I love kde and it is what i use but still having the bug from time to time that the panels dissapear and have to relaunch plasmashell, also i wish they merged the virtual desktops and activities into one concept and allowed different wallpapers on each.

The theme settings is also confusing because of gtk apps, global theme etc. Feels everything around theming could be made nicer.

Prob some more nitpicks but overall it is a really great desktop environment.

> I love kde and it is what i use but still having the bug from time to time that the panels dissapear and have to relaunch plasmashell

I have that too, on Wayland. I also had a bug I mentioned recently in another comment with transparent terminals flickering, but that seems to depend on what is behind them and I think is a bug specific to Konsole.

Overall, its very close compared to a few years ago when several things were problematic with Wayland, but I do slightly feel its not quite there yet.

> i wish they merged the virtual desktops and activities into one concept and allowed different wallpapers on each.

> Prob some more nitpicks but overall it is a really great desktop environment.

I agree with both those.

Does the author feel the same way of running the models locally?

Trying not to sound too cold, he seemed like a very nice guy and i did not know him. It was not surprising for me. I remember seeing interview with him when he took things very personal and could not let things go some year back. Thought at that time that he was at high risk of suicide. He seemed to have a self loathing personality / depression and obsessive behaviors.

Staying on the Internet and be dependent on it in some way financially working as a streamer with all the short form communication and negativity online. Together with cyber bullies etc. A lot of things creating a perfect storm for what seemed to be a sensitive and very nice guy. Easy to say that his family and real life friends should have seen it too and make him change path but in reality it is difficult. Especially since things that make it worse like sitting down and playing chess all day / night and not getting enough sleep, together with cyber bullies is also the things that you love, you earn money on and you have many of your friends there.

Recently got a iphone 16 pro to my mom. First thing i reacted on when opening the package was. Damm that is a thick phone. Compared to my S25 and older android phones i have the iphone 16 feel old and clunky, like from another era.

PCI DSS from 4.0 actually have something called customized approach for everything. If you can prove and the QSA agrees that you fullfill the goal of a requirement, you can be quite flexible. Example i am doing things like not using passwords at all and only passkeys, or only ssh keys protected by hardware security key etc. Together with agents trying to verify the devices connected are company owned and hardened in different ways. Your milage might vary depending on how good your auditor is but PCI DSS standard do have quite a bit of flexibility in it.

Presumably at some point in your environment you are doing MFA? Just not at every step?

Ie If someone broke into your office, opened computer, inserted the hardware security key, would they get in? Or is there something else non-physical going on? Like the initial login is password + security key, and you can demonstrate the ssh keys never leave the secured PCs etc.

It is not about MFA or not but to demonstrate the process is secure for the purpose.

It can be complicated but a example. TOTP that is very common used with passwords is regarded as MFA (tho most of the time software based on phone) but have many problems regardless

- many time replayable - can be intercepted - implementations look different - recovery code reuse problems etc.

On the other hand, using only passkeys dont have those problems but with passkeys, many times you cannot decide on what device a user have registrated the passkeys in a enterprise setting. example they could be apple passkeys, chrome passkeys, windows, hardware key(yubikey) etc and all of them behave different when it comes how they ex can be copied/ synced between users devices. So from where they can be used.

So for any authentication flow, you need to look at the full picture. What is the process when credentials are lost? How do user onboard etc.

Is a good entry point to say. We should use MFA or similar but the details matter.

It’s always interesting to hear other people’s approaches- Thanks for the insights!

I like the way IR remotes work for your aircon. Sending the full state every key press. Think it many times is a lot better then supporting PATCH.

Working at Google (and similar companies) seems to be such a chore is what i got from this article.

I do managing, coding, design, governance and overall what i call "improve the company" within my areas of expertise and context switching and commitments are the most challenging things. Need to be very disciplined and know the other areas are currently very stable and under control to carve out time for the other things. It is not impossible but it have to be very focused and the problem domain need to be quite good understood before jumping in. Example, writing a internal tool that in worst case get delayed for later is easier to start working on then being part of customer facing product development as all of a sudden i would need to jump into some urgent management tasks or overall just let the governance and long term company quality go down.

As a Swede living abroad this creates a headache when going back. When combined with swish needs a phone number but to get a phone number you need to have a registered address, etc.

This is a real and important problem: lots of countries have a System, like Vipps or WeChat Pay, which works brilliantly for local residents but is inaccessible to non-residents. Even if (as it sounds like in your case) you're a national but not a resident.

When do you need to pay with Swish and can't instead use a normal credit/debit card?

One example is flee markets, or different type of second hand. Christmas markets etc. Some do accept debit / credit cards but a lot is swish only.

For cards, depends on the bank. I know my bank at-least do send the card abroad to my current home and as long as i keep my digital authenticator ID (bank ID) i am able to access that, renew cards. Do most banking services etc.

I also managed to get a new bank authenticator by going to the embassy and get signed papers etc, however it took about 5 months or so if you don't have any cash that might become a issue. :)

Lots of smaller cafes or people running various stall style businesses only accept Swish, especially out the in more rural areas. I've been to a couple of smaller festivals where the only way to pay for a ticket at the 'door' was with Swish.

Plus of course any time you need to give money to an actual person and not a business.

Good luck getting a debit card without an address.

If you're living abroad and visiting you'd probably already have a debit card, no need to open a new one for a visit. This is only relevant for Swish because it's not something someone living outside of Sweden would likely already have.

The rely was to a Swede who lives abroad and comes back to visit Sweden.

Presumably they have cards they can bring with them on the trip that work in Sweden even though their address is outside Sweden?

I know when I travel abroad I just take and use my normal cards without a problem.

I'm also a Swede living abroad. I have signed up with Swish using a non-Swedish phone number (but with Swedish bank account), it works fine in most cases. I do have an address though, but not in Sweden.