u/komprexior

Today I used for the first time qgis and I was impressed!

In my work I don't have much use for extremely accurate mapping tool, I could get by with a screenshot from Google Earth and maybe a pin to identify location, just eyeballing it.

And today I was doing just that, I had to eyeball the location of some small electrical box and conduit by crossreferencing an old electrical schematics, handdrawn, of a railway station. To make sense of it I started to trace the railways and railway switch which were recognizable enough.

But Google earth web started freezing constantly, working on it was impossible. So I searched for a desktop mapping tool.

I was aware of qgis, I already heard talking about from colleagues, but never used before. I imported the kml file of what I've done so far in Google Earth and ready to start tracing.

Not really though, since I had to load the map layer first. So I load both the satellite view and the open street map one. I discover I can overlap the 2 map and give a transparency to one later so both would be visible. What I want to see is mainly the satellite view, but I can see that the railways in the open street map are quite accurate, but the rest of the open street is a bit distracting for my purpose.

So I wonder if can filter only the railways line from the map? Of course I can!

Just install a plug in, and a do a quick query filtered per key: railways. Perfect line tracing, that I can style like I want.

Mind you, using the kml file trip me over: apparently is not a nice format to save edits, so I had to redo work because it got lost after saving. And I spent way more time that I should have to tinker with this or that style. But what a more satisfying experience than manually tracing lines.

What a powerful tool! The future is full of automation possibilities. And it's open source!

I want to be able to remote desktop into my cachy os machine. I'm used to rdp and have no issue to remote into a windows machine from a Linux one (remmina), but now it's proving surprisingly difficult to do the opposite.

I've tried to install krdp but yielded no results.

I've tried rust desk, but while I could eventually connect:

- it needed user approval to grant access to the remote (wayland stuff)

- the desktop screen showed upside down, rotated 180 degrees. Interestingly the mouse cursor was moving correctly, it was not flipped.

I tried also moonlight sunshine but I dot think it's the correct tool for what I want to do. Also I didn't understand how to switch display.

Try few other with various level on unsuccess.

The ai is a saying it's wayland issue, or the gpu, or whatever, but it just ruining around.

In the end it has been a couple of days, but still can't get the remote desktop to work.

I had better luck with ssh -X...

Dio sporco Google, per mesi, anci anni ormai, ogni volta che apro Gmail rompi il cazzo con "vuoi fare l'upgrafe workspace?!" e ogni volta ti dico di no, ma tu insisti sempre. Poi, quella benedetta volta che finalmente ne ho bisogno e clicco su quel maledetto pulsante di upgrade, mi rimandi alla pagina per aziende, come se non sapessi chi sono, e non posso darti i soldi perché non c'ho partita Iva.

E niente riuscire a fare l'upgrade ho dovuto consultare gemini e guadare almeno un paio di allucinazioni per darte i schei.

E alla fine non sei neppure capace di editare un documento da solo.

E niente ciò, mi tocca aspettare che claude si sblocchi.

(già disdetto, periodo di prova, no schei sono stati maltrattati durante l'esecuzione di queste perdite di tempo. Si torna a dirghe de no all'upgrade ogni volta che si apre Gmail)