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00:00:18 <Nothing\> or i listen to CBC radio once in a while. There's a good science program they have on every so often. But it's all archived so there's no point waiting for them to broadcast an episode when I can listen to as many as I want.
00:00:32 <Nothing\> that sucks
00:00:44 <Nothing\> we've got tons of FM and AM stations here.
00:01:05 <Nothing\> but this is one of the most population-dense parts of canada. IT might as well be the 51st state
00:01:49 <Nothing\> surrounded on all sides by great lakes, then america. All the TV we got here save for a few channels was American. All of my friends on IRC were American. For all intents and purposes I am American.
00:02:26 <Nothing\> and the only Canadian channels weren't really worth watching
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00:02:36 <Nothing\> hey coppice how's it going my friend?
00:02:49 <Nothing\> or, as the afghani guy I used to live with would say
00:02:55 <Nothing\> coppice, HI HELLO HOW ARE YOU?!
00:02:58 Quit: coppice ([email protected]) Quit: Konversation terminated!
00:03:06 <Nothing\> aww i scared him
00:03:09 <Nothing\> i did bad :(
00:03:49 <Nothing\> lol sorry i took literally oodles of sedatives in preperation for my dentist appointment. So I'm a bit loopy.
00:04:06 <Nothing\> hence the talkativeness. It's like alcohol without the crappy effects.
00:04:18 <Nothing\> and a lot more amnesia
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00:04:43 * Nothing\ pokes coppice to make sure he's really there
00:05:38 <Nothing\> rofl my cats keep pouncing into the window trying to get the birds outside
00:05:46 <Nothing\> they're gonna concuss themselves one of these times
00:06:49 <coppice> I can confirm that I'm not really here
00:07:33 <Nothing\> coppice, it's okay i was a solipsist once so i agreed with you at one point.
00:08:00 <Nothing\> just so as not to presume knowledge, you know what a solipsist is, right? I feel like I've talked to you about it before.
00:08:26 <Nothing\> dead-end philosophy
00:08:46 <Nothing\> HOLY SHIT
00:08:55 <Nothing\> windows explorer has tabs!!!!!
00:09:00 <Nothing\> when the hell did that happen?
00:09:26 <Nothing\> it's about bloody time. I've only been saying it needs tabs for 10 years.
00:10:06 <coppice> I'm that brain in a jar guy. Yes, I am Steve Martin, and created The Man With Two Brains
00:10:53 <Nothing\> i never did watch that movie. But I've been meaning to watch The Jerk again for some time. Such a classic.
00:11:32 <Nothing\> "Son, I'm afraid you were adopted" "YOU MEAN I'M GONNA STAY THIS COLOR?!"
00:12:12 <Nothing\> just watched planes trains and automobiles for (Canadian) thanksgiving last year
00:12:48 <Nothing\> John Candy seemed like he was a guinely good guy. Just from the stories I heard from people who worked with him. Like Bruce Willis. I never heard a bad story about Bruce Willis.
00:13:50 <coppice> planes trains and automobiles isn't a great movie, but it has one great moment when the ticket seller tells Steve Martin he's fucked
00:14:00 <Nothing\> haha yeah that's classic
00:14:30 <Nothing\> but i agree, it wasn't the greatest of his movies. I just found the annoying stuff John Candy did to be... well... annoying, and not funny.
00:14:56 <Nothing\> and then in the end Steve Martin's expected to take pity on him just because he has nobody else (which would NEVER EVER EVER EVER happen IRL)
00:16:06 <Nothing\> which is another reason i stopped watching movies. They create unrealistic expectations of reality which when they are inevitably not met, lead to cognitive dissonance, disillusionment, frustration and a break in that all pervasive human-tendency to have control over every aspect of said reality.
00:18:04 <Nothing\> watching stuff like that and growing up as a well-to-do and very entitled brat of a kid, I expected that's how the world worked. You don't try and all like a stoner loser on a Pauly Shore type movie, and you'll still end up living in a nice house with a hot girl friend, despite having no job.
00:18:33 <Nothing\> I'll be honest, I didn't even know that a job was a necessity in real life. That's how out of touch I was as a child and even up until I was in my 20s
00:18:56 <Nothing\> after i lost said entitlement and well-to-do-ness
00:19:12 <Nothing\> got a big slap in the face from reality over and over and over again
00:19:44 <Nothing\> aaaanyways
00:19:50 <Nothing\> enough lamentations
00:20:26 <Nothing\> should probably figure out this autotune thing
00:22:06 <coppice> soon we'll be autotuning every real voice so it doesn't sound too much like an AI
00:22:57 <Kuschelpony> or because a non-autotuned voice would sound wrong, not matching the normal voices of the others
00:23:16 <Kuschelpony> you know the experiment with strawberry milk in the 90s ?
00:23:53 <coppice> I love these ads I keep getting where a creepy sounding AI voice tells me how I couldn't tell it from the real thing
00:24:51 <Kuschelpony> im looking for the day when AI passes the turing tests that humans fail
00:25:26 <coppice> actually, there is one of those ads with a woman's voice that really does sound very real. The rest are obviously synthetic
00:30:27 <Nothing\> rofl
00:30:44 <Nothing\> somebody actually added the tent city that the homeless folk are living in to google maps
00:31:10 <Nothing\> at first i thought maybe it was a poorly named store called tent city but nope, it's a homeless encampment
00:32:00 <Nothing\> coppice, weird, i've never had any ads with audio on them in like 15 years
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00:47:04 <Nothing\> d'oh
00:48:12 <Nothing\> here i've been transposing scales on my keyboard one by one by hand. I forgot my keyboard HAS a transpose function. I could just set it one step higher, then use a frequency detector app on my phone to tell me what tone it is
00:49:06 <Nothing\> i still wish i could figure out how to set an individual key a quarter tone higher but oh well. I guess that's if you have a real piano you can tune
00:55:18 <Nothing\> ugh i hate this "narcolepsy" where i just suddenly fall asleep without warning in a matter of seconds
01:06:38 <Nothing\> likely place this morning, innit?
01:07:08 <Nothing\> coppice, there's a new fad now where people autotune that "steamed hams" meme from the simpsons
01:07:32 <Nothing\> i dunno what the point of autotuning something literally monotonous though
01:08:36 <Nothing\> lol i was reading quore on the can the other day, and some guy claimed the reason we have 12 notes per octave is because the human ear can only distinguaish that many tones every time you double/half the frequency
01:08:53 <Nothing\> guess they never heard of quarter tones or semitones even
01:11:03 <Nothing\> coppice, three little maids from school are we
01:13:28 <coppice> Three little maids? Yum yum
01:21:04 <Nothing\> lol
01:21:45 <Nothing\> urgh this plugin "for audacity" according to this guide is just a .dll file. Which audacity won't load as a plugin. It wants a nyquist file.
01:22:26 <Nothing\> what i really want is something to make sidchip type chiptunes. A VST or something. I dunno much about electronic music.
01:22:44 <Nothing\> It seems like cheating because you don't have to know anything to make "music"
01:23:26 <Nothing\> i prefer playing in real time. Or at the very least, using my keyboard as a midi controller or something
01:23:56 <Nothing\> except my keyboard has no midi outputs, just usb :/
01:24:26 <Nothing\> i'd love a velocity sensitive, 88 key keyboard with a proper midi output. But 61 keys does pretty good
01:25:26 <Nothing\> heh and i got an idea for a sustain pedal for it yesterday. I was playing around and connected a jack to the sustain input and found if you short it, it sustains so long as it's shorted. So it's just a matter of making a foot pedal that shorts the ring and tip of the jack
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01:28:56 <Nothing\> hey there rudy, how's it going? =P
01:29:04 <Nothing\> or i guess, rudy jr
01:29:19 <Nothing\> rudy hess is long gone
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02:03:20 <rc_rc> nah, just a member of the argentine renaming program
02:03:48 * Ampera puts on boots to wade through the flood
03:32:06 <electrohead> lol
03:32:09 <electrohead> https://0xznc01.pw:2600/public/IMG_20230225_112509.jpg
03:32:13 <electrohead> $20 at the antique shop
03:32:15 <electrohead> <3
03:32:32 <rust6> whee
03:39:22 <electrohead> still works, too
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03:39:39 Mode: (by ChanOP) +o steve30
03:40:29 <electrohead> !beer steve30
03:40:29 * EEVBot bathes steve30 in beer
03:40:39 <steve30> :)
03:40:48 <rust6> yes, you should have a look inside that thing
03:40:57 <electrohead> oh totally
03:41:11 <electrohead> I'm going to clean up the case, remove that gunk that's falling off, and stain it
03:41:43 <electrohead> even though it works, I'm still going to replace the electrolytic caps in it
03:42:14 <electrohead> clean up the potentiometers, replace the power cord, and .. probably other things, lol
03:42:21 <electrohead> steve30: for reference - https://0xznc01.pw:2600/public/IMG_20230225_112509.jpg
03:42:28 <electrohead> just bought this today for $20
03:43:05 <rust6> well, that is so old that you might want to just check the caps, they might not be bad. unless it is those paper things
03:43:41 <steve30> cool
03:43:48 <steve30> Is that a magic eye tube it has?
03:44:43 <electrohead> to be honest, not sure, but it seems it, just a different variant
03:44:47 <electrohead> will have to read up on it, then
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03:54:42 <electrohead> so, it's starting to drift a tiny bit, after being powered for almost 30 minutes
03:55:10 <steve30> i think i'll go to the fish and chip shop
03:55:31 * electrohead offers home made foods
03:55:35 <steve30> mmm
03:55:41 <electrohead> I got a bunch of veggies earlier at the shops
03:55:51 <electrohead> also grabbed a case of beer - stop over :p
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04:55:52 <steve30> food was nice :)
04:55:55 <steve30> coffee time now
05:01:12 <electrohead> Pfft, grab a beer.
05:01:14 <electrohead> :p
05:15:31 <rc_rc> grab a bear. be a little bit less boring
05:21:39 * Ysjoelfir has nom food
05:22:33 * steve30 bear hugs rc_rc
05:22:35 <Ysjoelfir> (rc)² can testify to that
05:22:47 <rc_rc> it is true
05:22:59 <rc_rc> well, it looks like it is true, lol
05:25:12 <rc_rc> I am not really sure about gay law, but is a steve allowed to bear hug, or is hugging a bear seen as a bear hug? hmmm
05:26:33 <rc_rc> not that I know if I would be a good bear anyway
05:26:35 * steve30 isn't considered a "bear"
05:26:40 <rc_rc> right
05:26:46 <rc_rc> that is why I wonder
05:27:02 <rc_rc> are you allowed to do bear hugs
05:27:37 <steve30> hmm, i guess so
05:27:42 <rc_rc> ok then
05:34:31 <Ysjoelfir> steve would probably considered more like a twink I guess?
05:36:49 <steve30> At this point I'm probably heading more towards "average thirty-something year old person"
05:37:40 <Kuschelpony> be happy young one
05:37:58 <rust6> yes, you will grow up soon enough, lol
05:38:52 <rust6> ok, not really funny, but it will not take long
05:39:06 <rust6> has any of you been in andorra?
05:47:34 <rust6> no, ok
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05:58:40 * electrohead beers T3sl4
06:08:02 <rust6> https://ddr-rezepte.net/kartoffelpizza/
06:08:02 <EEVBot> [url] Kartoffelpizza » DDR-Rezept » einfach & genial! | ddr-rezepte.net
06:40:48 * electrohead borrows T3sl4's megaohmmeter
06:48:41 * T3sl4 pretzels electrohead
06:49:38 <electrohead> with cheese, I hope
06:50:13 <electrohead> hey, what are your thoughts on this? https://www.amazon.com/Klein-Tools-ET600-Megohmmeter-Insulation/dp/B07ZZX5TK8/
06:50:14 <EEVBot> [url] Klein Tools ET600 Multimeter, Megohmmeter Insulation Tester, 4000 Ohms Resistance, 125V/250V/500V/1000V, Auto-Ranging TRMS Multimeter - - Amazon.com | www.amazon.com
06:50:52 <T3sl4> you need a megger?
06:51:15 <T3sl4> well, sort of. voltages are kind of low for that
06:51:35 <electrohead> yeah I need a megger
06:53:06 <electrohead> I just don't have that kind of money right now
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06:54:29 <Nothing\> hey guys i've a question about jb weld.
06:54:44 <electrohead> nein.
06:54:59 <rust6> just don't
06:55:52 <rust6> well, ok, in your case, maybe you do want to try to snort it, with your nose ventilation system
06:56:05 <Nothing\> How exactly does it work? I was always under the impression from the name that it melts the plastic surfaces, which then re-solidify into one solid piece. Ie just like welding would.
06:56:28 <rust6> yes, especially when you use it on metal
06:56:58 <Kuschelpony> Nothing, its just a scam fooling you into thinking it holds as strong as a weld
06:57:07 <Nothing\> But after reading that it can be used on metals, porcelains and other sufaces like that I realized that can't be the case
06:57:17 <Kuschelpony> ok perhaps... i know welds that the glue certainly holds better :)
06:57:17 <rust6> right
06:58:18 <rust6> Now, I am not sure, but I just see it as a version of epoxy-like stuff
06:58:49 <Nothing\> that's what i'm beginning to think
06:59:06 <electrohead> pretty much
06:59:17 <electrohead> they also make "metal reinforced" jb weld
06:59:19 <electrohead> lol
07:00:27 <rust6> I like the mental reinforced one
07:00:28 <Nothing\> That sounds familair
07:00:46 <Nothing\> yeah that's what this is
07:00:55 <Nothing\> "cold weld steel re-inforced"
07:01:06 <Nothing\> *epoxy&
07:01:39 <rust6> I never really cared about what it is, it does work
07:01:40 <DHess_US> https://v.ylilauta.org/c8/44/c844564b2fe7c284.mp4
07:02:15 <Nothing\> DHess_US friend me good
07:02:53 <electrohead> DHess_US: Rofl.
07:04:28 <electrohead> T3sl4: I do have this on the way - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LW5UKQ6/ - so .. I can finally take that off the list of shit to get, lol
07:04:29 <EEVBot> [url] Sorry! Something went wrong! | www.amazon.com
07:08:30 <T3sl4> Nothing\: it's just epoxy, nothing more, nothing less. there is absolutely no welding going on
07:08:57 * electrohead epoxies a beer can to T3sl4's head
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07:54:07 <Zedax> hello there, i'm trying to build some light fixtures for a room, using some cree cob leds and constant current drivers, i got a kind of cheap but ok driver to test how hot do they get and how much current can the heatsink handle (the leds are rated for a maximum of 2A and the driver is 0.7A at 36v max (the led uses 34.4V at 0.7A), the thing is that it got a quite bad flicker, not visible to the eye but clear on any camera and makes you dizzy, i suspect is
07:54:08 <Zedax> pwm flicker from the driver itself and not AC ripple, now i'm looking around to get the final drivers (i'll be getting some that can give 0.9-1A) and i don't know how to make sure it won't have the flicker, the one im using now is a meanwell PLD-25-700, i also tried using some caps in parallel to the output to see if it would smooth the flicker but it changes nothing , at least up to 470uF that i got, do you know some good small drivers?
07:56:26 <steve30> I can't give you any model numbers off the top of my head, but you might want to look for the PWM frequency it uses, as a higher frequency would give less flicker.
07:58:44 <Zedax> the problem is they don't say the pwm frequency on any model i have seen, i have seen some meanwell that they say "flicker free" like the IDLC-45-1050
07:58:44 <Zedax> , but they don't really give any detail on what do they mean with that, since on paper they seem the same as other models
07:59:49 <steve30> I'm guessing flicker free will mean you can't see the flicker. It may be a different story with a camera.
08:03:49 <jaymax> Or it's an ad-supported image-sharing tier.
08:25:49 * electrohead viciously beers jaymax
08:26:14 * jaymax appreciates
08:26:18 <jaymax> <3
08:27:14 <electrohead> I'm about to season my new cast iron skillet
08:27:41 <electrohead> I can tell it's been used, so I scrubbed it pretty good, and now a seasoning needs to happen
08:27:53 * Ampera ceramic coats electrohead's skillet
08:27:54 <Ampera> >:)
08:27:59 <jaymax> I'm about to head back upstairs and work with one of my Le Potats.
08:28:04 * electrohead stabs Ampera with love
08:28:07 <Ampera> I'm playing around with my rockbox'd ipod
08:28:19 <electrohead> how do you like rockbox?
08:28:26 * electrohead works jaymax
08:28:37 <electrohead> Zedax: welcome to the channel, by the way.
08:28:57 <jaymax> From earlier. White SBC. https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/djpdJ36rtQ0pAazY/MeCs0M3VSN6VzorCWJqYbA.jpg
08:28:58 <Ampera> electrohead, it's great, actually. It can't play opus yet, but from the commit log it looks like it's being worked on
08:29:02 <Ampera> it plays it, but it stutters
08:29:07 <Ampera> but I get gapless FLAC and AAC playback.
08:29:36 <electrohead> Hell yeah. Yeah I eventually want to get an older yet (hardware) feature-packed MP3 player, and rockbox it
08:29:56 <Ampera> tbh, this 3rd gen is really good with this on
08:30:01 <Ampera> It's got an extended battery, and flash modded
08:30:12 <Ampera> From what I can tell, it might have something like a 12 or 16 hour battery life
08:30:15 <electrohead> Oh nice
08:30:24 <electrohead> jaymax: you need to change your hostname :p
08:30:30 <Ampera> The meter on the default firmware is broken, because this is a 1050mAh battery (larger than stock)
08:30:48 <electrohead> What gen ipod is that, again?
08:30:56 <Ampera> 3rd gen
08:31:11 <jaymax> I did already, but have yet to rebootify.
08:31:20 <Ampera> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic#/media/File:3G_ipod_in_dock.jpg
08:31:21 <EEVBot> Ampera: Error fetching section "/media/File:3G_ipod_in_dock.jpg" for page "IPod Classic".
08:31:22 <Ampera> one of these
08:31:45 <Ampera> I really love how they look. The touch controls actually work better than they do on the 4th gens, and they sound pretty good with higher impedance headphone like my 80ohm DT770's
08:32:33 <Ampera> Their only quirk is they can't charge from USB. You can bypass most of that, and you basically only need iTunes to set it up for the very first time. You don't even need to restore over firewire, you can do that manually
08:32:54 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/R51ZiNQFDjfcpht6/mrdZhf2WTXGzPdxVoAW1og.jpg
08:32:56 <Ampera> Mine's been flash modded with 128GB of storage
08:43:13 <electrohead> Ampera: Good to know, I'll keep that in mind, maybe I'll go with an iPod, and just modify the hell out of it lol
08:43:21 <electrohead> Also - I'm so sorry to post this .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWpQ5KdOQA4
08:43:21 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Fool's Gold Loaf Sausage (aka The Elvis Sandwich) | 4m 27s | Channel: Ordinary Sausage | 91,118 views | 2023-02-24 - 17:15:03UTC
08:43:39 <Ampera> Get a 4th gen mono and iFlash adapter if you're just starting out. Don't go for the cheap adapters, rockbox doesn't like them.
08:43:55 <Ampera> Having a firewire mac with iTunes is a good idea, even if it's ancient.
08:44:26 <Ampera> https://eoe.works/ I got my pods from here. He's fairly good, they're all working/refurbished pods with new batteries.
08:44:26 <EEVBot> [url] Elite Obsolete Electronics | eoe.works
08:45:36 <Ampera> If you're gonna flash mod it, get the cheapest/smallest one they have. I think they all have max size batts anyways, but I could be wrong
08:45:46 <Ampera> if you get a bigger one, you can probably find your own battery and mod your own even more than what it has.
08:47:31 <electrohead> Yeah fair
08:47:33 <electrohead> Thanks
08:49:59 <T3sl4> "steve30 returns from the shops" https://imgur.com/gallery/ytubYXx
08:49:59 <EEVBot> [url] Smudge Helping with the Groceries - Album on Imgur | imgur.com
08:50:46 * steve30 meows at T3sl4
09:03:03 <rust6> https://i.imgur.com/UgFVXFA_d.webp?maxwidth=520&shape=thumb&fidelity=high
09:05:30 <steve30> For some reason the town hall has the Progress Pride flag flying at half mast
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09:34:59 <rust6> oh, steve30
09:35:20 <rust6> maybe it is this? https://i.imgur.com/V6dIpqg_d.webp?maxwidth=520&shape=thumb&fidelity=high
10:03:14 <steve30> I had to reboot my Raspberry Pi PBX today
10:04:01 <steve30> Not sure what the ultimate uptime was but it must have managed at least 6 months
10:07:00 <electrohead> NSFW? https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/11bobhn/japanese_taiko_master/
10:07:03 <EEVBot> [reddit] Japanese Taiko Master (https://v.redd.it/uagld6c8feka1) to r/funny [NSFW] | 16444 points (89.0%) | 769 comments | Posted by Previous_Breakfast99 | Created at 2023-02-25 - 10:59:19EST
10:35:37 <Ampera> ew
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11:21:58 <arch> how do you do, fellow furries?
11:27:33 * jaymax looks arounds
11:31:21 <arch> fellow...uhmm...republicans?
11:34:12 <Ampera> guilty as charged
11:34:23 <Ampera> bisexual trans republican
11:34:28 <Ampera> living in NY
11:37:00 <electrohead> lol
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12:17:32 <arch> lol
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12:43:51 <Halcyon> Afternoon all
12:44:06 * Ampera hugs Halcyon
12:44:14 * Halcyon cuddles Ampera tightly
12:44:22 <Ampera> How are you doing friend?
12:44:35 <Halcyon> Yeh not too bad, lazy Sunday, how about you?
12:44:45 <Ampera> stuffed full of curry
12:44:54 <Halcyon> Yummm, what kind of curry ?
12:44:59 <Ampera> japanese duck curry
12:45:22 <Ampera> made it myself with those roux cube package thingies
12:46:59 <Halcyon> Oh yum, yeh those Japanese curry blocks are delicious
12:47:05 <Halcyon> I love duck as well
12:47:10 <Halcyon> (Shutup T3sl4)
12:47:27 <Ampera> I had to debone an entire whole duck to make it :)
12:47:39 <Ampera> I can now say I have cut a duck's spine out with scissors
12:47:48 <Halcyon> You maniac :P
12:48:22 <Ampera> I just ordered a CD, which is coming from Ukraine
12:48:27 <Halcyon> I've been looking at Tindie and there are some really lovely retrocomputing projects/products that I want
12:48:34 <Halcyon> What's on the CD?
12:49:01 <Ampera> https://youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZFXFQ_ZIM&list=OLAK5uy_kc5pW3FRbPHk1_AUw0YeKPgmn9TNIS6ts
12:49:01 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Album - The Gates of Oblivion | Automatic Playlist/Mix
12:49:04 <Ampera> that is
12:49:15 <Halcyon> https://www.tindie.com/products/siliconinsider/rainbowram-6x-256kb-68-pin-vram-simm-macintosh/
12:49:16 <EEVBot> [url] RainbowRAM 6x 256kB 68-pin VRAM SIMM Macintosh from Siliconinsider on Tindie | www.tindie.com
12:49:19 <Halcyon> Gay RAM
12:50:01 <EEVBot> Temporary error talking to YouTube: The read operation timed out
12:51:18 <Ampera> I actually had to pay a decent amount of money for it (25 euros)
12:51:47 <Halcyon> I don't mind paying a bit extra for artists I like (or small independant artists)
12:51:57 <Halcyon> I bought one of Jazz Emu's albums
12:52:20 <Ampera> Most artists in power metal are fairly smell.
12:52:30 <Ampera> Not sure how independent, but it's not a massively popular genre.
12:54:09 <Halcyon> I'm tempted to buy a couple of these
12:54:09 <Halcyon> https://www.tindie.com/products/theoldnet/rs232-serial-wifi-modem-for-vintage-computers-v4/
12:54:10 <EEVBot> [url] RS232 Serial Wifi Modem for Vintage Computers V4 from The Old Net on Tindie | www.tindie.com
12:56:41 <Ampera> Halcyon, this is what I have on CD so far https://www.discogs.com/user/Amperaa/collection
12:56:41 <EEVBot> [url] Amperaa / Collection | www.discogs.com
12:57:01 <Halcyon> I don't regonise any of those artists
12:57:11 <Ampera> hehehe
12:57:18 <Ampera> it's all good
12:57:33 * Halcyon cuddles Ampera some more
12:57:37 <Halcyon> I'm feeling a bit sooky today
12:57:38 <Ampera> I think my favorite on that list is probably The Hall of the Olden Dreams, and maybe Pristine in Bondage
12:57:43 <Ampera> you sooker
12:59:24 <Ampera> Want to have a call Halcyon?
13:00:25 <Halcyon> Maybe a bit later, my other half is around studying for an exam, so I'm trying to be quiet
13:00:56 <Ampera> is he studying for a rectal exam?
13:01:06 <Halcyon> Hahaha Sergeant's exam, so yeh, kinda :P
13:01:38 <Ampera> ah, how to be a bigger asshole
13:01:51 <Halcyon> Same asshole, more money
13:05:04 <Ampera> I ate raw clams again today
13:05:14 <Ampera> we'll see if I end up blasting out of both ends from them again :D
13:05:55 <Halcyon> Hahaha
13:06:01 <Halcyon> You're a glutton for punishment
13:07:23 <Ampera> I honestly don't think it was the clams last time
13:07:28 <Ampera> I think that was just an unhappy coincidence
13:07:53 <Halcyon> You'll find out pretty soon
13:08:02 <Halcyon> Usually that kind of thing happens hours after eating
13:08:13 <Ampera> It happened a couple days after
13:08:19 <Ampera> and it's been hours already
13:08:29 <Halcyon> You'll be fine
13:08:41 <Ampera> good
13:08:42 <Ampera> I want more now
13:09:02 <Ampera> /so good/
13:11:43 <Halcyon> Hehe
13:12:52 <Halcyon> https://www.tindie.com/products/helloworld/memtech-intel-bpk-70az-5-magnetic-bubble-memory/
13:12:53 <EEVBot> [url] Memtech (Intel) BPK-70AZ-5 Magnetic Bubble Memory from Bits Of The Golden Age on Tindie | www.tindie.com
13:12:56 <Halcyon> That is pretty cool
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13:32:57 <steve30> your boyfriend is a policeman?
13:33:52 <Halcyon_> He is
13:36:02 * steve30 wonders if Halcyon_ has a uniform fetish
13:36:41 <Halcyon_> Hahah no, not at all
13:39:58 <Halcyon_> I just ordered some things from Tindie
13:41:28 <Halcyon_> I got a diag cartridge and harness for the Commodore 64/128, some Dallas RTCs boards with removable button cells and some Apple PRAM replacements with a CR2032 holder that fits in the 1/2 AA holder
13:42:59 Nick: Halcyon_ is now known as Halcyon
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13:43:30 <steve30> Where does halycon keep finding these boyfriends? Maybe I need to look harder for one.
13:44:09 <Halcyon> Actually we've known each other for about 4 years, we hit it off straight away and last year we decided to make it "official".
13:44:27 <Halcyon> It was about 6-7 months after Mark and I broke up
13:44:36 <Halcyon> But Mark was a cunt
13:46:47 <Ampera> I like cunts :)
13:46:54 <Ampera> and dicks
13:49:06 <Halcyon> Yeh but he was an extremely narcissistic cunt
13:49:24 <Halcyon> Blamed a lot of his behavour on others and when that didn't work, he blamed his anxiety/depression.
13:49:57 <Halcyon> But ultimately, he was just a fucking asshole. It takes a while for people's true colours to come out sometimes
13:50:21 * steve30 wants a cute boyfriend to snuggle up with
13:55:17 <Halcyon> Awww Steve
13:55:20 <Halcyon> *hugs*
13:55:35 <Halcyon> You would make a lovely partner, why someone hasn't snapped you up is beyond me
13:55:42 <Halcyon> Are you on any of the apps?
13:56:11 <steve30> Do these "apps" run on Slackware?
13:56:39 <Halcyon> Grindr? No
13:56:42 <Ampera> no, because they're used by normies to find normies
13:56:56 <Halcyon> You might be able to run it under that Android emulator? Forget the name
13:57:06 <Ampera> android emulator isn't slackware
13:57:08 <Ampera> git out
13:57:19 <Halcyon> *smirk*
14:00:25 <jaymax> `anbox`
14:01:43 <Ampera> anbox isn't an android emulator actually
14:01:45 <Ampera> it's a container system
14:02:08 <jaymax> Also only for running Android apps to find lesbians.
14:03:12 <jaymax> Noone cares about using the Android SDK stack.
14:04:36 <jaymax> Also pick a damn lane Ampera
14:04:45 <Ampera> huh?
14:05:25 <jaymax> > android emulator isn't slackware
14:05:26 <jaymax> > anbox isn't an android emulator actually
14:05:26 <jaymax> You're caring too much about emulation
14:06:11 <jaymax> I'm suggesting the product based on purpose, not splitting hairs on someone else's semantics.
14:06:12 <Ampera> sounds like you're caring too damn much about whatever the hell I'm saying
14:06:30 <jaymax> Eat a clit
14:06:33 <Ampera> this all really sounds like a you problem
14:06:52 <Ampera> I would but I just had clams
14:07:00 <Ampera> salty and fishy all at once
14:07:10 <Ampera> slurped em good
14:07:33 <jaymax> Diarrhea time comes again?
14:07:50 <jaymax> LOL
14:09:29 <Ampera> idk, maybe for you
14:10:08 <Halcyon> Hey jaymax, what's doing?
14:10:15 <Halcyon> Apart from giving Ampera the shits
14:10:28 <Ampera> solid going here idk what you're on about
14:10:40 <Halcyon> Like a steaming loaf?
14:11:56 <jaymax> Swapped out a RPi3 for a LePotato - still have an Adafruit Display Kippah to sort out, overlay-wise, but performance-wise it still seems capable.
14:12:37 <jaymax> Also 2W less for power budget compared to before, which was tight.
14:13:56 <jaymax> 3B made it nearly 3yrs ago (past few months it was sending warnings); trying with a 3B+ was too much for the setup.
14:14:55 <jaymax> But the small space was also a scorher to its detriment - the heatsink adhesive of the 3B scorched.
14:15:14 <Halcyon> What's this for?
14:16:32 <jaymax> Some people do "smart mirrors" - I gutted an old security panel for an OpenHAB dashboard.
14:16:49 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/F7YhZzDoiKyeG0IV/AZaP8frQSHe_Ro-58Ze-4A.jpg
14:17:02 <jaymax> ^heat sunk
14:19:21 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/OJ5voyrNdeAWbxAD/IMG_20200507_205943.jpg
14:19:39 <jaymax> ^from way back then
14:20:17 <Halcyon> That looks really neat
14:20:33 <Halcyon> Do the physical buttons do anything?
14:21:20 <jaymax> They are connected to GPIO #24 and #25 but I did nothing to them in software.
14:21:58 <Halcyon> Did you disabled the mouse pointer in later revisions?
14:22:26 <steve30> I think i'll go back to bed
14:22:44 * Halcyon hugs steve30
14:23:06 <Halcyon> *disable
14:23:08 <jaymax> I did at one point but the display has such a small resolution that I brought it back to help with my touch accuracy.
14:24:01 <Halcyon> Ahh copy
14:24:25 <jaymax> 4.3" with a 480x272 resolution IIRC
14:24:52 <jaymax> .... versus my fat fingers. :^D
14:25:26 <Halcyon> You need a special dialling wand
14:25:31 <jaymax> LOL
14:25:56 <jaymax> BUT WHRES THE ANY KEY?!?
14:26:08 <Halcyon> CTRL, Pig-up
14:26:27 * Ampera fsyncs Halcyon
14:26:35 * Ampera unmounts Halcyon
14:26:41 * Halcyon falls over
14:26:46 <Ampera> good
14:27:05 <Ampera> my script that transcodes my music into aac broke and didn't clone metadata for some reason
14:27:12 <Ampera> so I'd put a load of music on my iPod with all broken metadata
14:27:16 <Ampera> so now I get to replace it :)
14:27:33 <Ampera> so I'm waiting for the f's to sync
14:28:26 * Halcyon gives Ampera two f's
14:29:19 * jaymax runs away with one
14:30:27 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/JxX-cPfK8QoXYZi2/IMG_20220103_210500.jpg
14:30:45 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/-H6zn3a-_D0m_xW-/IMG_20220221_100051.jpg
14:30:45 * Ampera had chomped off a bit with it, leaving jaymax to run off with an L
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15:04:14 <Halcyon> https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-catholic-high-school-student-suspended-then-arrested-for-saying-there-are-only-two-genders
15:04:14 <EEVBot> [url] Student arrested at Catholic school after saying there are two genders | Toronto Sun | torontosun.com
15:04:18 <Halcyon> Is this for real?
15:04:27 <Halcyon> It's too early for April fool's
15:37:38 <jaymax> Its Catholicism where there is only one gender. Police arrest anyone who declares fewer than 78.
15:38:39 <Halcyon> I mean he was arrested for trespass after being expelled, but seriously?
15:38:52 <Halcyon> He should have been told to leave and been given a warning if he returned.
15:39:02 <Halcyon> But the expulsion thing is a load of shit too.
15:39:37 <Halcyon> If people want to have certain views, even if they are a little misguided, then so be it
15:40:28 <jaymax> Catholic's simply know when to punish without revealing their hand - because often enough they are holding child wee's.
15:41:18 <jaymax> Speaking of nonces. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/las-soros-da-suspends-prosecutor-misgendering-child-molester-accused-murder
15:41:19 <EEVBot> [url] LA's Soros DA Suspends Prosecutor For 'Misgendering' Child Molester Accused Of Murder | ZeroHedge | www.zerohedge.com
15:42:31 <Halcyon> What a load of shite
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15:47:12 <jaymax> Cultural rot.
15:53:15 <jaymax> When the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War over, the western world rested on their laurels. We won, we were among the global force exerting its "freedom" everywhere the sun shone.
15:53:15 <jaymax> Hubris does not allow one to sit at the top for long. It has been a slow cultural decline since 2001; decline of social cohesion since 2013; and an excavation of personal wealth since the 1980's.
15:54:17 <jaymax> Grow food.
16:43:20 * Halcyon yawns
17:30:22 <ibiza> stop it, your making me wet!
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19:10:14 * electrohead pokes Halcyon
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23:25:57 <Halcyon> https://twitter.com/itimaliasof/status/1629282187102003201
23:25:58 <EEVBot> [Twitter] iti malias (@itimaliasof): https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1629282162779324416/pu/vid/480x852/qKGvSVZW5S9jOsDu.mp4?tag=12 | 37199 RTs | 263882 ♥s | Posted: 2023-02-25 - 11:48:38AEDT
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23:35:32 <jaymax> Anti-cheat method? If you pop in the Konami code it pees on the carpet.
23:35:45 <Halcyon> Hahahaha
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