[06:05] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[06:05] <Nafallo> morning brobostigon
[06:05] <brobostigon> morning Nafallo
[08:37] <daftykins> morn \o
[08:38] <daftykins> well well, DPD guy dropped off my 'repaired' LG Nexus 5x phone
[10:06] <diplo> yay daftykins, all working as expected?
[10:09] <daftykins> yep seems good, did take about an hour and a half to update through all the many chains of updates and then start to get things back to normal
[10:10] <daftykins> soon the delight of moving all the 2FA stuff over will begin ;)
[10:22] <diplo> Yeah, I'm moving my 2FA to the open source client from Authenticator
[10:22] <diplo> So got to do a similar thing
[10:22] <daftykins> any benefits to that?
[10:23] <diplo> Just trying not to tie myself to any of the big three or four companies
[10:23] <diplo> Authenticator is MS, another is from Google
[10:24] <daftykins> hmm the one called Authenticator on mine is the Google one, i think MS renamed theirs to 'Microsoft Account' perhaps?
[10:25] <daftykins> ah no it is indeed just Microsoft Authenticator too
[10:26] <diplo> haha
[10:32] <daftykins> knocked down to 55% already though, they certainly didn't give me a new battery xD
[10:35] <diplo> hahah, don't expect too much! Are they sealed units or can you replace?
[10:36] <daftykins> they're the kind with clips to attach the front and rear, the type you tend to snap when making your own attempt and leaving them never truly attaching well again after
[10:37] <daftykins> i think they replaced the back on mine here, so they likely broke it the same way on opening it up! :D
[10:37] <daftykins> really though since the post office banned batteries, it's really hard to get replacements onto the island now - so that's made it nigh-on impossible
[10:39] <diplo> Does suck living there at times! but also save a fortune on other things :)
[10:39] <daftykins> it's been interesting chatting to my neighbour who took a job here, but comes from England
[10:40] <daftykins> there was a study done which said the cost of living based on food is 1.4x that in England - but she also mentioned her job seems to pay about 1.4x the same role in England, too
[10:49] <daftykins> i cracked open an old CTX LCD monitor yesterday and diagnosed some faulty capacitors, so i get to have even more soldering training :D
[10:50] <diplo> Brave man opening monitors, never touched them.. but I guess that's from the old CRT days
[10:51] <diplo> But you don't pay the same taxes as we do right over there, so must be some large savings there ?
[10:51] <daftykins> i did hop on here and ask some guys in another channel whether it needed to be discharged to be safely touched, but apparently using some nylon gloves and just staying away from the high voltage section can be enough
[10:51] <zxmoy-pi> PLUS chance of star trek style monitor exploding.... :-P
[10:52] <daftykins> still got 20% income tax, but there's no VAT yeah, so all electronics etc are much cheaper
[10:52] <diplo> So get you to buy and transfer here
[10:52] <daftykins> :D
[10:52] <daftykins> i may have muled a few laptops for friends in my time
[10:53] <daftykins> *cough*
[10:54] <diplo> hehe, right got to go and feed a dog, bbiab
[10:54] <zxmoy-pi> honestly officer the 10 laptops are for personal consumption...
[11:03] <daftykins> "om nom nom
[11:03] <daftykins> "
[12:19] <daftykins> jeez, Homebase closing tonnes of branches now eh
[12:19] <daftykins> tonnes more, that is
[12:22] <zxmoy-pi> how bad are things when you can't sell the british diy or gardening supplies....
[12:40] <mgdm> from what I read it's because the new Australian owners tried to do what worked in Australia
[12:40] <mgdm> so they didn't sell heaters in winter, for example :)
[12:40] <daftykins> :D
[12:41] <daftykins> hilarious
[16:24] <knightwise> hey peepz
[16:24] <knightwise> how you doin gtoday
[16:25] <daftykins> not too bad at all thanks, got my phone back from repair - and just set up yet another lovely nextcloud instance \o/
[16:25] <daftykins> how are things in your neck of the woods?
[22:08] <daftykins> hrmm i have the PSU from a monitor that has a few bulging capacitors within, i've desoldered one of each type i see and have noted their ratings - but i was recommended to consider the ESR value of each one when shopping for replacements
[22:09] <daftykins> i have at my fingertips 'Asiacon' brand caps of 1000uF and 16v, with "LE 105 deg C" and "0506" written on
[22:10] <daftykins> well, technically a couple are 10v but i hear i can just get 16v and they'll be grand too
[22:12] <daftykins> no idea if i should consider much more detail then given 'ESR' is pretty new to me
[22:13] <daftykins> think i'll just buy these Panasonics i found :) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111020269027?var=410162279756
[22:28] <zxmoy-pi> star trek... exploding monitors...
[22:28] <daftykins> :P
[22:29] <zxmoy-pi> almost as bad as their klingon armour... did it ever once stop a blade or energy weapon?
[22:30] <zxmoy-pi> i'm suprised the enterprise didn't explode every week...
[22:30] <daftykins> what if it's all training sims, maybe they never left dry dock!
[22:33] <daftykins> https://youtu.be/Gp_RnJcb8Ig - hmm the new Matt Groening thing
[23:00] <diddledan> looks interesting
[23:00] <diddledan> the animation style is very groening
[23:01] <zxmoy-pi> creating the simpsos means some money will be spent on the animation