686: Stop Desktop Slop
27 September 2026
KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.
Episode Links
- Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Jupiter Garage SWAG
- Going All-In on a Wayland Future
- KDE/kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop
- Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software Development
- KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE
- What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTube
- What Even is Ocean?
- Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgets
- StyleKit talk at Akademy 2026
- Framework Laptop 12
- KDE Linux at 2: what we’ve learned and how it can help you
- QA infrastructure in KDE
- KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?
- KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14th
- What’s Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and More
- This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync
- This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll
- This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
- KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure
- Framework’s Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guide
- systemd 262
- A review canary in systemd’s contributor instructions
- Linux Live Update documentation
- LUO userspace API
- memfd_create(2)
- FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages.
- fluxcast-flake
- JB Gulf Coast Meetup Room
- Nixarr — Media Server Nixos Module
- Nixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOS
- garage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments.
- Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser.
- Cliparr: Plex and Jellyfin providers
- Cliparr: local file or direct media URL
- Cliparr: export settings
- Cliparr: subtitles
- Mediabunny — A complete JavaScript media toolkit for the browser
- KyleTryon/gifenc: fast GIF encoding
- Pick: fdroidcl — A command-line F-Droid desktop client
- space-elevator — Space Elevator gets you to orbit. What you do up there is your business.