a23a-3333acf9de7b.png

No AI, no spyware.

jlow ,
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I cannot wait having an AI assistant on my system that hallucinates documents that are kind of like the one's I have. Taxes are going to be fun!

kde , to KDE
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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/

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

Sir_Osis_of_Liver ,
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@areyouevenreal

You have to realize just how alien that sounds to anyone unfamiliar with the Linux ecosystem.

I was vaguely familiar with different distros, and how it's basically the Lego of operating systems, from tinkering around with it twenty years ago.

It was funny asking for recommendations and getting everything from Mint to Arch.

For someone else who had absolutely no idea, and who'd only ever used Windows, it would absolutely be a project.

areyouevenreal ,

You can pretty much just install Mint or Pop OS and go. There are a lot of options (I would argue too many) but you can ignore most of them as a beginning user. No one should recommend arch to a beginner and anyone who does should be shot.

Also are you on a mastodon instance or something?

kde , to KDE
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Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledg

Get behind the community that is really fighting to curb climate change:

https://eco.kde.org/get-involved

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Poster announcing KDE Eco's monthly meetings, in which like-minded people, like yourself, get together to work on reducing computing's impact on the climate.

Screenshot of a headline of the Verge. A photo shows Satya Nadella talking about Copilot at some bullshit Microsoft event and the headline itself reads: "Microsoft’s Al obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions" The introductory paragraph reads: "After pledging to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes AI."
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    • begsby ,
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    @jocarren @kde @kde code should not be completly free: "RTMF!!1" "AI, Sir"

    gencha ,

    That sounds valid. I was thinking about the fact that most carbon credits are generated from deforestation reduction projects that renew yearly.

    kde , to KDE
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    Season of KDE (SoK) participants have improved translations, Kdenlive, LabPlot and more.

    SoK is KDE's mentorship program that helps members of the public become active open source contributors.

    This year, participants have translated apps into more languages, implemented multi-format rendering and keyframe curve editing in @kdenlive , ported @be4foss testing tools to Windows, added options for importing and exporting data to @LabPlot and much, much more.

    @kde

    https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2024-05-09-sok-conclusion/

    Screenshot showing several KDE apps translated into Hindi.
    Screenshot of Kdenlives keyframe curves editing widget, showing keyframes as red dot and curves as dotted lines on a track.
    A screenshot of Cantor showing graphical representations of several functions, including some in 3D!!!! :exploding head emoji:

    kde , to KDE
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    MBition, the company that designs and implements infotainment systems for Mercedes-Benz, has become a KDE patron.

    MBition uses KDE technologies and developers' know-how to create attractive and responsive interfaces that make Mercedes vehicles easier to drive and safer for their occupants.

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    https://ev.kde.org/2024/05/07/mbition-becomes-kde-patron/

    alfajet ,
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    @carlschwan @kde @kde this was meant to be a little rivalry joke (Merc/BMW) vs (Gnome/KDE).
    Good to know though! 😀

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    @kde @kde

    Mercedes-Benz-Kde

    Congratulation to KDE

    kde , to KDE
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    KDE will mentor ten projects in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. Congrats to everyone who got selected!

    This year's wide range of projects includes Python support for the KDE Frameworks and Labplot, PDF Javascript forms support in Okular, more powerful subtitles in Kdenlive, and much more.

    https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2024-05-gsoc-2024/

    @kde

    glimse ,

    I like how the Google Summer Of Code started with firing all their python devs lol

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