nigelh

For a couple of years I've been flipping my <roaming>thunderbird folder from my main W11 desktop to a server folder so I can pull it down to the laptops to save updating them just to catch up with what came in overnight. It worked very well.
So, googling for advice, I thought moving to Linux was going to be much the same.

However I must have timed it badly. W11 is on ver 147.x and threatening 148 but apt and flatpak are only offering 140.7 and even the thunderbird website offers 140.

140 throws up its hands in abject horror and runs away from a 147 profile.
Do I just wait and hope they join up soon, (eventually?) compatibility is restored, and my stuff transfers cleanly or is tha

In a moment of advanced senility I bought an IC-1271A with a problem.
I love fixing things and I've never done 23cms before. Fixed. That was fun.
Now I need to get it on air.
Well I have some runs of nice coax from the shack to the roof, not brilliant for 1200MHz but not wet string. But what do I put on top? Most of the things on offer are Yagis and they are great if you know exactly where to point them but, of course, I don't.
What is a good starter aerial? Polarisation? I'm in a poor site for VHF so I'm not hopeful but I'd like to try.
Location Brighton in southern England.

Has anybody seen any higher power 'matter' compatible bulbs?
All I can find are the dismal 8W/9W type and I really want 15/17 or so. 'matter-over-wifi' preferred but I'll add a bridge if needed. B22 and UK for extra credit 8)

It's been fun but now my feed is clogged up with pictures of motorcycles that are dull or have a big helping of stupid.
I'll check back.

I wasn't aware but apparently it's not uncommon. I bought an aerial switch kit on eBay and the sockets are not real 24tpi threaded SO259s but 1mm pitch. Hence my standard plugs do up about half way and then jam without bonding the earth down.

OK I'm down a couple of pounds (UK) for new sockets as the supplier has gone but the labour to dismantle and reassemble the box I made for it, that's 20 bolts to align and tighten most of which are under the PCB, annoys me no end.

If I had known about it I would have checked... but I didn't. So now you know too.

Does anybody have a route to getting the Linux remote compile system running with gtkmm? I'd like to do a GUI not just console stuff.
Google is coming up with nothing and I haven't managed to fabricate a way to get the pkg-config system you put in a makefile to work for VS.
I tried the vcpkg system but it won't touch arm64 if not from an arm64.

I confess that although I like a lot of the features in VS2022 I find live formatting really frustrating.
I typed it like that because I wanted it like that.
I can set a few things to 'no change' but for a lot stuff you just get choices as to which compulsory text tweaking you get when all I really want is a bit of smart indenting. Something that wants to fiddle with how I lay out code for readability to me is just plain frustrating. Worst the more I try and customise it into 'don't mess with what I type' the more the tweaks annoy me.
Is there a hidden (from me) 'off' mode?
I started my programming life on a 029 card punch and that was definitely 'you get what you type' so I'm too ol

I have a system running on Debian and I use termios to set it to read individual keystrokes. It works nicely for controlling a multithreaded system where I want to press one key and get a response.

However when using the VS2022 compile system the Linux console window appears to pre-package the keys into traditional 1970's style and I'm still having to <key><enter> to get a response. Yes, it's not a big deal as I'm only getting it when testing but it's still annoying. I haven't spotted a configuration option to make it pass over raw keys yet.

Can anybody suggest anything?

edit: not emulation. I am letting VS SSH into the system.

Perhaps somebody can point me at the Intellisense 'start over' button but when I switch from the Windows console version of the code to the Raspberry Pi version in the same solution and back Intellisense will not forget some of the code details. eg: I modified a function to return a bool rather than a void as it needed to communicate an active state back to the caller as it grew an extra bit of functionality and the code compiled and ran but Intellisense clung to the old version with lots of red squiggles. Exit and restart didn't help. This is talking about a file that is included in both parts to ensure the user think doesn't have to change on where they use the code. Closing all the fi

I was not hitting many problems with VS2022, well it still doesn't have an off switch on frigging with what I type, and then I found Intellisense still doesn't really do macros when the compiler is cool with them. Oh well...
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I have a system running on a Pi. I rebuilt it recently with 0.116.0
Now, when I run my routine update bash script, it goes through the motions and finds a version an updates it.
But this isn't the one I'm running.
pip says something like
found homeassistant 0.117.5
updated to 0.118.0
then I restart and it's same old 0.116.0
I tried find file on hass and there are two, one in /home/pi/homeassistant/bin which has an old date
and one in /home/pi/bin which is the one that gets updated.

I would like to find the files for the /home/pi/bin version and get rid on them and make pip update the right one but I'm not unix savvy enough to try much more than file search for homeassistant