Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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  • I agree. There are unofficial ways to do these replays, and I think this should be legitimized.

    However, part of the fun of the expeditions is that everyone is flocking to the same area at the same time. So it makes that area of space feel vibrant for that short period. This is something that expedition replays cannot really replicate. You’d just see a bunch of abandoned bases from people that have gone before you – but barely any people. So I can see this as the main drawback.





  • I was about to date myself and say “there’s probably a dcop interface exposed”… But there’s probably a dbus interface exposed. You could write a script and plug it into a cron job or similar to tell it to adjust the background every hour or so. There are some nice dbus exploration tools available so you can discover the correct call to make.

    If that doesn’t work, the hue is probably stored in a human readable file somewhere in your .config folder. You could probably have a script adjust the value in the file directly. Might take plasma a little while to notice, but it likely will.





  • I’m sorry you had a bad experience. I’ve used it as my daily driver with minimal effort post installation on multiple occasions, usually on work laptops where time spent tinkering is time wasted. I’ve found it to be a good choice in that context. I now own my own business, and OpenSuse has allowed me to repurpose older laptops as workstations for my employees with minimal effort.

    The only actual pain point I’ve seen is setting up a wifi enabled printer … required that I change my firewall zone so the printer could be discovered. And that only required a few minutes to figure out. The fact that the firewall is set to a more secure default is probably a feature, not a bug.