[02:27] <lopta> Anyone have thoughts on Lubuntu Vs. Xubuntu for a desktop PC that gets use mostly for Web browsing?
[05:50] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[05:59] <zmoylan-pi> morning mammals
[06:05] <brobostigon> morning krikkets
[06:12] <knightwise> good morning !
[06:13] <brobostigon> morning
[06:15] <knightwise> another day at the office :) Just arrived in Brussels
[06:29] <knightwise> Been doing some archiving at home . found a massive podcast collection from 2005 with a bunch of old shows
[06:36] <brobostigon> :)
[06:38] <knightwise> even the very first episodes of the knightcast
[06:38] <knightwise> medium to high cringe factor
[09:34] <knightwise> i think everyones keyboard melted today
[09:34] <knightwise> Mine is probably getting replayced btw
[09:36] <zmoylan-pi> those ibm model m's are designed to survive a 1950s atom test... :-)
[09:40] <knightwise> Yeah. I have a 2017 macbook pro with a butterfly keyboard. Need I say more ?
[09:41] <knightwise> if as much as an ameoba gets stuck under the keys, the jam up
[09:42] <knightwise> zmoylan-pi: i'm gearing up my Pi3 to become my dedicated remote CLI machine, Ive found a 128 gig USB stick that I had lying around.
[09:43] <knightwise> So with SSH, Tmux and some other apps I think I can get teh max out of that little machine
[09:43] <knightwise> What apps (cli) are you running on your pi ?
[09:52] <zmoylan-pi> irssi, newsbeuter, sc, ttytter, nano for editor, lynx for web browsing (no graphics), still looking for a database i like
[09:52] <knightwise> sc ?
[09:53] <zmoylan-pi> spreadsheet, i use as easy as on my desktop but occasionly i use sc on the pi
[09:54] <zmoylan-pi> i've even considered getting a pi-top laptop so i can bring my console addiction to my travelling computer
[09:55] <knightwise> well, you can get just about any older laptop and use it by only installing the cli version of linux . nu ?
[09:55] <knightwise> no ?
[09:57] <zmoylan-pi> yeah, but i like the idea of limited small laptops. and with the pi-top you should be able to upgrade as new pi's are releaed
[09:58] <knightwise> 319 Dollars ? ? whow
[09:58] <zmoylan-pi> not cheap, no...
[09:59] <zmoylan-pi> i've gotten used to spending about €250 for my laptops, spoiled i am in the eu :-)
[10:00] <knightwise> Hmm; the Pi-Tab is also interesting
[10:00] <zmoylan-pi> yeah, couple that with a solid usb keyboard and you'd also have a full linux distro laptop...
[10:01] <knightwise> nice toy to play around with
[10:02] <zmoylan-pi> a full linux distro is not a toy... coz linux sux at gaming :-P
[10:02] <knightwise> lol true
[10:05] <knightwise> hmm. i SSH in from my ipad pro to my Pi @ home. I get a pretty good fullscreen cli experience with that while only using minimal bandwidth
[10:06] <knightwise> even works on the train
[10:22] <zmoylan-pi> turning a locked down appliance into a real computer
[11:17] <knightwise> yep , works surprisingly well
[11:21] <knightwise> and it looks cool
[12:35] <knightwise> listening back to an archive of podcasts from 2005 .. oh boy
[13:03] <knightwise> zmoylan-pi: have you ever played with exposing the pi webserver and making it do things with py scripts ? like triggering your google home etc
[13:12] <zmoylan-pi> no, i see the pi at home as a simple tool that i only use when at home. i've looked into exposing it to the internet for remote access outside of the house but i'd want to feel more confident in that i could secure it
[13:12] <zmoylan-pi> a lot more confident
[13:19] <knightwise> True, what ports do you expose , only ssh ?
[13:30] <daftykins> never seen that before, my bank told google automatically about my new card details to update their payment system o0
[13:33] <mgdm> that's happened to me with Apple Pay before
[13:46] <daftykins> interesting
[13:46] <daftykins> i'd have seen that happen if it does on google pay, but my phone with the older card reg'd died, so i didn't see the transition
[13:47] <zmoylan-pi> only ssh on the rasp-pi atm
[13:48] <mgdm> it was quite handy because I could use my phone to pay for things 3 days before the card showed up :)
[13:48] <zmoylan-pi> saw a plonker paying with an apple watch for the first time yesterday. looked super awkward trying to twist wrist to touch the reader with the watch while filling hands with groceries
[13:50] <mgdm> it's always fun to watch (ahem) those folk on the London Underground
[14:00] <daftykins> zmoylan-pi: xD
[20:59] <brobostigon> https://photos.app.goo.gl/v4RDXg92PovXoyMQ8 :)
[21:03] <zmoylan-pi> only 1 of each? pft... newb... :-P
[21:03] <brobostigon> haha, :)
[21:04] <zmoylan-pi> you're supposed to have a 5lb bag of d4s alone just so you can scatter them on the floor and stop a hoard on ninjas :-D
[21:04] <brobostigon> :D
[21:05] <zmoylan-pi> another 5lb of d20s so you can honestly tell a police officer that you critically hit that mugger :-P
[21:07] <brobostigon> hehe
[21:08] <zmoylan-pi> and enough pencils that you could in a pinch put vampire hunter on job applications
[21:09] <brobostigon> or enough that i can put, arcane magic expert on my cv.
[21:11] <zmoylan-pi> more than that... https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2vf84f/how_to_incorporate_dd_into_your_resume/
[21:11] <brobostigon> :)