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cross-posted from: https://social.opendesktop.org/users/thisweekinkde/statuses/113332629027504589

This week in Plasma: hardware is hard

https://pointieststick.com/2024/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-hardware-is-hard/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21070831

Announcement by the creator: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version.

Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1268632

Hi everyone I’m happy to announce the new 2024 Ubuntu Community Council!

• Heather Ellsworth (~hellsworth1) @hellsworth1
• Scarlett Moore (~scarlettmoore) @scarlettmoore
• Nathan Haines (~nhaines) @nhaines
• José Antonio Rey (~jose) @jose
• Thomas Ward (~teward) @teward
• Merlijn Sebrechts (~merlijn-sebrechts) @merlijn-sebrechts
• Aaron Rainbolt (~arraybolt3) @arraybolt3 They are all elected for a period of two years.

cross-posted from: https://social.opendesktop.org/users/thisweekinkde_apps/statuses/113340776757238911

This Week in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/20/this-week-in-kde-apps/

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21072107

Bitwarden introduced a non-free dependency to their clients. The Bitwarden CTO tried to frame this as a bug but his explanation does not really make it any less concerning.

Perhaps it is time for alternative Bitwarden-compatible clients. An open source client that's not based on Electron would be nice. Or move to something else entirely? Are there any other client-server open source password managers?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21301425

And I’d say it’s a pretty good release! As with all large sets of changes, there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brightness and multi-screen performance. They are being actively investigated. Other than those, so far all the issues have been fairly minor, requiring people to jump through various hoops to experience them. We’re still working on fixing them, of course! I’ll be writing up another post soon on these issues, discussing how they snuck into the final release, and what we can learn from the experience. But in the meantime, here’s the Plasma team’s work from this week.