'Cause if it's a Monday, I gotta haul the garbage bin down to the road this evening. At least it's heavy down, light up: another advantage of living uphill.
I did deploy the weather station today, after it spent a few months sitting in my office. Now it's atop a brand-new pole that doubles as a marker for one end of the boundary between front lawn and front hayfield. Haven't connected it to Weather Underground yet, but there's a big colorful display on my desk.
And, shortly after that, the 20% chance of rain sometime this afternoon somehow morphed into an 80% chance of rain any minute now, and the wind went from 2-5 MPH to gusting-above-16.
I still haven't sorted out the two (count 'em, two) WINE/DipTrace problems on the new workstation - one (new) keeps the 32-bit version of the applications (but not the launcher) from functioning at all, while the other (in common with the old workstation, if memory serves) causes the "file open" popup in the 64-bit version to be inoperable.
Haven't done much computer stuff today; I spent a fair amount of time in the trans-sylvanian back yard dealing with one thing and other before it all got too far out of hand.
With July approaching, I offer a prediction! The Seattle Capitol Hill Unpoliced District will be the site of a C.H.U.D. outbreak. Remember, you read it here first!
Update: Having a very Monday evening. I figured out why the 32-bit DipTrace wasn't working! The i386 versions of the GLX libraries and whatnot weren't installed. So I tried installing them... and totally messed up my installation, as the process dragged in the i386 version of the Nvidia drivers, as well as the amd64 version of the drivers, and, well, (1) that involved an attempt to replace the manually-installed proprietary driver, and (2) the open-source driver, or indeed any officially supported driver under Buster, doesn't like my shiny new GTX 1650 SUPER card.
Growf. So now I have a misconfigured system that can't use the GUI, because the driver that remains installed doesn't support my hardware and the Nvidia proprietary installer won't do its thing because the official Debian package is already installed.
Besides which, it looks like the official Nvidia drivers are 64-bit-only for versions recent enough to support this card.
Well, let's see if apt install -t buster-backports nvidia-driver
does anything useful....
It says it's installing nvidia-current-440.82, which sounds about right. Also, a reboot will be required (duh). Further, it's dragging along various related packages, including some for i386 architecture, so maybe...?
And, huzzah! DipTrace (32-bit version) runs properly (at least based on some quick testing), and does the 3D board view thing. So I guess this is working.
Next few days, I think I'd better mostly set the tech stuff aside and deal with a big pile of admin crud (when I'm not doing yard work).
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