Oh, I am already on Plasma 6.7, it updated to that maybe around a week ago or so! That long press is at least more streamlined that the Compose key, so that’s something! Good to know, thank you a bunch, I didn’t know about that feature :)

I have the original Halo75 (not the V2) which sadly doesn’t support QMK/VIA yet. I remember there was some dedicated app to configure the keyboard (NuPhy Console maybe?) but I don’t know if it’s worth trying to get that to work on Linux and that seems to be basically abandoned/obsolete

Thank you for your answer!

1. I had already tried that before but forgot to mention it, in Mac mode it flips the function/media key behavior as expected; in Windows mode, it does nothing (the function keys still always act like media keys, no matter what)
2. Not quite sure what that would do, maybe I’m misunderstanding you, that seems to just type the angle brackets that are on the layout in Windows mode and nothing in Mac mode
3. I just tried that, and while it does work, it is very unintuitive to me (instead of just Alt+Q to get an ä, it’s now <Compose>, followed by Shift+’ to get a double quote, and then a/o/u to get the umlaut. That would be suboptimal for me at best, but I’ll keep it in mind as a backup solution

I’ll keep looking for and trying some more options :)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but, regarding the first point, in what way are the calendar clients proprietary? Unless I am missing something, the clients for iOS and Android are open source and licensed under GPLv3 while the desktop client (part of the mail app) appears to be licensed under AGPL v3.

The email system not working with Thunderbird etc. out-of-the-box is true but that is kind of understandable, considering that the emails are only stored and transmitted to the first-party clients in an encrypted form that other clients couldn’t work with? And you could use the mail bridge (which is also open source, if I am not mistaken) to expose them as a local server to be used by Thunderbird etc., right? Maybe not ideal but I’d agrue it’s “fine”.

I do agree that there are things to dislike about Proton but those two don’t seem like problems in my opinion…

Well, that was a painful watch. Constant overly dramatic music and sound effects, surprisingly little actual engineering talk, the same handful of B-roll shots and transitions over and over again, Shell executives patting themselves on the back. And the same “they had to turn to the past” for every challenge they encountered…

The editing felt like I was watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, not an engineering documentary.

In case someone tells you to eat a bag of dicks

According to this document, the Trent XWB from Rolls Royce has a fan diameter of 3m and a reference rotational speed of 2700 rpm for the low pressure stage, which would result in a blade tip speed of 424.1 m/s or 1526.8 km/h according to this calculator

In case you missed it in the article, the transfer speeds are mentioned just two paragraphs prior to the one you cited:

Over the next three to four years, Kazansky said, SPhotonix aims to improve the data transfer speed of its technology from a write time of 4 megabytes per second (MBps) and read time of 30 MBps to a read/write speed of 500 MBps, which would be competitive with archival tape backup systems.

You could try finding a conference related to the topic of your findings and, from there, look for associated workshops or similar that might fit the topic and submit your paper there. These can have lower barriers of entry and better chances of getting accepted than the actual conferences and might be more open to “outsiders”, although I don’t know about that for sure. This way you might be able to get something published as part of the conference proceedings.

Or, try finding someone who’s recognized as a member of the scientific community and who’d be willing to co-author the paper and go from there. No idea how to go about that though.