Nicolas Fella

@nicofee@floss.social
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Award-winning Abyss Gazing Expert

Software Platform Engineer at KDE

Software Engineer at KDAB

he/him

Websitehttps://nicolasfella.de

bombardier: "our new train will be called 'talent' because it's very talented at transporting passengers!"
siemens: "very nice, we are naming our new train 'desiro', it is a desirable addition to an operator's fleet.
alstom: "mmh, so we have decided to –"

stadler, crashing through the door and tumbling through the room: "well *our* new train is called 'flirt' because trains are fuggin sexy and you prudes are just afraid to say it... i wanna kiss one so badd,,"

*silence, bombardier shoots an awkward glance to alstom*

stadler: "oh yeah we also have a bilevel version called kiss mmm look at that schakuuu"

@mogwai indeed, not the first phone problem I solved by scratching stuff out of holes
@portaloffreedom been there, done that

I noticed the microphone on my phone was no longer working. After doing some troubleshooting I managed to fix it by performing the extreme tech-savvy act of ... scratching the dirt out of the microphone hole.

I wonder how many people would have bought a new phone instead.

@TheEvilSkeleton I can relate.

On a positive note though, there are plenty of people who are appreciative. When I implemented sticky keys in Plasma Wayland I got a nice email from somebody who needs them thanking me for my work

The @kde team join us on the evening of Thursday 26th at the @ecosia_blog to talk about the #EndOf10 project and where Python is being used in #kde 🐍 🤗 ~ this event is Hybrid, so you can also join online 📺

Sign up: https://www.meetup.com/pyladies-berlin/events/307804604

Keeping your machine for longer is just one of the ways you can reduce electronic waste and do something good for the planet 🌍

#pyladies #python #community #linux

June Talk evening: KDE Opt Green - End of Windows 10, Thu, Jun 26, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Hi PyLadies Berlin! In this event, we will be talking about the end of Windows 10 and what that means for many people with Windows machines. We have three speakers from KDE

Meetup
@TheEvilSkeleton @aks all those people defending X11 for accessibility reasons surely cared very much about accessibility before, right? ... right?
@acciumred @kde Okular does implement the macOS accessibility APIs. While that in principle means it should be accessible there can of course be issues. Some of those issues might be specific to macOS, but most are likely also present on other platforms.
wtf, #Firefox just forgot all my open tabs and accounts on upgrade, but at least I got a slop generator a.k.a "AI Chatbot" for it?

@mikael there's a nightly build you can install via

flatpak install https://cdn.kde.org/flatpak/rsibreak-nightly/org.kde.rsibreak.flatpakref

See https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Flatpak#Nightly_KDE_apps

It's not on Flathub, not sure why, other than nobody having done the work to add it