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Missing the Point, PinePhone KDE Community Edition

16/11/202007/12/2020 Paul FLOSS, KDE, phones, plasma mobile, privacy

If you expect the PinePhone to match up to your current pocket supercomputer/surveillance device, you don’t get it.

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First 5 Things to Do After Booting Your KDE Slimbook II

05/03/201815/02/2019 Paul KDE, Plasma, Slimbook

You unboxed your KDE Slimbook II, posted the pics to Instagram, and logged into the desktop. What you are seeing

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The new and subtle Microsoft

19/11/201619/11/2016 Paul 0 Comments free software, linux, microsoft

Deep, deep, very deep inside me, I just hope all of this will turn out not to be true. Hopefully

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Snap! — Beyond teaching coding to would-be programmers

30/07/201602/02/2017 Paul 0 Comments coding, computer science, education, learning, scratch, Snap

Following on from our prior article and one more step in my lifelong (?) quest to rectify all the sillines

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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead

12/07/201629/08/2016 Paul 6 Comments arduino, blockly, children, education, programming, scratch, Snap

The people who make Scratch have migrated it to Flash. This is the most bonkers, hare-brained, backward idea they could

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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part III: Tom Carlos & Inkscape

07/06/201629/08/2016 Paul 0 Comments art, inkscape, vector graphics

In the final installment of this series we shift our focus away from FLOSS applications for creating bitmap graphics (in

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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part II: Evelyne Schulz & GIMP

31/05/201629/08/2016 Paul 1 Comment fantasy, gimp, krita, painting

When a Free Software evangelist is asked whether there is a free graphics program that can rival with the proprietary

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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part I: David Revoy & Krita

28/05/2016 Paul 1 Comment cartoon, krita, pepper&carrot, webcomic

The idea that Free Software has no decent design programs, and that it is impossible to produce quality art without

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Build Interactive Stories with Ren’Py

21/05/2016 Paul 1 Comment education, interactive novels, manga, presentations, ren'py

Storytelling is the cultural cornerstone of human civilization. If I were even more pedantic than I already am, I would

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Tailor-made Distros with SUSE Studio

11/05/2016 Paul 0 Comments customised, distributions, DIY, repositories, SUSE Studio

One of the things about Linux is it’s super-customisable. If you would like to go deeper than picking your desktop

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