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Aethria-Open Beta

Aethria is now open for free accounts! Registration is now open without code, so you can head on over to Aethria and sign up today! The site is in active beta testing and still has some glitches and bugs, so be aware of that before joining!

The site is pretty advanced for a game in beta testing and has a lot of activities to do. The game is free to play but you can buy perks with premium currency. There are three Lands available within the world of Aethria: Khimeros Caldera, Aluriya and Calligra, with a new land, Merb'y Island, in the works.

Each land has a different type of "pet" (we call them companions), different items to collect and different activities.

Above is a Kaze, one of the companions that hails from Aluriya

Recently added to the site in Aluriya is the Swirling Vortex which you can send your Aethers and they might return with goodies for you!

So if you'd like to participate in beta testing, come on over to Aethria and sign up today! 

There’s also a Discord Server if you’re not sure if you want to join but want to hear more about the site~

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What Story Will You Create?

In the land of Calligra, a Skulker Inkling stalks an innocent Nib!

Using our rich, multi-layered deco system, you can use different background pieces, skies, clouds, trees, flora, fauna, pets and mini pets to create your own completely unique scenes!  Each deco piece can be moved around and resized, as can the pets and mini pets!  The above is an example of an Inkling pet/companion and a Nib mini pet, both of which are slated for release in the land of Calligra some time during Alpha or Beta release.

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What’s your favourite??

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Lançado o KDE Applications 19.12

Lançado o KDE Applications 19.12

O Projeto KDE lançou hoje a atualização de dezembro de 2019 para seu pacote de software KDE Applications de código aberto e multiplataforma, versão 19.12. O KDE Applications 19.12 lançado apresenta inúmeras melhorias e novos recursos para muitos dos aplicativos incluídos, como:

gerenciador de arquivos Dolphin;

 editor de vídeo Kdenlive;

 visualizador de documentos Okular;

visualizador de imagens

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鴉 KARASU (Crow) 我自己頭髮毛筆寫的 Written with my hair. というわけで、ぼくも便乗します！ 50鴉集まったらそれも面白いですね！ 9/26-10/2沖縄におります。 10月一杯日本におります。 東北方面行く予定してます。 #鴉 #soyamax #soyamax2018 #soyamaxdesign #calligra#calligrapher #japanesecalligraphy #crow #書法比賽 #大阪 https://www.instagram.com/p/BngKw0ABjxQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ntvwiy1xj7lk

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A New Idea of Elegance

I went without a laptop for quite a few months this past academic year. I wanted to see how life would be relying on a tablet as my primary means of production. It was fun, but ultimately it was prudent for me to invest in something with a more powerful operating system. I bought an 11-inch netbook capable of running more than Windows 7 Starter (dude, I didn’t even know they made those) and watched as my productivity shot back up.

I didn’t leave Windows 7 on my new netbook for long. Now, I’m not about to rail against Microsoft or anything (no, seriously, I mean it this time). As far as operating systems go, I quite like Windows 7 and prefer using it over Mac OS X. With that said, I’ve grown quite accustomed to the Linux way of doing things. I used Linux primarily before buying my Android tablet, and there were so many times over the course of using that tablet where I wished I could just follow what the developers were doing and see just why certain apps were as buggy or delayed as they were. It was a very unfamiliar feeling for me to return back to my software being treated less like code and more like a product. Let me explain.

In Linux, when something breaks, I can proceed to google how to fix it and come up with a handful of possible solutions. More often than not, I’m able to fix what’s wrong this way. At the same time, for problems that I can’t fix, I can usually google why the problem exists and find out. I’m typing this blog post using Calligra Words, a word processor primarily intended to be used with the KDE Plasma Desktop. In remember using this program two years ago, when it was still known as KWords, lacked spell check, and crashed regularly. I was able to read and follow the progress the developers made over the course of the application’s development. On my Android tablet, I primarily relied on Quickoffice Pro HD for typing. It’s a marvelous app, but it didn’t get spell check until last week. Prior to that, the most I could find were press releases or web pages intended on telling me how awesome the product was, or the polite suggestion to request the feature on Quickoffice’s brainstorming page, which others had already done. Now, I already knew Quickoffice was awesome, I used it regular, I just wanted someone to tell me frankly just what was going on. I wanted to be treated as an equal, not solely as a consumer. To many people, interacting with software developers or computer manufacturers as consumers is all they want, and that’s perfectly fine by me; but this is one of the primary reasons why I prefer using Linux over Windows or Mac. I rather have the control and the change in atmosphere over the convenient ecosystem that comes with using the same operating system as most everyone else around me.

So when I wiped Windows 7 off my computer, I discovered that my netbook was relatively new and was still a hassle to get working properly under Linux. I used Fedora for over a month, switched to Ubuntu for a few days, and yesterday found success with a distribution I had never tried before, Chakra Linux. I managed to get it working properly, but I fell in love with it for many more reasons than that.

Chakra Linux isn’t trying to take over the computing world by directly challenging Windows and Mac, the daunting task that Ubuntu has undertaken since 2004. Its intentions are straightforward, to provide a stable Linux core with the KDE ecosystem on top. It is not meant for new computer users, or new Linux converts, or people who may not have much experience with Linux. They’re welcome to try it, but the onus is on them to figure it out. Chakra is intended for Linux users who want the cleanest KDE setup possible, and it relies heavily on the terminal for managing the system. In the past such extensive terminal use would have turned me off, but now, I consider it a draw.

See, in the past I was drawn to the possibilities that Linux presented, the idea of a Windows/Mac kind of experience, but free and open. Many Linux desktop environments are moving in that direction. GNOME 3 and Ubuntu’s Unity interface are attractive, touch-orientated interfaces. They have limited many options in order to present an interface that the average person can pick up and understand. This doesn’t bother me. In all honesty, this used to be exactly what I wanted. But now, after having spent several months using a tablet as my primary device and experiencing sort of an “ideal” clean, touch interface, I don’t long for such an environment anymore. Now I find myself drawn back to KDE, the most configurable, integrated, and customizeable desktop environment I have ever known. It allows me to edit many of the minor things that bother me (things such as font choices or the amount of space between the clock and notifications, things I wish I could edit in any desktop environment) as well as provides me with advanced options that really do come in handy (such as being able to right-click the titlebar and combine more than one window into one tabbed window, regardless of application). Likewise, Chakra’s website provides clear instructions how to get around the terminal. The distribution also boots and shuts down by displaying the processes that are being performed, rather than masking them with pretty boot screens. In the past I would have wanted the boot screen, but now I like the power of knowing what step my computer is performing and exactly when and where something goes wrong, if something goes wrong.

I have come to find Chakra to be the ideal blend of an elegant GUI and the command-line, where the former doesn’t intend to mask the latter. App stores are fine, but I’ve come to appreciate the simplicity of managing software from a terminal window, getting to see exactly what is going on inside my computer, and enjoying the vastly speedier experience.

In the past, I longed for Linux and open source software to take over the computing landscape. Now, I’m not as concerned about what the people around me use. I use open software because I personally prefer it. I do my part by using open formats such as .odt and .ogg whenever possible, and in this way I contribute to the open ecosystem I hope to see someday, but I won’t be disappointed if Linux continues to exists in the background. I’ll be happy to use it regardless.

And while I’m still excited to watch desktop environments evolve and mature, I’m looking forward to becoming increasingly comfortable inside the terminal.

A New Idea of Elegance was originally published on Bertel King Jr.'s website.