[04:09] <ducasse> good moning
[06:39] <lotuspsychje> good morning/weekend to all
[06:51] <ducasse> hiya lotuspsychje - how's life in belgium today?
[06:52] <lotuspsychje> hey hey ducasse
[06:52] <lotuspsychje> ducasse: great here mate tnx
[06:52] <lotuspsychje> going for xmass shopping today
[06:52] <EriC^^> !ping
[06:52] <lotuspsychje> they promised snow, but nothing here
[06:53] <lotuspsychje> hey EriC^^
[06:53] <EriC^^> hey lotuspsychje
[06:53] <ducasse> morning, EriC^^
[06:53] <EriC^^> morning ducasse
[06:58] <ducasse> it's way too early in the morning for me to handle this guy, been trying to talk sense into him for half an hour or so
[06:58] <lotuspsychje> what was his origin issue?
[06:58] <lotuspsychje> ive seen him troll a bit before i think
[07:01] <ducasse> he's not really trolling, he's just hopeless. "no boring docs, i hate reading - find me youtube video"
[07:01] <lotuspsychje> lol
[07:01] <lotuspsychje> i read custom ubuntu?
[07:01] <lotuspsychje> whats that about
[07:04] <ducasse> what, where? maybe when we were talking about vps hosts customizing images
[07:07] <lotuspsychje> oh
[07:07] <lotuspsychje> didnt read the original issue
[08:19] <EriC^^> hi immu
[08:20] <immu> hey EriC^^
[08:20] <immu> how di
[08:20] <immu> i though all are asleep
[08:20] <EriC^^> nah just sleepy
[08:28] <ducasse> i've been up since 5 :-/
[08:31] <immu> oh i have being since 6
[08:32] <immu> 6 am that is :)
[08:33] <lotuspsychje> bbl shopping
[08:33] <ducasse> which timezone? i'm cet
[08:33] <ducasse> have fun lotuspsychje
[08:34] <immu> +4 GMT
[09:48] <immu> hi lordievader
[09:49] <immu> ducasse, hi again, i thiink you dozed off
[09:52] <ducasse> immu: me? why?
[09:53] <immu> after two or three replies every one goes silent?
[09:53] <immu> :)
[09:54] <ducasse> i've just been across the room, playing with the imac :)
[10:00] <ducasse> idiotic machine, by the way, but i'm determined to use it for _something_
[10:21] <alkisg> What are its specs, cpu/ram?
[10:27] <ducasse> it's an old core 2 duo, only 2gb ram, but i'm getting another gig from the guy who gave it to me :)
[10:29] <ducasse> i'm going to shrink the hfs+ partition from os x, install a minimal ubuntu install on the rest, and see what it's capable of.
[10:30] <ducasse> hoping to run a browser on it with monitoring info, and a few terminals for ssh + mutt
[10:43] <Ben64> lol this guy
[10:44] <ducasse> ridiculous
[10:45] <ducasse> i'm going for a walk, had enough of this bs for one morning with neo1 earlier
[10:45] <Ben64> yeah i should go to sleep
[10:45] <Ben64> need to wake up early and get a tire replaced :|
[12:08] <BluesKaj> Hiyas all
[12:24] <ducasse> hi BluesKaj, finished clearing up your audio setup yesterday?
[12:41] <BluesKaj> hi ducasse, yes, it's all setup and working wqell, watched The Grand Tour in 1080p and DD 5.1 last night
[12:41] <BluesKaj> ducasse, and how are you today?
[12:44] <ducasse> BluesKaj: just been out shopping groceries, it's lethal out there. black ice with a sheet of water on top - i went down twice.
[12:47] <BluesKaj> whoa, bummer...we havw about `5cm snowhere finally, but no ice underneath it , so it's sort of "dry snow "
[12:47] <BluesKaj> 15 cm rather
[12:52] <ducasse> by back hurts like hell now, though, from one of the landings, and i get super-drowsy from the pain killers that are strong enough to do anything about it
[12:53] <ducasse> don't really want to take one
[12:55] <BluesKaj> right, understandable
[13:00] <BluesKaj> btw for video , vlc has taken a back seat to mpvnow, it
[13:01] <BluesKaj> handles difficult video much better than vlc , especailly 1080p
[13:03] <ducasse> i mainlu use mpv myself, sometimes through smplayer
[13:04] <ducasse> but i don't really play much video on my desktop, leave that for the rpi with xbian
[13:05] <ducasse> i want it on the big tv 99% of the time
[13:09] <BluesKaj> well, this is a HTPC , connected to my TV for use as a monitor , with wireless LB and mouse from my easy chair 3M away from the screen
[13:09] <BluesKaj> LB=KB
[13:10] <BluesKaj> dpi to hdmi video connection
[13:10] <BluesKaj> er dvi  :-)
[13:14] <ducasse> i want a proper htpc, nut the only machine i have that i could use is a bit underpowred, and in a massive, powersucking noisy full-tower case :)
[13:15] <ducasse> so, not really ideal :)
[13:15] <ducasse> vs that tiny little rpi there's not even a just fight
[13:22] <BluesKaj> ducasse, my rpi3 actually does a decent job on video using the omxplayer from the cli
[13:25] <ducasse> ime is just an rpi2, but it works. i'll be ordering a 3 one of these days, just keep putting it off...
[13:26] <ducasse> *mine
[13:27] <BluesKaj> but I have a hdd connected and placed the / dir there to prevent too many writes from killing the microsd card . The HDD has plenty of space for movies and music as well, altho wifi streaming doesn't work too well from the HTPC thru the router to the rpi
[13:28] <BluesKaj> so I just copy movies over to the rpi hdd if I feel the need
[13:32] <ducasse> i've got too many tb of media here, no way to connect that to an rpi...
[13:33] <BluesKaj> probly not practical
[13:37] <ducasse> i feel much better having it on the zfs fileserver
[13:38] <ducasse> it should get a new mobo, another couple of disks and an ups, but no money in my budget...
[13:38] <ducasse> hoping for a decent mobo and ups showing up 2nd-hand...
[13:39] <ducasse> i think i'm losing that pain killer battle, can hardly stand up :-/ this is no fun at the age of 43 :(
[13:42] <BluesKaj>  :/
[13:44] <BluesKaj> this HP HTPC is 2008 vintage, but I've added Ram, a ssd and a cheap nvidia gpu, so it does the job, and PSU is only 180 watts so it doesn't suck a lot of power.
[13:47] <ducasse> i think the psu in that tower is 750 or thereabouts. when i think about it, it probably doesn't have an igp, and i've got no spare gpu. would need to get something cheap that can do the job.
[13:50] <BluesKaj> this gpu is a nvidia GeForce 210, worth about $40 US
[13:52] <ducasse> that's not too bad. still don't think i want that big tower in my living room, though, i try to keep it pretty computer-free...
[13:52] <BluesKaj> it has no fan just a very large heatsink on the processor
[13:56] <BluesKaj> the HTPC  here is on the floor under the drafting table I bought from Ikea that holds center speaker, TV , pvr, and audio receiver....quite unobtrusive really
[13:59] <BluesKaj> but wife is used to my audio/video setups and has learned to be very patient wih my quirks  :-)
[14:12] <ducasse> BluesKaj: any potential wife material for me would need to be more than a little patient :) the bench my tv sits on hold the cable modem, the rpi, two mikrotik routers, and a hell of a lot of cables - some of them disappearing into ducts, others in holes in the wall :)
[14:15] <BluesKaj> yeah, I avoid lighting near the A/V system due to the number of cables running between the compoents and devices, looks terribly messy
[14:21] <ducasse> thinking of getting another mikrotik, probably just a switch, for the 'server room', and redoing the entire setup into vlans etc. they're really good products that don't cost a lot.
[14:22] <immu> hi ducasse \
[14:24] <ducasse> \o immu
[14:25] <immu> \o/
[14:25] <BluesKaj> immu, \o
[14:27] <ducasse> BluesKaj: what software do you run on the htpc? kodi?
[14:32] <BluesKaj> I just use kodi for some IPTV streams, but for video/movies use mpv for full video/audio with the 5.1 DD or VLC for DTS audio, or kaffiene for headphone listening since DD/DTS doesn't convert to analog needed for my wireless headphones
[14:33] <BluesKaj> a bit of a mish mash , depending on the encoded video and audio used by the movie
[14:35] <ducasse> :)
[14:36] <immu> coool
[14:37] <immu> i use plex on Windows and Linux :) and stream all over the home
[14:37] <ducasse> i just throw everything at kodi and leave it to figure it out, but i don't have a proper setup with a receiver etc
[14:37] <immu> heard a lot about KODI
[14:40] <ducasse> i've been using it since it was called xbmc and ran on the original xbox. had a modded one with a large drive, great fun :)
[14:43] <immu> heard about xbmc also
[14:47] <BluesKaj> think plex would be cool for OTA TV broadcast to pc video audio capture for a homegeown pvr system, but here in the boonies there's only one nalog signal available OTA and no didgitals since the gov't regs lest cities under 250k population still broadcast old style analog SD qualtity tv signals
[14:50] <immu> i mainly use it to stream video's from my laptop to my table as i lay in bed relaxing and watching movie
[14:53] <BluesKaj> when igo to bed , i listen to the radio for a few mins then I sleep :-)
[14:54] <immu> https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_tab_s_10_5-6438.php LTE version
[16:00] <pauljw> Hi everyone
[16:08] <immu> hi
[16:12] <BluesKaj> hi pauljw
[16:13] <pauljw> hey BluesKaj :)
[18:46] <Bashing-om> And we do Saturday support :) - See what I can learn this day .
[21:00] <Bashing-om> rebooting . back soonest .
[21:10] <Bashing-om> OK .. back from reboot, all good :)