[07:05] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[07:07] <zmoylan-pi> o/
[07:11] <brobostigon> o/
[10:59] <diddledan> m000rning
[11:04] <brobostigon> morning
[11:15] <diddledan> https://twitter.com/OzzyManReviews/status/1004561214964318208?s=17
[11:20] <zmoylan-pi> 'allo, 'allo
[11:22] <diddledan> were you just pissing by the door?
[11:25] <zmoylan-pi> i was just pissing by the door when i was told to bring the candle with the handle...
[12:30] <Almo> hello, did anyone tried Ubuntu in Lenovo X1 carbon?
[12:35] <Almo> ok
[13:04] <ali1234> Azelphur: do you like to idle for cards on steam?
[13:04] <Azelphur> ali1234: nah, I don't bother with the cards
[13:05] <ali1234> i was just looking at idle master python version... it's crazy
[13:05] <ali1234> i think i'm going to rewrite it
[13:06] <Azelphur> sounds fun :)
[13:07] <diddledan> "idle for cards"?
[13:07] <ali1234> diddledan: first you get the games, then you get the cards, then you get the badges...
[13:08] <diddledan> huh?
[13:08] <ali1234> when you play a game on steam, you get trading cards in the steam client
[13:08] <ali1234> but if you dont want to play the game, you can just trick steam into thinking you are playing it instead
[13:09] <ali1234> then you sell the cards for $0.07 each
[13:13] <ali1234> it's a lot of work for $0.07... unless you write a script to do it for you
[13:14] <diddledan> I'm betting it costs more in electricity than you're recouping
[13:14] <ali1234> my computer runs 24 hours a day anyway
[13:14] <diddledan> not driving graphics it doesn't
[13:14] <ali1234> well yeah
[13:14] <ali1234> you dont run the game
[13:14] <ali1234> you run a program that impersonates the game and sleeps
[13:15] <diddledan> aha
[13:16] <ali1234> all you do is set an environment variable to the steam app ID of the game, then dlopen steamapi.so and call init()
[13:16] <ali1234> then sleep forever
[13:16] <diddledan> so, like, can you be "playing" every game in your library simultaneously?
[13:17] <ali1234> technically yes, but i think you only get cards at the same rate so there is no point
[13:17] <diddledan> oooh, ok
[13:17] <diddledan> it's a steam thing, not a steam+game thing
[13:17] <ali1234> the game talks to steam client through steamapi.so, yes
[13:17] <diddledan> I figured you were getting game-specific cards
[13:18] <ali1234> you do have to have steam running as well
[13:18] <ali1234> the cards are game specific
[13:18] <ali1234> but every game has them
[13:18] <ali1234> well, most
[13:19] <ali1234> they don't do anything in game though
[13:19] <diddledan> I don't get your comment about only getting them at the same rate then, if they're specific to each game you play
[13:20] <diddledan> if they're specific to the active game, then surely having more games active means more specific cards
[13:24] <ali1234> they are specific to each game, but the steam client/server infrastructure decides when you get one
[13:28] <ali1234> basically it's a pointlessly complicated system designed to make you play the games you bought
[15:58] <daftykins> diddledan: o/
[15:59] <daftykins> diddledan: just been given that wordpress site at last in .zip form, if you're about i can prod thee in PM with more details mayhaps
[18:06] <ali1234> awesome its working
[18:06] <ali1234> it managed to detect that it got all the cards for a game and switch to another one :)
[18:10] <daftykins> :D
[18:10] <daftykins> when i first saw those trading cards come up i facepalmed, should really throw them to someone who cares