No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.

Am I looking in to a mirror?

Checks out. But also Military Industrial Complex.

“QR & Barcode scanner” is Free an Open Source, and supports what you want (if i understood you correctly) https://github.com/wewewe718/QrAndBarcodeScanner

Looks like it’s not been updated in a while, but it works just fine. Available on F-Droid and on Google Play

Haven’t tried it myself, but have heard in passing that they are generally not waterproof. Might be different for different materials or print orientations though?

Or you can do some post processing, add a coating, or vapor smooth?

Im the opposite, i really don’t like the new Breeze Darker, but love the current Breeze Dark.

For native apps it should be easy enough to change back and keep current. But does anybody have a suggestion what is the most sane way to keep current Breeze colors for Flatpak apps?

Did you install the Flatpak org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze ?

You can check by running flatpak list

I made some notes while I had a problem with Zim flatpak not following Breeze GTK theme:

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/desktop-integration.html#applying-themes //The applications will try to match the system theme currently being used, if it corresponds to any of the Flatpak themes installed, and will fall back to Adwaita (if they use Gtk2 or Gtk3) or the default Qt theme (if they use Qt) if a corresponding theme isn’t detected.//

== Solution: == ‘‘flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0:ro’’
Source: https://github.com/flathub/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze#workarounds
( I tried to install ‘‘org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark/x86_64/3.22’’ but //“This theme has been replaced by org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze, see README for workaround on using system color schemes. https://github.com/flathub/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze#workarounds”////////
Context: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma 5.24.7

Which brand is this? So I never have to go near it…

I have a Samsung TV from a few years ago, never connected it to the TV, so when I turn it on it just goes to the last used input (HDMI1 in my case). The bootup isn’t even that slow , maybe 5 seconds or so. Not great, but not terrible…

… Surreal numbers?!?

PSA about mini PCs: They might not come with adequate cooling for RAM, leading to potential data corruption.

(I’m in the middle of troubleshooting/fixing overheating RAM causing memory errors, will post on /c/selfhosted when I have more conclusions).

TLDR: Bought 3 Minisforum HM90 mini PCs (for Proxmox), equipped them with 64gb (2x32gb) RAM, with a different brand RAM in each PC. All 3 give sporadic errors in Memtest86. The RAM overheats due to the 2 SSDs mounted in the lid blocking natural airflow. With the lid off, or an extra fan installed, there are no errors. The errors were very sporadic: 1 PC gave errors after 1-2 passes, then almost 24hours. Second PC gave errors after more than 24 hours and some cases more than 48 hours between errors. The last PC gave hundreds of errors on the first pas. To be fair, memtest is a synthetic test and the RAM is unlikely to see 100% utilisation in real life, on the other hand the two adjacent SATA SSDs and the NVMe SSD are completely idle during memtest, and will generate extra heat during production use.

OnlyOffice is also available as a (offline) desktop office suite, so as a user it’s more like LibreOffice than Collabora.

My wife prefers OnlyOffice over LibreOffice, as it’s feels closer to MS Office. Also it’s compatibility with MS Office formats is better than LibreOffice.

I still use LibreOffice for desktop, but I’m not a heavy user. Haven’t tried out Collabora or hosted OnlyOffice for NextCloud yet.

Sudden culture shock from a Norwegian:

Still open is the transition of heat and cars to electricity…

Almost all electricity used by Norwegian homes goes towards heating (including cooking and hot water), and charging cars. So counting heating separate from electricity suddenly makes the electric transition sound less impressive. (And the transition away from nuclear more baffling). It’s still impressive to see Germany really follow through on renewables though. 60% renewable electricity is still a lot

Is there a plan to transition away from burning fossil fuels for heating?

“10ft away from the screen”. I.e. sitting in a sofa playing on a TV, compared to sitting at a desk close to a monitor

Maybe you can install Arch in Distrobox, then install Merkuro in your arch container?

Zim really is amazing, its the perfect balance with its simple plain text files in folders data structure, but powerful search and back linking. And I love linking to other files on the local file system.

How do you do the LUKS volume upload to cloud? Is it for syncing between devices or just backup? Personally I use (self hosted) NextCloud to sync my Zim between devices.

FlowLauncher looks neat, like KRunner for Windows. Thanks for sharing

This happens when a small project has 12 developers each scratching their own itch in their own time, not a team of 120 developers getting paid to work on the same itch 8 hours a day.

In the case of FreeCAD they’re actually starting to reign in and focus more now, and there are more contributors.

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!