Notices by Adrien Plazas (kekunplazas@mamot.fr)

@joojmachine @philn I can't find it on Flathub, do you have a reference to it? 😮

@philn No, IIUC from what Joannie says here, Orca relies on speech-dispatcher, I assume it has a Spiel plugin? I found plugins for Festival and Flite on Fedora. I tried the Flite one, which gave me barely better result than espeak. I'm trying to understand the state of TTS in general, but finding information isn't easy. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/378

In FLOSS projects we tend to accept to take responsibility for what we do, but we tend to reject responsibility for what we don't do, as if not doing it wasn't a choice, conscient or not. Choosing bit to work on something is still doing something, and we really need to learn to take responsibility for that. Collectively and individually. I am as responsible of the sore state of text-to-speech on FLOSS ecosystems like GNOME as everyone else.

I see many excited to attend FOSDEM and I'm super happy for you, but I'd like to ask you a favor: please wear a mask indoor at FOSDEM and in public transports. Protect yourself and others, stop the FOSDEM flu cult. You wanted to prove the organizers you're not accepting Jack Dorsey, please prove you're better than them by taking seriously the diseases they wont. I've seen enough friends and strangers become severely disabled or die from flu or covid, please refuse to take part in this. #fosdem

@Infoseepage @cheetah_spottycat Also it offers a higher video quality than the competition, unlimited screens, and it works even without an internet connection! What a bargain!

@ploum It's not Jews who are committing a genocide though, it's the state of Israel. Beware of not mixing the two.

Starting right now I'll try to use my Linux smartphone again (OnePlus 6 with postmarketOS and GNOME Shell) instead of my Android phone. Let's see how long it takes before I'm out of blood from all the papercuts this time.

I worked around the lack of night light support via the Bedtime Mode extension, that removes one of my main issues with it. 🙂️ The lack of camera support is the biggest remaining one.

You can tell when a UI is developed by someone who'se not used to that, just by looking at how the code is structured, how failures are handled, etc.

What I mean is in one case your code is procedural and communicate with another machine through an API, in case of error you can just bail out as it's part of your API, and in the other your code is event-driven and communicate with a user through a GUI, errors have to result into a working UI, even if that UI is just presenting an error message.

@joachim C'est pour @Attac ça. https://mamot.fr/@Attac/113707803529163537

I think Settings is my favorite GNOME app, and I'm not joking. Files is a close second.

GNOME Software received a brand new systemd-sysupdate plugin. That was one of the last pieces needed to complete the migration of GNOME OS from OSTree to systemd-sysupdate.
https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2024/12/20/a-systemd-sysupdate-plugin-for-gnome-software.html

J'en peux plus des péteux pétaradants, puants et polluants. Marre des mecs à moto monopolisant le moindre mètre carré. Leurs breu breu breu me font faire greu greu greu.

@ploum @couscous @sebsauvage Ma technique c'est de les écrire et ne jamais les publier.

@Dykecyclette Ah mais ça c'est tellement à ce marcher sur la tête, les gens ont peur des seules personnes qui font quelque chose pour les protéger. 😮💨 Désespérant.

@Dykecyclette J'ai retrouvé ce meme récemment d'ailleurs.

@hj @rnd Well of course the goal isn't to try to fit everything, we never tried to fit GNOME Builder or Evolution, e.g., it's still OK for apps to require larger screens when relevant.

Wow, je découvre tardivement que Montpellier propose depuis janvier dernier l'électricité gratuite à ses habitants·es ! 🤯

Ah non pardon, c'est uniquement pour les propriétaires de bagnoles électriques, les étudiants·es pourront continuer de se geler les miches dans leurs clapiers mal isolés faute de pouvoir payer la facture électrique des grille-pains qui sont supposés leur servir de chauffage.

Renaming the bus factor into the SUV factor would make it much more realistic and dreadful.