Jure Repinc :linux: :kde:

INFJ. Software engineer at Cosylab, working on space and astronomy projects. Living in Slovenia🇸🇮, Europe🇪🇺. GNU/Linux, free software, open source enthusiast, KDE contributor, pirate party member. Astronomy is my hobby. Lover of scotch whisky, tea and good food. Like to travel a lot and read books (especially about philosophy, psychology, science and economy). Can’t live without music (mostly classical, reggeaton, reggae, dancehall, rap, hiphop). I’m a hopeless romantic with a naughty mind.

Jabber/XMPP: [email protected]
Matrix: @jlp:matrix.org
KDE: https://kde.org/
FSF: https://fsf.org/

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2024-07-18 18:03:46

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digiKam https://www.digikam.org/

2024-07-18 13:31:40

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Does #KDE Slimbook V also get this nice upgrade? Also some friend would be more interested into KDE Slimbook V but if it was 14 inch. Any plans for that too?

2024-07-18 08:17:07

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Oh Amnesia, I remember that one. Very nice game to play in a completely dark room 🥴🫣 Have to play those sequals some day :)

2024-07-17 15:01:15

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I'd say it is best to start with some GNU/Linux distribution that uses a desktop that is close to what you are used in Windows. For example a distro with KDE Plasma as a desktop (openSUSE, Fedora KDE spin, Kubuntu, …) or something with Cinnamon (Mint, Fedora, openSUSE, …)

2024-07-17 08:31:45

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And more importantly, no spyware and preserving user freedom. 🖤 #Linux

2024-07-16 15:27:23

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I was also concerned with RT at first before deciding on AMD Radeon. Then arranged a few hours of gameplay on friends PC with 4070 and RT didn't impress me as much as I expected. Especially considering I was focused on noticing the difference then. But during the usual gameplay you are not focused so much on these little differences. So I decided RT was not worth the money. Also not worth loosing the smoother experience with AMD on GNU/Linux, and I prefer more open drivers aynway

2024-07-16 14:43:43

My old graphics card started to show its age after about 8 years (especially in the more demanding/modern games) and it was time to make an upgrade to a new beast: PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE. It's doing great, even at 4K resolution and I love how quiet and cool it is running even while gaming and using the OC mode. About time the PC takes back some of that gaming time from the Steam Deck :)
#hardware #GPU #ComputerGraphics #gaming #AMD #Radeon #RX7900 #RadeonRX7900 #PowerColor
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2024-07-15 10:12:50

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Strawberry https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
"Strawberry is a cross-platform music player and music collection organizer. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radios."
#music #MusicPlayer #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

2024-07-14 11:11:48

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Not to mention how much more of searching around and tinkering you need to do before you even get Windows to an acceptable state (that GNU/Linux distros come in by default) by removing all the spyware and bloat and other crap like that they put more of into the latest versions. And they also often involve a lot of CMD or PowerShell. And how often it happens that with update they change some default for worse or ad some more crap and you have to constantly be on a lookout and fix it. 🤮

2024-07-14 10:37:26

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And in general it has been a good thing for us all when they switched to GNU/Linux. Runs more stable, no problems with viruses and stuff like that and random breakage and all that. So the need for me to give them technical support has greatly reduced, especially over time when they got used to GNU/Linux. And also much more could be fixed remotely, e.g. over SSH, so no more need to drive far so often to give help.

2024-07-14 10:30:19

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Yes would definitely recommend and most of my family and some of the friends/acquaintances are using it just fine. There is no need for the terminal most of the time if ever (rich KDE System Settings in combination with some distro settings like YaST in openSUSE and MCC in Mandriva enable this). But it sure is handy to have the option for a terminal, it is far easier/quicker for all to just copy/paste a line of text to do something, especially giving help remotely.

2024-07-13 20:15:45

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I agree. Not just easier to donate but also be able to donate in a focused way. What I mean about this is that I want to be sure my donation goes to a specific goal, e.g. development of Firefox, but not to things I hate, like Spam/Ad technology or some highly polluting useless AI nonsense. At this point I am afraid I can not trust Mozilla with my donation not to go to some bad goal.

2024-07-12 15:14:32

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ProtonDB https://www.protondb.com/
https://
CheckMyDeck checkmydeck.ofdgn.com/

2024-07-12 12:32:37

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I used Vulkan Tutorial
https://vulkan-tutorial.com/ and
Vulkan Samples
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples
in combination with The Vulkan Programming Guide book

2024-07-12 10:53:15

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That's why I switched to using #LibreWolf, It is #Firefox with all #privacy preserving features turned on by default
https://librewolf.net/

2024-07-11 08:34:29

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The same also goes for @npub1kj4…4my6 Please make use of LVFS for BIOS upgrades.

2024-07-09 22:46:38

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Using Okular https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/signatures.html

2024-07-09 20:47:39

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T–13 until Ariane 6 lift-off, all green

2024-07-09 19:59:08

In about half an hour live streaming of the first Ariane 6 🚀 launch will start. You can watch it here:
🎞 (EN) http://esawebtv.esa.int/
🎞 (EN) https://www.youtube.com/live/B0oFpOJaIYc
🎞 (FR) https://www.youtube.com/live/AfNPzSOalEU
🎞 (DE) https://www.youtube.com/live/a_87OnvB_fQ
#space #Ariane6 #Ariane #rockets #rocket #ESA #EuropeanSpaceAgency #CNES #Europe #Science
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2024-07-09 17:56:21

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KColorChooser https://apps.kde.org/kcolorchooser/

2024-07-09 17:04:51

Ariane 6 launch moved one hour later:
"As part of standard operations in the Ariane 6 preparation after mobile gantry removal, routine checks in the ground segment equipment showed a small issue in a data acquisition system. It has now been resolved. Liftoff is now scheduled no earlier than 16:00 local time (21:00 CEST), with the live stream starting at 15:30 local time (20:30 CEST)."
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launch_how_to_watch_and_what_to_look_out_for
#space #Ariane6 #Ariane #rockets #rocket #ESA #EuropeanSpaceAgency #CNES

2024-07-09 16:36:27

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Here is the direct link to the OSPOs for Good stream https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1m/k1ma4k9rff

2024-07-09 16:14:50

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here is the direct link to the stream https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1m/k1ma4k9rff

2024-07-09 14:33:38

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There is a nice list of great FOSS scientific software here
https://kde.org/for/scientists/

2024-07-08 16:46:53

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My current recommendation for GNU/Linux distros are openSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora, with KDE Plasma as a desktop environment

2024-07-07 20:51:54

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Not yet, but getting there, e.g.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-lichee-pi-4a-desktop-unboxing
Can's wait we get some :)

2024-07-07 20:26:38

RISC-V State of the Union — current highlights and roadmap of RISC-V by RISC-V's chief architect
🎞 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_oLVPFQvJbI
Slides: https://riscv-europe.org/summit/2024/media/proceedings/plenary/Tue-11-30-Krste-Asanovic.pdf
#RISCV #RISC #CPU #CPUs #architecture #ComputerArchitecture #processor #processors #ISA #InstructionSetArchitecture #hardware

2024-07-07 18:10:07

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Keep in mind that Kubuntu is still using the old KDE Plasma 5.27 and has not yet updated to the Latest version 6.1. And they also do not have any backports PPA/reposiitory with Plasma 6 as far as I know.

2024-07-07 18:05:27

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Another Linux distro with very good KDE Plasma integration is openSUSE Tumbleweed (or Slowroll / Leap if you don't want a full rolling release with many updates)

2024-07-06 01:07:44

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Yeah the setting takes whole Down+Up as a click. So case 2 works as expected. For case 1 you have to click the second time to raise the background window.

2024-07-06 00:47:49

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For KDE window manager you can set how the clicks behave. By default it is the same as on this video. Bur you can go to System Settings → Window Management → Window Actions
There you can set the left click from "Activate, raise and forward click" to »Activate and forward click« (or "Activate" or "Activate and raise")

2024-07-05 17:41:09

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With so many cool people and places it is hard to choose a favourite Akademy. But if I must it would be the one at Gran Canaria, or maybe the one at Almeria. So sad I can't come this yeah :(

2024-07-05 17:29:19

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I agree, got KDE Slimbook V a few weeks ago and it is a very nice machine. So nice and smooth to have and all-AMD laptop :)

2024-07-02 17:01:12

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You can find one way of doing this faster by taking the symmetry into account, as is described in Graphic Gems from 1990 (page 548, by James Arvo). The code from there is available here https://www.realtimerendering.com/resources/GraphicsGems/gems/TransBox.c

2024-06-13 10:57:38

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KDE is the name of community, which creates the desktop environment, which is named Plasma.
https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand

2024-06-12 21:54:39

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Lots of posts about libre and open source software here on Mastodon, so there is at least something about what is good and right in the world.