Building pigpio for Raspberry Pi OS “trixie”

The pigpio library for GPIO control supports hardware timing for PWM and servo outputs, which provides much more accurate and jitter-free control. It can be used from gpiozero by setting the pin factory.

However, for some reason, pigpio is not included in the latest version (“trixie”) of Raspberry Pi OS. This post summarizes how to build it from source.

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Further evidence that Farage is an idiot

Apparently, Farage and other UKIP/Brexiter morons are up in arms about the EU referring to Gibraltar as a “colony”. These are the same people who want the old “blue” (black) passports back. You know, the ones that referred to Gibraltar as … you guessed it … a colony.