Barry Rowlingson

@geospacedman
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Maps, statistics, guitars, land rovers, photography.
I've had this since the late 90s, it was the "ships computer" off-road in Morocco, linked to my Garmin GPS12 and logging fuel and milage, and went to Japan where I had an app that could understand Japanese letters I could scribble. Now, do I have a PC with a serial port...
If Celine Dion just sang the vowels in her name, she'd be performing Old McDonald's Farm.
Back from watching Matt Parker at The Dukes Playhouse in Lancaster and now I have a signed Palm Vx. #nerd
Who among us has a truly robust backup plan in place? What's your strategy?
I backup daily/weekly/often, and store offsite
I backup occasionally, store onsite or same device
I rely on my RAID setup
I sure hope this computer doesn't crash
Poll ends at .
BlueSky appears to be down. Has "It Happened" happened? We wouldn't know here, it'll just be pictures of moss and Raspberry Pi projects as usual.

"Exposé". Fediverse, you have failed against the might of my sleeping subconscious.

Although it might be called Mission Control now. Anyway, that thing.

What's that window manager thing called where you see tiny versions of all open windows so you can pick one and is it implemented in xfce's wm and I'm going to sleep now so you have 7 hours to answer...
The verbosity of Qt6 makes me think I'm doing something wrong. Why is it now Qt.Key.Key_Delete and not Qt.Key.Delete? Oh I bet there's some fiery arguments in the Qt slack/discord/mailing list/wherever...
Well I seem to have Juan Mendoza's R-Console bridge plugin mostly working in Qt6 in QGIS4 by replacing a whole truckload of Qt.Foo with Qt.FooThings.Foo - graphics not working but I don't think they were working on my QGIS 3 system... Code here: https://codeberg.org/browlingson/rqgis/src/branch/qgis4
Goodbye ALLSTAT, you were... a thing I subscribed to years ago in order to publicise a PhD opportunity and have deleted unread every morning since.