Linux user here. I don’t know of an open desktop calendar app that supports the protocol I need (CalDAV) without being one or more of:

• Bloated
• Too simplistic to be useful
• Too annoying to use (poor UI)

The best compromise I’ve found so far is Thunderbird. It is bloated, but less so than any Electron app I’ve used. I find the UI annoying, but tolerable for lack of a better option. I’m thankful for an open, cross-platform tool that gets the job done, but I wish I had one that was lightweight and pleasant to use.

It would be nice to see some new work in this area. It’s a similar situation with email apps.

Edit replacing my original comment:

Looks like that package has been superseded by org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze. That’s what I’m using, and it is receiving updates.

$ flatpak remote-info flathub org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark
         ID: org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark
        Ref: runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark/x86_64/3.22
       Arch: x86_64
     Branch: 3.22
 Collection: org.flathub.Stable
   Download: 156.9 kB
  Installed: 386.6 kB

     Commit: 5a19b0c0808f82290d1f64c95d2406a860329817e0f269b4aaf0a1bbba92323a
     Parent: 390f820d32df2f22e3a3165eb4d65071dcb93a357ae7730f4ca548b5d016b966
End-of-life: This theme has been replaced by org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze, see README for workaround on using system color schemes.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
    Subject: Add EOL (fc4339ff)
       Date: 2022-02-22 00:21:51 +0000

I imagine he wants to avoid dependence on fuel suppliers, or pollution.

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

That explanation is fair enough but the headline is red meat the the EV disinformation brigade.

It’s funny how words affect people differently.

Not long ago, I posted a short, precisely-stated comment mentioning an observed fact that I had verified with a relevant authority. When I later checked in, I was surprised to find someone accusing me of spreading misinformation, and my comment removed by a moderator. It was clear that my accuser had badly misinterpreted my words. He refused to admit it or accept clarification. (And the mod had already acted, rashly.)

I re-checked what I had written about twenty times over the course of the day. There was nothing there to support the accusation. My best guess is that my phrasing or the subject matter might have touched on rough emotions from a bad experience, leading him to see what he expected to see instead of what I wrote, and triggering attack mode.

Communicating well really is complicated. It takes work on both sides, and can quickly turn into a bad time if it goes off the rails.

Because of this, I’ve been making an effort to read (and re-read) charitably, especially with people I don’t know well.

From the article:

In an EV era, tires are becoming the greatest emitters of particulate matter

The point being that electric drops tailpipe emissions to zero, making tires the next target for reducing emissions.

John Mashey wrote about this nearly 30 years ago. This Usenet thread is worth a read.

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

Like the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel?

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.

I hate the formatting of most forums. Reddit and Lemmy’s comment nesting is excellent.

The funny thing about this is that it’s just plain old threading, which has been around since the 1980s or earlier, with the slight variation of showing message contents directly in the thread tree instead of beside it (thanks to today’s high-res displays).

Usenet readers did threading. Email apps could do it if the developers wanted to; the required information is there. I’ll bet there’s forum software that can do it if an admin enables it.

For some reason, most corporations seem to have decided that classic message threading has no place in their interfaces. They resort to piling things into stacks or serializing them into seemingly endless scrolls. It fails to represent the structure of group discussions, and sadly, has been going on for so long that many people might not have ever seen the better alternative outside of reddit.

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.

Even without AI, I find the modern web’s flood of unnecessary javascript unbearable. You might want to try Firefox Reader View, which helps on many sites (like this one).

The law is pretty clear on how pending boos is supposed to work,

This is the first I’ve heard of pending boos. Did you mean lending books?

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.

Friendly reminder that OpenWrt exists, and is probably safer than the stock firmware in any consumer router.

From a quick look, I see that at least one of the affected models has official OpenWrt support: the RT-AC68U

!sbcs@lemux.minnix.dev

this time from China (hopefully with the doors closed in the back)

“Fool me once…”