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Jakob Petsovits 

Check out https://invent.kde.org/jpetso for contributions and the bio blurb.

Power, input & people at Akademy 2024

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Contrary to popular belief, Akademy 2024 was not my first Akademy. KDE seems to keep tagged faces from Akademy group photos around, so I stumbled over some vintage pictures of me in 2006 (Glasgow) and 2007 (Dublin). At the time, I was an utter greenhorn with big dreams, vague plans, and a fair bit of social anxiety. Read More

Brightness controls for all your displays

Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Whoops, it's already been months since I last blogged. I've been actively involved with Plasma and especially its power management service PowerDevil for over a year now. I'm still learning about how everything fits together. Read More

PowerDevil in Plasma 6.0 and beyond

Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Hi, I'm Jakob and this is my new KDE blog. Let's see how this goes as I haven't blogged for literally decades. I started working on Plasma code sometime last year and hope to play a tiny part in setting the stage for world domination improving user experiences like so many other awesome and dedicated contributors do every week. My Plasma contributions started out with a few rounds of build improvements and bug fixes initially. Before long though, I decided to realize my lifelong dream of a friendly and usable Energy Saving settings page. Thus started a journey into the code of Plasma's power management service, internally known as PowerDevil. Read More