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This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

First alpha release of Debian 13 "Trixie" installer available with support for Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, RISCV64 support, dropped support for ARMel and i386 architectures, new theme:
9to5linux.com/debian-13-trixie

Nobara 41 released with open source NVIDIA driver by default, latest Vulkan drivers, Driver Manager includes Broadcom wireless driver, Package Manager gets improved Flatpak support, Welcome utility offers Discord from Flatpak Beta channel to support screen sharing on Wayland and audio sharing with PipeWire, offers Blender from Fedora repos to support H.264 recording via FFmpeg, revamped Davinci Resolve wizard etc.:
9to5linux.com/fedora-based-nob

KaOS 2024.11 released with Linux kernel 6.11, Phonon sound backend, bcachefs support, KDE Plasma 6.2.3, KDE Gear 24.08.3, KDE Frameworks 6.8.0, updated packages, Harper grammar and spellchecker installed by default, GTK2 removed from repos, Wayland mode for SDDM 0.20.0 etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2024/12

GNOME's new image viewer Loupe to get image editing feature for PNG and JPEG images, coming with GNOME 48 release in spring:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/loupe-
(That's really nice I guess, I missed the option to make smaller edits on the image directly within the image viewer without opening a separate program for it)

KDE Plasma 6.2.5 released with fix for a System Settings crash, X11 lock screen bug and more:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-5

(FOSS news in reply)

As I've seen with snaps, and now with flatpaks and gimp, you can't access the printer at all, or with limited functionality. As an artist, and since Gimp is an art/photo app, it has to give printing a priority. They need to either implement the portals API on flatpaks, or make their appimage their default offer (since appimages do access the full printer functionality). I personally print my art constantly.

so, that wont work. there's no NEW button!

so. can't just pop open a canvas, quick Ctrl+V
done and done.

that's why I use Windows when I look for productivity.

Prior to the brain damage, things were different.
i simply can't rem how to do it easily, and it literally, realistically, makes my brain hurt (like behind the eyes) when i try to concentrate.

Image Resize Shortcut for WordPress

I wrote my huge Eras Tour post full of images without crashing my server!

How? I created a shortcut to preprocess the images on my phone before uploading them to my blog using the Jetpack app (which is how I usually write posts). I have it added to the Share Sheet and allowed to access Photos.

25% is pretty arbitrary but in experimenting it seemed to get to an image size that’s Good Enough™ for the web at around 1 MB and 1600×1200 or so. It’d be nice to make the full quality photos available but for sharing purposes I think this is fine. There’s probably a more optimal way to size things for the modern web but this works.

While in theory using this shortcut adds a step while composing, I was already often using Favorites in Photos to make my selections before writing. Now instead of the quick heart I have to select photos and invoke the shortcut. (I made it a Favorite Action so it’s near the top of the Share Sheet.) After I’ve posted I delete all of the duplicate shrunken images in the WordPress Uploads album.

In my ideal world, the Jetpack app would do these optimizations automatically locally before uploading all the variants, since my phone is certainly way more optimized for image manipulation than my tiny Lightsail instance. WordPress itself should also be better about doing image processing within resource constraints.

I could probably figure out why my configuration is misbehaving (or just download more RAM) but this shortcut solution was much easier and less time consuming. I’ll probably be using it for years, at least until WordPress fixes this (assuming they’re not too busy being petulant).

Maybe my shortcut will be useful for you as well!