KDE’s 30 years anniversary is today (14th), with the release of Plasma 6.8 as part of celebrations. Of all the desktop environments for Linux, Plasma is what I like the most. I hope to one day use it on a “daily driver” computer. Curiosity: the email from Matthias Ettrich announcing the “Kool Desktop Environment” in...

Create cursed fonts: every X characters, another with a different font is inserted. You can upload your own fonts or import more from Google Fonts, and download the Frankenstein font in *.ttf, *.otf or woff2.

Apple is selling the recently announced HomeView, an iPad mini glued to a speaker that serves as a hub for the home, with a chaotic commercial in which a family runs over for breakfast. I can’t remember any other company commercial that causes anxiety and contempt for the product.

In this game, the goal is to guess the translations of a term into other languages. The “hard” difficult is hard, indeed, and the “Insane” I didn’t even try.

The capitalist man has a tendency to complicate (and charge for) everything around him. Want to go running in 2026? Buy a pro running shoes, drink whey protein every day, sign up and pay to run with other people and receive a banana and a cheap tin medal at the finish line. For a long time, I regarded the electric...

Clicks, a US startup about to launch its first phone, told Mobile Time [pt_BR] that it is working to expand its presence in Latin America. The message was delivered to the Brazilian publication by Clicks co-founder and CMO Jeff Gadway, who also said that “[we’ll have] more news to share in early 2027.” The Clicks...

The Tiny Awards 2026 results are in, a contest honoring the most creative website launched during the year. The winner was a familiar face here at Manual: the little multiplayer exploration game Cursor Camp, which I recommended back in May.

Google’s new arrangement for installing unverified apps on Android takes effect this Thursday (Oct. 1st) here in Brazil. Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand are also among the first countries to be affected. F-Droid and other free and/or Google-independent initiatives have been raising a ruckus over the changes. They...

This guy made a digital version of his library of physical design books. It’s an interactive photo; you can click/tap on a spine for more information about the book in question.

The definitive test for generative AIs: which creates the most accurate ass. There are several models available and you can read the prompt. Don’t forget to also evaluate the reaction of the buttock to the pat. Tip from Renan, who refused to answer where the hell he found this.

At the end of August, the results came out for a general resolution on the use of generative AI (LLMs) in Debian. Option 5 won: “Responsible use of generative AI.” The outcome — you can probably guess — left a lot of people unhappy. This week, it was the KDE project’s turn to end up in the crossfire while trying to...

Photographer Maya Barkai gathered dozens of depictions used at the green light of pedestrian traffic lights around the world and exhibited them outdoors in some cities in the early 2010s. She also made another collection with “men at work” images.