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02:34:24 <rc-garage> depends on your preference. I like semi better, but...
02:34:24 <arch> witness me
02:34:24 <Ampera> idk, I am not a woodworker, but do you want a glossy table, or a semi-glossy table
02:34:38 <Ampera> arch, I'd rather go into witness protection
02:34:47 <arch> i want the easiest to clean table
02:35:15 <rc-garage> make it out of stainless
02:35:55 <arch> yes, im going to go make a $20k metalworking shop setup in my garage right this instant so i can work on metal
02:36:10 <Ampera> I mean it depends on what we are talking here. If it's a resin or lacquer, then they're usually soft and will eventually become less glossy unless you continue to polish them
02:36:30 <arch> this stuff: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Varathane-1-Quart-Clear-Gloss-Water-Based-Interior-Shellac-Lacquer-Polyurethane-2-Pack-200041H/202057129
02:37:12 <Ampera> yeah most plastics are gonna be soft, so they will scuff and become matte over time
02:37:50 <Ampera> if it's just a thin protecting layer idk if it really matters that much
02:37:52 <arch> matte is fine. just need it to be able to be cleaned off relatively easily, like with soap water
02:37:53 <Ampera> but like I said, not a woodworker
02:38:03 <Ampera> yeah any polyeurethane coating will probably do that
02:38:15 <arch> ok perfect, so ill get that and let you know how it goes
02:39:20 <arch> i used oil based varathane, satin coating, on some pine wood trims. it...kinda made it shiny, though not by much.
02:39:46 <arch> but oil based takes ages to dry and smells up the whole house
02:39:52 <arch> so this time i decided to go water based
03:19:40 <rust_collector> well, yes, oil based smell more, but it is done when it is done, water based smells less, but will keep gassing off for a lot longer. just something to write on a postit note, and put behind the fridge
03:38:25 <arch> not concerned about off gassing. the microplastic from the tires on the roads and air pollution will take off more years from your life than some pesky offgassing
03:39:48 * Ampera gasses off onto arch
04:26:44 <arch> \o/
04:26:44 <EEVBot> I
04:26:44 <EEVBot> \ /
04:27:15 <flyback> wonder if I could just get another tank
04:27:21 <flyback> needs a regulator too
04:27:38 <flyback> mabye it's time to get something smaller/quieter for dusting anyways
04:27:45 <flyback> it takes up most of my car trunk space
04:28:29 <arch> yeah people do that. you can buy just a compressor tank, regulator, overpressure valve, etc, and make it yourself
04:34:23 <Ampera> there are more efficient ways to commit suicide than to wait for harbor freight to get you
04:34:29 <arch> lol
04:39:00 <arch> hazard fraught*
04:39:26 <flyback> mine is a protor cable
04:39:31 <flyback> paid $30 for it
04:39:35 <flyback> was missing the hose
04:39:39 <flyback> was the store display modme
04:39:41 <flyback> model
04:40:06 <flyback> regulator knob broke so I just stuffed a plastic tube inside
04:40:21 <flyback> can't control pressure but i use it at max for dusting anyways
04:40:25 <flyback> it leaks like a siv
04:40:51 <flyback> there was a $10 reg repair kit but mine is so old now they aren't selling it and I don't know if another one will fit
04:41:06 <flyback> the manifold is $40 not worth replacing the whole thing
04:42:02 <flyback> now they have duster units and much quieter compressors so who knows
04:42:03 <arch> i'm pretty sure those are generic
04:42:07 <flyback> I might replace it eventually
04:43:54 <arch> you should replace it asap lol. that reminds me of this crazy vid i saw where a truck tire explodes and it dismembered the technician working on top of it. and off in the corner of the screen, you saw his arms and legs fall from the sky. like, it was raining men
04:45:53 <flyback> ill probably replace it for other people's sake, I could give a **** if it kills me
04:46:53 <flyback> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agx5sbMdCiY
04:46:53 <EEVBot> [YouTube] The Happening - It's Raining Men | 20s | Channel: Potato045 | 44,245 views | 2008-10-10 - 23:46:45 UTC
04:46:55 <flyback> like this?
04:50:57 <arch> nsfw: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9057173/
04:50:57 <EEVBot> [url] A Fatal Tyre Blast Injury: An Autopsy Case - PMC | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
04:53:23 <flyback> yeah I know
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08:44:24 * electrohead shoves arch in a compressed pancake
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09:26:43 <MrMobodies> There seems to be so many stabbings
09:28:23 <MrMobodies> in the newspaper today a 59 year old man attacked an 87 year old man for his cornflakes.
09:28:27 <MrMobodies> now this
09:28:29 <MrMobodies> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq1y51pnp5o
09:28:29 <EEVBot> [url] Man charged with murder after fatal stabbing at Norwich property - BBC News | www.bbc.co.uk
09:29:32 <MrMobodies> aah no mistake, the previous one wasn't a stabbing, he just kicked, punched and stamped on him and the old man died a few days later
09:32:27 <MrMobodies> The Vioin man has gigabit broadband, he now runs Pfsense and wants to segregate things
09:32:32 <MrMobodies> so it seems in a mess at the moment
09:33:26 <MrMobodies> Two hp 740 thin clients, both with I350t quad port nic and one wifi pci-e mini (for the card terminak)
09:33:49 <MrMobodies> 8 port unmanaged switch for the management lan
09:34:16 <MrMobodies> so we can change things without affecting connectivity to the connection changing it
09:36:08 <MrMobodies> tomorrow to put the switches behind, make 2 LAGGS between the switch and some VLAN tagged intefaces for like the dodgy cheap Chinese CCTV cameras and DVR that he also wants to seperate
09:37:28 <MrMobodies> and one port on the PFsense firewall for a 4 page webserver via Cloudfare as his provider Wix has double his £60 yearly package to £130.
09:37:55 <MrMobodies> and this thing is only a Wyse thin client he picke doff ebay for £20
09:38:06 <MrMobodies> with Ubuntu server
09:40:37 <MrMobodies> I might bring one of my old firewall routers one with the Alteon Acenics in there, set it up and see how that performs and with latency. Of course it isn't going to delivery 1gbps but about 600mbps.
09:41:03 <MrMobodies> but I'd like to see it in operation
10:09:44 * electrohead shanks MrMobodies for his cornflakes
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11:03:16 <flyback> pfsense owns your "canuck":
11:03:49 * flyback dropkicks nothing\
11:04:18 <flyback> I miss running a openwrt router at home
11:04:22 <flyback> mabye soon
11:15:35 <electrohead> !caffeine flyback
11:16:02 * EEVBot turns flyback into a rockstar
11:16:47 <flyback> pfsense has nice things like qos and soft qos
11:17:15 <flyback> so you can rate limit unimportant things so the important traffic always gets thru but return the excess bandwidth when it's not in use
11:18:03 <electrohead> I've been running pfsense for quite many years now, still loving it
11:25:10 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/s3tppqyJ/Pfsense-11-14-2009.jpg
11:25:11 <EEVBot> [url] Pfsense 11 14 2009 — Postimages | i.postimg.cc
11:26:25 <MrMobodies> It had a I think 512mb IDE flash drive board (taken from a used Supermicro X5DL8 server) that fit in the IDE slot with a floppy power connector to power it. Shame I didn't take a picture of that as it is not often I fine those.
11:26:51 <MrMobodies> unfortunately the flash drive failed in about mid 2014
11:27:34 <MrMobodies> I was talking to someone on the Gamersvault IRC in 2009 and someone recommended it as they had been using it.
11:28:27 <MrMobodies> I had no confidence in it and thought, well it might perform okay but how reliable is it. Lets put my test website through it and it had been running on there rock solid about 5 years before the ide flash module failed
11:30:06 <MrMobodies> so in 2015 with two vdsl lines, I brought a Gigabyte bundle with a modified low power xeon to fit it and 4 pci slots for the Alteon Acenic with Pfsene 2.1.5? and it ran beauftifully, then updated it in 2020 to Pfsense 2.50 beta, and had to swtitch to low power stuff in late 2021 due to the energy crises.
11:30:48 <MrMobodies> Served me very well Pfsense.
11:31:52 <MrMobodies> before that I used a Cisco 2801 I got out of Woolworths (£200 for that and the cabinet) when it went in administration in 2008.
11:32:48 <MrMobodies> both much much quicker and in latency than the Netgear FVL328 before that
12:56:28 <MrMobodies> I was given this to me by someone
12:56:33 <MrMobodies> https://www.bluepoint.net/items/techinfo.php?sku=ACESYS14F
12:56:33 <EEVBot> [url] Techinfo | www.bluepoint.net
12:57:05 <MrMobodies> manuactured in 2014 and I thought great, at 10w I could put in a sata and use it as a file server
12:57:21 <MrMobodies> to discover it has a shitty 100mbit interface in 2013
12:57:24 <MrMobodies> oops 2014
13:01:55 <MrMobodies> Looky what I found and it might be possible after all.
13:03:07 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/BZ8B2Ktj/image.png
13:03:12 <EEVBot> [url] Image — Postimages | i.postimg.cc
13:03:45 <MrMobodies> I brought it to get another network card out of a minipc 5 years aog but just couldn't get it to fit in.
14:02:24 <MrMobodies> https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/04/big-brother-come-december-27-every-internet-search-will-require-digital-id-verification-in-australia-n3808509
14:02:24 <EEVBot> [url] Big Brother: Come December 27, Every Internet Search Will Require Digital ID Verification in Australia – HotAir | hotair.com
14:02:31 <MrMobodies> That must be some kind of joke.
14:02:54 <MrMobodies> I believe, there's more crime in Britain than Australia.
14:03:00 <MrMobodies> do they really need that there.
15:26:53 <flyback> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFnWYe5MzrY
15:26:54 <EEVBot> [YouTube] The Craft of Picture Tube Rebuilding | 1h 46m 41s | Channel: Early Television Museum | 3,964 views | 2015-05-24 - 10:06:32 UTC
15:26:56 <flyback> music is gay
15:27:02 <flyback> but otherwise good video
15:39:29 <arch> lol
15:42:39 <electrohead> no u
16:03:48 * arch stuffs electrohead into a giant hamster wheel to power his air compressor
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22:19:11 <steve30> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrRoSdBM5M
22:19:11 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Windows 95 Crash Stream | 2h 54m 41s | Channel: Foone Turing | 46,416 views | 2021-08-28 - 20:15:59 UTC
22:19:26 <steve30> Well, I suppose crashing Windows 95 is one way to campaign for trans rights
22:19:43 <steve30> But apart from that, I never knew Windows 95 crashes after 49 and a half days of uptime.
22:19:59 <steve30> (not that I've ever run a win95 box for that long)
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22:41:14 <steve30> also a drag queen
22:42:51 <T3sl4> Halcyon: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/1onza7b/brutal_breakfast/
22:44:15 * Ampera pets T3sl4
22:44:51 * T3sl4 snuggles up on Ampera's lap
22:44:52 <Ampera> how's it going T3sl4
22:46:21 <steve30> hehe
22:52:23 <T3sl4> Ampera: am good, how are you
22:52:29 <Ampera> sinuses fucked
22:52:32 <Ampera> nose dying
22:52:35 <Ampera> can't breathe
22:52:38 <Ampera> so, same old
22:52:58 <T3sl4> on that note, there was a legendary neti pot post on reddit a few days ago
23:08:19 * steve30 pets T3sl4
23:08:27 * T3sl4 purrs at steve30
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