4kW CO2, Jesus xD. I don’t know if that is a lot, but sure sounds like it ^^

I’m happy I even got to work with some CO2 lasers around the 100W mark at a rapid prototyping workshop for a few years. I loved working with those, even if it was just on wood and acrylic (and they constantly needed recalibration and tuning).

Now I just sit at a computer all the time… I honestly miss that even just slightly more hands-on work ^^

I’ve seen the xTool MetalFab laser cutter/welder thingy pop up in some DIY and metalworking YouTube channels somewhat recently and it seems wild to me that you can reasonably just buy a machine like that for non-astronomical (for an individual) prices nowadays. I mean, it I assume it probably can’t compete with actual industrial machines but still, the fact that this is even feasible for a home workshop… I have absolutely no use for it but I really want one anyway, these things are so cool >_<

Oh, I am already on Plasma 6.7, it updated to that maybe around a week ago or so! That long press is at least more streamlined that the Compose key, so that’s something! Good to know, thank you a bunch, I didn’t know about that feature :)

I have the original Halo75 (not the V2) which sadly doesn’t support QMK/VIA yet. I remember there was some dedicated app to configure the keyboard (NuPhy Console maybe?) but I don’t know if it’s worth trying to get that to work on Linux and that seems to be basically abandoned/obsolete

Thank you for your answer!

1. I had already tried that before but forgot to mention it, in Mac mode it flips the function/media key behavior as expected; in Windows mode, it does nothing (the function keys still always act like media keys, no matter what)
2. Not quite sure what that would do, maybe I’m misunderstanding you, that seems to just type the angle brackets that are on the layout in Windows mode and nothing in Mac mode
3. I just tried that, and while it does work, it is very unintuitive to me (instead of just Alt+Q to get an ä, it’s now <Compose>, followed by Shift+’ to get a double quote, and then a/o/u to get the umlaut. That would be suboptimal for me at best, but I’ll keep it in mind as a backup solution

I’ll keep looking for and trying some more options :)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but, regarding the first point, in what way are the calendar clients proprietary? Unless I am missing something, the clients for iOS and Android are open source and licensed under GPLv3 while the desktop client (part of the mail app) appears to be licensed under AGPL v3.

The email system not working with Thunderbird etc. out-of-the-box is true but that is kind of understandable, considering that the emails are only stored and transmitted to the first-party clients in an encrypted form that other clients couldn’t work with? And you could use the mail bridge (which is also open source, if I am not mistaken) to expose them as a local server to be used by Thunderbird etc., right? Maybe not ideal but I’d agrue it’s “fine”.

I do agree that there are things to dislike about Proton but those two don’t seem like problems in my opinion…

Well, that was a painful watch. Constant overly dramatic music and sound effects, surprisingly little actual engineering talk, the same handful of B-roll shots and transitions over and over again, Shell executives patting themselves on the back. And the same “they had to turn to the past” for every challenge they encountered…

The editing felt like I was watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, not an engineering documentary.