This outcome is welcome progress, but I get the sense that it’s only a drop in the bucket.

Bullying and intimidating people in other countries who openly contradict the CCP’s narrative seems widespread these days. From the news reports of unofficial Chinese “police stations” in North America, to youtube footage of US students speaking in support of an independent Hong Kong while Chinese students aggressively maneuver within inches of their faces while shouting threats, to the story in this post.

I hope this is a sign that we are finally taking action to stop it.

Or by people formerly paying for their internet service with money that should have been going toward food or heat.

Losing the $30 monthly discount could force families to choose between broadband and other necessities,

Exactly.

It’s also important to note that some ISPs created a low-cost service plan specifically for ACP. (It’s reasonable to assume this was possible in part because ACP handled income verification and eliminated the costs of individual billing and credit card payments.) That plan will likely disappear if ACP goes away, leaving poor people stuck paying a bill much higher than the program ever paid.

That’s as I expected; Thanks for confirming.

Unfortunately, that leaves out the kind of integration I was asking about (and the kind implied in this post), through existing Qt & KDE shared libraries and such.

CopperSpice might still be interesting for stand-alone projects written in C++, though, and I appreciate that you’re here engaging with the community.

I think you’re talking about migration from Qt to CopperSpipce, though, yes? I’m talking about integration with existing desktop environments. Making use of the themes that are already installed. Communicating with existing libraries via the existing interfaces. Are there any hitches to be aware of on that front?

And language bindings, for those of us who are trying to get away from writing in C++?

It’s an interesting project, but as a fork, I would be concerned about its compatibility with standard Qt & KDE libraries, widgets, and styles. Can you comment on that?

Also, what language bindings does it offer?

Yes, exactly. So a standard compiler can be used, making language bindings much cleaner, while the runtime functionality and library compatibility are preserved.

And then there’s DQt, which uses DLang’s compile-time function execution instead of the meta-object compiler.

Qt is a wonderful GUI toolkit, but new language bindings are notoriously difficult, since it depends not only on C++ (which itself is tricky to bind into other languages) but also the Qt meta-object compiler. Even so, some interesting projects have emerged on that front. For example:

Verdigris:

This (header-only) library can be used to create an application using Qt, without the need of the moc (MetaObject Compiler). It uses a different set of macro than Qt and templated constexpr code to generate the QMetaObject at compile-time. It is entirely binary compatible with Qt.

DQt:

DQt contains experimental bindings for using a subset of Qt with the D Programming Language. Qt is a library for writing cross-platform graphical user interfaces. Currently bindings exist for the Qt modules core, gui, widgets and webenginewidgets.

It would be nice to see the current trend of ever-increasing software bloat turn around in favor of better efficiency. Reducing our power consumption and replacing our hardware less frequently would definitely help the environment.

Next step: Submit your first patch. :)

Joke’s on them. Google locked me out of my account when I refused to give them my phone number.

Is it not enough to click the “X GiB free” text at the right of Dolphin’s status bar? Use the “More” option there to see / set up tools other than the defaults.

Maybe KDiskFree? I haven’t tried it.

This seems like a step in the right direction. Much like language translation, doing it on-device is the only way to preserve people’s data agency / privacy.

This seems like a good candidate for a bookmarklet that would append the (site:…) parts to an existing DuckDuckGo search result URL. Then you could just do a normal search followed by clicking the bookmarklet.

Did your wife go on social media to pick a fight by stereotyping and publicly scolding a large community of people, and justify it with an obviously false claim? I hope not, but if so, then I wish you the best of luck working through that together.

Be the change, homie.

When someone claims two obviously different things are exactly the same, pointing out that the comparison is idiotic is not combative, homie.

Edit: More to the point, defending one’s community by pointing out the idiocy of an attack is not combative.

You might not be paying for software in money but you’re going to pay for it, one way or another.

Indeed. As I hinted in my comment, and stated more clearly in another one.

You should just learn Chinese.

That’s disingenuous. I wasn’t complaining about English not serving me well, now was I?

Also, once again, mountains vs. molehills.

The difference here is mountains vs. molehills.

And in most cases, they obviously do have sufficient ability to learn how, because they were able to learn the commercial software they’re currently using.

As for time, yes, learning always takes time. (Thus my comparison to learning a new commute.) But suggesting that someone learn something new is not stupid or unreasonable, especially if the thing they currently use is not serving them well.

• In response to that paragraph you added after I replied:

I don’t know why you would think that cherry-picked and extremely specific scenario is somehow representative of the general subject we’re discussing. Of course situations exist where learning alternative software isn’t the best answer. That doesn’t make it wrong for people to suggest the alternatives. Quite often, they’re perfectly viable, and it’s perfectly reasonable to try to help by making someone aware of them.

is exactly like saying “why don’t you just buy a house?” to someone complaining about their landlord.

What an idiotic comparison.

Buying a house costs so much money and time that most people cannot afford to, and those who can generally must go into debt for most of their remaining lives in order to do so. Suggesting FOSS to replace “whatever commercial software they use” is the polar opposite, in that it’s literally free (usually in both senses of the word). It’s more like suggesting that someone consider a new route to commute from home to work.

Also, this opening…

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people

…is incredibly reductive and combative. The world needs less of that, not more.

A spin-off of this research is the company Lumetallix that Helmbrecht and Noorduin are setting up together with Jeroen van den Bosch with the recent addition of Xander Terpstra (CCO). With AMOLF, they jointly hold an international patent on the process and development of a universal test kit. This is both affordable and easy to use for everybody who wants to know whether lead is present in the living environment. The test kits can be ordered via the website.