Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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Software Engineer. Linux systems aficionado and developer in Fedora, CentOS, Mageia, and openSUSE. Ex Red Hat, Inc. Ex Datto, Inc. Views are my own.

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2026-04-24 12:58:23 UTC

So in the first episode of the Detective Conan "Desperate Revival" arc, Ai is using a computer with the Atari logo. It doesn't match any machine I know of. Do any #retrocomputing folks somewhat recognize it or is it totally made up?
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2026-04-14 13:02:13 UTC

The CFP is now open for #FOSSY2026 through April 30, and #CampKDE will be part of FOSSY this year! If you're coming to FOSSY and would like to speak about KDE things, consider proposing a talk!
https://2026.fossy.ca/call-for-proposals/

2026-04-14 11:59:05 UTC

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Do they call the mailbox the postbox there too? I know that a major difference in British English is that mailboxes are called postboxes instead. So the usage of "mail" as the conventional way to describe letter delivery really only started with email there.

2026-03-25 02:54:32 UTC

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Is it even possible at this point for it to become "economically unviable"? I would love for that to happen, but the worst outcome is that the companies that are pure-play AI fail, but all the biggest players are *not* pure-play AI companies. So I don't think that is even *possible*.

2026-03-23 01:23:35 UTC

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Seemingly enough that @npub1p8f…tcuc got denied his global upgrade certificate upgrade for his flight to Amsterdam on his way to Luxembourg for #UndoneCS... 😅

2026-03-17 19:53:37 UTC

Some excellent news today! #GRUB has moved to #FreeDesktop and has adopted contemporary/modern contribution workflows leveraging the GitLab instance hosted there.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gnu-grub/grub/

2026-02-18 21:39:01 UTC

Hey folks, @npub1ncy…3x0q #Plasma 6.6 is out the door now, so now is a good time to stream and chat! And maybe do some #opensource stuff and games too!
https://twitch.tv/Det_Conan_Kudo
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2026-02-16 23:41:55 UTC

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I've previously given a couple more detailed answers, and rather than repeating myself, I'll link to them:
- https://social.gompa.me/@neal/115936472363035418
- https://social.gompa.me/@neal/116080720332045765
The addition of PLM now means KDE has three officially supported options for the display manager: PLM, SDDM, and LightDM (with the KDE Greeter). Two of the three work fine in non-systemd environments.
PLM is intended to take advantage of interfaces currently only provided by systemd to enhance the experience.

2026-02-16 14:13:45 UTC

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What is a "pure KDE" system? Pretty much everyone has been using SDDM for ten years now. SDDM is even maintained by someone who is also a KDE contributor. And we have a LightDM greeter maintained by a different KDE contributor.
So if you want a "pure KDE" system (which I guess means maximizing components from the KDE project?), then use the LightDM KDE greeter.
Or just keep using SDDM. The Plasma integrations are still maintained and developed.

2026-02-14 12:48:49 UTC

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No, I hadn't seen that. Oof. Why are these airlines squeezing everyone like this?
At least WestJet walked back that crazy idea: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-seats-decision-9.7014001

2026-02-13 19:23:26 UTC

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The incident last year with the strikes (and the *reason* for the strikes) has made me a lot less willing to consider Air Canada. While WestJet isn't at the scale of Air Canada, at least they seem to care a bit more about their people... Alas, I don't usually have an opportunity to fly them since they don't connect that much to the eastern US anymore.

2026-02-13 19:21:42 UTC

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Oof! How long the layover?

2026-02-13 18:27:56 UTC

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Going around the world a couple of times, I guess? 😮

2026-02-12 13:01:18 UTC

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The Fedora server yesterday hit some issues, I think @npub1e9h…8k68 wound up contacting EMS to deal with them.

2026-01-22 16:07:24 UTC

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That's fantastic! I've got many friends in the FreeBSD space (especially @npub10fy…xyrh who is 💯) and I want to see KDE Plasma be the premier experience for BSDs.
(Don't tell anyone, but I occasionally fool around with FreeBSD for funsies! 😜)
FreeBSD has come a long way... I can easily get something up that works, which is way better than back when I first tried it over a decade ago. Y'all are doing awesome work!
Still would like a SimpleDRM equivalent though. 😉

2026-01-22 14:00:10 UTC

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The larger problem we have is that when we (KDE) ask for help for supporting the alternate paths, nobody steps up to help. If nobody shows up, what are we supposed to do?
The DrKonqi situation happened because nobody showed up when @npub10we…rgef reached out and asked for assistance to solve this for those.
Supporting these codepaths isn't free. It requires expertise, maintainership, and continuous productive feedback to keep things working. We want to, but we can't do it alone!

2026-01-22 02:49:36 UTC

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KDE Plasma has two login managers in dominant use:
* SDDM
* LightDM
Plasma Login Manager was forked from SDDM to offer a more integrated option leveraging systemd and Plasma features, but @npub1ncy…3x0q (as a project) still supports SDDM (and continues to develop its SDDM integrations) for non-systemd OSes, and the LightDM KDE Greeter also exists as well (though it's not commonly used).
We want to continue supporting our BSD friends if they can help us in doing so. KDE ❤️ FreeBSD.

2026-01-16 22:59:26 UTC

In case you missed it, the @npub1vy0…tf2x is BACK with a new cohort of hosts! Bill Schouten, @npub1zw8…p8z6, and I kick off the new year by talking about the most important topic in the #business of #opensource: building your #Linux career!
#SudoShow #podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWhucExtISI

2026-01-03 15:19:20 UTC

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Ah, I guess Radeon Pro GPUs would be out of the question then due to pricing? That does kind of leave you with few options.

2026-01-03 15:05:12 UTC

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I'm surprised you didn't go for something like the Intel Arc GPUs? I think those work now on AArch64, and the experience with using it for encoding is way nicer...

2025-12-30 13:22:59 UTC

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Have you looked at what it would take to do this on KDE Plasma? I feel like it should be somewhat easier given the more comprehensive APIs and tools available (e.g. kdotool).

2025-12-27 15:50:59 UTC

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A good person to reach out to would be @npub154c…494f, since Garage is written in Rust.

2025-12-27 15:20:23 UTC

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I wish `garage` was packaged in Fedora. Then I would use it for stuff myself.

2025-12-14 23:56:50 UTC

Hey folks, it's been a while, but I'm going to go live streaming momentarily doing some #fedora stuff and chatting!
Feel free to join in the fun!
https://twitch.tv/Det_Conan_Kudo

2025-12-01 17:13:13 UTC

I donated to @npub1ncy…3x0q just a little more this year because of how much I appreciate the software I use every day. Especially #Elisa, the music app that made me love music apps again for the first time since I was able to use #Banshee.
If you appreciate #KDE, you can donate too: https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/
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2025-11-02 16:17:03 UTC

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Most of the humanities work this way. Writing, art, and music have been like this forever. It's been somewhat rare in scientific fields because of the cost of participation, but humanities and "social sciences" have worked that way for decades.

2025-09-14 17:55:45 UTC

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Have you given @npub1hpw…cd0d @npub1ncy…3x0q a try yet? I am a fan of Emacs as well, though I don't use it that much anymore. These days I do my stuff primarily in Kwrite for non-programming, Kate for programming, and nano for quick edits in the terminal.
https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

2025-06-26 11:09:26 UTC

Today at #oSC25, a great introduction into @npub1vlf…gg0m to @npub1djg…3wvl by @npub1p2j…388q !
https://cdn.masto.host/socialgompame/media_attachments/files/114/749/346/554/990/817/original/ba574de594cf0d9a.jpg

2025-06-25 15:17:42 UTC

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The other case was mentioned fairly early on is Fedora KDE (and Fedora Asahi) support for x86 emulation for non-x86 platforms (currently ARM, but could be expanded in the future). I don't think many people paid much attention to that, but it's a big Fedora-internal use-case.

2025-06-24 08:53:05 UTC

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Honestly, this just sounds like "hey attacking people's egos makes them do dumb things", which seems obvious to me?

2025-06-20 11:23:10 UTC

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At least for KDE Plasma, we've had accessibility features added in Plasma Wayland every release since 6.0.
- 6.0: colorblindness filters, shake cursor
- 6.1: bounce keys
- 6.2: visual system bell, sticky keys
- 6.3: pixel perfect magnification
- Upcoming in 6.4: mouse keys, Orca 48 a11y keybinding support (so far)
We've made it a central part of KDE development and much of this has been leveraging capabilities that are only available in Plasma Wayland to do correctly.

2025-06-20 09:40:24 UTC

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I actually had backported it to Plasma 6.3 in Fedora shortly after Fedora 42 released so it was also in place in Fedora KDE Plasma since we had Orca 48 too.

2025-06-05 07:47:09 UTC

Another year, another turn, and another card put into play... 🎂

2025-06-05 07:28:52 UTC

The new @npub1hpw…cd0d project leader has been anointed! #flocktofedora2025
Welcome @npub1tuc…5u9r (back) to Fedora!
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2025-05-25 11:54:24 UTC

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The rule GrapheneOS sets for themselves is stupid. Cribbing the AOSP rules (which were deliberately made keeping in mind that Google can throw people at the problem) is wildly inappropriate for an open source project that doesn't have the same baggage Google has.