| lotuspsychje | good morning to all | 05:43 |
|---|---|---|
| lordievader | Good morning | 07:00 |
| oerlaptop | hi lordievader :-) | 07:06 |
| oerlaptop | early bird :-P | 07:06 |
| lordievader | Hey oerlaptop | 07:08 |
| lordievader | Early to work, early to go back home 😉 | 07:09 |
| lordievader | How are you doing? | 07:09 |
| oerlaptop | good, waiting for a repairman, and how do you do? | 07:09 |
| lotuspsychje | hey lordievader & oerlaptop | 07:12 |
| lordievader | Hey lotuspsychje | 07:12 |
| lordievader | How are you doing? | 07:12 |
| lotuspsychje | great here tnx and you? | 07:12 |
| lordievader | oerlaptop: Doing good here :) | 07:12 |
| lordievader | oerlaptop: What kind of repairman? | 07:12 |
| oerlaptop | ha, our roomsoesjes-man | 07:12 |
| lotuspsychje | lol | 07:12 |
| lordievader | XD | 07:12 |
| lotuspsychje | oerlaptop: artful been tested well? | 07:13 |
| oerlaptop | this lap is working great, for an ancient vista machine | 07:14 |
| lotuspsychje | cool | 07:15 |
| lotuspsychje | what ssd brand oerlaptop | 07:15 |
| EriC^^ | morning guys | 07:15 |
| oerlaptop | adata, 60 gb | 07:15 |
| oerlaptop | hi di hi EriC^^ | 07:15 |
| EriC^^ | moin oerlaptop , how dae got tae? | 07:15 |
| oerlaptop | i wonder who is more happy, me or him finding out it will be of good use | 07:16 |
| lotuspsychje | hey EriC^^ | 07:16 |
| EriC^^ | hey lotuspsychje | 07:16 |
| lotuspsychje | oerlaptop: its a workover for a friend? | 07:16 |
| oerlaptop | jups, used in an office | 07:16 |
| oerlaptop | now they al have win10 | 07:16 |
| lotuspsychje | cool | 07:17 |
| ducasse | good morning, all | 07:30 |
| oerlaptop | hi ducasse | 07:35 |
| ducasse | morning, oerlaptop | 07:37 |
| ducasse | still happy with the new laptop? | 07:37 |
| oerlaptop | sure, stood up early for it | 07:46 |
| oerlaptop | but battery is not charging at all :-( | 07:46 |
| ducasse | are you buying a new one? | 07:47 |
| oerlaptop | Yes, as it is not that expensive, it would be wise | 07:54 |
| oerlaptop | 30 euro, i was thinking 60 euro+ | 07:54 |
| lordievader | That is quite cheap. Official one or an unknown brand? | 08:11 |
| ducasse | that's actually pretty cheap, yes | 08:11 |
| oerlaptop | not from acer.. | 08:14 |
| oerlaptop | https://www.replacedirect.nl/category/119311-101031/acer-aspire-5738g-laptop-accus.html#product | 08:15 |
| oerlaptop | or an original 4400ah or double, but might have a bulb that sticks out | 08:16 |
| oerlaptop | free shipping too | 08:17 |
| ducasse | my new cable modem is expected today, will give me an extra 100mbps | 08:18 |
| ducasse | built-in wifi router, hope i can just bridge it and use it as just a modem | 08:19 |
| oerlaptop | grrrrrrrr coupon 5 euro ... order €30 or more... 5 cents | 08:24 |
| lotuspsychje | oerlaptop: i also order spare parts on that site | 08:33 |
| lotuspsychje | very nice service | 08:33 |
| BluesKaj | Hi folks | 12:35 |
| pauljw | morning BluesKaj | 12:36 |
| BluesKaj | 'Morning pauljw | 12:36 |
| ducasse | hi BluesKaj, pauljw - how are you guys today? | 12:45 |
| pauljw | hi ducasse, good here, you? | 12:46 |
| BluesKaj | hi ducasse, doing ok here, hanging in as the saying goes, how about you? | 12:47 |
| ducasse | i'm fine, thanks - soon heading down to the city for a bit | 12:47 |
| BluesKaj | was going to pick my son up at the airport, but the hwys are covered ice from freezing rain...dunno if his filght will be on time anyway | 12:49 |
| TJ- | BluesKaj: tell him to hire a parachute and a helicopter :D | 12:50 |
| BluesKaj | ice covered rather | 12:50 |
| BluesKaj | uhhm, helis don't fly in this ewather TJ- ;-) | 12:51 |
| ducasse | snowing here, but not heavily - yet. forecast says it's coming, though. | 12:51 |
| BluesKaj | weather even | 12:51 |
| JimBunbtu | Thanks to the local rain, I'm looking out my window at almost no snow. Blessed be the rains that melt the snow. | 12:54 |
| BluesKaj | i prefer snow ...rain is useless in winter | 12:57 |
| BluesKaj | but i gew up i with real winters so we took advantage of the the fun one could have doing winter sports and activities | 12:58 |
| JimBunbtu | BluesKaj, I grew up with what I consider to be real winters as well... sub 40 latitude. While I do enjoy the occasional activity in the snow, I prefer not having to deal with it... all that to say I don't get my way very often and we have more snow-time than no-snow-time | 13:02 |
| BluesKaj | JimBunbtu, right I live in Northern Ontario Canada 46' N so we have long winters or at least we did until 10yrs ago or so | 13:04 |
| JimBunbtu | BluesKaj, weather has been odd for the last 10 or so years, hopefully it's simply part of the long cycle. | 13:05 |
| BluesKaj | yup, hopefully it's the 1000 yr warming cycle that had a climate in which wild grapes could grow in places like Newfoundland | 13:07 |
| BluesKaj | and not the global warming that climatotlogists are yelling about | 13:09 |
| JimBunbtu | yummy yummy wild grapes. Stay away from the moonseed though! | 13:09 |
| BluesKaj | yeah, the Vikings were surprised when they discovererd them growing in Nfld | 13:15 |
| JimBunbtu | "Vinland" | 13:17 |
| JimBunbtu | BluesKaj, I'm just a wee south of you now, winters are surely stronger and longer. | 13:25 |
| BluesKaj | JimBunbtu, where is that? | 13:28 |
| JimBunbtu | around 43 lat | 13:29 |
| JimBunbtu | It's raining and I absolutely love it. Perhaps today I will muster up the will to check out that Unity update. | 14:16 |
| BluesKaj | kde/plasma user here, never understood unity's appeal :-) | 14:18 |
| BluesKaj | or gnome | 14:18 |
| jink | bash. | 14:33 |
| JimBunbtu | I spend most of my time in Bash shells. I don't really have a draw to KDE/Gnome or any other and mainly go with default for the distro. I haven't found any sufficiently bad enough to make me yak yet. | 14:35 |
| BluesKaj | I'm an old windows guy and I'm used to gui, but since discovering linux I've migrated to the terminal for a lot of uses | 14:43 |
| === JimBunbtu is now known as JimBuntu | ||
| ducasse | i live in terminals and use terminal-based alternatives for a lot of applications | 15:27 |
| BluesKaj | i3 ? | 15:32 |
| BluesKaj | i3 wm rather | 15:35 |
| ducasse | i3, yes. i've been playing with sway on wayland, but wayland just isn't ready yet. | 15:54 |
| ducasse | i3 is excellent for managing lots of terminals. i also use tmux inside them, though. | 15:55 |
| BluesKaj | right | 15:57 |
| BluesKaj | yakuake is about as adventurous as I get in the cli realm | 15:59 |
| JimBuntu | +1 for tmux | 16:03 |
| ducasse | i also played with terminator, but handling window splitting etc in tmux is just nicer | 16:11 |
| BluesKaj | for gui, i use a combo of activities and VDs for different fav apps | 16:13 |
| BluesKaj | and an actitvty pager in the panel | 16:14 |
| ducasse | i have a lot of desktops split across 3 screens, not familiar with 'activities' | 16:15 |
| JimBuntu | ducasse, Are they different computers? If so, have you checked out Synergy for a single KB/Mouse to control everything? | 16:19 |
| BluesKaj | activities is a kde/plasma thing, but I use a single screen monitor which is my Panasonic 43" plasma TV | 16:20 |
| ducasse | JimBuntu: no, same box. there's only one computer on that desk. i know synergy, might use it if i decide to set up my mac mini again. | 16:24 |
| JimBuntu | ducasse, I absolutely love Synergy. I'm using 5 machines spread across 9 monitors, it really saves me from headaches. | 16:25 |
| ducasse | i can imagine that, thankfully i don't need to spread my focus across 9 screens :) | 16:30 |
| BluesKaj | no need for multiple screens being a home user | 16:44 |
| === nicomach1s is now known as nicomachus | ||
| * TJ- whistles innocently | 16:45 | |
| * nicomachus searches his history for TJ-'s battlestation pics | 16:45 | |
| nicomachus | with all... was it 6?... monitors | 16:46 |
| TJ- | Aye :) plus another 4 laptops within reach | 16:47 |
| TJ- | Place is one heck of a mess right now, not even room for my mug on the worktop :) | 16:47 |
| JimBuntu | This was already a 2-computer desk by design... I figured why not take it up a notch and make shelves for more monitors and simply use the desktop space for laptops ;-D | 16:50 |
| TJ- | Yeah, I've 5 wall-mounted monitors around the corner plus the laptop driving them, then the rest around the sides on the worktop | 16:52 |
| JimBuntu | I don't think I could reasonably justify any more over here. Even with them angled in at me, I still have to move my head a bit depending on which one I need to look at. | 16:56 |
| TJ- | JimBuntu: I sit in the corner where the 2 walls meet, so all I do is swivel the chair slightly | 16:57 |
| JimBuntu | TJ-, lucky you with your "corner office" lol. | 16:57 |
| TJ- | I use a BT keyboard and mouse, and they are on a lap-stand across my legs so it makes things comfortable | 16:57 |
| * BluesKaj sits in an easy chair with wireless KB and mouse about 3M away from the screen...pc is the floor below the table theat holds all my components and TV | 16:58 | |
| TJ- | BluesKaj: how larger physically is the screen, at 3m away? | 16:58 |
| TJ- | I'm about 75cm from my monitors - they're 24" 1920x1200, with the laptop being 15" 1920x1200 | 16:59 |
| BluesKaj | it's a media center sort of ...TV is 43" screen TJ- | 16:59 |
| JimBuntu | I can swivel 90 to the right... if I need to get up... if I swivel another 90 degrees to the right then I am facing a workbench with other gear on it. I call it "cozy", many would probably call it cramped. | 16:59 |
| TJ- | BluesKaj: wow, so you can still see the pixels then! I did consider larger screens but it'd mean sitting further away | 17:00 |
| BluesKaj | yeah I use a 18 sized font for these old eyes, with regular 1920x1080 res | 17:01 |
| TJ- | JimBuntu: I've got a mini datacenter to my left, and electronics workbench to the right http://iam.tj/photos/Study-workstation.jpg (in that picture the electronics stuff was right next to me but now it's other end of the right-side bench about 3 meters away) | 17:01 |
| TJ- | BluesKaj: yes, I've considered that - In the new place I'm planning on a couple of 4K 42"+ wall-mounted screens and be able to sit well back from them, as an alternative to smaller screens when I want to rest my eyes | 17:03 |
| JimBuntu | TJ-, lol, we have similar gear... although I don't see a streo-macroscope in the pic, I do see an arm for what I suspect is a lamped magnifying glass. I really need to clean up around here so I can take some pics | 17:03 |
| TJ- | JimBuntu: angle-poise magnify/lamp yes, and there's another arm with a camera on | 17:03 |
| JimBuntu | It's hard to beat a magnified video feed when you want to complain to a fabricator about their shoddy work! | 17:04 |
| TJ- | I've got a Raspi with a screen and a BitScope attached too | 17:05 |
| nicomachus | Looks like Bodhi Linux didn't fix the 17.10 lenovo bug: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/7yq9r4/help_ive_bricked_3_motherboards_trying_to_install/ | 17:05 |
| JimBuntu | TJ, your KB looks like it's from the future. Is it blank or is that the lighting? | 17:06 |
| BluesKaj | this is basically a media center with pc integration with audio spdif out to a an audio receiver and hdmi to the tv | 17:06 |
| JimBuntu | BluesKaj, I bet it's nice to sit in the living room using that big screen. | 17:08 |
| TJ- | JimBuntu: KB? keyboard? | 17:08 |
| nicomachus | TJ-: so much WHITE | 17:09 |
| nicomachus | makes my eyes hurt | 17:09 |
| TJ- | BluesKaj: I find I cannot focus on programming/hacking sat on a comfy chair, I need to be in an operator/desk chair | 17:09 |
| JimBuntu | TJ, I think it's your keyboard... between the chair and the laptop, left of the mouse. | 17:09 |
| TJ- | nicomachus: that was the camera over-exposing; Generally the screens are mostly black / dark themed | 17:10 |
| nicomachus | I would hope. ouch. | 17:10 |
| TJ- | JimBuntu: It's an old Apple BT wireless keyboard A1016... beautiful smooth action | 17:10 |
| JimBuntu | interesting TJ. I like the way it looks in the pic, basically without any symbols on it. | 17:11 |
| TJ- | nicomachus: yes, it's those Samsung LCDs with very powerful backligts... the portrait to the right is a Dell U2412 EPS which is much better, and much cooler! | 17:11 |
| TJ- | JimBuntu: I have 2 of them; the other is German layout, and I get /so/ lost on that since Y Z etc are swapped around! | 17:12 |
| TJ- | Plus I find Debian/Ubuntu keyboard layouts don't exactly match them | 17:12 |
| ducasse | i got a das keyboard pro 4 with cherry blue switches a while back, been *so* happy with it. just can't consider going back to anything but a proper mechanical keyboard now. | 17:38 |
| nacc | ducasse: funnily enough, i also just got the same keyboard | 17:38 |
| nacc | ducasse: i had tried a matias quite pro and had to return two of them | 17:38 |
| nacc | for dying on me | 17:38 |
| lotuspsychje | good evening to all | 17:40 |
| ducasse | hi lotuspsychje | 17:43 |
| lotuspsychje | hey ducasse | 17:43 |
| ducasse | nacc: you happy with yours? what switches did you get? | 17:43 |
| nacc | ducasse: first full day using it for me, but so far so good! | 17:45 |
| nacc | ducasse: i got the brown switches | 17:45 |
| ducasse | so, a bit quieter than mine. i've got nobody else around me to complain about the clicking :) | 17:47 |
| nacc | ducasse: yeah, i'm on a lot of calls | 17:48 |
| OerHeks | please stop clicking guys | 17:52 |
| OerHeks | :-D | 17:52 |
| BluesKaj | TJ-, I can tell you one gets used to a comfortable chair very quickly. I also used a desk and swivel chair for a while in my den, but felt isolated there so i moved the pc into the living room and i haven't looked back. I'm retired from work and the desk/chair relationship :-) | 17:53 |
| TJ- | BluesKaj: my problem is I'd have dogs trying to curl up on me, and I'd lean back and nod off :D | 17:55 |
| BluesKaj | nothing wrong with nodding off ...I do it all the time, but I'm old :-) | 17:56 |
| lotuspsychje | 1613 users in main | 18:07 |
| TJ- | or just lots of bots logging the channel! | 18:13 |
| lotuspsychje | TJ-: in april its gonna overload again :p | 18:14 |
| * TJ- books a 3 month vacation ... for April! | 18:17 | |
| lotuspsychje | hehe | 18:17 |
| OerHeks | without bouncers, 300 ? | 18:19 |
| lotuspsychje | humans or robots, all help fill the room :p | 18:20 |
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