Kool Desktop Environment
KDE is not an acronym anymore, but back when it was only a DE and not a big FOSS dev organization, that's what it stood for
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I thought it was a self-referring acronym and stood for K Desktop Environment? Anyway it was a reference to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment of SUN, HP and a couple of other commercial Unices.
Kool
Nadella reminds me of an old style stamp.
KDE also has a pretty good VSCode alternative, KATE. You can actually disable the AI agent, takes up much less resources, only thing it lacks is a DAB plugin, which I'm working on the sides.
You can actually disable the AI agent
Kate has an AI agent now?
Been using it daily for years, never seen a hint of that. Maybe it's just because I haven't updated to the very latest version.
It's a plugin, and it's disabled by default even.
Guess that's why I haven't seen it then. Haven't touched the configuration since I first got it how I like it years ago.
I've been using Kate for something like decades and now you're telling me it's more than just a fancy text editor?
it's more than fancy, it's KDE's Advanced Text Editor. Otherwise that's Kfte
It's almost on par with VSCode nowadays, and that little loss of a few plugins worth it for the exchange of less resource usage, and not trying its best to force you to do vibe coding.
For some reason I thought Kate was just a CLI tool, more akin to vim than vscode. I was mistaken and this actually looks pretty awesome.
KATE does have a plugin, that allows you to use it in a similar fashion to Vi at least.
I really like kate, but i really miss a lot vscode plugins.
Damn, those arms are long.
Now that you say it...
EDIT: Checked out the video. It's an ex-dude/trans-woman. So I guess that explains the funny proportions.
Ex-dude is now my go-to when someone ask's me my gender. XDD
Recovering AMAB?
Open source presentation presenters not aurafarm challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
You cannot deny she is kool AF
How have sunglasses stayed cool this long?
Her vision is augmented.
Look at her neclas, now that's my definition of kool af!
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The virgin Microsoft Nutella vs the Gigathad KDE Fischer.
Long arms are long
She probably needs a looooonnng loooooonnnnnnnng jacket! πΆ
Her favorite candy:
And now I want sakeru, thanks lol
That is Victoria Fischer. This part of the video is fun,
Customer Case: Mercedes-Benz with Victoria Fischer | #QtWS23
I know many of the KDE devs pronounce kwin as "quin" but to me it will always be "Kay-Win"
Agreed!
this is the way
thanks for timestamp, at this point Lemmy is much better than Reddit see by yourself same meme: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1r2ew81/vibe_check/
lol that was fun
I'll always watch a presentation from a purple-haired cyberpunk over some bizbro with an array of asshole-shaped logos behind him.
(Actually, her presentation about using Qt in a car UI went way over my head, so I only watched a few minutes of it. But I'm watching exactly zero minutes of anything Nadella says nowadays.)
Who's the badass with the glasses? I want her to tell me "I don't give a fuck", but we all know she secretly does.
Victoria Fisher or Victoria Fierce, called differently in different places online, I think that Fierce is more current.
Screenshot from this talk in her role at Mercedes:
Whole Lee crap! I'm a typical cis-het dude, and while I'm less physically attracted to her without the glasses, I am so much more intellectually attracted to her after that protocol talk!
She is such a badass, and obviously does not secretly care, she is openly passionate! And that's pretty dope.
Points for correctly spelling Microslop
Cute!
Woah that's some crazy drip
I love them. I should donate again. I use even more software from them now.
Microsoft has been real quiet ever since this drip dropped.
she look so fucking rad
Whoever she is, she is very cool
Slay
you go girl!
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