| knightwise | good morning everyone | 06:38 |
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| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 07:34 |
| diplo | Morning all | 09:26 |
| knightwise | hey diplo ² | 09:40 |
| === stryx`_ is now known as stryx` | ||
| JamesTait | Good morning all! Happy Thursday, and happy Men Make Dinner Day! 😃 | 09:57 |
| JamesTait | Which - coincidentally, I'm sure - is also Sandwich Day. | 09:58 |
| BigRedS | Ah! cereal-for-dinner day again! | 10:00 |
| JamesTait | Ironically, I make dinner every day except Thursday, which is take-away day. | 10:01 |
| foobarry | can anyone help me remember the name of a game | 10:14 |
| foobarry | android game where there's blobs that need sucking other blobs in | 10:15 |
| foobarry | has good sound effects | 10:15 |
| JamesTait | World of Goo? | 10:15 |
| foobarry | i want to say sonos | 10:18 |
| foobarry | the blobs look like burning suns | 10:18 |
| JamesTait | No idea then. | 10:18 |
| foobarry | hah osmos | 10:19 |
| foobarry | https://www.humblebundle.com/store/osmos | 10:24 |
| TwistedLucidity | Osmos is a nice little game | 10:29 |
| foobarry | nice escapism | 10:32 |
| Myrtti | https://twitter.com/myrtti/status/794121262691995648 :-( | 10:57 |
| * zmoylan-pi has noticed a tiny scratch on my dumb nokia screen... i don't remember been in a horrific accident or having it struck by meteorite... :-P | 11:03 | |
| knightwise | you | 12:41 |
| knightwise | are alll | 12:41 |
| knightwise | that I need | 12:41 |
| knightwise | ... | 12:41 |
| knightwise | Wanted to type in Youtube | 12:43 |
| knightwise | Been listening to a LOT of soundmixes on youtube lately | 12:45 |
| === alan_g is now known as alan_g|lunch | ||
| foobarry | not often i get surprised by computers | 13:32 |
| foobarry | except last night i plugged the usb from the digital piano into the laptop, opened up skoove.com and it knew what keys i was playing! | 13:33 |
| TwistedLucidity | Next up: foobarry's piano partakes in a DDoS concerto. | 13:34 |
| foobarry | not sure what windows would have done - install drivers? | 13:34 |
| TwistedLucidity | "You hardware is not working correctly, would you like to search on-line for a solution?" | 13:34 |
| foobarry | he trick is that MIDI over USB is a common standard that every single USB controller uses. Therefore, since ALSA supports that standard, Ubuntu users need no additional drivers to use such keyboards. Just plug it in a free USB slot and ALSA will immediately discover it. | 13:34 |
| TwistedLucidity | If I tries that, I'd get an error message from ALSA: Stop, please stop. No. Can't take it any more. STOP! kill --self | 13:35 |
| foobarry | that article from 2012 | 13:36 |
| foobarry | no idea what handled it but it was seamless | 13:36 |
| foobarry | https://lmms.io/ looks cool | 13:36 |
| === alan_g|lunch is now known as alan_g | ||
| Azelphur | oO, Company called FreedomPop are selling sim cards for 99p with 200 minutes, texts and mb data free forever after that | 14:21 |
| Azelphur | I'm thinking would be really cool for gadgetry that needs to call home | 14:21 |
| foobarry | how many mb | 14:23 |
| foobarry | 200? | 14:23 |
| Azelphur | yea | 14:23 |
| foobarry | so disposable sims? | 14:23 |
| Azelphur | pretty much | 14:24 |
| Azelphur | seems like, anyway | 14:24 |
| m0nkey_ | We get royally screwed with cell phone plans here | 14:28 |
| m0nkey_ | Your basic package, which includes 1000 mins of calling, 1GB data, $50/month | 14:28 |
| m0nkey_ | If you want anything more, that figure easily doubles. | 14:29 |
| m0nkey_ | So let me get this straight. You get 200 mins/text and 200mb data for free? How does that work?! | 14:29 |
| diddledan | m0nkey_: is that a sim-only price or do you get a cheapo phone with that? | 14:30 |
| m0nkey_ | 99p for the SIM | 14:30 |
| m0nkey_ | And you get free calls, text and data each month | 14:30 |
| m0nkey_ | That's a bargain. | 14:30 |
| m0nkey_ | But what's the catch? | 14:30 |
| Azelphur | m0nkey_: I guess that the allowance is low? | 14:30 |
| m0nkey_ | Do they mine data from it? | 14:30 |
| Azelphur | maybe so | 14:30 |
| diddledan | the catch has to be that they charge a premium if you go-over the limit? | 14:31 |
| Azelphur | maybe | 14:31 |
| diddledan | good for jason bourne to be able to use for a burner though :-p | 14:31 |
| m0nkey_ | It may be worth getting one sent to my parents address for when I visit. | 14:31 |
| Azelphur | diddledan: I'm just thinking it'd be awesome for little gadgets that need to call home | 14:32 |
| Azelphur | eg GPS trackers | 14:32 |
| diddledan | yeah that would be nifty. also for home-build things that you want to be able to contact wherever it might end-up | 14:33 |
| Azelphur | exactly | 14:33 |
| diddledan | like rockets :-p | 14:33 |
| diddledan | and weather baboons | 14:33 |
| m0nkey_ | apparently I just won a $50 amazon gift card | 14:34 |
| Azelphur | makes me want to instigate my plan of fitting a GPS tracker inside the empty drive bay in my laptop | 14:34 |
| diddledan | m0nkey_: awesome | 14:34 |
| m0nkey_ | (yes, it's legit) | 14:34 |
| diddledan | Azelphur: that's a really good method for stealthily tracking if it gets nicked. I like that plan | 14:35 |
| Azelphur | diddledan: yea, always wanted to do that. | 14:35 |
| Azelphur | diddledan: SATA has a 5v rail and most of these things charge on microusb | 14:36 |
| Azelphur | so it could charge whenever the laptop was on, and just sit there forever | 14:36 |
| diddledan | more reliable than these things like prey.com because it would carry-on working even if the device is wiped or was never used on a network | 14:36 |
| Azelphur | indeed | 14:36 |
| diddledan | I'm liking the sound of this more and more | 14:37 |
| Azelphur | diddledan: could even put it inside the chassis of a SSD so even if they stripped the laptop they wouldn't notice. | 14:37 |
| Azelphur | ain't no-one gonna strip down a "broken" SSD :P | 14:38 |
| m0nkey_ | It's nice to have a chair that doesn't squeak all the time. Took the thing apart and doused it in WD40. | 17:50 |
| daftykins | :D | 17:51 |
| diddledan | I made a thing for Windows users: https://fbhub.link/ | 21:07 |
| diddledan | seriously good Rey cosplay: https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/11/03/how-to-make-the-force-awakens-reys-arm-warmers/ | 21:14 |
| daftykins | wearing rags like a pro | 21:15 |
| diddledan | new thunderbolt macs don't work with thunderbolt things: https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/03/2016-macbook-pro-thunderbolt-compatibility-issues/ | 21:34 |
| penguin42 | huh I wonder why | 21:36 |
| daftykins | TI controller chips vs intel could be it | 21:36 |
| penguin42 | it's a standard - right.... | 21:36 |
| penguin42 | you'd think they'd do interop tests | 21:36 |
| daftykins | and we'll never hear shauno defend it :( | 21:37 |
| penguin42 | ? | 21:37 |
| daftykins | well, Apple devices in general | 21:37 |
| diddledan_ | insider build update installing on me pc now. I'm on my mac while it does so | 21:41 |
| daftykins | ;) | 21:41 |
| daftykins | i wiped this clients mid 2010 macbook with Sierra t'other day | 21:41 |
| diddledan_ | did sierra mind you wiping things with her? | 21:42 |
| daftykins | amusingly i know a guy with the nick in another chan | 21:42 |
| diddledan_ | tis a girls' name! | 21:42 |
| daftykins | he asked not to be squeezed onto a flash drive... | 21:42 |
| diddledan_ | "you've got a girls' hand" | 21:43 |
| daftykins | m'lud | 21:43 |
| diddledan_ | yey for recognising the reference | 21:43 |
| daftykins | 8D | 21:43 |
| daftykins | in some game the other day a pickup item was named "Purest Green" | 21:44 |
| diddledan_ | lol | 21:46 |
| diddledan_ | hmm, I've got a hankerin' to watch B5 | 21:46 |
| popey | diddledan_: i typed "huh" into fbhub and got "Bad Request" | 21:47 |
| daftykins | seems accurate :D | 21:47 |
| popey | diddledan_: did you see that guy showing a new macbook pro which drops off wifi when a usb c device is attached | 21:47 |
| popey | its quite fun | 21:48 |
| popey | he's a semi-famous repair guy from NY | 21:48 |
| daftykins | oh is that Louis ? | 21:48 |
| daftykins | Rossman | 21:48 |
| popey | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVjIjBMx6o | 21:48 |
| popey | yeah | 21:48 |
| daftykins | \o/ | 21:48 |
| daftykins | his vids are ace | 21:48 |
| popey | i like the title of tha tvideo | 21:48 |
| popey | yeah | 21:48 |
| penguin42 | I was surprised the Apple shop didnt have the new ones on display yet | 21:48 |
| penguin42 | popey: It's a fairly normal US expression isn't it? | 21:49 |
| * daftykins thinks so | 21:51 | |
| marxjohnson | dnsmasq keeps dying on my 16.04 server. Can anyone suggest how I can track down why? | 21:52 |
| daftykins | #ubuntu-server would be better for that. | 21:53 |
| marxjohnson | daftykins: thanks | 21:53 |
| penguin42 | popey: One of the comments mentions yee-oldee intel paper telling you to be careful of USB-3 vs wifi - so it could be that I guess | 21:55 |
| diddledan_ | ok, popey , that's broken. it's not supposed to give "bad request" in response to a problem, but is supposed to show a pretty error page | 21:57 |
| diddledan_ | I must have something misconfigured somewhere | 21:57 |
| popey | diddledan_: happy to test further, I'm good at breaking stuff | 21:58 |
| popey | marxjohnson: do you use lxc on that box? | 21:59 |
| daftykins | i don't really want to defend Apple but Louis is using some sketchy third party adapters right there, goes some way to explaining things not working | 22:00 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: It's a standard port, it should work with standard peripherals | 22:01 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: and he shows it working fine on his Dell | 22:01 |
| popey | he uses the same port in non-apple devices too | 22:02 |
| popey | he very clearly says they're not el cheapo | 22:02 |
| popey | and has a point that it's a 1600$ laptop, you shouldn't have to spend 80$ on a dongle to just attach it to a projector | 22:02 |
| marxjohnson | popey: I have done at some point | 22:03 |
| daftykins | penguin42: yes but it's new, you've read about the USB C issues right? | 22:03 |
| popey | marxjohnson: when did it start crashing? | 22:04 |
| daftykins | popey: yeah i can understand that but if you buy some thing off amazon and say it's not cheap that's not proof XD | 22:04 |
| popey | doesn't make it crap either | 22:04 |
| popey | no doubt a firmware / software update will come soon enough | 22:05 |
| popey | it looked to me like the cpu was badly stuttering | 22:05 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: His other point is that they'd taken away all the other ports, so 'yes but it's new' should have an easy way to fall back to stuff that works | 22:07 |
| popey | the keyboard noise was interesting too | 22:08 |
| popey | someone told him to go to settings and turn the keyboard volume down | 22:08 |
| daftykins | yeah i just got to the keyboard noise part | 22:08 |
| popey | which I can't tell if it was a joke, or serious :) | 22:08 |
| daftykins | penguin42: right but Apple's decision to do that is 1) utterly stupid and 2) already a given to me before discussing the video content really | 22:08 |
| popey | like, whether it's some audio haptic thing to make it feel more pro | 22:08 |
| daftykins | i read they only have 0.55mm travel, that'd be nasty | 22:09 |
| popey | I do actually like the idea of USB c everywhere | 22:09 |
| popey | it's just a bit too soon | 22:09 |
| popey | #courage | 22:09 |
| daftykins | yeah, Apple always want to be the ones seen to be pushing the boundaries of course | 22:09 |
| daftykins | and sites that review their gear can't even be honest because they'll be blacklisted from attending events, like The Register | 22:10 |
| popey | heh it's an accolade to get banned by apple these days :) | 22:10 |
| daftykins | they are quite the evil company | 22:11 |
| diddledan | popey: should be fixed now :-) | 22:11 |
| popey | yay | 22:13 |
| diddledan | I had to wait for my Windows box to return from installing to get at the code :-p | 22:13 |
| daftykins | diddledan, #1 Windows tester | 22:13 |
| daftykins | :> | 22:13 |
| marxjohnson | popey: first time was around 6-8 weeks ago (that I noticed) | 22:17 |
| diddledan | ubuntu podcast time: I used Gentoo as my daily system back in 2005 era | 22:24 |
| daftykins | gentoo anonymous | 22:27 |
| popey | marxjohnson: sorry, no idea. | 22:30 |
| daftykins | what role does dnsmasqd play in a server environment if a static IP is in use? | 22:32 |
| daftykins | -d | 22:32 |
| * daftykins finds automagic stuff is always good to murder | 22:35 | |
| daftykins | ah i wish i could remember which technology it was, but there was definitely a new interface or display type that made ubuntu of whichever version at the time have that same mouse pointer lag | 22:41 |
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