[05:13] <lotuspsychje> morning guys
[05:47] <ducasse> hi lotuspsychje
[05:47] <ducasse> rise and  shine! :)
[05:55] <xangua> The mega moon?
[05:57] <ducasse> there's an attention-seeking cat on my desk, very hard to type...
[05:58] <xangua> I don't believe this is not the cat typing
[05:58] <ducasse> bought her off with  some treats, usually works :)
[06:00] <ducasse> last night she paid me back for food and shelter - killed a mouse! :)
[06:00] <ducasse> dunno how it got it...
[06:00] <xangua> Poor mouse :-(
[06:01] <ducasse> of course, but it should have known better than to go  into a house with a cat
[06:01] <xangua> They were told there were no cats in America https://youtu.be/2bC07e7PReM
[06:05] <ducasse> hehe :) they must have been disappointed when they got there :)
[06:05] <ducasse> i desperately want a savannah cat, but the one will have to do
[06:08] <ducasse> i love them all, can't see a kitten without wanting to take it home :)
[06:09] <xangua> All my cats/dogs have been from the street or the rejected ones
[06:10] <ducasse> mine was rescued from a bad home where she was mistreated. the first few weeks here she was scared of everything, now she _loves_ getting visitors :)
[06:11] <ducasse> when the doorbell rings she runs over to greet them :)
[06:13] <ducasse> i'm still the only one who is allowed to hold her in certain ways or pet her belly, but she's improved a lot
[07:40] <lordievader> Good morning
[07:41] <ducasse> hi lordievader - sit down and have a cup!
[07:42] <lordievader> Hey ducasse
[07:42] <lordievader> Good idea... but I have to get up to get a cup...
[07:44] <ducasse> playing with rsync - quite a man page...
[07:48] <ducasse> 'man rsync | wc -l' => 3818
[07:57] <lordievader> Rsync is well explained 😉
[07:57] <lordievader> Luckily, since there are a million options.
[08:17] <ducasse> yep. i'm currently replacing my backup system, and decided on rsync. might need to combine it with something else to get all i want, but it's just sooo handy...
[08:19] <ducasse> i considered switching back to backintime, but wanted something that doesn't require a gui
[09:12] <lordievader> ducasse: You could look to dirvish, basically an rsync wrapper.
[09:12] <lordievader> Quite a lovely system. Makes incremental backups with hardlinks. So every backup looks like a full backup.
[09:24] <ducasse> nice, thanks for the tip.
[09:25] <ducasse> that's what i liked about backinfime, it did the same thing. very easy to find what you're looking for if you want a certain generation of a file...
[09:31] <ducasse> now i've been using attic for a while, but it's been abandoned and turned into borg-backup, which is not compatible. you couldn't directly browse the files, but it had a *lot* of great features other than that
[12:09] <BluesKaj> Hi all
[12:09] <lordievader> Hey BluesKaj
[12:10] <BluesKaj> Hi lordievader
[12:10] <lordievader> How are you doing?
[12:10] <BluesKaj> good thanks lordievader, and you ?
[12:11] <lordievader> Doing good here 😄
[12:22]  * BluesKaj nods
[12:35] <ducasse> hi guys
[12:36] <ducasse> all good, BluesKaj?
[12:36] <BluesKaj> Hi ducasse, yes, fine here, and you?
[12:38] <ducasse> reading up on rEFInd atm, considering using it instead of systemd-boot
[12:44] <BluesKaj> heh, I finally manager to rest my laptop back to UEFI/GPT after wiping it and using bios flashback/leqacy mode, which caused me some intermittent boot problems.
[12:44] <BluesKaj> managed
[12:45] <BluesKaj> and a few rescue modes which I got tired of trying to fix
[12:47] <ducasse> my motherboard thankfully has a really good, standards-compliant uefi implementation, so i've never had any issues wuth it
[12:47] <ducasse> probably the main reason i like uefi more than legacy mode
[12:48] <BluesKaj> yeah now that I use  EFI, no more boot errors
[12:50] <BluesKaj> this old desktop pc is a bios machine, so no probs
[13:41] <ducasse> yay, upgraded bios on my desktop without problems!
[13:41] <ducasse> would have been a bit of a crisis if i bricked it :)
[13:44] <ducasse> only bad thing was that it reset all the bios settings, so i had to go through every single one of them again, trying to remember how they were set
[13:45] <ducasse> probably missed on a few i have no real idea what they are about :)
[13:48] <daftykins> hehe, shouldn't be much you need to touch
[13:49] <daftykins> though when i forgot to disable CSM on mine the other day i no longer had visible POST logos on HDMI out until i sorted it
[13:49] <daftykins> was it a windows only utility?
[13:49] <daftykins> or smart enough to read a file from HDDs / flash drives
[14:14] <ducasse> daftykins: kinda smart, actually - you copy the update to the esp, and it reads it from there. you could also put it on a usb stick and either flash it through the same menu in the bios, or plug it into a designated port at the back and hold a small button while booting.
[14:15] <daftykins> o0
[14:15] <ducasse> but there are a _ton_ of settings in this bios, many of whom are greek to me :)
[14:16] <daftykins> i'm still adjusting to having modern kit with mouse driven fancy arty EFIs
[14:18] <ducasse> i don't use the mouse, it just feels wrong
[14:19] <daftykins> :) yeah doesn't help any
[14:19] <daftykins> actually wheel scrolling can be handy for the lengthy pages
[14:20] <ducasse> that's why we have pgup/pgdwn ;)
[14:21] <daftykins> pff
[14:23] <ducasse> i don3818't get the graphics eye candy, though. mine looks a lot like the interfaces they have at shows like csi :)
[14:23] <ducasse> *don't
[14:24] <daftykins> "they spent so long thinking 'could we?' that they didn't stop to think... 'should we?' "
[14:26] <ducasse> hehe - good point :)
[17:29] <lotuspsychje> good evening to all
[17:32] <lotuspsychje> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/12/gnome-boxes-install-linux-distros-directly
[17:38] <ducasse> hiya lotuspsychje
[17:38] <lotuspsychje> hey ducasse have a nice day?
[17:39] <ducasse> good enough, quiet
[17:40] <lotuspsychje> i finished early today :p
[17:45] <ducasse> lotuspsychje: be thankful for small luxuries :)
[17:46] <lotuspsychje> https://community.ubuntu.com/t/unity-stack-sru-for-ubuntu-16-04-help-verify/2420?_ga=2.6412850.103315258.1512409401-1057330909.1494009624
[17:46] <lotuspsychje> that unity big update comming
[17:56] <Bashing-om> Rainy Nonday here - good day to irc :)
[17:56] <Bashing-om> Location: Heber Springs, AR ~ Cond: 61°F (16°C), Haze ~ Atmo: 88%, 4.0 mi (6.4 km), 29.92 in (1013 mb) ~ Wind: 8 mph (13 km/h), S, N/A°F (N/A°C) ~ Time: 11:55
[17:56] <lotuspsychje> hey Bashing-om
[17:58] <Bashing-om> lotuspsychje: :) Makes my start of the day ., Hoz main been ?
[17:59] <lotuspsychje> Bashing-om: just joined also, calmness
[18:02] <Bashing-om> lotuspsychje: word of the day " Do not panic, just proceed in  calm and orderly fashion .
[18:03] <lotuspsychje> :p
[18:03] <ducasse> Bashing-om: congrats, you have exactly 20°C more than here :)
[18:03] <lotuspsychje> lol
[18:05] <Bashing-om> Hey hey ducasse // We make it a good day .
[18:06] <ducasse> Bashing-om: always a good day when you show up :)
[18:09] <Bashing-om> ducasse: Well, I try :)
[18:10] <lotuspsychje> !info firefox
[18:11] <lotuspsychje> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0.1/releasenotes/
[18:28] <lotuspsychje> hey EriC^^
[18:28] <EriC^^> hey lotuspsychje
[18:28] <EriC^^> how's it going?
[18:29] <lotuspsychje> good good, main just waking up a bit
[18:29] <EriC^^> cool