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Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event (www.theverge.com)
 

“The future of gaming handhelds is coming to CES ‘25 and you have a front row seat!” the email in my inbox exclaims. Let me translate: it looks like Lenovo just tacitly confirmed it will announce its first SteamOS handheld in Las Vegas on or before January 7th, 2025. We’re expecting it to be the Steam button equipped Legion Go S that leaker Evan Blass revealed last week.

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This Week in KDE Plasma: Better fractional scaling (blogs.kde.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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This week's headliner change is something that I think will make a lot of people happy: better fractional scaling! Vlad and Xaver have been hard at work to snap everything to the screen's pixel grid, with the effect that using a fractional scale factor now results in a lot less blurriness as well as no more gaps between windows and their shadows. You'll see it in the screenshot below (which was taken at 175% scale) but the effects are subtly better everywhere. Really great stuff! And lots more too, of course.

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KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.12 (kde.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23494331

Today KDE community are releasing KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.12 with new versions of classics such as Dolphin, our feature-rich file manager and explorer; Kate, the developer-friendly text editor; Itinerary, a travel assistant that will get you safely to your destination. …and much, much more!

These apps exist thanks to KDE's volunteers and donors. You too can contribute and express support for your favorite apps by adopting them!

Let's take a look at just a few of the applications — some updated and some brand new — which will be landing on your desktop in just a few days.

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KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.12 (kde.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23494331

Today KDE community are releasing KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.12 with new versions of classics such as Dolphin, our feature-rich file manager and explorer; Kate, the developer-friendly text editor; Itinerary, a travel assistant that will get you safely to your destination. …and much, much more!

These apps exist thanks to KDE's volunteers and donors. You too can contribute and express support for your favorite apps by adopting them!

Let's take a look at just a few of the applications — some updated and some brand new — which will be landing on your desktop in just a few days.

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KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.12 (kde.org)
 

Today KDE community are releasing KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.12 with new versions of classics such as Dolphin, our feature-rich file manager and explorer; Kate, the developer-friendly text editor; Itinerary, a travel assistant that will get you safely to your destination. …and much, much more!

These apps exist thanks to KDE's volunteers and donors. You too can contribute and express support for your favorite apps by adopting them!

Let's take a look at just a few of the applications — some updated and some brand new — which will be landing on your desktop in just a few days.

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This Week in KDE Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center (blogs.kde.org)
 

This week we of course continued the customary bug-fixing, but got some nice new features and UI improvements too!

Let me also remind folks about KDE's end-of-year fundraiser. We're 84% of the way to our goal, and it would be amazing to get all the way to 100% before December! Then we can focus on those stretch goals from December to January.

Anyway, enough of the sales pitch, back to the free stuff!

And isn't that amazing? Let's zoom out a bit here and remind ourselves just how incredible it is that this software is made available for free, with no contract or license agreement, to everyone. To you, to your school, to community organizations, businesses, governments, even our direct competitors to study and examine (which goes both ways, and helped me fix a bug in GTK this week; read on for details). It's kind of wild, if you think about it. But, here we are, and we want to keep on being a light in a tech world that sometimes seems to be darkening. Help us keep that light glowing!

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Mesa 24.3 released (docs.mesa3d.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22759126

New version 24.3 of the Mesa opensource 3D graphics library and drivers has been released. New features:

  • Expose Vulkan 1.3 on v3dv, both rpi4 and rpi5
  • VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer on nvk
  • VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage on nvk
  • VK_KHR_video_maintenance1 on radv
  • VK_EXT_legacy_vertex_attributes on nvk
  • GL_KHR_shader_subgroup on radeonsi
  • VK_KHR_maintenance7 on nvk
  • VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read on nvk
  • GL_ARB_timer_query on Panfrost
  • GL_EXT_disjoint_timer_query on Panfrost
  • VK_KHR_pipeline_binary on RADV
  • VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on anv
  • VK_NV_compute_shader_derivatives on nvk
  • VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on nvk
  • VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on radv
  • VK_KHR_shader_relaxed_extended_instruction on anv, hasvk, hk, nvk, radv, tu, v3dv, lvp
  • GL_OVR_multiview and GL_OVR_multiview2 on zink
  • VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 on radv
  • VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 on nvk
  • VK_EXT_device_generated_commands on nvk, radv
  • VK_EXT_host_image_copy on nvk/Turing+
  • VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control on anv, hasvk, nvk, radv
  • VK_KHR_shader_quad_control on nvk
  • GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 on etnaviv/HALTI5+
  • GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend on etnaviv/HALTI5+
  • VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate on NVK
  • GL_ARB_draw_indirect on etnaviv/HALTI5+
  • VK_EXT_depth_clamp_zero_one on NVK
  • GL_ARB_framebuffer_no_attachments on etnaviv
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Blender 4.3 (www.blender.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22682449

Blender Foundation and the online developer community are proud to present Blender 4.3!

Packed with exciting improvements to existing tools (hello EEVEE Light Linking and multi-pass compositing!), performance boosts, and the foundations for the future (looking at you, Grease Pencil v3).

Plus, hundreds of contributions ranging from new features to accessibility enhancements—and as always: loads of fixes.

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Blender 4.3 (www.blender.org)
 

Blender Foundation and the online developer community are proud to present Blender 4.3!

Packed with exciting improvements to existing tools (hello EEVEE Light Linking and multi-pass compositing!), performance boosts, and the foundations for the future (looking at you, Grease Pencil v3).

Plus, hundreds of contributions ranging from new features to accessibility enhancements—and as always: loads of fixes.

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digiKam 8.5.0 is released (www.digikam.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22563127

digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0. This version of digiKam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.

Help keep projects like digiKam producing new releases with awesome new features by donating to KDE's fundraiser.

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digiKam 8.5.0 is released (www.digikam.org)
 

digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0. This version of digiKam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.

Help keep projects like digiKam producing new releases with awesome new features by donating to KDE's fundraiser.

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This Week in KDE Apps: Adopt an App (blogs.kde.org)
 

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.

This week, we released KDE Gear 24.08.3 and we are preparing the 24.12.0 release with the beta planned next week. The final release will happen on December 12th, but, meanwhile, and as part of the 2024 end-of-year fundraiser, you can "Adopt an App" in a symbolic effort to support your favorite KDE app.

kscreenlocker_greet broke with a recent update of OpenSUSE (November 1). Any advice on how to fix it? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Install pam_pkcs11 package, which contains the missing library

Yet another "What distro should I use?" post, but at least I did some homework. in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am also gaming a lot and used nvidia in the past and by the description you give I would say openSUSE Tumbleweed is the one. It is rolling release, but they also have extensive QA tests before letting packages get released as updates so it is very stable for a rolling release. And another thing that openSUSE is awesome for is that they have BTRFS snappshotting very nicely configured out of the box so before and after each update it creates a snappshot and if something goes wrong you can just select an old working snappshot from GRUB boot menu. And with Nvidia this breakage was happening well more often the I would like. I also like their Open Build Service where you can find many additional packages which might not be packaged by distro people themselves.

What is your favourite matrix client? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

My favourite Matrix client is NeoChat.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Agree and hope it brings even better GNU/Linux gaming support, as it is the OS that is in this democratic users/people owned operating system, just as other free as in freedom and opensource collaborative software. In this regard Valve does quite a very good job of improving and sponsoring GNU/Linux, Mesa drivers KDE and other opensource projects. What all other gaming companies fail terribly at. What comes after Valve must be even better at it.

Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well and behind it is stealing other peoples’ work (posts and comments, moderation and administration) and selling them as yours. The oldest capitalist criminal trick in the book: privatization AKA primitive accumulation AKA enclosure of the commons.

Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users in c/reddit@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well and behind it is stealing other peoples’ work (posts and comments, moderation and administration) and selling them as yours. The oldest capitalist criminal trick in the book: privatization AKA primitive accumulation AKA enclosure of the commons.

Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users in c/reddit@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well and behind is is stealing other peoples’ work (posts and comments, moderation and administration) and selling them as yours. The oldest capitalist criminal trick in the book: privatization AKA primitive accumulation AKA enclosure of the commons.

Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Well and behind it is stealing other peoples' work (posts and comments, moderation and administration) and selling them as yours. The oldest capitalist criminal trick in the book: privatization AKA primitive accumulation AKA enclosure of the commons.

What desktop enviroment do you use and why? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

KDE Plasma on all my computers and also as desktop mode on Steam Deck. because it supports the latest technologies especially when it comes to graphics (HDR, VRR) also has best support for Wayland and multi-monitors. It looks great out of the box and it has a lot of features out of the box and I do not need to battle with adding some extensions that break with almost every update. KDE Plasma is also the most flexible desktop and I can set the workflow really to fit my desires and I can actually set many options and settings. And despite all these built-in features and configurability it still uses very few system resources and is very fast and smooth. Oh and the KDE community is one of the most welcoming I have met in FOSS world, and they listen to their users instead of the our way or the high way mentality I have so often encountered in GNOME for example. So yeah TLDR KDE Plasma is the one I like the most of all in the industry, even when compared to proprietary closed alternatives.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Those sociopaths burning the planet and pumping out all the water are completely out of touch with reality. They would rather destroy the planet for some Annoying Idiocy .

Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Crashing is the smallest problem. All that sypware, ads and artificial idiocy they are embedding in the bloated excuse of an OS is way worse than any crash. I am so glad I switched to GNU/Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop, after seeing how well gaming works on Steam Deck I also switched to GNU/Linux for gaming) and it is so so much nicer to have an OS that is fast, stable and actually respects basic human rights like privacy and freedom.

Israeli parliament votes to ban UNRWA from Israel within 90 days in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

It’s way past time that UN bans Israel from their institutions and puts heavy sanctions on them for their genocide and other crimes against humanity.

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