Instead of one super chunky battery, how about a laptop with replaceable batteries, in combination with a UPS?

UPS is so you can actually replace the laptop battery with a spare one , even during a power outage. Just run the laptop on AC from the UPS while changing batteries. Or see if you can find a UPS with a long lasting battery. Entry level ones only have like 15-30 minutes of battery life though, since they’re more intended for safe shutdowns or brownouts.

+2 for KDE Connect, the integration is amazing. I’ve used it on KDE and Gnome (gsconnect), all works very well

I did this too :D I used to have 20 pairs of non-identical black socks, which made matching hard and it felt wrong to wear socks of slightly different type or size. Much easier now

I keep getting socks for Christmas though, which I never wear cause they’d mess up the simplicity

2nd for Kobo! It’s a good device, supports more standards, and doesn’t fund any of the Too Big Tech Giants

Application Z requires another 3GB because it needs Gnome runtime version X+1, not version X. Although I do believe Flatpak does some kind of reduplication so actual used space is somewhat less.

It’s also less of a problem if you flatpak all the apps vs having just a handful. The more apps the better chance they’re actually sharing runtimes.

Flatpak updates are handled very smoothly by KDE Discover, I always assumed Gnome Software did the same, so no additional package manager required.

Despite the few downsides Flatpak is still wonderful. As a Kubuntu user it’s nice to say Farewell random PPAs whenever there’s a need for an actual newish version of an application

Like maxmal said, FreeCAD has an Architecture (and BIM) workbench, which is heavily developed by one of the main FreeCAD Devs. Try it out and see if it works for you

Calling the architecture workbench a plugin is technically correct, but a bit misleading, as all core features are technically plugins(workbenches). The Architecture workbench is a built-in default feature

Sadly Obsidian is not open source or free as in free speech. For individuals it is free as in free beer though

Xchat with its sleek tab interface was the bomb

PixelDroid for Android. It’s available on F-Droid too

Yes both!

I use Qalc for unit conversions (I often need to convert measuring units without acces to internet) and SpeedCrunch for everything else

I now see my mistake but I refuse to correct it

Agreed, that sounds perfect for right now.

A certain community I’m subscribed to is very active right now, to the point of almost drowning out all other committees in my feed. A “temporary hide” would be very welcome

True story? I haven’t been back to Reddit since the 30th, are the boys actually running rampant as many predicted?

And scrolling up and down constantly cause there’s not enough screenspace to show all the information (because 90% of the screenspace is empty or used for enourmous padding)

Well that aged like fine wine (talking about Embrace Extended Extinguish and how Google abandoned XMPP):

In theory, a company like Meta could run that playbook here. It could launch Fedigram or Fedbook or whatever, gain a lot of users, and then slowly shut out the broader ecosystem.

Have you tried hackernews?

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I’m actually having the opposite experience (for the most part). All the little papercuts of yesteryear are almost completely gone, and it’s only looking better on the horizon. Of course your mileage may vary depending on use case and hardware…

Some things of the top of my head:

• Flatpak replacing 3rd party PPAs. Brand new software without dependency hell or breaking system packages? Yes please
• Snaps and AppImages too
• XDG Portals standards, making snaps and flatpaks play nice with confinement
• Audio and Bluetooth? It “just works” now
• Pipewire
• Even gaming works really well now, with Proton, DXVK etc
• AMD and Intel drivers baked in to the kernel
• Wayland finally being production ready for many use-cases, and being adopted as the default, fixing so many of the ancient X11 issues (screen tearing, multiple displays with different scaling, refresh rate, fractional scaling) ( cries in Nvidia )
• Nvidia finally changing their mind so Wayland on Nvidia can be a thing (I can’t wait 😊)
• KDE Connect / gsConnect phone integration
• Screensharing on Wayland even on legacy X11 apps becoming a thing through the new screensharing Portal

The only problem I’ve had recently is Ubuntu’s forced snapification, and snap being very rough around the edges for Desktop apps (ahem drag’drop)