In today's issue of "This Week in Plasma", Mr. Vader says...

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/21/this-week-in-plasma-time-zone-offsets-and-type-ahead-on-the-desktop/

#FreeSoftware #desktop #Plasma6 #OpenSource #RoundCorners

@Orca @ncopa it wouldn't really affect us. We have a few armhf device ports but as it turns out all of them with the exception of two, actually target armv7-capable devices, so they should be moved to armv7. The two remaining are the Pi0 and Pi1. (see my post about this somewhere else in this thread)

@socketwench @pabloyoyoista what hardware supported by pmOS would be deprecated by this change?

@ncopa on @postmarketOS side, I looked at the wiki for armhf devices that may be impacted by armhf dropping.

postmarketOS supports 28 armhf devices. Out of all 28 armhf devices, 26 are actually armv7 running an armhf kernel/userspace for legacy reasons, and should be moved to armv7. Out of these, only one runs a mainline kernel.

The remaining 2 are the RPi1 and zero.

I would like to drop armhf (armv6) support in #AlpineLinux. The only current hardware I am aware of that is armv6 is Raspberry Pi Zero series (EOL 2030). I don't think it is worth the extra effort to support both armhf (armv6) and armv7 at this point.

Do you think we should drop armhf to free up some resources?

@moses_izumi @elly I use exactly that laptop, EliteBook 8560w with its default GPU, the Quadro 2000M. It handles 3440x1440@60Hz .... I'd say, yes, but barely (thanks nvidia...), and you can forget about 4k playback or much gpu-accelerated things due to the gpu being just bad.

But other than that it's pretty fine, with a better gpu it should still withstand .. I'd say, 5-10 years :)

One thing people get wrong when considering anti-LLM policies is that they think it is unenforceable since you can't always tell if a contribution is AI-generated. This is true, but it is less about stopping any AI contribution, but warning people that if they try to sneak one in, it will be the last contribution they will ever make to the project. Its the same thing as enforcing a license. A MIT licensed project won't allow GPL contributions, but people can try sneaking them in anyways.

@distrowatch Glad to hear that :)

When impressed with postmarketOS on my PinePhone. It's been running smoothly for the past 46 days.

@elly I do all my things on a HP laptop from 2012, performance-wise, sure many other computers will be better, but it's really not like I need all that power. It can do most things I throw at it just fine.

And when I'm on the go and don't want to carry around my laptop, I use an even less powerful Samsung tablet. It can be used to do some light web browsing, IRC, and ssh so I can even ssh to my laptop at home to run more intensive things (waypipe also works just in case)

It's not necessarily about trends, it's about programmed obsolescence, because e.g. windows 11 no longer supports your computer, but in the FOSS world, some developers also write extremely slow and inefficient software, to then blame it on the hardware when it runs very slow (see: Element, gtk+libadwaita, etc). many people say that it's really just software moving on,

but I really don't understand why I would need a faster computer for the same usecases which years ago that very same computer would handle just fine. My usecases haven't really changed much in years at this point, so I don't get why performance/power requirements for them should change. Also, in this age of RAM sticks costing about the same as a full house, well, we can basically forget buying a new computer :)

But many people just buy something new and move on, repeat ad-nominem. And then they throw their old perfectly working computer away. Don't think anyone needs a reminder that the wrong ice is literally melting right now as I am writing this.

@UndeadLeech it could work on llvmpipe but won't be a good experience for sure.

@tulilirockz though I don't know why you also mentioned dwl? The folks at dwl are actually quite nice (and NOT from suckless, dwl is an independent thing).

dwm is the one from suckless.

@pmjv @mxk @tulilirockz I use bemenu but wofi also has screen reader support

@tragivictoria @tulilirockz systemd has issues for sure., but the main thing about suckless is the whole "apolitical" thing and also they once sent a spam mail to Lennart from a hostname that had a nazi reference in it.

Though, yes, being reactionary like this implies hating anything new like systemd/rust/wayland/etc (but that does not work the other way around). However, suckless is more than just that.

@tulilirockz @justsoup this has been going for years at this point.

The state of international law.

#InternationalLaw #WorldOrder

@UndeadLeech :\

@UndeadLeech How does it perform on PinePhone?