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00:25:15 <rc-garage> try one plastic gear in between the others? it will never be quiet, but.
00:48:22 <rc-garage> https://youtu.be/EXBNqww0wRs
00:48:22 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Drill Square Holes - Rotary Broach | 18m 39s | Channel: AndysMachines | 10,687 views | 2026-05-22 - 15:30:34 UTC
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01:46:20 <MrMobodies> It is 16:54 and the temperature seems to be going up.
01:53:43 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/rV4rSnbh/Clipboard-05-26-2026-01.jpg
01:54:19 <MrMobodies> 16:21 35.6c 16:44 36.3c
01:54:25 <MrMobodies> when it should be dropping
01:56:01 <MrMobodies> but does seem to be dropping in the house and the air conditioner in the conservatory seems to be working better now the sun is not shining through there where it was only managing 25c before
05:08:43 * arch sticks electrohead's head in an oversized drill chuck
05:11:18 <electrohead> so overrotated
05:13:05 <MrMobodies> Weather forcast says at 4pm thunderstorm with heavy rain
05:13:15 <MrMobodies> then forcasted to later happen
05:13:19 <MrMobodies> CLEAR SKIES
05:13:24 <MrMobodies> what a big give away
05:13:24 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/yYCM74LL/image.png
05:13:29 <MrMobodies> LIAR LIAR pants on fire
05:13:36 <MrMobodies> so inaccuracte
05:14:06 <MrMobodies> I bet that was fake to give some people hope their gardens would be watered by the rain
05:15:35 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/WbSXCQCM/qweq3r.jpg
05:16:08 <MrMobodies> I knew this was going to happen, fighteningly rainy weather but nothing.
05:17:39 <MrMobodies> 24moh wind, it's stagnant.
05:17:40 <arch> has anyone recently run a new service to a detached garage or shed recently? im thinking of upgrading to 100A service to the garage
05:19:01 <arch> the existing wires are in 1" conduit and out of code for the wire gauge, AND the boxes in the garage are rusty as fuck
05:19:08 <arch> in my basement too, the homerun box
05:20:07 <arch> existing wires are only good to i think 60A. not enough if im gonna put an EV charger for a potential EV plus heating and air conditioning in the garage too
05:20:40 <rust_collector> no idea, but overdo it as much as you can.
05:21:06 <arch> yeah that's what im thinking too. it'll be costly tho. but worth it.
05:21:14 <rust_collector> just once
05:21:35 <arch> 1 1/2" PVC underground, that's enough for 5x 1AWG copper THHWN wires
05:21:55 <arch> right now i have 1" PVC underground with 2AWG AL RHHW wire. sucks balls
05:22:02 <arch> copper is better
05:22:57 <arch> im gonna have the electrician pull 4 current carrying conductors, that way i can upgrade to 3 phase WYE if i get bored and want to run a time machine in there
05:24:55 <rust_collector> ah, yes, 3 phase time machines. and mr head thinks extra stuff for a mini lathe is expensive
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05:41:58 <K> is pvc good for burrying?
05:43:03 <arch> schedule 80 pvc is used in the US for electrical lines underground
05:43:28 <arch> you could also use rigid (metal) conduit, but i dont like that crap. it rusts to hell and back
05:43:53 <rust_collector> pvc is ok under ground, it is worse above ground, as it tends to not like sun
05:44:01 <arch> i do like EMT a lot. im gonna run 3/4" EMT surface mounted in my garage, over drywall
06:07:19 <MrMobodies> I think our garage has 100a cable to the house (compaed to the 65amp mains) which has helped as the solar panels installers didn't need to run or change it. Nowhere to put them in the house and the garage has lots of space so ideal.
06:09:32 <MrMobodies> Rheir plan until they discovered the cable was thick enough, was to run a very long cable around the house, up the wall into my workshop across the ceiling thrn into already tiny pack cupboard which would have looked horrible.
06:32:40 <K> i must be mixing my plastics up, thougt watter gets trhourg pvc
06:33:30 <rc-garage> well, it is also used for water, so it can not be a major problem with it
07:25:54 <K> yeah
07:26:04 * K hangs his head in shame
07:27:18 <rc-garage> they also used a lot of other stuff for that, so... meh
07:28:32 <rc-garage> I remember, when I was only short, they were replacing all the asbestos water lines in town. they also found some really old wooden ones, which seemed to be doing ok
07:30:32 <K> talkin of wood ones, i remeber as a kid they replaced one made from wood
07:31:12 <K> in me hometown apartment building, which was, aparently, an inn, when inns were a thing
08:13:05 <rc-garage> K, ?
08:13:14 <rc-garage> do you know this spartak cake?
08:13:32 <rc-garage> I think it is look like idea
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08:42:19 <Nothing\> yay i think i might actually be able to play WASD games soon. I can actually bring my arm up to type for short periods.
08:42:58 <Nothing\> otoh with the nerve damage eliminating all sensation, I could pop my stitches and not even realize it
08:43:24 <rc-garage> use velcro?
08:43:57 <Nothing\> rc-garage, heh i've read about doctors using polyacrylate to close surgical wounds
08:44:40 <Nothing\> how you been, rc-garage? long time no see
08:44:47 <Nothing\> or so it feels
08:45:01 <rc-garage> eh, well, it is vacation now, so I am busy, lol
08:45:22 <Nothing\> haha best laid plans of mice and men so on and so forth, as i like to say
08:45:29 <Nothing\> tell me you know that saying
08:45:49 <rc-garage> uh, Ok, I know that saying... what is that about?
08:46:28 <Nothing\> "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry" is the actual quote
08:46:45 <Nothing\> basically, no matter how well you plan ahead things always go wrong in some way
08:47:35 <Nothing\> more a common saying than a quote, same difference
08:48:27 <Nothing\> also there was a famous play called "of mice and men" which may have coined the term, or at least borrowed from the idea
08:50:06 <Nothing\> ugh so hot
08:50:27 <Nothing\> it was 0c the other nice, now it's 35c with the humidity. What is this a desert?
08:50:41 <rc-garage> could be?
08:51:33 <Nothing\> tough to say. lol
08:51:43 <Nothing\> did i tell you i busted myself up real bad?
08:51:50 <rc-garage> yep
08:51:54 <Nothing\> i can't remember if i've talked to you since
08:52:00 <Nothing\> ahh
08:52:10 <rc-garage> not really, but I saw the text
08:52:13 <Nothing\> yeah i got the surgery to put in a "hook plate" doesn't that sound fun?
08:52:23 <Nothing\> ahh i see
08:52:29 <rc-garage> surgery is nice
08:52:48 <Nothing\> actually it really wasn't bad, the actual surgery, itself.
08:52:51 <rc-garage> maybe look it up on youtube, and have a go yourself?
08:53:23 <Nothing\> i even got to be wonked out on ketamine while they did something akin to an epidural on my arm and chest
08:53:57 <Nothing\> cuz they had to stick this big fuck-off needle into my neck into a group of nerves coming out of my spine
08:54:08 <rc-garage> hmmm, ketmine, that is like... uuh
08:54:13 <rc-garage> what was that again
08:54:22 <Nothing\> they stuff that killed matthew perry?
08:54:40 <rc-garage> not the word I was looking for, but
08:54:47 <rc-garage> it was something shorter
08:55:04 <Nothing\> actually it wasn't so much the ketamine as much as abusing a general anesthetic that is meant to render you unconscious while he was in a damn hot tub. What did he expect?
08:55:18 <Nothing\> oh you mean isn't it like some other drug?
08:55:40 <rc-garage> yeah, I wonder if it has a different name, or something close to it is
08:56:05 <Nothing\> huh actually i can't think of any brand names off the top of my head, oddly enough
08:56:18 <Nothing\> i usually know at least one brand name for every medication
08:57:05 <Nothing\> ketaset, ketaject, ketelar
08:57:12 <Nothing\> *ketalar
08:57:27 <Nothing\> ketametabooboo
08:58:52 <rc-garage> talking about that stuff, I got a handful of oxycodone the other day. because I was sort of complaining about my shoulder not being great. i guess I will just put those in a drawer somewhere
09:00:11 <Nothing\> heh yeah they sent me home from surgery getting the plate put in with a bottle of tylenol 3s. They're not even worth taking with the tolerance i have to opioids.
09:01:36 <Nothing\> 2x T3s is 60mg of codeine, 120mg of codeine is equivalent to 10mg of morphine, which is about the same potency of methadone, which I take 75mg of a day. So an extra 5mg equivalent would do nothing
09:02:08 <Nothing\> i wound up just having my doctor increase my methadone dose for the next couple of weeks until I'm through the worst of it
09:02:30 <rc-garage> well, does it really help?
09:02:31 <Nothing\> but i haven't needed so much as a tylenol this whole recovery
09:02:51 <Nothing\> rc-garage, i dunno i never took it. But tylenol certainly doesn't help.
09:03:12 <Nothing\> plus, if i take it, it shows up as morphine on the drug tests i take at the clinic which is gonna be a whole explanation
09:03:36 <rc-garage> you are suppose to drop your doses, so keep it the same, if you can
09:04:05 <Nothing\> do what now?
09:04:42 <rc-garage> take less of the methadone
09:04:52 <Nothing\> rc-garage, that's the ultimate goal
09:05:01 <rc-garage> if you can, leave it alone?
09:05:11 <Nothing\> in fact i was gonna go back down some more on thursday
09:05:35 <Nothing\> no, by all means, i appreciate the input. I just misunderstood what you said ,initially.
09:06:08 <Nothing\> most times input from others is the only sensible input you get
09:06:52 <Nothing\> anyways my shoudler's bumpin' so I'm gonna go rest it from typing
09:07:04 <Nothing\> was nice seeing/talking with you, rust_collector
09:07:14 <Nothing\> seriously
09:07:18 <rc-garage> have fun and stuff
09:07:40 <Nothing\> you too! =)
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11:37:07 <steve30> https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/radio-4-long-wave-switch-off/
11:37:07 <EEVBot> [url] Radio 4 Long Wave Switch Off - Page 1 | www.eevblog.com
11:37:10 * steve30 forumed
12:46:58 <MrMobodies> What strange weather, it is 3.45am and it just started to get light
12:49:04 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/BbyTJtwv/IMG-20260527-034542-DRO.jpg
12:49:26 <MrMobodies> I don't remember it starting to get light under 4pm before
12:49:36 <MrMobodies> oops 4am
12:50:01 <MrMobodies> what a horrible day it has been yesterday with temperates at 34c
12:50:28 <MrMobodies> and a little higher according to an outside temperature sensroe
14:32:45 <MrMobodies> Steve30, I thought they were banning 0 hours contracts.
14:33:08 <MrMobodies> I hear claims that they are "fair", "flexible" "oh
14:33:15 <MrMobodies> and all sorts of nonsense
14:33:33 <MrMobodies> "you can refuses shifts and they can't do nothing about it"
14:34:09 <MrMobodies> but what they don't tell you or put it absolutely straight, "if you do't do what they demand you to do they can refuse all work and pay"
14:35:12 <MrMobodies> I heard talk at the pub of people being demanded to work on days they were not available and threatened with no work.
14:35:45 <MrMobodies> Steve30, what do you think of zero hour contracts?
14:38:38 <MrMobodies> in places like busy supermarkets where they'd always be shoppers shopping for things and work stacking the helves I find there's no excuse to only offer that mode of employment.
14:38:57 <MrMobodies> oh night
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16:37:40 <K> rc-garage - umm, nope
16:43:31 <steve30> MrMobodies, 0 hour contracts exist mostly for people/businesses who do holiday/sickness cover etc
16:43:54 <steve30> e.g. I used to work 0 hours to cover other people
16:44:52 <steve30> businesses will always need casual staff to help during busy periods and for cover, and there will always be people like students/retired people etc who are willing to do it
16:44:57 <steve30> so you can't effectively ban them
16:45:39 <steve30> The problem is when someone if going in everyday and working all week, consistently, you have to ask why are they on a 0 hours contract, when they are clearly expected to work xy-hours per week
20:17:45 <electrohead> !caffeine
20:17:46 * EEVBot runs off with the .. stuff
20:20:24 <K> !coffee steve30
20:20:24 * EEVBot hooks steve30 up to a coffee IV
20:22:07 * electrohead hooks K up to the lathe, spins him right round
20:22:33 <K> weeeee!
20:22:52 <electrohead> lol, haayy
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20:51:14 <steve30> o/
20:51:32 <electrohead> !caffeine steve30
20:51:32 * EEVBot runs off with the .. stuff
20:51:36 <steve30> mmm
20:51:43 <electrohead> the good stuff, too
20:51:56 <steve30> I've just been to the doctors
20:52:18 <electrohead> were you poked and proded just to determine you are still human?
20:53:05 <steve30> nope
20:53:19 <steve30> So we may never know if i'm human
21:09:32 <K> or safe to release in public
21:11:50 <MrMobodies> Well it's nice when zero hours works for you.
21:12:15 <MrMobodies> I have never seen this before
21:12:16 <MrMobodies> https://betawiki.net/wiki/PCem
21:12:16 <EEVBot> [url] Just a moment... | betawiki.net
21:12:34 <MrMobodies> "Graphics card: MDA, CGA, EGA, Hercules, IBM VGA, as well as a couple Trident cards, Tseng ET4000AX, Tseng ET4000/W32p, S3 Trio64, 3dfx Voodoo, S3 ViRGE, Cirrus Logic GD5429"
21:21:35 <MrMobodies> Damn ">NO COPYRIGHTED ROM FILES ARE INCLUDED NOR WILL THEY BE. PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR THEM.</b>"
21:23:41 <MrMobodies> At a later date I'll find a board 430fx board for the rom listed
21:23:50 <MrMobodies> that I hav stored somewhere
21:24:22 <MrMobodies> an emulaterless emulator missing components
21:25:13 <MrMobodies> oh isn't this just nice.
21:25:15 <MrMobodies> https://archive.org/details/pcem-v-17-roms
21:25:16 <EEVBot> [url] PCem V 17 ROMs : Aitus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | archive.org
21:25:21 <MrMobodies> archive.org
21:26:23 <MrMobodies> they put it on there
21:31:10 <steve30> looks good
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21:36:09 <Nothing\> gyah
21:36:39 <K> NYYAAAH!
21:36:46 <Nothing\> my bandage has been slowly coming off the incision over the last week and i finally decided to take a peak underneath
21:36:59 <K> rainbow colours?
21:37:10 <K> (no, I do not want to see0
21:38:03 <Nothing\> lol no those passed, but it goes all the way from the edge of the bottom of my neck to my shoulder
21:38:22 <Nothing\> K, duely noted, i'll spare you
21:39:17 <Nothing\> it's not gruesome, it's just a plain wound with stitches.
22:32:13 <Nothing\> This is a test
22:32:20 <Nothing\> hah
22:33:18 <Nothing\> didn't realize right clicking in hexchat gave access to a bunch of non-text characters for formatting
22:34:24 <Nothing\> you are seeing me type
22:34:57 <Nothing\> hrm that did nothing and i might as well just open a test channel if i'm gonna play with this stuff
22:35:27 <Nothing\> you guys know what this place needs?
22:35:30 <Nothing\> a MUD
22:35:44 <Nothing\> or at the very least, a BBS with Legend of the Red Dragon
22:35:51 <Nothing\> and food fight
22:35:57 <K> at times there is enough of SMUT
22:36:27 <Nothing\> i was never big on MUDs but I loved playing LORD with my friends
22:37:06 <Nothing\> i found a server a few months ago and started playing until i remembered you have to dedicate yourself to playing the game every single day or you don't stand a chance
22:41:46 <Nothing\> man.... taking my sling off and seeing my arm since it went on 2 weeks ago, it's alarming how much muscle loss is immediately visible in my in gimp-arm
22:42:00 <Nothing\> it looks like i haven
22:42:14 <Nothing\> t us.d it in months
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23:11:13 <MrMobodies> Found an old Ghost image of Windows 98 I copied from an Advent 8712 recovery cd about 20 years ago
23:11:19 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/B4GQYzxY/Advent8712W98iseimage.jpg
23:11:49 <MrMobodies> Works like it is right of the box
23:13:28 <MrMobodies> Pretty surprised how that works so well and all the drivers and sound card at the time
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