GNOME Desktop/GTK and GUADEC Leftovers
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This Week in GNOME/Felix Häcker: #110 Nailing Down Perfomance Issues
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 18 to August 25.
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Sriyansh Shivam: My first conference: GUADEC 2023
In this blog, I'll be sharing my experience attending GUADEC 2023 in person held in Riga, Latvia from 26th July 2023 to 31st July 2023.
24th July 2023
Last month, when I woke up on this date, I was still unsure whether I'd be able to attend GUADEC in person because of the visa process, I was supposed to have my visa received on July 24th, but I wanted to attend GUADEC because it would be my first conference I'd ever attended. So I decided to go to my courier's office to pick up my visa, which was already at a local courier depot. When I opened it, I was overjoyed to see that my visa had been approved. Following this, I began contacting Melissa; she was so supportive that I received my flight tickets and accommodation details the same day, even though she was traveling herself. I flew from Pune to Delhi at midnight, then from Delhi to Helsinki and then from Helsinki to Riga. To be honest, I was also looking forward to the travel experience as well because it was my first international journey. I had a great time taking pictures on the way and arrived in Riga on the evening of July 25th. Melissa if you're reading this thank you again :)
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Adrien Plazas: One Device to Do it All
In this article I’ll present how I used to organize myself, mainly using my smartphone for that, and why and how I started changing this.
Dependency
On January 1st 2023 at 00:30, my Android smartphone died, and it made me realize how dependent on that device I was. I used it for many aspects of my life: to stay organized, to be informed, to be entertained, or to move around.
Luckily, at that time I was working for Purism and I had a Librem 5, that was the perfect opportunity to try it out in real conditions, as the device I depend on. I started by listing all I used my previous smartphone for, and tried to fulfill the same needs with the Librem 5. It didn’t go well. The device has some great upsides and interesting features, for sure, but the Linux smartphone ecosystem was very far from something I can depend on, especially given how much I was asking from my smartphone.
I ordered a new smartphone in mid-February 2023, and being back on Android after 1½ months not using it helped me discover things I wasn’t expecting.