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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Never experienced anything like that with KDE Plasma.
Experienced having more than one way to change the volume? Or you've looked into the source of kde and confirmed there aren't old sliders sneaking around taking up 3 kB of space?
When is the last time you used KDE? I remember experiencing some wonkiness with widgets/applets "disappearing" (and having to edit a config file to remove it), but that was like a year and a h alf ago.
I have not experienced that in a long time. Though, to be fair, I'm no longer on the distro I was on back then (EndeavourOS), and Bazzite is just more stable/polished when it comes to little things like that. So I'm not 100% sure it was a fix to KDE, or just Bazzite handling it better.
Regardless... I'm not really sure what you mean by the volume slider thing. There is a checkbox to "show virtual devices" on the volume slider pop-up on my system tray that adds a bunch of sliders, but I just keep that off.
Maybe you're using some janky volume widget instead of the one built into the System Tray panel? I would get rid of anything but the official one. If it's not visible by default, you can click the up arrow at the right of the System Tray, then click the gear in the top right, and go under "entries" to change it so volume is always visible
I actually really like how the current volume thing works in KDE... You can either change volume by device (external monitor, TV, BT headphones, etc.), and/or by individual app. Gives you a ton of control.
I can have one instance of VLC playing through bluetooth headphones, with another playing audio from a different video on my TV (hdmi)