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Wi-Fi’s biggest upgrade in decades is starting to arrive – The Verge

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Wi-Fi’s biggest upgrade in decades is starting to arrive – The Verge

Wi-i is about to get a lot better. Many of this year’s new phones, laptops, TVs, routers, and more will come with support for Wi-i 6E, a new upgrade to Wi-i that’s essentially like expanding your wireless connection from a two-lane road to an eight-lane highway. It’s the biggest upgrade to Wi-i in 20 years, and connections should be faster and a lot more reliable because of it.

I am sure eventually when I get a new laptop in a few years and I'm working down at the library when they upgrade there equipment that will be nice, although I still struggle with the buggy kernel driver for my laptop which sometimes really slows things down.

Python As Fast as Possible – Learn Python in ~75 Minutes

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This is a clearly laid out, easy to read Python tutorial. While I knew most of the basics from my experience writing custom scripts and plugins for QGIS, and I figured a good refresher course is helping to make me a better Python programmer. I use Python occasionally, although honestly I should it a lot more for many of my projects -- it's a lot better language then PHP in many regards for the things I do.

Today I’ve been studying up a lot on Python and Qt

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Today I’ve been studying up a lot on Python and Qt. 🇶

Qt is a library used to build graphical interfaces, while Python is a very popular and widely used scripting language. I have coded a bit in PyQt for various QGIS plugins in over the years, but I am hardly an expert on either Python or Qt so I am trying to understand the ins and outs more. While I doubt I have much of a need for GUI programs — I prefer things that are small, simple command line things — the Unix way — it’s good to have a better understanding of Qt for the QGIS plugins I use for my various projects.

Qt (software) – Wikipedia

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Qt (software) – Wikipedia

Qt (pronounced "cute") is a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.

I used to use KDE 1.0 about two decades ago and while more recently I've been using GTK+ based XFCE, I mostly only program with Qt for GIS stuff that I do.