TLP has unintended side effects on Mobile devices
We often get a complaint that Plasma Mobile is laggy. Today I wanted to debug it, one of the best way to debug this is to check if something is making use of system resources when it should not.Running...
View ArticleMoving on
I joined Bluesystems GmbH in August 2015, over the course of ~6 years I had opportunity to work in some of most exciting projects (in no particular order).KDE Plasma Mobile and...
View ArticleWalled gardens
Just yesterday someone joined in Plasma Mobile matrix room, asking for help and support for developing a native Signal client.The post was immediately responded by some of my fellow developers with the...
View ArticleUpdating system right way
I was arguing discussing earlier today with some community members what is best practice regarding the updating systems.There are two approaches to this,Updating system with software center provided by...
View ArticleRC3 interesting talks - part 2
This is follow up to the initial post about the talks I found interesting in rc3, there are some more talks from schedule I found interesting to watch.Rage against machine learningWe experience machine...
View ArticleRC3 interesting talks - part 1
I did not manage to get a ticket for RC3, or well in other words totally forgot about it when tickets were available. It is possible to still watch talks through media.ccc.de.There are some talks I...
View ArticleChess and KDE
Chess players in KDE communitySome of us have started a KDE community chess players team on the lichess.org. Mostly as a place to find people who are interested in chess and occasionally playing...
View ArticleBlog housekeeping and stuff
So today I did some housekeeping on my blog,Moving it to new server, old server was based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, which is quite old now (I still get security updates, but some packages are quite...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile as Daily Driver on PinePhone
Last week I was in Bluesystems GmbH meeting in Germany, almost 7000 km away from home. While one would hope that this journey is smooth, of-course this was not case for my journey. I missed my phone in...
View ArticleKeysmith v0.1 release
I am happy to announce the v0.1 release of the keysmith.Keysmith is Two-factor code generator for Plasma Mobile and Desktop.You can get first release from...
View ArticleAkademy 2019 recap
Akademy 2019 was hosted in the Milan, Italy. I had opportunity to attend the event and meet the other KDE developers, designers and users.TalksThere were many interesting talks, including use of...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile at Plasma Sprint Valencia
In June month we gathered in Slimbook’s offices to work on Plasma. Along with Plasma developers, we were also joined by KDE Usability and Productivity team.During the sprint I mostly worked to create...
View ArticleFind your way to Plasma Mobile
Find your own way to help develop Plasma MobileThe Plasma Mobile project was started by the KDE community with the goal of becoming a free, user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile on open devices
Plasma Mobile reference images are based on halium, which uses the propietary binary blobs to make use of phone hardware. This requires the libhybris which allows us to use bionic based binary blobs in...
View ArticleHow do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 2)
The first part of this series focused on testing Plasma Mobile on virtual machine and/or on a PC/laptop. In this second part we will focus on testing Plasma Mobile on actual mobile devices.Currently...
View ArticleHow do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 1)
Last week we asked the Free Software community what they wanted to do to help us move forward with Plasma Mobile. These were the results from the poll on Twitter:And this was what the poll on Google+...
View ArticleHow to emulate Plasma Mobile on your machine with qemu
If you want to develop for Plasma Mobile, but you don’t have a Mobile device, it is useful to emulate a Plasma Mobile on your desktop or laptop. Earlier this was not documented and has been asked...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile in Randa(aaaaaaaa)
Last week I had a chance to attend the Randa meetings 2017, my plan was to work on the Plasma Mobile during the sprint, improve the state of current images. A few things changed over the course of the...
View ArticleAkademy 2017 - Recap
Last month I had opportunity to visit the Almería, Spain for Akademy 2017. Akademy 2017 is KDE’s annual world summit. Akademy makes it possible to meet the felow KDE contributors, some of whom you only...
View ArticleNeon CI was down, Why?
This post is public service announcement regarding the KDE Neon infrastructure.Earlier we KDE neon developers decided that we should build the armhf and/or arm64 packages on Neon CI itself instead of...
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