[05:23] <knightwi1e> morning everyone
[06:10] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[08:49] <foobarry_> morning
[08:49] <foobarry> so the snowden film sucks?
[09:03] <JamesTait> Good morning all! Happy Wednesday and happy Drink Beer Day! 😃  🍺
[12:03] <Azelphur> Wow, Lenovo are really going bad, first the Rootkit, then the whole AHCI thing, now I am hearing from a friend of mine, tried to upgrade his WiFi card in the laptop, and the BIOS is throwing an error stating "Unauthorized Wireless network card is plugged in. Power off and remove it"
[12:04] <zmoylan-pi> yeah i've heard someone complaining about that.  is it common?
[12:04] <BigRedS> and the keyboards really aren't all that any more, either. The nipple's basically the only reason to buy Lenovo these days
[12:05] <Azelphur> zmoylan-pi: seems a few people have encountered it, apparently you can hack the card and change its PCI ID
[12:06] <zmoylan-pi> yeah, they mentioned that they got some uber hacker to supply a bios update to get past it.  but they now have a niggling doubt about hacker supplied bios on laptop now :-)
[12:07] <zmoylan-pi> just short one meeting in a dark carpark for full paranoia... :-)
[12:10] <davmor2> Azelphur: depends uefi offers an option to build the keys based on the hardware. That might be a requirement for the windows8+ os so would throw up an issue if the hardware is changed
[12:12] <Azelphur> zmoylan-pi: yea, my friend is looking at the same stuff
[12:13] <Azelphur> davmor2: apparently it's because Lenovo have to get the FCC to validate the wifi card and antenna setup
[12:13] <zmoylan-pi> they could offer the firmware updates for sale on horse shaped usb drives for quick installs... :-)
[12:14] <Azelphur> hehe
[12:26] <zmoylan-pi> i really must find and/or make some horsey shaped usb drives...
[12:29] <ali1234> Azelphur: lenovo have locked wireless cards like that for ages
[12:29] <ali1234> hp also do it
[12:29] <ali1234> and others
[12:32] <Azelphur> ali1234: seems like an odd practice, never bumped into it myself
[12:32] <zmoylan-pi> havee you ever changed the included wifi card in a laptop?
[12:33] <ali1234> so i bought a nexus 7 on ebay... stuck in boot loop
[12:33] <ali1234> was sold as 16GB but the bootloader says it is 32GB
[12:33] <ali1234> i think someone flashed the wrong bootloader on it
[12:33] <zmoylan-pi> fixable?
[12:33] <ali1234> dont know yet
[12:33] <zmoylan-pi> fingers crossed...
[17:41] <Azelphur> Been looking into the GPD Win, looks really interesting, $330 5.5" laptop essentially, http://bit.ly/2d7h8ok they have videos of it running all sorts of games (GTA 5 even) and the manufacturers have said it might support Linux ( http://bit.ly/2daiZ7Q ) wonder if it will actually work driver wise
[18:19] <popey> looks fun
[18:41] <m0nkey_> Uhh, doubt it'll run GTAV very well.
[19:12] <Azelphur> m0nkey_: yea, it struggles, but it runs at a playable frame rate
[19:12] <Azelphur> which is impressive for a 5" device