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The Linux mic slider lies: Mic Monitor shows the real gain

The Linux mic slider lies: Mic Monitor shows the real gain

On Linux, the microphone volume slider is not your mic's analog gain: mine was 60 dB out. Mic Monitor is a KDE Plasma tray app that shows the real gain in dB, clipping and noise floor, tuned for dictation and speech recognition.

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A small Hebrew date widget for KDE Plasma

A small Hebrew date widget for KDE Plasma

I wanted the Hebrew date sitting quietly in my system tray next to the English one. KDE didn't have a widget that did this, so I built one — sunset-aware, configurable, and small enough to live between the clock and the notification icons.

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