// #eevblog — 2025-06-17
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00:17:26 <arch> how do you do, fellow worn out bevel gears?
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00:31:49 * K rattles a bit
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00:38:43 <K> hello Kuschelpony
00:38:46 <K> hello weissbier
00:47:54 <Kuschelpony> hello K
01:08:23 <MrMobodies> Hello, I was told with "shared ownership" property that the landlord is described as an entity/ someone living there.
01:10:17 <MrMobodies> If that is true (as listed living there but not actually ever visited the property to make out someone is living in the dwelling) well why don't they pay their fair share of rent, ground rent and service charges.
02:46:10 <arch> Kuschelpony, i am waiting for some gear pullers to come. im very excited.
02:46:32 * arch puts a gear puller on electrohead's head
02:46:41 <Kuschelpony> best wishes
02:48:29 <electrohead> yes, best wishes for my poor head
03:08:42 <rc-garage> heh, my assistent boss was scalped last week....
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06:00:06 <K> rc-garage, lolwhat
06:00:14 <K> hello DHess_US
06:00:28 <rc-garage> yeh
06:01:54 <rc-garage> he is missing a.... I guess around 4cm wide, and 15cm long strip of skin on his head. they plan to do some kind of transplant thing some time this week
06:05:20 <rc-garage> I just hope they ind a donor with an afro sort of hair, so he can have a mohawk, as he is mostly bald anyway
06:33:44 <K> uh huh
06:39:54 <rust_collector> a skinny white mr T
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09:22:02 <arch> how the hell did he get scalped (literally?), rc-garage
09:22:10 <arch> how the hell did he get scalped (literally?), rust_collector
10:09:21 <rust_collector> he was crawling around under a trailer, and if I got it right, when he was getting out from under there, he got up a bit too early, and hit some edge. i was not there, so...
10:28:09 <rust_collector> could have been indians
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12:13:53 Topic Is: Official IRC channel of the EEVblog - www.eevblog.tv
12:13:53 Set By: (Halcyon) on: Fri Jan 24 20:18:27 2020
13:26:14 <arch> lol
13:38:52 <MrMobodies> Hello
13:43:34 <Halcyon> Hey arch, MrMobodies
13:45:00 <DogWomble> insertfriendly greetings here
13:47:28 <Halcyon> Afternoon
13:59:21 <DogWomble> how goes
14:01:17 <Halcyon> Yeah not bad. You?
14:01:23 <DogWomble> yeah going ok
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16:09:24 <K> hello fucking rain again
16:09:38 <Halcyon> Hello, no rain, but still fucking cold
16:10:00 <K> commiserations
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17:58:00 <watcher> Is some linux user online? I want some help with compiling a flatpak on alpine linux
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20:20:54 <Halcyon> Mew and such
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20:21:10 <Halcyon> Sorry watcher, that's beyond my capabilities
20:21:24 * Ampera hugs Halcyon
20:21:26 <Ampera> <3
20:21:28 <Halcyon> Hey Ampera
20:21:31 <Halcyon> *yawns*
20:21:33 <Ampera> how are things
20:21:54 <Halcyon> Yeah good. I'm just trying to wrap my head around technical things, but otherwise fine.
20:21:55 <Halcyon> You>
20:21:56 <Halcyon> ?
20:22:09 <Ampera> stressed and exhausted
20:22:15 <Halcyon> Why is that?
20:22:45 <Ampera> I live in a hell country
20:22:59 <Halcyon> Oh, I thought something might have happened.
20:23:06 <Halcyon> *hugs* I'm sorry
20:26:06 <Ampera> at least it's only a bit over a month until i get a break from being here
20:26:19 <Halcyon> Indeed
20:30:59 * steve30 meows at Halcyon
20:31:35 * Halcyon gives steve30 a worming tablet
20:31:49 <steve30> :S
20:31:53 <Halcyon> :D
20:31:59 <Halcyon> How's the UK today?
20:32:15 <steve30> strangely hot and sunny
20:32:23 * Halcyon steals it
20:32:31 <steve30> forecast says 24C
20:32:43 <Halcyon> Gorgeous
20:33:08 <Halcyon> It was about 10 here today. *hiss*
20:34:57 * Ampera pets steve30
20:35:37 * steve30 sausage rolls
20:38:51 <Ampera> updating my server is fun
20:38:59 <Ampera> can just type a command and watch 19 jails all update themselves
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21:02:57 <steve30> https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Frant-chatgpt-emails-from-clients-making-me-insane-v0-m0w9rr74kc7f1.png%3Fwidth%3D1200%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5a6b1ead4dfe979ba96e9e2836b58fa41dc61fdc
21:26:58 <Halcyon> Hah. Accurate.
21:33:43 <steve30> this is a really crappy scaling job
21:33:45 <steve30> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xbs4-aV3Cs
21:33:45 <EEVBot> Temporary error talking to YouTube: [SYS] unknown error (_ssl.c:2638)
21:34:32 <Halcyon> By "remastered" they mean, someone has run it through a crappy AI
21:34:56 <Halcyon> I'm seeing this pop up more and more on torrent sites. People are "remastering" old content to 4K and it looks like shit.
21:36:50 <steve30> ^
21:37:05 <steve30> Also its funny seeing the amount of nostalgia for XP
21:37:13 <steve30> given that a lot of people hated it at the time :)
21:37:47 <Halcyon> Really? I think XP was one of the better OS's Microsoft released. You didn't really hear many complaints, especially from those who came from Millennium
21:37:56 <Halcyon> Then Vista fucked it all up again
21:38:37 <steve30> I remember a lot of people preferring to stick with 2000. Of course by the time Vista came out XP had matured a bit and everyone had got used to the Luna theme.
21:38:39 <Ampera> everyone hates new windows versions
21:38:45 <Ampera> it's just that some keep hating them to the end
21:38:58 <Ampera> Windows 10 was hated when it dropped, particularly for forced updates from 7/8
21:39:09 <Ampera> but now everyone is wondering what they're gonna do when support ends because Win 11 stinks harder
21:39:23 <Halcyon> 2000 was great, but only if. you didn't do any gaming. Even if it could run games, a lot of games did a rudimentary OS check and moaned that it "wasn't compatible"
21:39:32 <Halcyon> Ampera: Absolutely.
21:39:58 <Halcyon> The "Alternatives to Windows" is starting to get quite hot on Linkedin, and so it should
21:40:00 <steve30> 11? I've only just got started with 10.
21:40:05 <Ampera> lol
21:40:13 <Ampera> I'm in the penguinverse personally
21:40:16 <Halcyon> Oh Steve
21:40:16 <Ampera> so idgaf
21:40:21 <Halcyon> Windows 10 is EOL in October
21:40:46 <steve30> OH NO
21:40:52 <Ampera> lol
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21:41:02 <steve30> I guess it will end up as useless at my Windows 7 and XP machines :)
21:41:11 <Halcyon> I refused to install anything after Windows 7 on my machine and it's a decision I haven't regretted. I love my Mac, it's enough *nix for my needs and enough pretty buttons for everything else.
21:41:54 <steve30> I have the Mr Mobodies supplied version, so 10 actually works quite well here :)
21:42:15 <Halcyon> The problem with a lot of bigger organisations is they've used Windows "forever" and to change would take another 10 years.
21:42:39 <Ampera> steve30 is like OH NO! anyways....
21:42:47 <Halcyon> But as more and more things just run in a browser, the OS is becoming less important, giving more people choice
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21:43:21 <steve30> TBH M$ do a very good job of maintaining backwards compatibility.
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21:43:31 <Halcyon> I guess
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21:59:45 * flyback Has force installed win11 on several unsupported hw with no problems
22:00:05 <flyback> so far the only thing it wouldn't work on is a core2duo laptop because 24h2 requires sse4.2
22:00:24 <flyback> that's not something you can bypass requirement wise since it's cpu instrutions
22:01:02 <flyback> I have to upgrade the cpu in a old 1st gen i5 laptop I gave my church that runs their overhead tv's
22:01:11 <flyback> cause pentium version has sse4.2 disabled
22:01:21 <flyback> it's only $4 for a i7 but I have to gut the entire laptop apart
22:01:22 <flyback> ugh
22:01:27 <flyback> not going to be fun
22:01:44 <flyback> sorry mistype
22:02:06 <flyback> the laptop is a p6000 pentium based on first gen i4, i5 i7
22:03:12 <flyback> also going to force upgrade the haswell desktop I gave them to win11
22:03:28 <flyback> and the atom laptop I fixed up for them barely runs win10 so it;s getting converted to linux
22:10:22 <K> yous gotsa do what yous gotsa do
22:11:43 <flyback> so far only my dell precision desktop workstation 3rd generation ivy bridge cpu
22:11:52 <flyback> is the only hw that had problems forcing install of win11
22:11:58 <flyback> and that was only the gpu so I just swapped it out
22:12:46 <flyback> the nvidia quadro 600 didn't like power management when you woke it back up, you would see the desktop image but it was "crashed" and youw ould have to control-alt-delete to wake the video back up
22:13:26 <flyback> I had a 4gb geforce 640gt I got from a under a porch at work desktop I salvaged (yes I am allowed to salvage discards)
22:13:30 <flyback> swapped it in
22:13:37 <flyback> works fine
22:14:04 <flyback> the onboard usb 3 has some known issues in win10 and 11 so just going to order some pci-e usb3 cards to swap in soon
22:14:57 <flyback> im just going to leave win10 on the core2duo since it doesn't go on the net anyways it's designed as a serial terminal programmer, logger, debugger, running realterm and teraterm, else it would run linux
22:15:24 <flyback> linux's serial programs suck when you are probing for unknown uarts or non standard ones
22:15:36 <flyback> minicom just goes tits up and displays a black screen
22:15:44 * steve30 paws at his Pentium 4 thinkpad
22:15:56 <flyback> that would make a nice serial terminal also
22:16:07 <flyback> for stuff that needs camped on serial for days undisturbed
22:16:29 <flyback> such as chip programming or seagate hard drives doing a low level format via the hidden serial terminal interface
22:16:43 <flyback> so you don't have to tie up a real laptop doing serial babysitting
22:35:48 <Halcyon> I have an old Compaq laptop and its sole job is to run some really dodgy Chinese software that connects to an equally dodgy IC/ID card reader. All it does is clone and program cards
22:35:57 <Halcyon> Never touches anything else.
22:43:46 <steve30> My Windows XP thinkpad has the software on for my chinese PV inverter
22:44:01 <steve30> i should try running that again as I haven't used it for ages
22:47:36 <K> yall are weird.
22:47:49 <Halcyon> Whyyy
22:48:04 <K> old laptops
22:48:17 <Halcyon> I like old computers
22:48:43 <steve30> well, my PV inverter has an RS232 port. My ThinkPad A31 has an RS232 port. My T420 doesn't.
22:50:03 <Halcyon> I don't trust Chinese software
22:50:12 <Halcyon> So I run it on isolated hardware
22:51:13 <flyback> probably a good plan or a vm
22:51:55 <Halcyon> VMs are all well and good, but the card reader/writer needs to be portable. Might as well just make a dedicated kit out of an old laptop
22:52:10 * steve30 ponders going outside
23:13:11 <Halcyon> You should steve30, sounds like it's a nice day there
23:21:34 Quit: steve30 ([email protected]) Quit: <Baljem> steve30: by the way, I had the most bizarre dream the other day that someone came in here and seriously flipped their shit over your quit message and why aren't the ops /doing/ something about it
23:21:54 <electrohead> !coffee
23:21:55 * EEVBot drowns electrohead in coffee
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