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01:11:37 * arch dances atop electrohead's shiny bald head while The Barber of Seville plays in the background
01:13:39 <Nothing\> sweet
01:14:03 <Nothing\> despite being 52% below the poverty line, I managed to actually save up a few hundred bucks this last few months
01:14:19 <Nothing\> which is quite a significant sum for me. Any savings is significant
01:15:40 <Nothing\> i'm considering investing it in my bank's equivalent of a service like Robin Hood where you can pick and choose what stocks to invest in instead of just being given a GRC with all sorts of investments all over the damn place you end up making like 2% a year on
01:16:32 <Nothing\> or part of it anyways. I mean, I figure i should save it. But, I also figure when a business saves money, they don't just sit on it, they invest it. So, perhaps I shoudl do the same. Make my money work for me while i do nothing.
01:16:54 * electrohead removes one strand of hair, places atop of arch
01:17:10 <Nothing\> actually... fuggit that. I should work towards buying 50oz of silver bullion and flipping it on ebay
01:17:38 <Nothing\> i used to make a good bit of money on that even back when silver was like $16/oz and only varied by a couple of bucks
01:18:13 <Nothing\> holy fuck
01:18:23 <Nothing\> the price has quadrupled since i used to trade it
01:18:44 <Nothing\> gotdang, imagine the profit if I'd sat on all the silver I had
01:19:03 <Nothing\> even just keeping my wedding band I coulda sold it for twice what it was worth
01:19:29 <Nothing\> $61/oz tr.
01:20:09 <Nothing\> not sure I have $3k to drop on silver i may or may not flip for a significant profit
01:20:25 <Nothing\> $300, maybe...
01:20:41 <Nothing\> say, anyone wanna go in on a 50oz order of silver bullion?
01:20:50 <Nothing\> =P heh
01:30:43 <Nothing\> this is creepy
01:31:21 <Nothing\> there's crap all around my incision where it healed, old blood and scabs that haven't "let go" though they clearly want to
01:33:24 <Kuschelpony> a few towns next to me it rained https://fuerthaktuell-de.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Nach_dem_Starkregen_in_Furth_Deshalb_lief_die_Unterfuhrung_in_Unterfurberg_voll-1024x1361.webp
01:51:47 <Nothing\> JESUS
01:52:18 <Nothing\> I was looking at raspberry Pis, thinking I paid like $80 for my pi 3B back in the day, how much more could a 5 be?
01:52:34 <Nothing\> how about $317 for a 16gb
01:52:40 <Nothing\> or $280 for an 8
01:53:08 <Nothing\> and aliexpress is even worse, a 16gb on there is $600!!!
01:53:27 <Nothing\> like, jesus I might as well just buy a computer at that point
01:53:50 <Nothing\> upgrade it month to month as i save money for parts like i used to do
01:54:35 <Nothing\> and here i wanted to buy a touchscreen with it, too
01:54:55 <Nothing\> maybe i'll get get a screen for my pi 3b but there isn't a lot i can seem to do with that these days
02:20:14 <rc_garage> maybe look at the alternatives. orange pi and whatever
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02:32:12 <electrohead> https://www.adafruit.com/product/5813
02:32:13 <EEVBot> [url] Raspberry Pi 5 - 8 GB RAM : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits | www.adafruit.com
02:32:27 <electrohead> official sellers normally are cheaper
02:32:29 <electrohead> but, he left already
02:32:31 <electrohead> lol
02:46:48 <rc_garage> I still think it is a lot, for the insides of a computer.
02:54:26 <MrMobodies> Kuschelpony, that quite normal for the River Nene in Cambridgeshire
02:54:38 <MrMobodies> they sometimes have to shut the road there when it floods
02:54:55 <MrMobodies> oh sorry
02:55:03 <Kuschelpony> here should be no water at all, itsa tunnel to walk between two train platforms
02:55:19 <MrMobodies> I just saw, looking closer, handbars, those are steps
02:55:27 <MrMobodies> that's an underground pass
02:55:28 <Kuschelpony> yes
02:56:10 <Kuschelpony> rain washed some earth and dirt down, then the pumps got clogged and further water piled up
02:56:14 <MrMobodies> it looked very much to me like a river at first
02:56:24 <MrMobodies> with an unusual small mouth
02:56:56 <MrMobodies> they use to have that problem in this village many years ago
02:57:03 <MrMobodies> the pump house would flood
02:57:13 <MrMobodies> it'd become overwhelmed and stop
02:57:40 <MrMobodies> and the bottom village would flood, and they'd be long bodied tankers there all night pumping it all out
02:57:58 <MrMobodies> and they'd come and go
02:57:59 <Kuschelpony> interestingly, we are about 15km away fromthis place and here had no rain at all
02:58:53 <MrMobodies> 9 miles away
02:59:32 <MrMobodies> bet that underground pass would be a dog's dream
02:59:48 <MrMobodies> to swim around in
03:00:21 <MrMobodies> and an owners nightmare, when they get around to cleaning the dog after
03:01:11 <Kuschelpony> :)
03:01:45 <Kuschelpony> im optimistic, i might survive tomorrow attempting to go to work and back home
03:03:41 <MrMobodies> I'll tell you what I am really worried about
03:03:59 <MrMobodies> the forecast has just changed for Friday
03:04:11 <MrMobodies> where it was suppose to be at about 29c
03:04:23 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/tTfH8Dft/image.png
03:04:24 <MrMobodies> 39c
03:04:40 <Kuschelpony> ooops
03:04:41 <MrMobodies> and I have a major disco to setup on Friday, for Saturday
03:05:06 <MrMobodies> I brought anohter 160w fan
03:05:15 <Kuschelpony> here the weekend is expetced somewhat over 40 and people still run festivals
03:05:19 <Kuschelpony> oh yeah
03:05:24 <MrMobodies> https://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/pel01941/20-chrome-floor-fan/dp/HG01098
03:05:24 <EEVBot> [url] Farnell | 403 Error | cpc.farnell.com
03:05:27 <MrMobodies> went to buy another
03:05:30 <MrMobodies> 142 ALL GONE
03:05:40 <MrMobodies> and the black one and others like it, so quickly
03:05:51 <MrMobodies> lots appearing on ebay for about £15 more
03:05:51 <Kuschelpony> im currently looking the local classifieds to catch a secon Jackery powerbox
03:05:57 <MrMobodies> I bet the sellers cashed in on this
03:06:39 <MrMobodies> oh a powerstation battery inverter thing
03:07:06 <Kuschelpony> yes
03:07:07 <MrMobodies> someone showed me one that also had an output to jump start their car
03:07:18 <Kuschelpony> already have one and its fine
03:07:58 <Kuschelpony> has USB5V, 12V 120W and 230V 200W outputs, and can charge from anything 8 to 30V upto 60W
03:08:17 <Kuschelpony> have also a foldable PV panel
03:08:46 <MrMobodies> 30v output that's nice
03:08:46 <Kuschelpony> completely prepared for camping or smallindepend things at home (but not yet the fridge)
03:08:53 <Kuschelpony> input
03:09:23 <MrMobodies> I bet soon in Britain, to get homeless beggers off the street where housing is short
03:09:28 <Kuschelpony> it can take anything 8 to 30V input, car 12V or laptop brick or solar panel to charge
03:09:35 <MrMobodies> they'd issue one of those and a tent to them
03:09:46 <MrMobodies> and relocate them to the fields
03:09:49 <Kuschelpony> that would be something very nice
03:10:33 <MrMobodies> have more relief than a miserable town center
03:10:52 <MrMobodies> provided food, water and power is delivered to them
03:11:08 <MrMobodies> and their solar panels should help
03:11:19 <Kuschelpony> a future i would fight for
03:11:43 <MrMobodies> at harmony with the green
03:12:00 <electrohead> rc_garage: yeah I would never purchase one for that much, glad I purchased what I did, and when I did heh
03:12:55 <rc_garage> I am pretty happy that I got so fed up with the hype about them, that was a thing, maybe 2 years before anyone could actually buy one, so i decided to never buy a pi
03:13:51 <electrohead> lol, I enjoy them for small projects
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03:15:13 <rc_garage> yaay, the 35 dollar board, that lets you make your own laptop, just in 40 different parts with a bunch of wires, and most of the parts of an actual computer mixed in. yeah, they are neat, if you want some little thing that is a bit more than an arduino
03:15:17 <electrohead> well, any sized projects, really. they can have their uses
03:16:18 <rc_garage> talking about that, have you tried the newer arduinos? i think they had some new version, that was a lot more capable, maybe last year?
03:16:32 <rc_garage> I have not really heard much about tham
03:17:21 <rc_garage> https://youtu.be/J03woJbLrgA
03:17:22 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Mgła "Age of Excuse" full album 2019 | 42m 29s | Channel: No Solace | 2,115,476 views | 2019-09-02 - 16:20:19 UTC
03:17:26 <rc_garage> https://youtu.be/J03woJbLrgA
03:17:27 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Mgła "Age of Excuse" full album 2019 | 42m 29s | Channel: No Solace | 2,115,476 views | 2019-09-02 - 16:20:19 UTC
03:17:38 <rc_garage> and, maybe this https://youtu.be/J03woJbLrgA
03:17:39 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Mgła "Age of Excuse" full album 2019 | 42m 29s | Channel: No Solace | 2,115,476 views | 2019-09-02 - 16:20:19 UTC
03:18:03 <rc_garage> have fun. I am officially fixing brakes, as usual
03:26:37 * arch puts some super slippery grease on rc_garage's brakes for extra traction
03:30:11 <rc_garage> probably not an issue, as this guy seems more interested in getting his phone chqarger working, that brakes, so he can get this thing thru its test
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05:28:12 <electrohead> rc_garage: not the 'newer' ones, but I have enough in stock to last a while, lol
05:31:01 <rc_garage> I just wondered if thay are much better than the old ones
05:32:22 <rc_garage> I only have a couple left, I tried to give the rest to lardgeir, but he keeps paying me for random crap
05:54:12 * arch sticks a booger on rc_garage's recently polished car's door
05:54:42 <rc_garage> heh
05:55:07 <rc_garage> i do remember polishing moms car, when I was shorter
05:56:37 <MrMobodies> I found this quite amusing
05:56:39 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/2ytnt0P4/730083450-10174776001165445-234677525153176826-n.jpg
05:58:41 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/NfrXM73z/IMG-20260623-204505-DRO.jpg
05:58:47 <MrMobodies> 29c at 20:44
05:59:10 <MrMobodies> it's now 28 but still hotter than inside the house and outside all i can breathe is hot air
06:43:44 <electrohead> well nowadays there are so many clones of clones, at least what I have are legit parts
07:10:30 <rc_garage> if the parts work....
07:10:43 <rc_garage> but, I like the way you want to support whoever
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07:59:09 <rc-garage> bingo bongo
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08:51:20 <steve30> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QuDURfIpuc
08:51:20 <EEVBot> [YouTube] BBC Radio 4 LW closedown message 198 kHz | 1m 12s | Channel: Arctic Radio | 89 views | 2026-06-23 - 21:05:37 UTC
08:51:55 <steve30> Listening to the shipping forecast and closedown on Long Wave was one of my plans for when/if Halcyon comes over to England. Guess we won't after next week :(.
09:17:12 <ibiza> arch you got a stinky bum
09:17:38 * ibiza waves at Halcyon
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10:24:36 <Halcyon> Hey ibiza
10:24:40 <Halcyon> What's doing?
10:25:00 <Halcyon> steve30: Probably won't be going overseas until next year at the earliest.
10:26:13 <steve30> At least I'll still be able to chase you around in a detector van :p
10:27:54 <Halcyon> Hahaha
10:38:33 <MrMobodies> I have two HP Elitebooks, both look identica
10:40:16 <MrMobodies> one is a I5-6300u and the other is an AMD PRO A10-8730B
10:40:22 <MrMobodies> https://pc-builds.com/compare/cpu/0G50KV/core-i5-6300u/pro-a10-8730b
10:40:22 <EEVBot> [url] Attention Required! | Cloudflare | pc-builds.com
10:40:56 <MrMobodies> I5-6300u has 2 cores and 4 threads, the AMD has 4 cores
10:41:20 <MrMobodies> now despite that, why is out of benchmarks that the Intel always beat the AMD's
10:42:57 <Halcyon> Probably because of the Intel's Level 3 cache. The AMD has none
10:43:58 <Halcyon> L3 is shared memory among all cores.
10:45:12 <MrMobodies> I see
10:45:24 <MrMobodies> they always seem to lack one thing that ruins it for them
10:45:57 <MrMobodies> I remember the Batron 3200 and the cache association was half of the Pentium 3 and smaller
10:46:09 <MrMobodies> AMD Athlon back in 2000
10:46:12 <MrMobodies> oops 2003
10:46:23 <Halcyon> I generally regard AMD perfectly fine for general purpose computing, but I've never really found that they compete particularly well in high-workload or enterprise environments (bar perhaps a few models).
10:46:41 <MrMobodies> the biggest mistake along with an Anus A78X Deluxe that wasn't so deluxe
10:46:52 <Halcyon> Heh, Anus
10:46:57 <MrMobodies> ooops I mean Asus
10:47:06 <Halcyon> I know, but it still made me giggle.
10:47:10 <steve30> :p
10:47:48 <MrMobodies> I was quite impressed with their Athlon 2'S 300mhz ones that fit in the socket 370's
10:47:59 <MrMobodies> ooh I can't remember what htey were caled
10:48:21 <MrMobodies> oh K6-2
10:48:28 <Halcyon> *shrug* I haven't used an AMD proc since the K6's. That was around the time they were catching fire.
10:49:14 <Halcyon> Also, watched this last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqxQ4m-kUE
10:49:14 <EEVBot> [YouTube] Hotmail Wasn't Running on Windows NT | 19m 16s | Channel: NT to Now | 41,736 views | 2026-06-22 - 16:00:11 UTC
10:49:17 <MrMobodies> There was Aliddan motherboard Ali chipset (made by Acer) and they had the Amd K6-2's in there
10:49:18 <Halcyon> Really interesting story
10:49:25 <MrMobodies> and cooling clip use to snap
10:49:36 <MrMobodies> the heatsing use to fall off in this school
10:49:42 <MrMobodies> but they never catch fire
10:50:06 <MrMobodies> I thought it was the Athlons that use to catch fire
10:50:21 <Halcyon> I mean fire is a bit dramatic, but they used to get so hot that they would release the magic smoke. I think it was the later K6's and the early Athlon's that had basically no thermal protection.
10:50:31 <MrMobodies> and some shops refuse to sell them over a $6 heatsink failing causes fire and risk I was told
10:50:48 <MrMobodies> aah they cheapened it
10:51:03 <Halcyon> Well either it was deliberate, or it was poorly executed.
10:51:19 <Halcyon> Always brings me back to this old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRn8ri9tKf8
10:51:20 <EEVBot> [YouTube] CPU Burns - Intel vs. AMD | 2m 18s | Channel: Tabakhase | 95,505 views | 2007-01-28 - 14:47:01 UTC
10:51:53 <MrMobodies> I remember that video and that music
10:52:29 <Halcyon> Although not sure how accurate those measurements were. 38 degrees isn't that hot. We have hotter days here in summer.
10:55:04 <MrMobodies> I remember the worst combination upgrade ever after those Ali board with the AMD K60-2
10:55:23 <MrMobodies> Soyo motherboard with SiSy 530 chipset and a Cyrix 300
10:55:54 <Halcyon> Ahhh the old Cyrix CPUs. I used to have one of them.
10:55:57 <MrMobodies> I refused to use them after constant problems and loosing 4 pages of work was the last straw
10:56:03 <Halcyon> They were slow, but never gave me any troubles
10:56:42 <MrMobodies> bluescreen would happen a lot, just open fonts in in word 2000, artifacts appear then you know you're due for a blue screen thereafter
10:56:49 <Halcyon> Hahah fun
10:56:51 * steve30 needs coffee
10:57:34 <Halcyon> Bit late/early for coffee isn't it Steve?
10:58:46 <MrMobodies> actually it wasn't fonts it was the 3d word art thing
10:59:16 <MrMobodies> the owner of the school passed away in 1998
10:59:58 <MrMobodies> the network administrator was planning the new stuff, the son who inherited the school brought the motherboards
11:00:48 <MrMobodies> and demanded the network man use the same Windows NT key just after a school got inspected and shut down for it
11:01:45 <MrMobodies> when he took over, he cancelled the school trips, cut funding and a year before I left a company brought it over and things improved and they stopped with all the cheap crap
11:02:43 <MrMobodies> there was ome infants who were very upset one day and they were at the back pointing at this yacht the owner brought in a place that they were not suppose to be
11:03:10 <MrMobodies> they were complaining that their trips were all cancelled and they fought it went on this new yatch or boat
11:04:05 <MrMobodies> outside it just terrible
11:04:43 <MrMobodies> it's 22.2c at 2:13am in the morning
11:05:02 <MrMobodies> it's not the heat, but outside is so saturated I can't breathe and around the house
11:05:14 <steve30> its always the right time for coffee
11:05:33 <MrMobodies> so I shut the doors and turn the air conditioner on in the conservatory whichh flows into the kitchen, then the utility room to my workshop
11:05:52 <steve30> its quite comfortable in here, but i had the AC on all day
11:05:54 <MrMobodies> Steve30 how is it in your place and what temperature?
11:06:00 <MrMobodies> you're lucky
11:06:17 <MrMobodies> I have never know daytime temperatures like this at mighnight before
11:06:20 <steve30> 28C in here
11:06:40 <steve30> so a bit warm but if I'd not had the AC on during the day it would be something like 35
11:07:21 <MrMobodies> At about 9pm it was 2c hotter outside
11:07:25 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/28dxrLqm/240626-0010-23-4c.jpg
11:07:59 <MrMobodies> I am sure that 28c does not have saturation in it?
11:08:07 <MrMobodies> like that of a swimming pool
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14:00:19 <steve30> Just watching an old episode of Traffic Cops from 2003
14:01:21 <steve30> They filmed those here in South Yorkshire.
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20:19:59 <Halcyon> Evening all
20:23:00 <DogWomble> `evening :)
22:40:37 <steve30> hi
22:44:09 <MrMobodies> Very PLEASED with Mozilla for the first time in decades
22:44:35 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/qqvTVZXk/Firefox-background-control.jpg
22:45:04 <MrMobodies> That setting apparently alters overlays forcing it to the colour specified.
22:45:29 <MrMobodies> So in light mode, that'd put a stop to excessive dark dimming overlays from appearing.
22:46:03 <MrMobodies> which can be unpleasant to the eyes expecially when excessively appearing
23:20:57 <MrMobodies> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lr71q0v99o
23:20:57 <EEVBot> [url] Darlington NHS trust spent £603k on trans changing room tribunal - BBC News | www.bbc.co.uk
23:21:13 <MrMobodies> With the amount of money they spent, they could have built seperate changing rooms for them.
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