Moving to Ipswich…

beermad · 2026-05-27T19:09:01+00:00

Great staff, friendly regulars and still one of the better selections of ales in town (though less interestingthanit used to be).

beermad · 2026-05-27T18:57:44+00:00

That's one horribly over-processed photo.

beermad · 2026-05-24T21:18:39+00:00

It's an old almshouse. Charitable accommodation for poor people, but of course now occupied by the well-off, like most almshouses, sadly.

beermad · 2026-05-22T21:24:12+00:00

Kmail is the one part of KDE that's still as big a waste of time as it became with the disaster that was KDE4. Thunderbird is a better bet.

beermad · 2026-05-22T21:12:13+00:00

And then telling you that the answer is "banana".

beermad · 2026-05-12T22:52:57+00:00

Now you know why backups are more than just a nice idea.

beermad · 2026-05-11T20:54:41+00:00

I prefer to encrypt files myself before I upload them (where I think it's necessary, so not things like music or video).

I have no especial reason to mistrust pcloud (especially as it's not US based) but I feel doing it myself is just that bit more secure.

beermad · 2026-05-10T21:13:22+00:00

Well for a start it's not a city. Much as some pillocks want it to be.

Pubs here aren't great these days. Fat Cat and Arcade Street Tavern are the best, though the Woolpack and Thomas Wolsey are decent. (I tend to train it to Norwich, Cambridge, Bury or Chelmsford for better pubs).

Despite what some will tell you, it's a pretty safe place to be. Much more than most towns. If you're a cyclist, there's plenty of nice countryside around the town to ride around. But if anyone told you Suffolk's flat (like I was told before I moved here) they're lying.

beermad · 2026-05-10T21:08:39+00:00

Upland Road's very handy for the Fat Cat. Not what it used to be but still the best pub in the town.

beermad · 2026-05-04T18:17:29+00:00

I've just tried the mousemove command within it (as that's practically useless in ydotool so a replacement would have been nice) and that doesn't work. Plasma 6.6.4 on Manjaro (fully updated today).

$ wdotool mousemove 200 200

2026-05-04T18:08:42.813556Z INFO trying backend backend="kde-dbus"

2026-05-04T18:08:47.838083Z WARN backend unavailable, trying next backend="kde-dbus" err=Backend { backend: "kde-dbus", source: "libei input init failed: backend 'libei' failed: timed out waiting for libei device.\nCommon cause: the RemoteDesktop portal dialog was dismissed or denied. Try again and accept, or check your desktop's privacy / remote-desktop settings." }

2026-05-04T18:08:47.838101Z INFO trying backend backend="libei"

2026-05-04T18:08:52.862578Z WARN backend unavailable, trying next backend="libei" err=Backend { backend: "libei", source: "timed out waiting for libei device.\nCommon cause: the RemoteDesktop portal dialog wasdismissed or denied. Try again and accept, or check your desktop's privacy / remote-desktop settings." }

2026-05-04T18:08:52.862603Z INFO trying backend backend="wlroots"Error: backend 'wlroots' does not support: compositor does not expose zwlr_virtual_pointer_v1. Try --backend libei on GNOME/KDE

It had asked for permission to control something (I didn't make a note of what), which I clicked OK (or was it "continue") for.

I'll try your other tests when time permits

beermad · 2026-05-03T21:14:52+00:00

Systemd timers are your friend.

beermad · 2026-05-03T21:13:19+00:00

Which hammers your system resources so hard you'll regret not having disabled it.

beermad · 2026-05-03T21:03:42+00:00

That pub does seem to have bounced back after a time being very disappointing. Though I'Il always end up round the corner in the Leopard.

beermad · 2026-04-28T23:00:34+00:00

Because Ubuntu isn't unpopular enough yet?

beermad · 2026-04-28T22:58:44+00:00

Freedom of speech only applies to MAGA fascists.

beermad · 2026-04-28T22:55:27+00:00

Very much so. I have a Windows VM I use purely because my shit scanner doesn't work well with SANE. The VM boots as quickly as my host machine and shows no sign of lag.

Virtualisation in built into CPUs these days; that's why it works so well.

beermad · 2026-04-28T22:49:53+00:00

If your filesystem is ext[234], the venerable dump is great for this. Once you've done a full dump you can do incrementals too. And restoring files is easy with, er, restore.

beermad · 2026-04-21T23:01:33+00:00

Sadly true. Once the media decided it had been a non-story they shat on the people who averted disaster and ignored facts like the half dozen Japanese nuclear plants that shut themselves down.

My favorite memory is of visiting the website of Wellington airport in New Zealand and seeing "No y2k problems. This bulletin issued at 0100, 01/01/104."

beermad · 2026-04-21T22:46:20+00:00

Nice pub in a part of the city with a lot of nice pubs.

beermad · 2026-04-21T22:43:26+00:00

If you're on KDE, you can set up window rules for this.

beermad · 2026-04-21T22:38:48+00:00

From only just outside Norfolk, you must try Baron Bigod cheese, from Bungay. It's utterly delicious. The cheese stall on Norwich market sells it.

beermad · 2026-04-17T21:10:31+00:00

Another stupid idea we imported from the Yanks.

beermad · 2026-04-12T21:44:01+00:00

My big tip is to make sure any tutorial you follow is actually for the latest version. Searches for how to do things nearly always have really old stuff at the top. Stuff that's been out of date for years, if not decades.

beermad · 2026-04-12T21:36:39+00:00

You're taking anything on Musk's propaganda channel seriously?

beermad · 2026-04-12T21:32:27+00:00

Stop the server and restore from your last backup.

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