| brobostigon | morning | 06:07 |
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| zxmoypi | o/ | 06:34 |
| brobostigon | \o/ | 06:34 |
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| Oli | Does anybody know of a Rasberry-pi shaped SOC-style thingme that also has a built-in amplifier? I'm aware of the hat options for real Raspis, just looking to see if there are alternatives. | 12:55 |
| daftykins | Oli: what to do? | 14:01 |
| zxmoypi | there are 'better' pi clones out there with a lot of extra hardware on them. but i'd stick with the pi community as it's just so much bigger and far more stable | 18:22 |
| * zxmoypi is slightly biased of course :-) | 18:23 | |
| daftykins | never! :) | 18:24 |
| daftykins | ooh another laptop has bitten the dust thanks to the butterfingers of a client | 18:24 |
| daftykins | well, not dead yet - https://imgur.com/a/2FwIYF7 dead hinge on a Dell XPS 13 9350 | 18:24 |
| zxmoypi | dead hinge.... did they use it as a bottle opener or something? :-P | 18:28 |
| daftykins | seems like! she took the whole week to ask me about it, heh - off in Spain with a backup machine i think at present | 18:31 |
| * zxmoypi bets a euro sunscreen or alcohol damage on that one when it's get back :-P | 18:32 | |
| zxmoypi | or sand or water in the keyboard | 18:32 |
| daftykins | hehe | 18:33 |
| daftykins | oh nice, she says the child knocked it off the bed | 18:36 |
| zxmoypi | ie. she did | 18:37 |
| daftykins | xD | 18:37 |
| brobostigon | thats like saying, my dog eat my homework. | 19:02 |
| zxmoypi | and your point is? :-P | 19:03 |
| zxmoypi | the excuses i have heard over the years for failing hardware.... | 19:03 |
| zxmoypi | the dot matrix printer that had every wire, cable, resisitor cut with a diagonal snips 'just stopped' | 19:04 |
| brobostigon | lol. | 19:04 |
| daftykins | :D | 19:05 |
| zxmoypi | it was a point of sales system for a video shop and every transaction was recorded on paper. made it hard to pocket all the rental fees so the printer had to 'taken out' | 19:05 |
| Gargoyle | dead??? that's not dead!! Stick some gaffer tape on it and give it back! ;-) | 19:53 |
| zxmoypi | the engineer who installed ram by shoving it through gap under floppy disk drive... | 19:55 |
| brobostigon | ouch. | 19:55 |
| zxmoypi | when i opened i found the ram sitting on the motherboard after they brought the pc to me. i put it in slot and it worked. bit of a miracle that one | 19:56 |
| brobostigon | i bet. | 19:56 |
| zxmoypi | they of course wanted me to fix it if the ram failed at some point in the future. | 19:57 |
| daftykins | yeah, it's your fault now ;D | 19:58 |
| zxmoypi | remember that parallel cable you sold them in 1992? that's why their internet is down now!! | 19:58 |
| daftykins | i knew it was the wrong colour! | 20:04 |
| daftykins | ;) | 20:04 |
| zxmoypi | you ordered battleship grey but they only had morning mist gray. you did sign for it | 20:05 |
| Oli | daftykins to act as networked speakers in a network of Logitech Squeezeboxes. I already running a Raspi3 into a cheap external amp but it all seems a bit much. | 23:28 |
| Oli | "Stuff to leave running 24/7", not expense. It's cheap kit. | 23:29 |
| daftykins | Oli: amusingly i have exactly the same thing! i use picoreplayer on a 3B connected to my lounge AV receiver | 23:29 |
| daftykins | i just pipe HDMI audio though | 23:29 |
| daftykins | still rocking a classic squeezebox v3 i think it is, but sadly lost the remote the other day to leaky batteries... hoping i can restore it with some conductive ink but haven't found the time to try yet | 23:30 |
| Oli | We have a Boom, a Radio, a Classic3 a couple of Duet Recievers and a couple of pis. | 23:31 |
| daftykins | :D | 23:31 |
| Oli | It's sad that it's still about the best you can do without spending megabucks | 23:31 |
| Oli | Sad for progression, it's still awesome | 23:32 |
| daftykins | i have a nice 5 Pi setup in a client's home as i am quite against all that Sonos crap, unfortunately his wife discovered Spotify the other day and they've now been abandoned practically | 23:33 |
| Oli | Not currently a Spotify user but we used to play Spotify through the SB | 23:33 |
| daftykins | i know it's do-able but they have network AV receivers so it's easier to cut out the middle man | 23:34 |
| daftykins | anywho i'd stick to the Pi and go for the addon boards probably, but i'd rather have an amp between | 23:37 |
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