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bart

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FOSS enthusiast, postmarketOS developer

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@don_atoms@hostux.social avatar don_atoms , to random

For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.

Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.

Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

@marcprux @fdroidorg

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@don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg It would help if you'd stop calling it "sideloading" and just used the normal term "installing".
Also, stop using Android. The only real option is moving away, use .

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oleksii By realizing Appimages aren't portable at all and in fact a bit stupid, and then realizing you should've used Flatpak instead.
Honestly, they only work on systems that look like the system they were built on. And those systems do not run Musl libc...

@A11yAwareness@disabled.social avatar A11yAwareness , to random

The No Mouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?

https://nomouse.org/

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@A11yAwareness What about regular applications (mobile and desktop)? That seems just as important, why are they omitted from this campaign?

@krake@graz.social avatar krake , to KDE

Massive @kde presence at @linuxtage today 😎
Info booth with lots of different and other devices, and an impromptu hacking corner 😅

kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE

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@krake @kde @linuxtage kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE Wait, the Plasma sprint turned into a conference now? 😜

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@krake @kde @linuxtage kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE Ah that's very cool! I hoped you all had fun!

@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org avatar frameworkcomputer , to random

We talk about Linux a lot, but Framework Laptop 13 also works great with
@FreeBSDFoundation The team there just published their most recent report with a writeup on how they are refining laptop support using Framework Laptops:

https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/#_framework_laptop_support

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@CursedSilicon @frameworkcomputer Why would you need any particular collaboration? Every Linux distro already runs fine on their hardware, I'm running on mine with literally 0 issues, how is every distro not already a "first class citizen"?

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@CursedSilicon @frameworkcomputer That all sounds like something that would be good enough to have on the Gentoo wiki. I'm still not sure why Framework needs to do anything for that.

@piggz@fosstodon.org avatar piggz , to random

Todays implementation, offline file support for my @kde client

video/mp4

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@piggz @kde 😱 A Kirigam-based Subsonic client! I literally installed Navidrome 2 weeks ago and although the web client is ok (bit ugly), I'd love a native client for my desktop. Having it work on my phone is an even bigger win!

@carl@kde.social avatar carl , to random

New blog posts about my attendance to open source conferences in September. I've been a bit crazy and went to 5 of them 😅

https://carlschwan.eu/2024/09/29/conferences-in-september/

Hacking at the Matrix Conference

Hacking at the Matrix Conference
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@carl Wow, 5?! I love open-source conferences but that's a bit much lol. Got 5 more planned for next month? 😜

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erebion @zachdecook@librem.one avatar zachdecook Just installing an icon theme doesn't break anything. It'll only be used if it provides an icon that no other icon theme has, so maybe the missing one from Kasts.

Also make sure QtSvg is installed. For that would be qt6-qtsvg

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erebion Like I said, make sure Qt6Svg is installed.

@Mehrad@fosstodon.org avatar Mehrad , to KDE

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    @Mehrad @kde kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE @postmarketOS postmarketOS stable I assume? Just wait till you get (either in next stable or current edge)

    @kde@floss.social avatar kde , to KDE

    KDE releases today Plasma Mobile 6. Check out its renewed base system and apps.

    This version comes with a new and improved shell, a new home screen with heaps of new features, enhancements of the base system, improvements in apps like Clock, Kasts and Photos, and much more.

    https://plasma-mobile.org/2024/02/21/plasma-6/

    kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE

    A phone showing the Plasma Mobile 6 home screen. The background is the new Plasma 6 dark wallpaper and on top there is a grid of 16 apps, covering from media players to Mastodon clients.
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    @be @kde kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE @postmarketOS When I've finished the PR upgrading it all. Currently I'm building everything locally and if that's done I'll push it to Alpine. Hopefully end of weekend update will be available

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    @Shatur @owen
    > Ubuntu Touch

    They don't ship Plasma Mobile, or any other mobile UI that is not Lomiri for that matter.