For anyone who has wallpaper engine on windows and uses kde this is really cool, it plays the wallpapers from your steam directory. You can used the workshop in steam to browse and subscribe for more wallpapers.
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kdiskmark
- Test I/O speed for your HDD and SSD
- Create reports
FOSS tool very similar to infamous Crystal Disk Mark.
GitHub
Available in our repos 
sudo pacman -S kdiskmark
P.S. Comes handy in combination with SMART analysis to check your disk health, inspired by disks coming my way 
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Minder is a mind-mapping application and, as far as I know, itâs the only decent app for Linux (unless you prefer the browser ones).
Although itâs in the official repo, it hasnât been updated since February. Maybe the maintainer abandoned it (?). So it might not work for now, unless you build it yourself.
It was built on April 1st so I would think it would work fine.(Apparently it is broken)
The latest version was released on April 15th hasnât been packaged yet but that isnât completely unreasonable by any means.
On the repo thereâs the 1.12.0 version. This version doesnât work anymore on non-elementary distros (it crashes upon opening). The 1.12.1 fixed that (as it says) on April 16th. Now itâs on 1.12.2.
So, someone that wants it, should wait or build it himself
Maybe the abandoned part was too harsh to say and Iâm sorry. I just thought (falsely as it seems) that the packages on the community repo get updated more quickly (by their maintainers).
On average, they do get updated very quickly but maintainers have lives too and sometimes things can hang behind. Also, packages can become orphaned but when that happens they are eventually dropped to AUR unless another maintainer picks them up.
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out-of-date is the term in AUR terminology. it describes the current situation perfectly.
A package can be flagged as out of date directly on its AUR page. It serves as a notification both for the package maintainer and the community that the package needs intervention.
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In this case, it isnât an AUR package, it is in the repos. Of course, the same is still true, repo packages can be flagged out of date and this package was flagged a few weeks ago.
Blanket: a little app for listening to ambient sounds. I listen to this nonstop as Iâm working, and I love that you can add your own sounds to the library (I add my favorite ASMR soundtracks).
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I picked up something from Linux magazine, that I certainly hadnât known of! The app is called kinto.sh - found at:
https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto - I donât see it on the AUR yet.
This is sort of a reverse keymapper - if you run VMs of Mac or Windows you can map your keyboard to the needs of the VM system. You should be able to use the same shortcuts on all your setups. I understand itâs Python based - so if it sounds good - give it a look.
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I will take a look.
Enjoy! And, welcome to the other (simpler) great take on Arch - or as we call it, the purple sideâŚ
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I am staying with Garuda just wanted to see whatâs up.
I stay with both - but I donât game (in the Garuda sense) so I just enjoy the other things it does wellâŚ
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I Think I will install it on my RPI4b 8gb ram model
For DuckieTV you want to be running the nightly build and not the 1.1.5 version. There are tons of updates in the nightlies that have not been put into the mainline version (no idea why). Iâll usually check the nightlies every couple of months to update it (or when something stops working).
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Thanks for the tip! I will check it out.
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Min: âBrowse without distractions, Fast and efficientâ
There are times when I donât feel I would like to load entire modern browsers for a quick offhand websearch and this suits perfectly there
https://minbrowser.org
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Obsidian: âpowerful knowledge base that works on top of
a local folder of plain text Markdown files.â
Numerous plugins, (hyper)linking notes being the core point, and graph view
Although not open source, itâs free for non-commercial usage.
https://obsidian.md
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Noisetorch - âcreates a virtual microphone that suppresses noise, in any application.â
Uses an AI model trained to reduce most noises and focus on actual voice
https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch
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Slidev - Presentation Slides for Developers
although a npm package itâs really cool. Markdown-based slides creation, themes, and vue components.
https://sli.dev
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I really am interested in using the slidev package that @ceph pointed out. After installing though, I am finding it less than intuitive. It is very much like hugo for making websites⌠They are beautiful static objects that use markdown but I find the structures that they use quite difficult. Strange because I use markdown all the time but this hugo/slidev approach requires a change in thinking and I feel I am just not getting something basic, a switch in my brain has not flipped yet.
Does anyone know of good ways to learn this (I have gone through tutorials and on youtube). Preferably, is there some experience you can offer from when you first used tools like these that allowed you to get going efficiently?
I use Hugo for my personal webpage too.
I just write something and go back and look at the output to see whether I did it just as I thought, else tinker with it again and again. I just think this is more than enough in most learning methods. Fortunately, they are just markdown files here and not kernels or driversâ
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