Tech Tips Tuesday 36 – KDE Updates, New LibreOffice Release, and Midori Coming Back.

TTT 36.1 – KDE 5.26.4 Updates Released

What’s new this month?

More fixes for the Wayland Session (yay!)
Crash solved in x11
Improves notifications in a few ways (lessens sharpness, better multi-monitor support, better fingerprint unlocking)
Progress bar in Discover is more visible
Media player icon flashing oddly at times
And about 50 other things got changed or tweaked this time around. Pretty good stuff, all around.

https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-26-4-is-out-to-improve-plasma-wayland-notifications-and-more
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Thankfulness leads to humility. When we thank God for everything, whether breaths, accomplishments, or material goods, we recognize that we are not the source of our lives. This diffuses that rather nasty human trait of pride. When we recognize that all we are and all we have did not originate in or with us, but is a gift from God, then how can we be anything but humble? This is not a humility of “woe is me, I’m a worm”, but a mindset, rather, of “I am blessed and God is the source of those blessings, so I get to steward them.” There is a confidence that comes there that is not related to pride, but of knowing one’s right place, as I talked about last week.
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TTT 36.2 – Wayland Protocols 1.31 adds Fractional Scaling

This is an excellent move from the Wayland team in their quest to replace the venerable x11 system as the display server of choice in Linux. Have you noticed visual fidelity issues with your high resolution displays on Wayland? These new protocols, when fully adopted by KDE and the other compatible desktop environments, will lead to much smoother and more precise performance on your desktop. Much win. Very nice. It will, however, take time for this to be fully implemented.

https://news.itsfoss.com/wayland-protocols-fractional-scaling/
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TTT 36.3 – Midori Begins Its Comeback

Ever heard of Midori? It is a FOSS, Chromium-based browser that used to be quitepopular in the Linux space, I think I recall it shipping with Mint, back in the day, but the project was all but dead for the last few years. Not dead anymore, it has had the breath of life returned to it, and it has its own, FOSS search engine, which you can self-host if you so desire. The browser and the search engine are privacy focused, even though the search engine, called AstianGO, does not have its own index, it records nothing about you or your history. It polls Google, Qwant, and Brave Search and serves you those results. Neither seem to be 100% ready to go yet, but could be an interesting combo project to keep tabs on.

https://news.itsfoss.com/midori-astiango/
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