One method is epigenome engineering and would target genes advantageous for space. Another method is to combine the DNA of other species (i.e. tardigrades) with human cells to make humans better fit for space....
System Settings’ Printers page now guides you through the process of installing the system-config-printer package to improve printer detection, if it wasn’t pre-installed by your distro (Mike Noe, Plasma 6.1. Link)
This is really good! It may still be needed for stuff like plasma-workspace-extras, the sddm kcm, the flatpak kcm etc?
System Settings’ Background Services page is no longer actually visible in System Settings by default; everything here is an implementation detail
Sooo… will Plasma convert all these services to systemd services that can actually be disabled in a normal way?
That settings page was always only semi useful as the most important ones were missing. But disabling stuff like Orca, KDEConnect, accessibility, legacy adapters etc. should be possible.
github.com/boredsquirrel/kde-systemd-services
This doesnt work currently as KDE has multiple mechanisms to launch these (and maybe I dont really know how to do systemd stuff)
Update 1: Thanks for all the responses! I’ve gotten a lot of very good comments saying I should stick with Mint, and that’s sitting comfortably in my top two picks right now. Between new distros, I’m most interested in Arch’s rolling release model, as it provides some benefits for me for reasons I didn’t really get...
If you want gaming, use Bazzite which is based on Kinoite.
Read my comments on previous posts where I mention the reasons.
Atomic Fedora is just way better than everything else in the categories I need. (It is very stable, while not actually shipping “stable” i.e. randomly frozen packages. The packages are tested but up to date, and the distro packaging mechanism is rock solid and near unbreakable).
Used all the Ubuntu and Debian variants but they always broke.
But I simply sticked with Fedora Kinoite because the KDE packages are normally up to date, not like on Kubuntu. So the 103 bugs I reported that are still open will possibly get fixed and I actually get the fixes, and the already closed issues will also arrive at my system.
But at the same time if I have an issue it is very like an upstream KDE one.
I will never need to reinstall or unbreak my system again.
That is not hopping, its just “finding something that works (with KDE)”.
Arch with enforced full snapper snapshots may be okay but I dont think it is good. Same with OpenSUSE tumbleweed which is similar. Both are worse for stability than rpm-ostree Fedora.
If I used GNOME I guess many more distros would work.
GNOME is NOT GUI friendly. They limit the things you can do through the GUI a lot.
If you want a “normal persons desktop” then it works.
The problem is, random things are missing and fixing them requires tons of work
changing the mouse cursor
adding right click “create new” entries (afaik)
custom application launchers
GNOME just works if everything is perfect. For example apps, if you want to edit a .desktop entry of an app you need to go straight to the text files.
They just present you with “app icons” and you can only display the app in Software. Which is very fine but not friendly to people that need a little more.
Or when entering a manual path in Nautilus, you need a keyboard shortcut. Or when doing more advanced settings.
Yes but GNOME breaks extension compatibility nearly every 6 months. Maybe not from now on, as they switched for a different model.
But still, this is not GUI friendly if you need random peoples unmonitored code.
I was not referring to a single KDE Extension here. Extensions are a big security issue. Literally nobody is monitoring them. You can be happy if there are people doing badness-enumeration and flagging bad ones.
For example there was a (now enshittified) tool on Android called “image attacher” or something, for making a long image from 2.
This is probably also pretty easy with some CLI tool.
I actually took the time to learn “how do I attach 2 images together” in GIMP.
Or “how do I create a textmarker”.
And the stuff works, but its just very complex.
attach 2 images
Open 1 image
"open" “open as another layer” the second image
your canvas is as big as the first image. Guess how big it has to be when fitting them next to each other
know that there is a difference between “layer surface” and “canvas” for whatever reason
in the menubar, find the canvas options
find where to resize the canvas and make it bigger
click on the surface layer of the other image and move it so it fits where you want it
use “merge downwards” to make the 2 layer one. BE CAREFUL TO NOT USE ANY IMAGE PARTS
use the crop tool
crop the new combined images to the wanted size
This is sooo manual and seems very hacky. The difference between canvas and layer make no sense to me. The enlargement is “eyeballing”. The cropping too. There is no snapping when placing next to each other. There is no “dynamically increase canvas size” option afafaik.
text marker / highlighter
Something with brush, make it bigger, yellow, reduce the opaqueness, change the paint mode to “only make darker”
GIMP is like using catawk and tail to write an office document lol. It works but it is damn technical.
But if you know how to do it, you know how to do it.
I absolutely want to learn GIMP. And as it is extensible, you could literally just implement feature-by-feature stuff like Photoshop, a finally working autoselect of objects etc.
Actually, I will open a feature reques to change the UI to the one of Photoshop. I looked at PhotoGIMP and this looks tooo much easier and more usable.
TIL of research into genetically engineering humans for space and living on other planets. (www.space.com)
One method is epigenome engineering and would target genes advantageous for space. Another method is to combine the DNA of other species (i.e. tardigrades) with human cells to make humans better fit for space....
Simple theme switching systemd-timer (gitlab.com)
I made a simple script and timer for a friend to automatically switch between light and dark theme on Plasma. In case anybody needs this.
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This week in KDE: Triple buffering and other sources of amazingness (pointieststick.com)
New Linux user, here is my use case. Distro recommendations?
Update 1: Thanks for all the responses! I’ve gotten a lot of very good comments saying I should stick with Mint, and that’s sitting comfortably in my top two picks right now. Between new distros, I’m most interested in Arch’s rolling release model, as it provides some benefits for me for reasons I didn’t really get...
toxic help forum (lemmy.world)
(Solved) Signature-Error when updating OpenSuse Tw (discuss.tchncs.de)
Since this evening I have some problems with my OpenSuse Tumbleweed installation. I’m kind of a noob and everything I tried didn’t work out....
Love me some arbitrary executed code /s (Plasmoids are not themes) (slrpnk.net)
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