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Hi everyone. I'm launching Linguist Translate, an open-source, full-featured translation solution with an embedded offline translator based on the Bergamot Project created by Mozilla.

Site: https://linguister.io

GitHub: https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist

Today, Linguist is launched on ProductHunt. Support the project who really care about privacy: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linguist-translate

Linguist is not just a wrapper over Google Translator like many other extensions. You can use any translation service with Linguist, thanks to custom translators! You may even deploy any machine translation (like LibreTranslate) on your localhost and then add this service to Linguist.

All features are included: text translation, full-page translation, selected text translation, Text-To-Speech, dictionary, history, and even more.

3 months-old video, but still interesting

tl;dr this allows one to link Pipewire filter chains (such as EQ) to specific devices automatically. Useful for system-wide EQ, noise filters etc, especially multiple filters together. In particular, it all happens transparently so you can just connect to your normal hardware output and it should just work.

You could already do this manually with some work, but this should be simpler and more robust. I suspect this will help with the Steam Deck too, which uses some filters to correct the built-in speakers, and this has caused bugs at times.

For example, I saw a post the other day detailing how to set up a Brother laser printer on Kinoite. That's not something I would have initially considered a potential problem to be solved. Another I ran into some years ago had to do with an Edimax WiFi dongle that used some weirdly specific Realtek 8812 radio, for which you had to set up the driver via dkms. A little prep and knowledge in advance would have saved days of searching online.

I've started a personal to-do list of things to research and make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I make the full-time switch on my main desktop, so besides the usual "back up your files" advice, I'm hoping y'all can point out some QoL things I and others may often miss!

With the recently released KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, those still relying on old Intel integrated graphics should have a much more pleasant experience thanks to improvements made to the KWin compositor. For very old Intel integrated graphics, it can effectively be a night and day difference upgrading to the new Plasma 6.1 desktop.

KWin lead developer Xaver Hugl is out with a new blog post about the improved KDE Plasma desktop performance as of Plasma 6.1, which can be especially noticeable with old integrated graphics hardware such as the common Intel graphics in aging laptops. The biggest improvement to bettering the KDE Plasma desktop graphics performance is thanks to dynamic triple buffering support.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716

This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS.

⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself.

📬 Help / Discussions

There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS.

Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21361730

Hello, I came across zram recently and I'd like to know if I should use it, my laptop only has ~4GB of ram, and for the most part it'll only stutter when I open multiple programs or a game, so would zram be adequate in my case?

Also, would the compressing and decompressing have a significant impact on my cpu?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10865477

The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

Hello,

I'm taking Japanese lessons online and I need to communicate with my tutor in Japanese via chat.

I've set my keyboard layouts in the KDE settings as English US, French Canadian and Japanese (default). But when I switch to Japanese, I still have an English US layout when I type.

I was expecting it to be more like in Windows where you can switch between Standard alphabet (Romaji), Hiragana and Katakana with a kind of an auto complete.

Am I doing something wrong?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/17906935

Part one: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/05/18/hdr-and-color-management-in-kwin.html

Part two: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr-and-colormanagement-in-plasma.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16909912

Chromium has had experimental support for Wayland for some time, and is moving towards stabilizing it. Let's take a look at how we got to where we are now, and at what's still missing before it can be stabilized.

Slides available at:

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-journey-towards-stabilizing-chromium-s-wayland-support/269744362

Web Engines Hackfest 2024

https://webengineshackfest.org/2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16873587

A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It'll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.run/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/510158

Leap 15.6 install media were refreshed to address an issue with old secure boot signing key for ppc64le and s390x.

Refreshed images from Leap 15.6 Build 710.3 are already available for download at get.opensuse.org. So now you can enjoy installation with secure boot on more exotic architectures.

Happy Hacking!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16856929

This is an article I wrote. Sorry mods if it is not allowed I checked the sidebar rules, and closest was no ads, and I do not know if this qualifies for that (I do not have ads or analytics on the page)