well speech-dispatcher has no synthesis component, you can plug in any tts engine that follows the interface. it’s nice to have a choice in engine just by implementing the support. personally i use piper which i feel gives a pretty good performance.

i believe that’s what speech-dispatcher is; a uniform interface for tts systems.

shouldn’t there at least be an option to use speech-dispatcher?

I’ve been using the paid version of tapet for like eight years now.

the reporter is a real asshat, judging by their twitter.

first:

then, later:

i just run yay without args.

unfortunately no, this machine is running an rdna3 card with amdgpu-pro. i should note that this only started happening in plasma6, v5 was not affected.

The right monitor is indeed first when enumerating, but it’s also an old-ass monitor that runs over DVI while the newer monitor is on HDMI since i can’t get it to its correct refresh rate otherwise. no way to swap them around i’m afraid.

I’ve done the primary switch trick before, and it works, but it’s just as temporary as just killing plasmashell, and that’s less keystrokes. deleting the cache also works for a boot or two, but as you say it’s a bit of a nuclear option.

Honestly, part of the reason i’m asking here is that i can’t navigate the kde bugtracker. I’ve tried looking for issues relating to kwin, plasmashell, desktop, graphical errors, but i either get thousands of vaguely related issues or nothing.

it can be both; the microchips are from private interests, the cancer is from the state.

oh great, even more ways for the cia to hide their cancer guns

Edit: Apparently that wasn’t obvious enough. This is really cool.

i think you can do this with xrandr. it usually works on “outputs” but i believe you can define virtual monitors as well.

also, you’d do well to look into tiling window managers like i3 or hyprland. that may be closer to what you actually want.

yeah, larry ellison

Ellison’s biographer Mark Wilson notes that Ellison sees death as “just another kind of corporate opponent he can outfox.”

Good info. thanks.

One could easily make a client app

sure, and convince people to switch. it’s been done before of course but it’s a big effort. And anyway, the main point with the closed-server issue is that it’s impossible to know what the server does other than serving packages. this is true for other package repositories to a certain extent since there’s no real guarantee that they run the source code they show, but there’s a distributed trust network there. as for the snap store, they could be doing anything in there.

KDE also maintains most of the flathub.org packages for KDE apps.

what i was trying to get at is that they’re not hosting their own thing. they do host their own flatpak repo but it seems to be only for nightlies so that point wasn’t as strong as i originally thought.

Canonical are the primary employers of a lot of Debian developers, including to do Debian maintenance or development. This includes at least one of the primary developers of apt.

that does not mean that the particular developer agrees with or even approves of the snap thing. it’s good to know though. i know they upstream, but that’s sort of the bare minimum expected of them.

i’ve not really used ubuntu desktop lately, but i’ve been hearing more complaints from friends about it deciding to install snaps instead of debs lately. steam was a big one that a friend had trouble with, and they just installed that though apt i’m pretty sure.

the thing people dislike about that is that you’re silently moved from an open system to a closed-source one.

Debian’s .deb hosting is completely open and you can host your own repository from which anyone can pull packages just by adding it to the apt config. fedora, suse, arch, same thing.

only Canonical can host snaps, and they’re not telling people how the hosting works. KDE seems to upload their packages to the snap store for Neon, judging from their page.

also, crucially, canonical are not the ones doing the maintenance for those apt packages. the debian team does that.

i can see what it points to. you can’t claim the statement is unfalsifiable just because you didn’t see the issues before removal. like, this is not proof-of-god tier stuff.

it took you as long to find that link as it would have to look up the thing they gave you. this is not kindergarten, nobody owes you you their time. you are expected to be able to find and evaluate the validity of information yourself.

learn kakoune or helix, become even more entrenched.

i vastly prefer the object-verb keybinds to vim’s verb-object, but now i can’t even find bindings for other editors so i’m permanently stuck now