Plasma 6 boasts improved Wayland support and refined defaults, offering a smoother desktop experience.
Local GPT enables quality project-based answers while keeping all data on the user's computer.
TrayScale, a GTK tray icon app, enhances TailScale usage by providing quick connection status checks.
Deep dives
Bitcoin Podcast Launch
Chris has launched a new podcast called This Week in Bitcoin focused on high signal Bitcoin news coverage. The podcast will provide open source and signal-oriented information without hype. Chris highlights Bezos's rumored Bitcoin purchases and plans to include audio clips analysis and open-source project updates in future episodes.
TailScale GTK App Recommendation
The Dude Abides boosts in with a recommendation for TrayScale, a GTK-based tray icon app that helps quickly check TailScale's connection status without using the command line. Described as very helpful, TrayScale also copies IP information to the clipboard and is a neat addition for TailScale users.
Fountain App Feedback
Fountain user, Eric, shares positive feedback about the app, expressing how it won him back over podcast guru due to its transcript feature and social feed view. However, Eric notes a bug where show notes display only the first paragraph, but is optimistic for a resolution with the upcoming UI tweaks.
Plasma 6 Review
The team observes the impressive advancements in Plasma 6, highlighting its rebase success without disrupting users, stronger Wayland support, improved Dolphin file manager, gesture support, and refined defaults. They discuss a smoother experience, solving longstanding issues, and signal the podcast launch.
Utilizing Open Source AI for Document Interactions
Local GPT allows for conversing with your documents locally, providing quality answers to project-based queries. It offers nearly correct conversational answers from personal notes without compromising privacy by keeping all data on your own computer.
Exploring Fountain Radio Jukebox and CPU Core Control
Fountain Radio offers a community music station allowing for song boosting and chat interaction. It previews the upcoming live app development by providing music discovery and interaction. Additionally, CPU Controller, a Python Qt 6 tool, enables individual CPU core disabling and enabling, giving users control over system resources.
NVK is now ready for prime time โ Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance โ The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
KDE MegaRelease 6 โ With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
This Week in Bitcoin โ A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
42keebs.eu โ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
Pick: cpu-controller โ CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.