Quoting: ripper81358While i have used KDE Plasma for many years i am not happy with KDE Connect. It is a great tool but for some reason the connection to my androidphone fails as soon as the screen is locked.

I have to unlock the phone while my PC is running, otherwise my phone isn't detected by KDE Connect. I don't know if this caused by Android or my Kubuntu system, but this issue is rendering KDE Connect useless for me.

This looks like Android battery optimizations. In the Android settings you should have an option to disable any battery-related restrictions for KDE Connect. It looks like this [External Link] on my phablet under Applications → KDE Connect → Battery → No restrictions.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicWhy did they even publish the update without at least testing it once to ensure it works?

Initially Fall Guys failed to start for some other reason (DirectX shared resources, see here [External Link]).
So they did the right thing: they stopped thinking and simply followed Valve's instructions. Sure they made a small mistake where to put the file, but at least they did the unblocking part.

If they just went with their internal testing and stopped at “Can't get it to run, nevermind…”, we probably wouldn't have Fall Guys running on Linux yet.

So they did test it, and their tests actually failed, but I'm glad they published nevertheless :-)

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Quoting: ExpandingManI guess I haven't been paying attention. The filesystem on SteamOS is read only by default? Why in the world would anyone do that? It seems so insane to me I'm not sure I'm reading it right.

Almost everything in the embedded world uses read-only system partitions by default: iOS, Android, Ubuntu Core, the Nintendo switch OS… you name it.
In the desktop world macOS Catalina or Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite are examples.
In the server world OpenSUSE MicroOS, Fedora CoreOS.

It mainly makes sense when you want to push updates to lots of devices and you don't want things to break. Which is the case here.

Quoting: ExpandingManI guess I do not envy the people who are responsible for marketing and distributing this stuff to the general public. I failed even to get a non-technical family member to use a password manager that she had to unlock.

That's not something the general public should be concerned about. Is this family member using an Android device? Do they know it runs a Linux kernel with a read-only system partition?
Probably not, people just don't need to know.

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Quoting: Nic264

Quoting: Liam DaweKDE Connect does not come pre-installed and doesn't have a proper Flatpak package for Linux / Steam Deck.

There actually is a (nightly) Flatpak package for KDE Connect in the KDE Apps repo. In short:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo # adds the kdeapps repo, can be done though Discover settings
flatpak install org.kde.kdeconnect # can obviously be done though Discover
flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-download org.kde.kdeconnect # allow it to write to downloads, can be done though Flatseal

Then you just launch the app, pair and you should be able to send/receive files.
I'm not sure how to get the indicator to show up in Plasma though.

I'm aware but I don't think suggesting the masses use nightlies which could break...nightly, is a good idea. Plus, Syncthing is popular.

Ah OK, so that's what you meant with “proper” Flatpak package. “stable” would be more proper here IMO :wink:

And yes, Syncthing is great!

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Quoting: Liam DaweKDE Connect does not come pre-installed and doesn't have a proper Flatpak package for Linux / Steam Deck.

There actually is a (nightly) Flatpak package for KDE Connect in the KDE Apps repo. In short:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo # adds the kdeapps repo, can be done though Discover settings
flatpak install org.kde.kdeconnect # can obviously be done though Discover
flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-download org.kde.kdeconnect # allow it to write to downloads, can be done though Flatseal

Then you just launch the app, pair and you should be able to send/receive files.
I'm not sure how to get the indicator to show up in Plasma though.

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The decision not to enable EAC/Proton for Fortnite makes sense, since it apparently doesn't have anything better than that kernel-level black-box to fight cheaters… (importantly, people have nothing to loose for cheating)

But what's irritating is how vocal Sweeney can be about “open platforms” in his position against Apple, eg. excerpt from a recent Tweet [External Link]:

Having a truly open platform is best!

…and at the same time he rejects one of the most open platforms there is, because it actually gives complete control to the end user.

So what's his definition of “truly open platform” exactly? It can't be too open if you don't want to trust the end user…

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