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KDE Snaps and life. Spirits are up, but I need a little help please

I was just released from the hospital after a 3 day stay for my ( hopefully ) last surgery. There was concern with massive blood loss and low heart rate. I have stabilized and have come home. Unfortunately, they had to prescribe many medications this round and they are extremely expensive and used up all my funds. I need gas money to get to my post-op doctors appointments, and food would be cool. I would appreciate any help, even just a dollar! I am already back to work, and continued work on the crashy KDE snaps in a non KDE env. ( Also affects anyone using kde-neon extensions such as FreeCAD) I hope to have a fix in the next day or so. Fixed kate bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503285 Thanks for stopping by.

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KDE Applications 25.04 Snaps and Kubuntu Plucky Puffin 25.04 Released!

Very busy releasetastic week! The versions being the same is a complete coincidence 😆 https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0 Which can be downloaded here: https://snapcraft.io/publisher/kde ! In addition to all the regular testing I am testing our snaps in a non KDE environment, so far it is not looking good in Xubuntu. We have kernel/glibc crashes on startup for some and for file open for others. I am working on a hopeful fix. Next week I will have ( I hope ) my final surgery. If you can spare any change to help bring me over the finish line, I will be forever grateful 🙂

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KDE Snap Updates, Kubuntu Updates, More life updates!

Life: Last week we were enjoying springtime, this week winter has made a comeback! Good news on the broken arm front, the infection is gone, so they can finally deal with the broken issue again. I will have a less invasive surgery April 25th to pull the bones back together so they can properly knit back together! If you can spare any change please consider a donation to my continued healing and recovery, or just support my work 🙂 Kubuntu: While testing Beta I came across some crashy apps ( Namely PIM ) due to apparmor. I have uploaded fixed profiles for kmail, akregator, akonadiconsole, konqueror, tellico KDE Snaps: Added sctp support in Qt https://invent.kde.org/neon/snap-packaging/kde-qt6-core-sdk/-/commit/bbcb1dc39044b930ab718c8ffabfa20ccd2b0f75 This will allow me to finish a pyside6 snap and fix FreeCAD build. Changed build type to Release in the kf6-core24-sdk which will reduce the size of kf6-core24 significantly. Fixed a few startup errors in kf5-core24 and kf6-core24 snapcraft-desktop-integration. Soumyadeep fixed wayland icons in https://invent.kde.org/neon/snap-packaging/kf6-core-sdk/-/merge_requests/3 KDE Applications 25.03.90 RC released to –candidate ( I know it says 24.12.3, version won’t be updated until 25.04.0 release ) Kasts core24 fixed in –candidate Kate now core24 with Breeze theme! –candidate Neochat: Fixed missing QML and 25.04 dependencies in –candidate Kdenlive now with Galxnimate animations! –candidate Digikam 8.6.0 now with scanner support in –stable Kstars 3.7.6 released to –stable for realz, removed store rejected plugs. Thanks for stopping by!

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KDE Snap updates, Kubuntu Beta testing, Life updates!

Help us Beta test Kubuntu Plucky Puffin! Kubuntu work: Fixed an issue in apparmor preventing QT6 webengine applications from starting. Beta testing! KDE Snaps: Updated Qt6 to 6.8.2 Updated Kf6 6.11.0 Rolling out 25.04 RC applications! You can find them in the –candidate channel! Life: I have decided to strike out on my own. I can’t take any more rejections! Honestly, I don’t blame them, I wouldn’t want a one armed engineer either. However, I have persevered and accomplished quite a bit with my one arm! So I have decided to take a leap of faith and with your support for open source work and a resurrected side gig of web development I will survive. If you can help sponsor my work, anything at all, even a dollar! I would be eternally grateful. I have several methods to do so: If you want your cool application packaged in a variety of formats please contact me! If you want focused help with an annoying bug, please contact me! Contact me for any and all kinds of help, if I can’t do it, I will say so. Do you need web work? Someone to maintain your website? I can do that too! Portfolio Thank you all for your support in this new adventure!

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KDE snaps fixed, Thank you for your support

Thank you everyone for keeping the lights on for a bit longer. KDE snaps have been restored. I also released 24.12.3! In addition, I have moved “most” snaps to core24. The remaining snaps need newer qt6/kf6, which is a WIP. “The Bad luck girl” has been hit once again with another loss, so with that, I will be reducing my hours on snaps while I consider my options for my future. I am still around, just a bit less. Thanks again everyone, if you can get me through one more ( lingering broken arm ) surgery I would be forever grateful! https://gofund.me/d5d59582

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