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04:59:57 <MrMobodies> Hello
05:00:27 <rust7> HElO
05:00:43 <MrMobodies> I found in an article today from the Guardian that "Sunak also claimed that half his office staff at No 10 were from Northern Ireland."
05:01:03 <MrMobodies> I knew there must be an incentive
05:01:17 <MrMobodies> for that Northern Island deal but there were many problems with it
05:01:25 <MrMobodies> so in that case it maybe justified
05:01:25 <rust7> his staff is 2 people, the rest are temp workers
05:01:33 <MrMobodies> aah I see
05:01:40 <MrMobodies> his Northern Ireland staff
05:01:46 <MrMobodies> ohh dinner prepared be back soon
05:01:54 <MrMobodies> but hereis ther article:
05:01:54 <MrMobodies> https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/feb/28/rishi-sunak-uk-eu-northern-ireland-deal-brexit-tories-labour-politics-live
05:01:55 <EEVBot> [url] Brexit: Rishi Sunak accused of ‘moonlighting as a remainer’ over Northern Ireland remarks – live | Politics | The Guardian | www.theguardian.com
05:21:30 <coppice> Rishi Sunak is moonlighting as a democratically elected prime minister
05:38:30 <MrMobodies> I don't think he was democratically elected in by the public
05:38:38 <MrMobodies> more of his party members
05:39:48 <MrMobodies> aah Coppice I see you are in England too so you'd know all about it
05:42:02 <coppice> I wouldn't put it past him to have got his finance buddies to have destabilized things, so the more broadly elected Liz Truss was ousted
05:43:14 <coppice> It does look like a lot of ordinary tory party members are now deselecting the MPs who put him in power
06:01:07 Quit: DHess_US ([email protected]) Quit: Later Synapsid Tetrapods
06:02:07 <MrMobodies> I see, now they want to remove him. It seems they can't decide what they want.
06:02:56 <MrMobodies> oh so his friends plotted against Truss
06:03:32 <rust7> Maybe they are not all bad after all
06:04:06 <MrMobodies> Joke: They seem to become bad after election time and the more times they win.
06:04:42 <MrMobodies> When it is voting day: I ask myself, which DEMON do I want to vote for?
06:06:16 <coppice> I think a lot more people get voted out than voted in
06:06:43 <rust7> probably
06:15:12 <Ampera> Should coin the term musical parliament
06:15:27 <Ampera> seats change whenever the music stops, and whoever's left standing is fucked
07:10:51 <MrMobodies> I heard the term "musical chairs" when Truss left.
07:11:37 <MrMobodies> Does any of you have L.E.D strips and can you recommend some with drivers that don't clicker?
07:11:45 <MrMobodies> oops *flicker
07:11:51 <MrMobodies> I also want to dim them too
07:12:05 <MrMobodies> I came up with this: https://i.imgur.com/cU2aIQ7.jpg
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07:12:38 <MrMobodies> that I scrapped from some LED torches due to the rubber
07:12:51 <MrMobodies> but I know they don't flicker
07:13:02 <MrMobodies> and not too bright to look at
07:13:03 <MrMobodies> https://imgur.com/a/I9neU64
07:13:04 <EEVBot> [url] L.e.d modification for audio mixer cabinet - Album on Imgur | imgur.com
07:13:35 <MrMobodies> or do you think I should buy more of them and modify them in the same way to use as LED strips?
07:14:39 <MrMobodies> I know it looks odd but they seem to do the job perfectly.
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09:42:48 <arch> going to run some transient load tests on a buck regulator section. even though the tps562201 datasheet lists 3.3uH as the minimum inductance for 5V output, i used a 2.2uH inductor (what i had in 4040 footprint). wonder if it'll show anything wonky
10:04:42 * T3sl4 zaps arch
10:06:27 * arch 's wiener tingles
10:16:43 <T3sl4> Halcyon: https://i.imgur.com/hD2Hxuz.jpeg
10:25:00 <Halcyon> Heheheh, I love Chicken Thoughts T3sl4
10:25:10 <T3sl4> *nods*
10:38:46 <steve30> hi
10:42:12 <Halcyon> Hey Steve
10:43:32 <gremlinz> hi Kumquats
10:43:52 <electrohead> o/
10:43:55 <Halcyon> Yo
10:43:59 <electrohead> Yo stud
10:46:22 <arch> pssh, parakeets can't bite hard enough to draw blood
10:46:26 <arch> i had 3 parakeets
10:46:36 <arch> you need a parrot at least
10:53:55 Quit: Erlend^SE ([email protected]) Ping timeout: 121 seconds
11:04:14 <jaymax> > you need a potat at least
11:04:15 <jaymax> FTFY
11:04:45 <jaymax> > Yo spud
11:04:45 <jaymax> FTFY
11:30:15 <electrohead> lol
11:36:16 * Ampera sneezes
11:36:22 <Ampera> my CD from ukraine shipped :)
11:50:14 <arch> what about a mail order android cat girl waifu from ukraine?
12:03:32 <Ampera> arch, obviously I'd never import such a thing
12:03:36 <Ampera> customs would steal it for themselves in an instant
12:14:08 <arch> =(
12:14:20 <jaymax> Oh, so "CD" *isn't* "caucasian dominatrix"?
12:15:02 <jaymax> Or maybe is it's "cum doll" instead?
12:15:19 <Ampera> power metal on a saucer
12:15:27 <jaymax> Also with a hole.
12:16:19 <Ampera> I fill the holes on my CDs in with bondo and play them on a flat turntable to improve temporal distortion and fix noise response
12:16:56 <jaymax> I fill them with that spindle peg so for each their own.
12:31:23 <coppice> Ampera: Is this a CD of Putin to Death Metal?
12:31:34 <Ampera> Sadly not
12:33:18 <jaymax> Then, Bandera-worship?
12:33:45 <Ampera> https://www.discogs.com/release/1324863-Dark-Moor-The-Gates-Of-Oblivion
12:33:46 <EEVBot> [url] Dark Moor – The Gates Of Oblivion (2002, CD) - Discogs | www.discogs.com
12:34:09 <jaymax> Good vintage
12:34:15 <Ampera> 2 months after I was born
12:34:35 <jaymax> Great....
12:34:43 <Ampera> Feel old. I dare you.
12:34:49 * jaymax can say the same about the Commodore 64.
12:35:10 <Ampera> At least my parents have most of a decade on you.
12:35:38 <jaymax> Mmmmhmm
12:36:02 <Ampera> I spent a whopping 25 euros on it. I particularly like the album, though.
12:36:13 <Ampera> also discogs is a disease
12:36:44 <jaymax> Are euro's atill at parity to the dollar?
12:38:18 <Ampera> I think the USD on my card was about 26-27USD
12:38:19 <Ampera> so close to it
12:39:32 <jaymax> Ah yeah. Spot $26.5475 to 25EUR
12:40:18 <Ampera> 26.23USD, but it was a bit under 25 EUR
12:40:24 <Ampera> and that's mastercard's rate (my CU doesn't have their own)
12:40:53 * electrohead splooges gatorade all over jaymax, makes Ampera film, and T3sl4 to clean up the mess
12:41:06 <jaymax> Credit card issue their own seperate charge?
12:41:23 <Ampera> Some may take a foreign transaction fee
12:41:30 <jaymax> Did yours?
12:41:30 <Ampera> though by my impression it's usually the shit cards that do
12:41:35 <Ampera> No
12:41:49 <jaymax> The shit cars build it into the exchange rate.
12:42:03 <jaymax> The chit cards, too.
12:42:13 <Ampera> The only shit thing my card does is freeze whenever I make a transaction to anything vaguely foreign
12:42:13 <jaymax> Also shit cards.
12:42:16 <Ampera> except this one mysteriously
12:42:27 <Ampera> they freeze my card every single month when I pay my hetzner bill
12:42:42 <jaymax> It's getting used to your aversion from piracy.
12:43:12 <Ampera> It would be an interesting court case to prove that I pirate music. I download it off youtube music using yt-dlp
12:43:23 <Ampera> technically I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm just keeping the music I listen to
12:43:38 <Ampera> but I do enjoy owning physical media
12:44:39 <jaymax> Well, it's not about winning/losing a court case there - it's being bled out during the entire Kafka-esque process.
12:44:50 <arch> huh...not sure if this is a good looking transient waveform, but it sure as hell seems fast. https://imgur.com/a/ylC64LX
12:44:50 <EEVBot> [url] Imgur: The magic of the Internet | imgur.com
12:44:51 <Ampera> oh, don't worry
12:44:59 <jaymax> Oh I'm not.
12:45:00 <Ampera> I have "legal insurance" from my employer :)
12:45:18 <electrohead> https://imgur.com/gallery/MFGbxD1
12:45:18 <EEVBot> [url] Happy cakes #imgur14 - Album on Imgur | imgur.com
12:45:38 <jaymax> Until you miss too much work and get fired but anyway...
12:47:38 Quit: coppice ([email protected]) Quit: Konversation terminated!
12:47:58 <jaymax> electrohead: what TF?
12:48:23 <jaymax> Who has names that long?
12:49:07 <jaymax> Or is it *slow talking maurice* introducing himself to the UBS guy from MadTV?
12:50:37 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/9GaTNohL5iXq6Imm/RECORDING_20230228_215000662.m4a
12:50:50 <electrohead> Lmao
12:50:56 <electrohead> I have no idea :p
12:52:09 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/du9_s4Pl33yZEix9/_nFSQoRNRA-fhH7kJXU1zA.jpg
12:52:23 <electrohead> Wtf did I just listen to
12:52:33 <jaymax> *slow talking maurice*
12:52:44 <electrohead> Lol
13:00:48 <jaymax> I also have Karl Rove quotes to recite in Palpatine-style sometime, too.
13:01:54 <jaymax> https://files.maxuel.compy.ca:5281/upload/JY134EXBfUF-4QjD/RECORDING_20230228_220123446.m4a
13:18:05 <MrMobodies> Hello
13:19:46 <MrMobodies> Sounds like something out of a film
13:26:10 * Halcyon offers electrohead his nuts
13:28:42 * Ampera hugs Halcyon
13:28:42 <Ampera> <3
13:28:47 <Halcyon> YAY!
13:28:54 <Halcyon> There are plenty of nuts for you too Ampera
13:29:04 <Halcyon> It's quite a sizable bunch
13:29:06 <Ampera> no thanks
13:29:19 <Halcyon> Suit yourself
13:29:19 <Ampera> I'm on a roast beef diet as of recent >:)
13:29:31 <Halcyon> Hahah fair enough
13:29:55 <Ampera> how are you doing Halcyon
13:30:05 <Halcyon> Yeh not too bad
13:30:08 <Halcyon> How are you?
13:30:46 <Ampera> tired
13:31:02 <Halcyon> Nawww
13:31:03 <Ampera> I need to head to the harmacy tomorrow
13:32:43 <Halcyon> Getting anything good?
13:33:18 <Ampera> hormones and anti-hormones
13:33:51 <Halcyon> Fair enough
13:33:51 <Ampera> they're having a sale on magnesium cuboids
13:33:57 <Ampera> so maybe I will get magnesium cuboids
13:34:03 <Ampera> I like magnesium cuboids
13:34:13 <Halcyon> OK then?
13:34:43 <Halcyon> I feel like you would enjoy a shop like Omega Mart
13:34:49 <Ampera> m a g n e s i u m c u b o i d s
13:34:50 <Ampera> I do
13:34:52 <Ampera> I like their stuff
13:34:57 <Ampera> the lemons with eyes
13:35:00 <Ampera> the demonic possessions
13:35:05 <Halcyon> Heheh
13:35:06 <Ampera> the tattooed hams
13:46:12 <electrohead> you call for me?
13:46:22 * electrohead tugs on Halcyon's nuts
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14:26:21 * steve30 meows at Halcyon
14:41:34 <steve30> Perhaps I should go to town on the bus later
16:25:00 <MrMobodies> any interesting ships in the town?
16:25:09 <MrMobodies> *shops
16:36:40 <steve30> not really
17:08:51 * DogWomble peers in
17:10:44 <steve30> o/
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17:53:23 <Ysjoelfir> mornings
17:58:07 <DHess_US> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/cNOFjEqA/1677652434.JPG
17:59:22 <Ysjoelfir> hey, I have the same bow!
18:00:04 <MrMobodies> going shooting?
18:00:41 <MrMobodies> I mean with the bow and arrow
18:05:30 <Ysjoelfir> rarely, but from time to time
18:10:14 <K> hello 180k apartments
18:12:24 * steve30 still has a cough
19:20:42 <MrMobodies> does the cough affect you when you lie down?
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19:30:41 <watcher> Hello
19:34:36 <steve30> nope
19:34:44 <steve30> i'd say its better when i lie down
19:42:30 <Halcyon> Evening hot dogs
19:43:06 * steve30 has curry
19:43:11 <Halcyon> Yummm
19:51:01 <steve30> the big scratch across the middle of this monitor is quite annoying
19:55:59 <Halcyon> Aww
19:58:51 <Halcyon> https://twitter.com/malwrhunterteam/status/1630555759359533056/photo/1
19:58:51 <EEVBot> [Twitter] MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam): 😂 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqDjoauXgAIV6kw.png | 143 RTs | 699 ♥s | Posted: 2023-03-01 - 00:09:21AEDT
20:01:06 <steve30> hehe
20:02:53 Quit: watcher ([email protected]) Quit: Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
20:16:49 * Halcyon hugs steve30
20:18:01 <steve30> *purr*
20:54:31 * steve30 wants a shower
21:55:41 <steve30> i think i'll go to bed
21:56:25 <K> bed is nice.
21:59:00 <Halcyon> I should think about bed
21:59:38 * jaymax thoughgt about bread instead
21:59:44 <Halcyon> Mmmm baked goods
22:00:48 <jaymax> Toast with potat and eggs
22:01:14 <Halcyon> Maybe a little dusting of curry powder?
22:01:48 <jaymax> Red madras paste in this case
22:02:35 <Halcyon> Delicious
22:03:03 <jaymax> I believe so. Certainly works for me.
22:05:30 <Halcyon> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qURmdmgCCOI
22:05:30 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Chinese Takeout Fried Rice Secrets Revealed | 13m 8s | Channel: Jason Farmer | 6,117,982 views | 2022-10-22 - 14:00:24UTC
22:05:33 <Halcyon> I want this
22:34:33 <Ysjoelfir> I want you as well, Halcyon <3
22:34:42 <Halcyon> Awwww :)
23:02:34 * Ampera kisses Halcyon
23:02:37 <Ampera> how are you doing Ysjoelfir?
23:02:39 <Halcyon> YAY!
23:02:45 <Ampera> and also Halcyon
23:02:48 <Ampera> who is somehow not in bed yet
23:05:54 <K> he was waiting for you
23:06:33 * Ampera attacks K with some halva
23:06:54 <K> acceptable.
23:06:56 <K> a thank.
23:07:03 <Ampera> <3
23:07:09 <Ampera> how are you doing K
23:07:14 <T3sl4> Ampera: BUN https://imgur.com/gallery/VvlMWpa
23:07:14 <EEVBot> [url] I love bunnies and vegetables - Album on Imgur | imgur.com
23:07:24 <Ampera> I CONCUR
23:07:25 <Ampera> BUN
23:07:25 <Ampera> :D
23:08:31 * T3sl4 slaps K around with a wet lettuce leaf
23:08:35 * electrohead films
23:08:44 * Ampera injects lethal amounts of tea into electrohead's face
23:08:56 <electrohead> I'm too tired to fight back, you win this time lol
23:09:09 <Ampera> \o/
23:09:09 <EEVBot> I
23:09:10 <EEVBot> } [
23:09:33 <electrohead> stick man roars!
23:09:35 <Ampera> it was a feint anyways, I've yet to make any
23:09:40 <electrohead> lol
23:09:51 <T3sl4> wait, that's illegal
23:10:17 <Ampera> So is fun, yet the NY militia has yet to crack down on my having it from time to time
23:22:16 <Ysjoelfir> Ampera, I am pretty good, thanks. you?
23:22:26 <Ampera> tired
23:22:27 <Ampera> wired
23:22:30 <Ampera> but not desired
23:22:38 <Ysjoelfir> I am sure Halcyon desires you
23:23:03 <K> get back to work you lazy bums
23:23:11 <Ampera> no fuck you
23:23:23 <Ampera> imma go make a tea
23:23:33 <K> 403
23:23:53 <Ysjoelfir> I am at work, K
23:23:57 <Ysjoelfir> doing worky things
23:24:19 <K> oh ok
23:25:38 <K> say, Ysjoelfir, for how much does a decent 3 normal sized room + 1 kitchen/room apartment go for where you are at?
23:26:16 <Ysjoelfir> so basically my apartment?
23:26:32 <Ysjoelfir> which is 3 rooms + kitchen + 2 bathrooms
23:26:41 <Ampera> probably around 1200-1600USD/mo here
23:26:44 <Ysjoelfir> 8....6m2 I think
23:26:53 <Ampera> depending on how section 8 you wanna get
23:27:40 <K> buy, not rent
23:27:55 <Ampera> lol, probably closer to 500-600$/mo in mortgage
23:28:03 <Ampera> and you get a house to yourself not an apartment
23:28:15 <Ysjoelfir> buy? you have to be rich. around 400 grand
23:28:20 <K> oh.
23:28:29 <Ampera> 400 grand would get you half of a mansion here
23:28:30 <K> good looking ones here go for 180k
23:28:52 <K> and in good location, not in trash part
23:29:05 <K> ok, that adds some perspective, thanks
23:29:07 <Ampera> 180k is a two family house in an okay part of town
23:29:13 <Ysjoelfir> yep. there is a reason why in germany less than 40% of the people own where they live. and most of that is in places far off any city.
23:29:25 <Ampera> if you just want a one family normal house, you can get them for much closer to 100k
23:29:57 <Ampera> Rent is a curse and trap here. There are a lot of people who can totally afford a home mortgage, probably moreso than what they're paying now
23:30:10 <Ampera> but since they can't raise initial capital they just can't ever do that
23:30:11 <K> 400k would get you a 120sqm w terrace, somewher near old town borders, w a view to a park
23:30:18 <Ampera> FHA helps a lot though
23:30:51 <Ysjoelfir> a house is around 600k at least, and that is not a big one. also, property taxes went up by crazy amounts this year, so even more people will sell their property
23:30:52 <Ampera> 400k depends on where you go around here. Around where I live, you get a very nice house right next to the park with two big floors and a nice garage
23:30:53 <T3sl4> i'd own a house now if i didn't sink money into a rental now, and with property going up faster than some years ago, i might never own one
23:31:32 <K> ah.
23:31:39 <Ysjoelfir> a friend of mine has to sell the house his family has lived in for over a hundred years, because property tax went from 448€/year to over 27.000€ per year
23:31:41 <K> here prices for apartments actually went down a bit
23:31:57 <T3sl4> Ysjoelfir, wat
23:31:59 <Ysjoelfir> yep
23:32:05 <K> due to heating expenses and more expensive loans
23:33:26 <Ampera> Rent is way up there over here because a series of genius policies by the state government drove a good chunk of the small time competition out of business
23:33:34 <Ysjoelfir> government noticed that they didn't raise the property tax since the 1950s, so they just decided to reevaluate the properties by arbitrary numbers they got basically by the size and how close to stuff they are. on top of that we pay somethign called a "Hebesatz", which is an equally arbitrary multiplier that the municipals can just decide on, and I don't know of any city that decided for that to be under 1, most are over 5
23:35:02 <K> that sounds like a reason to sue
23:35:13 <K> i see that as unreasonable
23:35:20 <Ysjoelfir> so said friend of mine, with his tiny over 200 year old house on a property on a hillside that is not useable for anything at all, with a house that is a protected vintage object so it can't be replaced by somethign modern at all, and its not allowed to build anything on the property, got a raise in property tax of over.... what is that, roughly 5000%?
23:35:33 <T3sl4> most legislatures can't be sued, sadly
23:35:37 <Ampera> ^
23:35:43 <Ampera> it would be really cool if you could
23:35:49 <T3sl4> idk if that varies in .eu
23:36:01 <Ysjoelfir> many people are suing, but they still have to pay that because if you don't pay, they just send someone over to get ownership of your house and kick you out of your property
23:37:15 <Ysjoelfir> oh, speaking of that, some cities are starting to kick out old and sick people out if their residences to rent that to refugees. (and normal people have been kicked out as well already.)
23:37:29 <T3sl4> i suppose courts aren't inclined to offer injuction huh
23:38:40 <Ysjoelfir> in...wat?
23:38:43 * Ysjoelfir has to google that word
23:39:06 <Ampera> where the court tells someone to cease and desist of a thing (or continue to do a thing) during a proceedings
23:39:16 <Ysjoelfir> jep, just found the translation
23:39:22 <T3sl4> injunctive relief, as in putting a stay on the action (debt charge, reposession, etc.) while proceedings are ongoing
23:39:53 <Ysjoelfir> we call it a "Einstweilige Verfügung". Courts can do that, but they don't like to do that, especially if its somethign against governmental stuff
23:39:54 <K> i think that is more usa thing, have not heard of anything like that here
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23:40:12 <K> but i have not much exp w courts
23:40:21 <K> not to say i do not have any
23:41:03 <T3sl4> i mostly know what i've picked up from videos, and reading a few proceedings
23:42:11 <K> legal eagle !
23:42:30 <K> on yt
23:42:42 <Ampera> hrm, my CD is coming from Kropyvnytskyi
23:42:59 <K> wat dat
23:43:08 <Ampera> a place in serious need of an emergency detachment of vowels
23:43:37 <Ampera> it's a city in ukraine where I ordered a CD from
23:44:42 <Ysjoelfir> legal eagle is nice, K
23:44:55 <Ysjoelfir> Bruce Rivers is also not bad, though his style is a bit.... strange
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