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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • I feel like folks are antsy, because it doesn’t look revolutionarily different from the original Steam Machines, which flopped back then.
    But yeah, there actually is a revolutionary difference, which is that the vast majority of games now do run on the new Steam Machines. This has also already been proven to the public with the Steam Deck.

    And I do think there is a market of folks looking at a Steam Deck and thinking they don’t need it to be a handheld and would rather have more bang for their buck.

    I guess, we will have to see, but I could also imagine the cornered memory market playing into the hands of the Steam Machine, as the better memory efficiency of Linux will let you do more for less.



  • Well, you certainly have more of a dictionary available than I do. For me, it looks like this:

    (Which, again, might actually be broken on my distro by excessive minimalism. No idea.)

    My About→Components section in Kate says this:

    Kate: 25.12.2
    KDE Frameworks: 6.23.0
    Qt: Using 6.10.1 and built against 6.10.1
    NixOS 26.05 (Yarara) (Wayland)
    Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
    Kernel: linux 6.19.2

    You could try setting the “Default language” in the Spellcheck settings to something else and see, if it still completes the same words, just to try to find out whether these dictionaries are connected.

    But yeah, might be worth filing a bug report with the Kubuntu devs. At the very least, it would tell them this behavior may not be wanted by everyone, if it is intentional…





  • Hmm, that’s strange. Don’t think, it’s supposed to work like that, but that does not either seem like behavior that would manifest from a simple bug.

    The words in your screenshot do seem to all be in the English dictionary, well, except for “trotz”, but that’s a German word, so might still be that it somehow takes a dictionary into account.
    There might be some dictionary package installed through apt, which might enable that.

    Can you check in the Kate settings under Editing→Spellcheck, if any languages show up there? On my system, I actually have none there. Perhaps, if I “fixed” that for me, I might end up with similar completions as you have there…

    Also, sidenote: To my knowledge, the T+ icon means that it is a word completion (normally based on words in the document), and not a keyword completion or similar.


  • Oh man, I don’t want to get deep into all the politics involved, but man, this reads like complete non-sense:

    The outage comes following Iranian attacks on the UAE as retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

    If they did specifically target US corporations in UAE, that would make some amount of sense as direct retaliation.
    I guess, you can also attack UAE and hope that they pressure the US to stop invading.
    But in any case, this seems like a really good way to drag more nations into the conflict, or at least to force them to become active, which is not in the interest of Iran.


  • Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don’t even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
    Now I’m reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I’m instantly sold.

    Well, to be honest, “Movim” also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it’s a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.




  • I’m gonna take this way too seriously, but I was thinking just yesterday that the egg shape or ellipsis shape is actually really nice, because you can angle it to make it match the curvature of what you’re eating out of.

    If a circle spoon has too small of a curvature, it’s always going to just scrape in the middle and leave the sides untouched.
    An egg spoon 🥄 will have a larger curvature on the sides, but even if it is too large of a curvature, you can “lean” the spoon forward, which will contract the curvature (because some of it is now in 3D space), making it possible to fit the curvature perfectly.

    Of course, you cannot do that for curvatures which are larger than your spoon’s curvature, which includes flat surfaces in particular, but even there the wider curvature of the egg spoon will match it better.
    And bonus points: The tip of the egg shape has a very narrow curvature, so you need less angling for scraping out very narrow curvatures.