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01:04:20 <MrMobodies> Absolutely PISSED
01:04:40 <MrMobodies> Both Microsoft Office and Libre Office does this stupid thing
01:04:44 <MrMobodies> I am trying to edit some buttons
01:04:57 <MrMobodies> I checked in office do not compress images and high fidelty
01:05:07 <MrMobodies> copy an image 218 by 215
01:05:40 <MrMobodies> copy and paste it back into Irfanview and it gets scaled to 35 by 35
01:05:56 <MrMobodies> I mean not scalled the resolution is decreased
01:06:01 <MrMobodies> so it becomes really blurry
01:07:18 <MrMobodies> what a stupid idea to set this as the automatic behaviour. That is where this isn't "What You See Is What You Get."
01:07:30 <MrMobodies> it doesn't matter what size I set the page too
01:08:56 <MrMobodies> Maybe it is Irfanview doing it let's see. It can't be happening from two different applications
01:11:43 <MrMobodies> yep the resolution decreases when copyin and pasting it to irfanview -> mspaint -> irfanview.
01:12:32 <MrMobodies> trying to draw a circle, size and move.
01:12:37 <MrMobodies> to put over a button
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02:06:39 <MrMobodies> Finished
02:06:40 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/SRZbbwg6/Columncolors.jpg
02:08:22 <MrMobodies> To change colours on this particular column, the buttons IC set needs to be pressed to set to the first colour (red) then the button CS to change to the other colours and there's 16 of them.
02:09:25 <MrMobodies> So all I do is set event ghost to send out the same IR code many times with sleep inbetween to get to the specified colour.
02:09:59 <MrMobodies> I'd thought I'd intgerate it on the same panel than have two of them.
02:24:37 <flyback> i still use realterm even though devel has died 3.x branch runs in wine
02:24:58 <flyback> but this one is nice, freemium but the full version is only $90 one time for life which is fair
02:25:00 <flyback> https://serialtool.com/_en/serial-port-byte-bit-visualizer
02:25:01 <EEVBot> [url] SerialTool - Serial Port Byte Visualizer & Simulator | serialtool.com
02:25:22 <flyback> if you need a advanced serial debug tool for non standard serial coms or none ascii or non binary data
02:25:40 <flyback> https://serialtool.com/_en/serial-port-serial-tool-screenshots
02:25:40 <EEVBot> [url] SerialTool - Serial Port Software and Monitor Screenshots | serialtool.com
06:33:25 <MrMobodies> I think I have seen that before.
06:33:35 <MrMobodies> I was trying to capture traffic from something
06:35:15 <MrMobodies> I remember now, I was trying to capture serial traffic from the RFX com to, turn it on, and get it to send out an undecoded message without using the tool
06:36:32 <MrMobodies> despite the tool working and capturing it the RFXcom radio didn't seem to respond
06:36:39 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/d0PH4rdm/w2k-Office.jpg
06:36:51 <MrMobodies> It didn't do this compression nonsense in Windows and Office 2000
06:37:31 <MrMobodies> I copy things in, edit and scale, copy back out and it is the same resolution as before.
06:37:47 <MrMobodies> So it looks like the operating system might be doing it
06:41:05 <MrMobodies> Certain things like positioning seems inflexible but I find I can do things so much easier and quiker, without interference with things copied into clipboard and getting annoyed.
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07:44:01 <flyback> jugh
07:44:22 <flyback> just finished cleaning my window ac unit and treating it with anti mold so this doesn't happen again
07:44:43 <flyback> everything was going great when the front control panel went dead and started flashig on/off
07:44:54 <flyback> thought I got water in the main psu and relay board somehow
07:45:24 <flyback> turns out I just got some moisture in the front panel display, quick shot of crc qd electronic cleaner and it's fine
07:46:19 <flyback> I couldn't clean the outside coil cause it's 30 feet up but I maaged to spray it down with a pump-n-spray aimed at the sky with anti mold
07:46:23 <flyback> so that should help
07:46:40 <flyback> I will try to get some coil cleaner that you mix and I can put in a pump-n-spray sometime
07:47:57 <flyback> next project is change the oil in the gen, not been done in 10 yrs (yeah yeah I know, t's only bee used like 5 times so it's fine), converting it to synthetic and adjusting the idlle screw
07:48:13 <flyback> also testing the regulator capacitor and rotor and stator windigns
07:49:29 <flyback> but I needed to fix my ac even though I don't sleep up there in my bedroom due to a stomach acid chocking problem I developed that doesn't seemm to happen if I slep on the couch
07:54:07 <flyback> what a pain in the ass cleaning up that ac unit
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08:24:38 <arch> have you tried not drinking acid
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09:37:17 <flyback> <flyback> damn she was low on oil
09:37:18 <flyback> <flyback> not enough for damage it has low oil shutoff
09:37:18 <flyback> <flyback> but it's supposted to be within 1-2 threads of the top of the fill pipe and it was down an inch
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09:37:55 * flyback is 15 mins from draining the old dino oil and replacing it with royal purple synth
09:38:54 <rust_collector> yay! that will leak out much faster, than the thick old stuff
09:39:38 <flyback> so what
09:39:44 <flyback> I will just top it off
09:40:41 <rust_collector> so, I am just mentioning it. because someone might not know, for whatever reason.
09:43:00 <flyback> I know thx
10:03:47 <flyback> <flyback> oil change: complete
10:03:47 <flyback> <flyback> boy synthetic 5w-30 is runny
10:03:47 <flyback> <flyback> doing a run test now
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10:19:47 <Nothing\> welp, i think i'm addicted to minecraft
10:19:58 <Nothing\> well, more of a relapse than an addiction
10:21:04 <Nothing\> I'd been avoiding buying it because it's on Microsoft's online gaming crap, whatever it's called, and I didn't want to set up an account on there just for the sake of minecraft. Not to mention the obvious headaches that you just KNOW will come with dealing with microsoft
10:21:36 <Nothing\> i wound up having to do that with Diablo III, I downloaded Battle.net just for the sake of playing that.
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10:22:40 <Nothing\> although i remember I have Starcraft II, but RTS games just aren't as fun for me, subjectively, as they used to be for some reason
10:23:30 <Nothing\> i spent countless hours playing AoE 2 back in the early 2000s. Now I bought AoE 3 (or was it 4?) either way, I only spent an hour or two playing it
10:25:20 <Nothing\> sigh
10:25:41 <Nothing\> it sucks to be in a chatty mood with nobody to talk to in the most literal sense you could mean by that
10:26:04 <Nothing\> at least my kitties like it when i talk to them, even if they don't understand what i'm saying
10:26:28 <Nothing\> but cats and ai just aren't satisfactory, or appropriate social outlets
10:26:41 <Nothing\> or healthy
10:27:16 <Nothing\> i've seen some unsettling reddit posts of people using AI to act like their online girlfriend or something
10:31:35 <Nothing\> dangit. outta space on my media drive. Looks like it's time to fire up windirstat and prioritize what is expendible
10:37:31 <MrMobodies> sounds like alot of work for an air conditioner
10:37:52 <MrMobodies> Aoe Aces over Europe?
12:15:30 <Nothing\> age of empires
12:15:55 <Nothing\> II was such a classic RTS back in the early 2000s
12:16:27 <Nothing\> I didn't even play online or campaign mode, I had enough fun just playing single player skirmishes against the computer
12:17:19 <Nothing\> actually, i still don't play online for age of empires IV or starcraft II
12:17:35 <Nothing\> i've never played games online. literally
12:18:14 <Nothing\> oh wait i played call of duty 4 online when it came out. I didn't even touch the campaign. I loved playing it online.
12:18:45 <Nothing\> i play video games to escape the world, not to interact with other people from it
12:19:42 <Nothing\> and growing up playing video games in the 80s and 90s, nothing beats playing a game with somebody who's actually sitting next to you. It's a more social experience and just more fun.
12:20:29 <Nothing\> my friend was big into sports and had a lot of sports games that I wouldn't have even cared about otherwise. But, playing them with him made them fun enough that I actually enjoyed playing them.
12:21:07 <Nothing\> and we'd do ridiculous stuff like playing NHL '94 and trying to be as aggressive as possible to see how many penalties we could get for fighting
12:21:15 <Nothing\> or just penalties in general
12:21:47 <Nothing\> or having a home run derby in Ken Griffey Jr Baseball
12:52:58 * arch pours 75w-140 gear oil in flyback's engine
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14:02:58 <Nothing\> *poof*
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16:03:16 <K> hello carrot-bottoms
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16:11:35 <K> !coffee steve30
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