Episode 686: Stop Desktop Slop

What this episode covers

KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years. Support Core Contributor 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 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.