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17:03 <arch> pretty soon 4g is gonna be outdated too, so he might as well recreate the pcb for 5g compat
52:06 <DHess_US> Here they install radio repeaters on the power poles to forward the data from the meters.
57:07 <DHess_US> Of course the repeaters they are installing now do not work with the existing power meters, so after they install the new repeaters, they have to replace all of the power meters.
57:15 <DHess_US> They use something like LoRa or whatever.
09:24 <electrohead> A proprietary LoRa-based protocol is used nowadays, at least here in the US
23:20 <electrohead> For where I live, powerline communications are utilized, since I'm out in the middle of nowhere, essentially lol
35:24 <K> our water meter (apartment building) has no-betteries water meter with lora-like radio, and receiver is in staircase, middle floors, then it goes over lte or somth
21:43 Quit: Vampera ([email protected]) Quit: Don't look at my quit message, steve30 has a better one anyways.
24:02 Join: Ampera ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
32:45 Nick: Ampera is now known as Vampera
48:24 <MrMobodies> Was about to respond to tggzzz (ID cards in Estonia to find the threat got locked:
48:27 <MrMobodies> https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/uk-pushing-ahead-with-mandatory-digital-id/700/
48:28 <EEVBot> [url] UK pushing ahead with mandatory digital ID - Page 29 | www.eevblog.com
48:31 <MrMobodies> What a shame
48:50 <MrMobodies> looking at the comments as to why it might have gotten locked
49:14 <MrMobodies> with the arguments between two posters there maybe they could do a threatrical play on it
50:17 <MrMobodies> Tired of nosense generator, you said this,I asked to be brief, don't play the fool...
50:44 <MrMobodies> You didn't do this or that...
52:18 <MrMobodies> The sentences arranged might make make a good thearterical scene or a comedy sketch.
54:17 <rust_collector> water meter? nah
05:20 <Kuschelpony> do you know if the 74HC283 (4-bit binary full adder) is still in production in a faster logic family too?
35:11 Quit: Kuschelpony ([email protected]) Connection closed
10:19 <flyback> probably
10:20 <flyback> heh
48:15 * arch tosses a skunk at flyback 
54:13 * flyback tosses notthing
54:15 <flyback> at arch
43:02 Join: Nothing\ ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
43:06 <Nothing\> how very odd
43:44 <Nothing\> i was looking for a game to buy on Steam, and the thumbnails for this one waifu game has hardcore manga style porn for the pictures
44:01 <Nothing\> i mean penetration, full frontal, the whole 9 yards
44:12 <Nothing\> wtf backwards ass universe did i wake up in
44:15 <Nothing\> again
44:55 <Nothing\> i've seen similar games on the Switch, of all things but never any nudity
45:29 <Nothing\> it's especially weird considering Nintendo of America wouldn't even let NES games include religious imagery like a crucifix
45:56 <Nothing\> even though nintendo japan didn't give af
46:41 <Nothing\> actually, they had holy water in Castlevania, which taught a 5 year old me that holy water bursts into flames when it hits the ground
46:47 <Vampera> hi Nothing\
46:56 <Nothing\> heya vampyra
47:03 <Vampera> how it do
47:08 <Nothing\> lol i just can't help but think of her when i see your name
47:14 <Nothing\> i'm doing pretty good actually
47:14 <Vampera> who
47:17 <Vampera> good
47:50 <Nothing\> Vampera, she was a large breasted TV personality in the 1950s/60s who would host a monster movie marathon type show
48:06 <Nothing\> she worked with Ed Wood in her later years
48:17 <Nothing\> the greatest worst director of all time
48:21 <Vampera> I wish I was a large breasted TV personality
48:32 <Nothing\> she was quite fetching
48:38 <Vampera> tbh I'd probably just settle for large breasted
48:39 <Nothing\> though i dislike large breasts
48:43 <Vampera> TV personality sounds like effort
48:47 <Nothing\> i prefer a B or a C cup
49:00 <Vampera> then boy do I have what you like
49:10 <Nothing\> anything more than a handfull is like... well wtf am i supposed to do with all of this?
49:36 <Nothing\> mash it into a newspaper and see if the image transfers?
49:41 <Nothing\> like silly puddy
50:01 <Vampera> bruh
50:05 <Nothing\> lol
50:12 <Nothing\> well i dunno what else it's for
50:15 <Nothing\> it's just fat
50:22 <Nothing\> i mean, mostly
50:25 <Vampera> idk, I like what I have, but I wonder now and then what it'd be like if they were bigger
50:32 <Vampera> maybe I'd hate it, maybe I'd like it, maybe both
50:48 <Nothing\> you could always get implants, but they're a lifelong responsibility
50:58 <Nothing\> apparently you need to replace them every 10-20 years or so
51:17 <Nothing\> but with the "newer" saline implants, a rupture is no big deal
51:17 <Vampera> I've considered it
51:41 <Nothing\> they still make silicone implants, but a rupture of one of those is a severe health emergency
51:58 <Nothing\> i forget how, but as I recall, they were connected with lupus in the early days of breast augmentation
52:21 <Nothing\> there's actually a really good movie about the history of breast augmentation with David Schwimmer, of all people
52:39 <Vampera> that tech changes all the time anyways
52:42 <Nothing\> not exactly the person i want to see interspliced with copious amounts of major boobage
52:51 <Vampera> I'm going to consider them more seriously in 1-3 years or so
52:58 <Nothing\> lol my fucking methadone doctor is trying to kill me
52:59 <Vampera> as mine are actually still growing
53:50 <Nothing\> i have what i consider is a very weak diagnosis of liver disease (never had anything tested, but my enzymes are cuckoo fucking bananas)
54:29 <Nothing\> so my doctor tells me "I read in this paper that taking a supplement called B50 or B100 helps with the type of liver disease i'm supposed to have"
54:45 <Nothing\> called that because it contains 50mg or mcg of each B vitamine
54:51 <Nothing\> vitamin
54:54 <Nothing\> or 100
55:36 <Nothing\> the most noticable one is B3 because it makes your pee look like you drank a highlighter and i could even smell it in my pee. It's got that cassic multivitamin smell
56:02 <Nothing\> apparently your body secretes it at amounts around 1.5ug
56:08 <Nothing\> this shit has 50mg
56:35 <Nothing\> and i happened to read that despite your body flushing it out as it does, it's been implicated in causing liver disease and injury
56:43 <Nothing\> just the fucking thing i need
57:16 <Nothing\> not to mention he's recommending shit out of a peer reviewed paper, which is purely experimental and has never even been seen by the FDA, much less approved
57:36 <Nothing\> then i see him the other day and he tells me to take vitamin "D" (didn't say which one)
57:58 <Nothing\> told me to take FIVE a day because he read it in another paper
58:15 <Nothing\> which vitamin D is most certainly toxic in high amounts
58:41 <Nothing\> sorry i kinda ignored you there
58:50 <Nothing\> that's good they're still growing. Maybe give it a few years
58:55 <Vampera> lol
58:56 <Nothing\> i imagine it's a process not unlike puberty
59:04 <Vampera> it is puberty
59:06 <Vampera> just a delayed one
59:10 <Nothing\> well there ya go
59:14 <Vampera> so I get to watch my entire body change in my early 20's
59:15 <Vampera> q.q
59:29 <Nothing\> and go through the same old teenage angst?
59:42 <Vampera> an age where nobody else can really relate to me, and my weird dumb questions aren't seen quite the same as if a 14 year old asked them
00:07 <Nothing\> Vampera, honestly that's half the reason i became a recluse
00:18 <Nothing\> i got sick of people not getting/accepting me
00:28 <Vampera> guess I'm used to it
00:36 <Vampera> just means I have to figure shit out on my own most of the time
00:41 <Vampera> and not really be able to talk to people about it
00:42 <Nothing\> i was thinking the other day, literally the ONLY person in my life i've EVER had a good relationship with was my mom
00:44 <Nothing\> that's it
00:50 <Nothing\> my fucking dad didn't even like me
00:58 <Nothing\> but never told me straight out
01:04 <Vampera> maybe he was gay
01:06 <Nothing\> i learned from my mom several years ago
01:19 <Nothing\> Vampera, believe me he had tendencies
01:27 <Vampera> lool
01:59 <Nothing\> but he went with a leather skinned karen as the matriarch of his new family instead
02:11 <Nothing\> because she had a teenage daughter he could literally grope
02:31 <Nothing\> pasted pics on facebook of him groping her tits playing it off as being fun and playful
02:38 <Nothing\> fuck i wish i sent that to the cops
02:52 <Nothing\> there's a lot of shit i wish i'd done
02:58 * Vampera hugs Nothing\
03:01 <Vampera> better not to dwell o nit
03:07 <Vampera> you're here now
03:12 <Vampera> and living your life in the present
03:20 <Vampera> you gotta make the past your bitch
03:27 <Nothing\> my life sucks
03:35 <Nothing\> and i'm not just saying that
04:12 <Nothing\> constant crushing depression that destroys anything the least bit good i might feel
04:28 <Nothing\> actually the worst part is i constantly think about shit like that with my dad
04:35 <Nothing\> or ditto with kids at school
04:39 <Nothing\> or the teachers
04:41 <Vampera> I was the same way for years
04:44 <Nothing\> or counsellors
04:48 <Nothing\> or doctors
04:55 <Vampera> even thinking about my childhood could just make me start crying because of my parents' divorce
05:00 <Vampera> and just being so alone
05:04 <Nothing\> or basically anyone you're taught your whole life who supposedly helps you
05:27 <Nothing\> i was happy my parents divorced by the shrinks chalked up my bad behavior to not coping
05:37 <Nothing\> i fucking hated my dad. He's a piece of shit.
05:48 <Nothing\> i mean it when i say i'm going to shit on his grave
06:14 <Nothing\> then destroy the headstone so nobody will ever know he exist after a few decades
06:23 <Nothing\> *existed
07:13 <Nothing\> but no, my planned trip across canada actually has be excited for the end of my life
07:21 <Nothing\> i at least have something to look forward to beforehand
07:32 <Nothing\> i'm gonna swim in all 3 oceans
08:22 <Nothing\> drive through the mountains of the BC interior
08:28 <Nothing\> check out Dawson City
08:47 <Nothing\> or the Drumheller badlands
09:06 <Nothing\> drive all the way to St John's
09:25 <Nothing\> visit the site that the vikings landed at 500 years before columbus was even born
09:52 <Vampera> it's great you have plans, but don't plan it to be the end
09:56 <Vampera> at least not here
10:27 <Nothing\> it has to be
10:40 <Nothing\> i'm not living homeless the rest of my days
11:19 <Nothing\> and unless housing prices change or the government decides to stop villifying the disabled by giving us almost half of what's considered the poverty line
11:52 <Nothing\> if i can find an affordable place somewhere along the way, sure things could change
12:02 <Vampera> It's your choice, but don't put it onto us
12:10 <Nothing\> i've not ruled out that it may not necessarily be the end if circumstances change
12:32 <Nothing\> i don't see it as a bad thing
12:38 <Nothing\> keep in mind, i'll be pushing 60
12:53 <Nothing\> with diabetes for decades
13:00 <Nothing\> i'll be lucky if i can even see by then
13:23 <Nothing\> actually, as it is, my feet are already going numb
13:52 <Nothing\> i realized my heels are completely numb the other day. Not even where i can feel pressure or hot/cold. There's just nothing.
14:33 <Nothing\> i try to keep blood moving through them but i dunno
15:06 <Nothing\> it's not the numbness that's the problem though, it's when you injure yourself without realizing it because you can't feel it
15:43 <Nothing\> my mum's ex's brother lost his leg because he walked barefoot on freshly paved asphalt and didn't notice it was burning his feet
15:52 <Nothing\> which you'd think you would smell the fresh asphalt
20:11 Quit: Nothing\ ([email protected]) Quit: Leaving
40:37 <Halcyon> Afternoon all
40:51 <DogWomble> friendly greetings
41:44 * Vampera hugs Halcyon and DogWomble
41:45 <Vampera> <3
41:47 <Vampera> ohai
41:52 <Halcyon> Hey Vampera
41:54 <Halcyon> How's you?
42:02 <Vampera> looking forward to halloween
42:06 * DogWomble waves at Vampera 
42:11 <Vampera> need to try some of my outfit on and see if I need to order any of it
42:25 <Vampera> how are you doing Halcyon and DogWomble?
42:43 <DogWomble> yeah another quiet sunday afternoon, how be you?
43:50 <Vampera> just took a bath
44:02 <Vampera> so I am wet and robed
44:30 * steve30 bytes Vampera 
44:42 <Vampera> :3
44:49 * Vampera takes a nybble out of steve30
47:15 <DogWomble> so when you eat chips, do you take megabytes out of them or nybble them in little bits?
47:43 * Vampera sinks her fangs into DogWomble
47:59 <DogWomble> :D well i guess that answers that question
55:31 * steve30 watches Dave do an obstacle course
01:02 <Halcyon> I'm doing well Vampera, just finished the lawns, having a little sit down
01:33 <Vampera> I am drying off and playing freecell on windows nt 3.51
10:43 <Halcyon> Oh nice
10:44 <Halcyon> I love NT
11:09 <steve30> i haven't used NT for a long time
11:22 <Vampera> NT 3 is a fun creature
11:32 * steve30 misses Windows 2000
11:42 <Halcyon> Indeed. I was very fond of WFW3.11/NT3.51
11:58 <Halcyon> Very nostalgic operating systems for me
14:38 <Vampera> I wanted to use OS/2
14:44 <Vampera> but in typical OS/2 fashion it didn't feel like installing
16:09 <Halcyon> Heh, I think I've only ever used OS/2 once in my life. Probably should crack out an old computer again and have a play
16:11 <flyback> Halcyon, Vampera
16:17 <flyback> you guys know about 86box right?
16:21 <Halcyon> Sure
16:25 <flyback> ok :)
16:43 <Halcyon> But running period hardware is far more fun.
16:51 <flyback> yeah I know
16:54 <Halcyon> All the noises and blinkenlights
28:13 <DogWomble> Yeah, I should try OS/2
28:34 <DogWomble> I remember back in the nineties I had an old 386 that had OS/2 on it for about a week, until I went "I had enough of this shit"
29:03 <DogWomble> i don't think i really gave it a proper chance, and i suspect once it hit versions 3 and 4 it had a few hints of being an actually seriosu operating system
30:53 <DogWomble> given my 486 could probably just about cope with 3, i'm almost tempted to give it another shot
39:29 Join: Kuschelpony ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
01:23 <Halcyon> Hey Vampera
01:33 <Halcyon> Potentially looking at a USA trip next year
01:54 <steve30> careful, you might get your blood sucked out
02:13 <Halcyon> My carrier here roams onto AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular. That will pretty much guarantee coverage everywhere right?
02:27 <Halcyon> Don't worry steve30, we are looking to come via the UK first :P
03:05 <Halcyon> In the UK it seems that Telstra connects to EE, Vodafone and O2
03:34 <steve30> good, because that's about all we have left :)
03:40 <Halcyon> Oh there you go
04:21 <steve30> We still have Hutchison 3G UK Ltd but they merged with vodafone recently
07:18 <Kuschelpony> Moin
07:23 <steve30> o/
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11:16 <Halcyon> Hey Kuschelpony
11:37 <Kuschelpony> and hello Halcyon, now back to normal time
12:20 <Halcyon> It's just an idea at this stage Steve. Looking at doing the 24 hour flight from Sydney to Heathrow
12:25 <Halcyon> Then maybe coming back via USA
12:47 <Halcyon> Dunno we'll see. If we book it, it will likely be sometime in September or October 2026
13:02 <steve30> cool
14:41 <steve30> that reminds me, i haven't seen the Heathrow bus for a while
14:53 <Halcyon> Vampera, which means if we do, we'll be in Washington DC, which isn't that far from you or electrohead I think? Like a few hours?
24:13 <steve30> Halcyon, what are you planning on doing in england?
24:27 <Halcyon> My other half has family there
36:52 <steve30> is odysee playing up recently or am i just watching dodgy uploads?
59:57 <MrMobodies> https://www.facebook.com/groups/113916965313200/posts/24120835254194702/
59:58 <EEVBot> [url] Error | www.facebook.com
01:15 <MrMobodies> Kelly communication 15 years down the line and still pinching pair and cutting off customers
01:23 <MrMobodies> deliberately now isn't that naughty?
02:18 <MrMobodies> "one of their guys turned up at the exchange and ask me to change a pair as he wasn't allowed exchange access...i checked the pair he wanted moving it was a working to another nbr .....oh he said I've moved it in the cab .....in no uncertain terms I told him he'd cut off a customer and to f##k off back and sort it out ..."
03:04 <MrMobodies> I heard they use to do this when they couldn't find no spare pairs
03:34 <MrMobodies> I vaguely remember a law about emergency services
19:04 <MrMobodies> if they cut off a vulnerable person's landline deliberately to take their pairs for another customer wouldn't that be a criminal offence with interferring with emergency services?
22:53 <steve30> probably not
23:13 <steve30> but OR would have some contractual responsibilityto fix it for their customer's customer
24:40 <MrMobodies> that vulnerable person would then have to discover their landline don't work and then find other means to contact BT
25:35 <MrMobodies> it sounds worse than just when they'd swap pairs around in that they leave them without connectivity
26:04 <MrMobodies> ah that's it "lift and shift"
26:26 <MrMobodies> at least they could still make calls
26:56 <MrMobodies> as opposed Kelly turning up and disabling someone's landline
27:57 <MrMobodies> Back 30 years ao that'd be even worse before mobile phone
28:15 <MrMobodies> they'd have to beg a neighbour if there was an emergency
28:19 <MrMobodies> oh off to bed
01:17 <Vampera> Halcyon, more than a few hours but doable if I have advanced notice and still live in the US by the time you come
03:39 <Vampera> T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T are the national networks
03:51 <Vampera> Sprint no longer exists
26:04 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
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