I hope a previously suggested goal of improving KDE for organizations makes a comeback. It was basically all about all the things a business/organisation would need to roll out a fleet of KDE computers, mainly tools for remote / centralised management by an IT department.

In the wake of Windows’s recent and continued trend, more and more public institutions, universities, government etc should be looking at switching away from Windows. There’s also EUs recent Digital Sovereignty Initiative.

German state Schleswig-Holstein is already swapping 30k computers to Linux

*Happy noises* :)

And I see there’s a plugin for cross-linking between documents! More happy noises :)

And a nightly flatpak build :) Thanks for making it so easy to try out!

directly reflected on your system in the hierarchy of your KleverNotes storage folders.

This is a big deal. Joplin is great, but its database structure is horrible for interoperability.

Hopefully Klevernotes will also be more snappy and “native feeling”. Joplin being Electron can be a bit sluggish sometimes ( which is mildly infuriating given that the database structure was chosen over plain files due to “performance”).

That said, it be nice if Klevernotes was a WYSIWIG editor. There really are a lot of dual-view markdown editors with a preview. For generel notes / productivity I find the dual view distracting, but need the preview for images etc

You might want to look up SMR vs CMR, and why it matters for NASes. The gist is that cheaper drives are SMR, which work fine mostly, but can time out during certain operations, like a ZFS rebuild after a drive failure.

Sorry don’t remember the details, just the conclusion that’s it’s safer to stay away from SMR for any kind of software RAID

EDIT: also, there was the SMR scandal a few years ago where WD quietly changed their bigger volume WD Red (“NAS”) drives to SMR without mentioning it anywhere in the speccs. Obviously a lot of people were not happy to find that their “NAS” branded hard drives were made with a technology that was not suitable for NAS workload. From memory i think it was discovered when someone investigated why their ZFS rebuild kept failing on their new drive.

Another option is subpaths: xyz.ddns.net/portainer

Just one open port, to your reverse proxy (nginx or other).

The client updating no-ip with your dynamic IP is independent of the reverse proxy software.

This sounds like a FOSS utopian future :)

There’s a few projects that have started towards this path with single-click deployable apps, you could even say HomeAssistant OS does this to some extent my managing the services for you.

I believe one of the biggest hurdle for a “self hosting appliance” is resilience to hardware failure. Noone wants to loose decades of family photos or legal documents due to a SSD going bad , or the cat spilling water on their “hosting box”. So automated reliable off-site backups and recovery procedures for both data and configs is key.

Databox from BBC / Nottingham University is also a very interesting concept worth looking in to:

A platform for managing secure access to data and enabling authorised third parties to provide the owner authenticated control and accountability.

Not Op, just want to chime in that sadly these days a lot of keyboards and laptops come without the context-menu button.

There were even some Logitech keyboard that would use the “context menu” button to trigger a right-click (where the mouse cursor was) instead of opening the context menu (of the currently focused item)

(Shift+F10 works as context-menu on some windows computers, but not all. Not sure if it comes down to Windows versions or different hardware)

I third Proxmix

I run most stuff as Docker images inside a VM, but also a few services as LXC containers and some non-docker stuff in other VMs

Woohoo, so glad to see some of these fixes getting backported to 5.27

Shift+dragging windows to custom-tile them now works even if you’ve set your keyboard to do something exotic like emulate the Caps Lock key when pressing both Shift keys together

But who’s this real life space bar heater ? :D

Have you tried X11 yet?

( It should just be a matter of logging out, selecting X11 in the bottom righ corner, and logging in again)

Suffice to say, sluggish performance on your hardware shouldn’t be expected, so something must be wrong.

In KDE System monitor you can try adding a new page to show CPU clock speed , to check if the Dell is not throttling. (Dell laptops throttling on the wrong charger is definitely a thing, but I’ve only experienced on more powerful laptops)

Since you installed pre-release software I assume you don’t mind re-installing, so you could always try Neon Stable with 5.27, Kubuntu 23.10 or another distro entirely, to ensure your laptop is OK.

I’ve been running Plasma on my Intel Skylake I5-6?00U with 8gb RAM since 2015 and its utterly fine, no sluggishness in plasma itself. It’s still using X11 though, on an old Kubuntu LTS.

Plasma isn’t THAT heavy that it should be expected to feel sluggish on that kind of hardware. And contrary to popular belief Plasma isn’t actually that heavy of a DE in terms of resources.

OP might need to try different compositor backends? I remember years ago testing each before settling on whatever gave me smoothest performance (maybe OpenGL3?). Actually I’m not sure if this is even a setting anymore in modern Plasma, or in Wayland

So it’s not a showstopper for KDE Wayland default because the fix is outside KDEs control?

It doesn’t really matter to end users though. So making the may-suddenly-loose-hours-of-work option the default seems unwise

It actually was https://web.archive.org/web/20231023140410/https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers

I like the blue square, it’s pretty :3 But I’ll learn to live without

Yeah… This one actually is a showstopper. And I thought it was fixed, didn’t realize it was fixed for QT apps only

And thank you for doing so. I’ve been intermittently using Meta+number on Windows 10 for ages, but somehow never thought to try it on Plasma.

Maybe cause I only use it intermittently on Windows. Or maybe cause Plasma virtual Desktop are so good I rarely have many windows in each desktop

Like others said it’s mostly just practice.

What helps is to align the (short) ends and hold them flat between your index finger and thumb. Use your free hand to get them in order. Once they’re in order, keep holding them still between your index finger and thumb using one hand, then use your free hand to slot on the connector

Edit: also bending them back and forth a bit will soften them up and reduce them curling in all sorts of directions. It also weakens them, so don’t overdo it (mostly only works for solid cable, the type meant for permanent installations like inside walls)

It might be relatively new, but I’d say Subnautica.

It was such a breath of fresh air when it came out, and instilled both such a sense of wonder at all the vibrant lifeforms of 4546B and also instilling such dread upon encountering reapers or diving deeper than ever before. I still remember the mixed sense of wonder and unease upon discovering the Jellyshroom caves for the first time

Wow that’s awesome! Props to etnoy for creating such a polished PR for this feature

I can’t wait to simply point immich at my existing photo structure :)

For RPi the two major causes of issues (in my experience) are low spec power supplies and low spec SD-cards.

Power supplies drop voltage when the loads gets too high, which is especially pronounced with high power USB devices like external harddrives.

SD-cards tend to get worn out or give write errors after enough writes. Class 10 SD cards are recommended for both speed and longevity. And ideally try to avoid write intensive stuff on the SD card