[en] Welcome to euroquis.nl. Originally intended as a site for a European source-code-quality project, it now serves as the hub of my online presence. Most of what happens here goes on on the blog.
[nl] Welkom bij euroquis.nl. Dit was oorspronkelijk bedoeld als site voor een Europees code-kwaliteitsbeoordelingsproject. Nu is het centrum van mijn online aanwezigheid. Er gebeurt vooral wat op mijn blog.
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Alternative Timezone Naming in Calamares
Calamares is a Linux system installer. During installation, it asks the user where they are on the globe, in order to set the timezone correctly on the installed system. Calamares displays the nearest timezone after you click on a map. I would like to leverage that a little for social good (or at least a tiny bit of awareness).
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Mnietballs, again
Some time back I posted a bran muffin recipe. That recipe uses eggs, and I received a comment by email, perhaps from Gregor S. They pointed out some things about the egg-milk-industrial complex and how I should avoid using eggs. That annoyed me a little, although it was written respectfully and factually. Anyway, I’ve given it some thought and experimentation, and here’s a vegan recipe for mnietballs (vaguely Dutch for “not meatballs”).
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Laptop Linux Considerations
I have a laptop – a Framework 13, AMD CPU – which I received for the purpose of making KDE-on-FreeBSD good on it. For KDE Akademy Reasons, that laptop is covered in stickers: bicycle stickers, KDE, RUN BSD .. and it got three Linuxes installed on it next to FreeBSD. I mentioned that KDE Akademy is people, and I’d like to thank Doug (openSUSE), Neal (Fedora) and Harald (KDE Linux) for helping me get the bits in place. Here’s some brief notes about the resulting systems.
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KDE Akademy 2025
This year, 2025, the KDE Community held its yearly conference in Berlin, Germany. This makes me happy in various ways – I like Berlin, and visit the city more often than, say, Amsterdam, which is a lot closer to my home. Here are some of my notes (wall-of-text) from this year, posted on the day of KDE’s 29th birthday.
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New Calamares Languages
Calamares is a Linux system installer used by a wide range of distro’s. It is in “community maintenance” mode, which means it depends on downstream code submissions and careful bug reports. Sometimes I have time to work on it, outside of any particular distro. It would be correct to say it is “slow going”. But that doesn’t mean there are no changes! Just this week a new language was requested, Luganda, bringing the total to 79. Not all of the languages have enough coverage to be included in the language drop-down, but all of them have translators working on bringing the installer to their locale. Welcome!
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