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Plasma's restore session functionality has started working for me relatively recently, but there's one thing that bugs me: all my windows are just dumped together into the same activity and workspace I'm in at login, so it becomes a big mess.
Is there a setting somewhere that tells it to respect the last position of the windows?

I wanted to install a few PWAs in my private space but the option for installation or shortcut creation isn't there on the same websites where it appears in the normal installation of the browser app.
Is this a limitation strictly related to the private space?

I've enabled auto download and installation of updates in the settings, but somehow they are never downloaded and installed in the background, nor when I do "install all", they all prompt me for confirmation.
Is there some setting to change to make it work?

As far as I got, Blender's features for masks are very good, but then they fall short when you want to tweak the animation curve for animated masks because, well, there are no curves... it's all linear, they just won't appear in the graph editor.
So I was wondering if there is some other application that does that, be it specialised or not, maybe specialised for compositing would be a plus actually, considering all the video editing features that are left in the dust by Blender, because I assume the big players don't care for them and rather fund for the development of all the 3D capabilities, which I care about very little for what I usually do, so I'm not seeing any improvements on that side anytime soon

I've set up a phone with Rethink DNS as a permanent VPN, so nothing can come through, I tried putting KDE Connect in the Bypass Universal list, but it still fails to discover devices on the network and in turn it can't be discovered by others itself.
I tried without VPN active and it all works, of course. Is it possible for the 2 to coexist? If so, what settings should I change?

I'm using Fedora Kinoite and there's this little issue that has been bugging me to no end, whenever I want to see what updates have been found for my apps and their changelogs I start scrolling there, but every few seconds, say 20, the page will refresh and look for updates again, so it interrupts my reading and resets the scrolling position I was at, so I have to wait there to finish refreshing, jump to where I was and speed-read that piece of text before it refreshes once again and I'm thrown back to square one.
I was wondering if there is any setting to control how often Discover auto-refreshes, maybe set it to only manually refresh instead, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the Settings tab.
Is there a solution or is this a bug?

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/30887473

I sometimes play games and also open my music player, but the sound from the game drowns out the music, so I need to go into the sound mixer on KDE and manually lower the game's volume every time.
I was wondering, is there a way to do this process automatically? As in setting up conditions like "if music is playing (some MPRIS API?) then lower all other apps' volumes)", maybe even crazier "if some app is outputting voice then set its volume back up and lower music app's volume or pause its playback altogether for some specified timeout that keeps being refreshed for as long as voice is heard".
I imagine the latter is a bit of a dream, but maybe for the first, even some quick sound profile selector would go a long way, say switching from "normal profile" to "background music profile", etc. which specify preconfigured volumes for those apps.
Is that a thing?

I sometimes play games and also open my music player, but the sound from the game drowns out the music, so I need to go into the sound mixer on KDE and manually lower the game's volume every time.
I was wondering, is there a way to do this process automatically? As in setting up conditions like "if music is playing (some MPRIS API?) then lower all other apps' volumes)", maybe even crazier "if some app is outputting voice then set its volume back up and lower music app's volume or pause its playback altogether for some specified timeout that keeps being refreshed for as long as voice is heard".
I imagine the latter is a bit of a dream, but maybe for the first, even some quick sound profile selector would go a long way, say switching from "normal profile" to "background music profile", etc. which specify preconfigured volumes for those apps.
Is that a thing?

I was looking to implement a year column and while researching I stumbled on the YEAR data type which sounded just right by its name, I assumed that it would just be something like an integer that can maybe hold only 4 digits, maybe more if negative?
But then I noticed while actually trying it out that some years I was inputting randomly by hand never went through giving an out of range error, so I went to look at the full details and, sure enough, it's limited to years between 1901 and 2155, just 2155!
In terms of life of an application 2155 is just around the corner, well not that any software has ever lived that long, but you get what I mean in the sense that we want our programs to be as little affected by time within what's reasonable given space constraints.
So what will they do when they get close enough to that year, because you don't even have to be in that year to need it accessible, there could be references that point to the future, maybe for planning of some thing or user selected dates and whatnot; will they change the underlying definition of it as time passes so it's always shifted forward? If that's the approach they'll take, will they just tell everyone who's using this type that their older dates will just not be supported anymore and they need to migrate to a different type? YEAR-OLD? Then YEAR-OLDER? Then YEAR-OLDER-BUT-LIKE-ACTUALLY? Or, that if they plan to stay in business, they should move to SMALLINT?
Or will they take the opposite approach and put out a new YEAR datatype every time the 256 range is expired like YEAR-NEW, YEAR-NEW-1, YEAR-FINAL, YEAR-JK-GUYS-THE-WORLD-HASNT-COLLAPSED, etc.?

So I wonder, what's the point of this data type? It's just so incredibly restricted that I don't see even a hypothetical use.
There exist other questions like this (example) but I think they all don't address this point: has anyone from MariaDB or MySQL or an SQL committee (I don't know if that's a thing) wrote up some document that describes the plan for how this datatype will evolve as time passes? An RFC or anything like that?

What is this?

For all you Reddit refugees this is like r/place.
For all who don't know what that is either, this is a public, well, canvas, that will be freely accessible to anyone with a Fediverse account (specifics on the main post, don't worry, Lemmy is included).
You'll be able to place (this is not place!!!) one pixel every certain amount of time on the canvas, either in an empty or an already used spot, overwriting it in the latter case.

Where is this happening?

Right over on https://canvas.fediverse.events/

Announcement post and other related stuff:

• Main post: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832
• Community: [email protected]

When can we participate?

On the 12th July 2024, or 2024-07-12 for all you ISO lovers!

Why should I care?

I don't know, it could be fun and it's not like you have to do it alone, it's actually way more fun to partecipate alongside your fellow fediversers, sooo... monke together strong?
If you have some particular interest and you want it represented, try to look for your people in the right communities, and organize together to make the best fricking piece of pixel art the world has ever seen!!

From here I guess we can invite you to maybe make a little something for our lemy.lol instance's community, claiming a patch of land for ourselves as the (certified) best instance of the Fediverse (full disclosure: am admin of said instance).
If we want to make something, we can probably make a Matrix room to coordinate our efforts!
Otherwise, just go ahead and have fun with your loved <insert niche game/anime/film/any piece of media> and make something out of it!

Lastly here's last year's final canvas to try to win you over (or scare you):

I saw that there's this nifty xdg-ninja that informs you on what you have installed that doesn't respect the XDG spec, if it has support for it or not and what you can do to make it comply.
But now I was wondering if there was any tool to do the actual work automatically, I believe I have once seen a program that spoofed your home directory to non-complying apps so that you could transparently override their whole app data location to a path you wanted so they can keep functioning, but I can't for the life of me find it again.
It would be double awesome if it did both, i.e. auto-applying any changes to apps that support XDG but need to be configured to enable it and, for those who don't, forcefully spoofing the home directory