How to turn them square?

I don’t think yt-dlp has built-in image cropping, so it’s just going to download thumbnails in the resolutions provided by the server. (See the --list-thumbnails option.) To crop what you download, consider a tool like (ImageMagick)(https://imagemagick.org/).

KDE Connect also runs on more operating systems. It’s worth mentioning to friends who run Windows.

“…third place.”

Welcome to the Third Place (David Lynch)

It was basically too easy for people to post there just because, well, they could.

I expect the difference you’re describing was partly due to moderation (and lack thereof), but also partly due to the barrier to entry imposed by the forum signup process.

Unfortunately, the signup barrier cuts both ways: Despite loving high-quality discussion forums, I seldom bother participating in them these days, mainly because jumping through signup/captcha/email-validation hoops and then having to maintain yet another set of credentials for yet another site, forever, became too much hassle once I had more than a couple dozen. (I have hundreds, so I’m very reluctant to add to the pile.)

OpenID managed to solve a good deal of that hassle, but it’s mostly forgotten these days. I think well-moderated federated services have the potential to solve it completely, though. Here’s hoping.

Do you have the xdg-desktop-portal-kde package installed?

OEM support for the device is needed because an alternate OS cannot provide firmware updates otherwise.

Firmware and drivers can be made open, just as other software can be made open. It’s really just a matter of incentives. In my experience, law tends to be a pretty effective incentive.

If the bill of materials included the legal requirements discussed here, then a component supplier would either start producing open firmware/specs, or they would lose that market to another supplier.

Obviously, Android would not be the only project/product affected by such a legal change.

6 ≠ 16
v ≠ o

and your only option is to drop another couple grand for a whole new device

…and send another whole system into the waste stream. It’s incredibly irresponsible.

On the other hand, I can put an open OS on my Android and get security updates long after the manufacturer has abandoned it. Can’t do that with an iPhone. (But honestly, few Android devices make it easy, and none that I know of allow every little part of the system to be supported this way.)

It’s about time we started legally requiring manufacturers to unlock our hardware when support ends, and release the driver specs ahead of time, so the open software community can take over support. The unending accumulation of e-waste due to nothing more than abandoned software is unforgivable.

This goes hand-in-hand with the right to repair.

I’m on Debian Stable (with a few backported packages) for both work and gaming. It’s not the most beginner-friendly distro, but I’m no beginner, and I love how low-maintenance it is. It just keeps on working.

I would like to try Qubes OS eventually. I don’t think it will be ready for gaming any time soon, but for privacy and security-minded isolation of components, I expect it’s tough to beat.

Alt+Wheel works for me. Plasma 5.27.5, Qt 5.15.8, Okular 22.12.3.

Is it possible you have overridden the default shortcuts, or something is interfering with them?

Do you have an unusual mouse wheel, like one that rolls freely instead of in steps, or a touchpad-simulated one?

Maybe you’ve discovered a Plasma 6 bug?

Yes, Alt+Wheel normally works. I think it’s a standard shortcut in Qt apps. (Gtk apps use Shift+Wheel.)

This assumes you’re not in Fit Width or Fit Page mode, of course.

Another thought: Is it possible that your original user account (which hangs) is trying to log in to an X session while the new one (which works) is using a Wayland session, or vice-versa? That might explain the difference in behavior if only one of the two session types is broken.

Good luck!

I use KDE on Debian. I have not encountered this, nor can I think of a reason why showkey would break a user’s desktop session.

If the GUI login screen is still visible when it hangs, I suppose sddm might be having trouble. To investigate, I would run journalctl -f in a text console, and maybe tail -F /var/log/Xorg.0.log* in another, while attempting a GUI login. When it hangs, I would switch back to the text consoles and see if the most recent log messages hint at what’s hanging.

*(Or whichever log file corresponds to the new X session, assuming you’re using Xorg instead of Wayland.)

Could the fingerprint reader be causing the problem on the main account?

Reminds me of the Apple version of Karateka, which did something special if you inserted the floppy disk upside down.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/5/22564151/karateka-apple-ii-upside-down-easter-egg

Sadly, many motherboards don’t have POST code displays.

Their download page doesn’t make this clear: Molly is not on F-Droid.

Instead, the Molly project hosts an F-Droid-compatible repository, which you can configure your F-Droid client to use in addition to / instead of the F-Droid repository. If you do this, the downloaded software will come directly from the Molly developers, not from F-Droid.

Some people avoid this because it loses a layer of oversight. Others prefer it because it avoids a potential attack vector. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether it’s something you want to do.

I followed your steps and got 8 in KCalc 22.12.3.

Perhaps you found a bug in your version? You can search for existing bug reports, or create new ones, here: https://bugs.kde.org/

I don’t know what this image is supposed to tell us, but I can confirm that KCalc behaves badly in some common situations. (At least, it does in Plasma 5.) Want to see an example?

Put it in Simple Mode, and try copying and pasting various multi-digit numbers with leading zeroes. Some of them work fine. Others, like 054 and 009, yield surprising results.

A programmer or mathematician might be able to deduce that KCalc is trying to interpret those numbers as octal (base 8 instead of base 10), if they’re paying close attention. That doesn’t help anyone who is just trying to total a bunch of numbers from a document, using their default desktop calculator, and doesn’t notice a misinterpreted value along the way. Their total will just be wrong, or in the case of nan, they will just be frustrated that the calculator doesn’t work.

This behavior is probably not appropriate for Simple Mode.

It does the same thing even in Numerical System Mode with decimal (base 10) explicitly selected, which is absolutely not appropriate.