Welcome to 2026 You can complain, or You can help.

Welcome to 2026

You can complain or You can help.

Software Development is hard. Really hard. You just won't believe how vastely hugely mind bogglingly hard it is. I mean, you think molecular chemical biology is complex, but that's just peanuts to Software Development.

My apologies to sir Douglas Adams.

"Space," [the Hitchhiker's Guide] says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

This sustained level of difficulty and complexity is mentally exhausting. every original line of code I've ever written has been weighed and tested and considered and tortured before the first letter was typed, and the "work" has just begun. In many scenarios some entity is paying you to exhaust yourself to design, run, support and maintain a fictional rube goldberg machine in your head for anywhere from a month to years to decades.

In many other scenarios the pay is solving a problem, and sometimes the pay is sharing the solved problems.

In all cases there were people working their neurons to nubbins to produce this immaterial thing we call software. As a now low neuron to nubbin ratioed veteran, all of you are my heroes and try to carefully  criticise companies, organizations and management.

Those Free and Open Source folks, they are my Justice League or Avengers, whichever Super Heroic team you identify with is fine.


When one travels from commercial software produced by corporations with eye popping profits to software produced by volunteers, interns, ideological coders & other Samaritans one should adjust one's expectations and entitlements.


One often doesn't. 

Even the wizened grey bearded low neuron to nubbin veterans.

I really want to like #Tokodon but... It chokes displaying quoted posts in notifications. just whiffs and you may scroll no more. YOU CANNOT SELECT TEXT IN A POST. I sometimes read unconsiously with the highlighter, and now I am SUPER concious of it. The AltText Editor is always popped up BEHIND the post editor. It doesn't support creating quoteposts either. Otherwise its prety great.


Treating the entire open web as your personal gripeboard is a gross misuse of technology.

Should we not endeavor to do less of that? Well...

You can complain, or you can help.

It's been a minute, but I did just set up this new kde desktop...


What are we looking at?


Tokodon

A modern client for Mastodon and other decentralized servers that implement its API (such as Pixelfed).

https://apps.kde.org/tokodon/



Check the forum, Check Matrix? Not yet.
Check for Bug Reporting, hey we got a hit.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496147

Alrighty then.

Source Code.
https://invent.kde.org/network/tokodon

But don't bother grabbing it from there because...


Building


The easiest way to make changes and test Tokodon during development is to build it with kdesrc-build (Link leads to:)







 

https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/building/kde-builder-setup/


OK.

If you haven't set up kde-builder already, please follow the steps in Set up a development environment before proceeding.



OK, this might take a minute...and several GBs...

If you plan on building an application or on following our Kirigami tutorial, you should allocate at least 15 GB of storage space.

If you plan on building Plasma Desktop, you should allocate at least 50 GB of storage space.

If you cannot afford this storage, you might want to consider building projects manually or with distrobox.\


I'm not really ready to discuss anything intelligently just yet...

KDE On mastodon https://kde.social/@tokodon



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