[06:07] morning [06:34] o/ [06:34] \o/ === andatche_ is now known as andatche [12:55] 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. [14:01] Oli: what to do? [18:22] 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 [18:23] * zxmoypi is slightly biased of course :-) [18:24] never! :) [18:24] ooh another laptop has bitten the dust thanks to the butterfingers of a client [18:24] well, not dead yet - https://imgur.com/a/2FwIYF7 dead hinge on a Dell XPS 13 9350 [18:28] dead hinge.... did they use it as a bottle opener or something? :-P [18:31] seems like! she took the whole week to ask me about it, heh - off in Spain with a backup machine i think at present [18:32] * zxmoypi bets a euro sunscreen or alcohol damage on that one when it's get back :-P [18:32] or sand or water in the keyboard [18:33] hehe [18:36] oh nice, she says the child knocked it off the bed [18:37] ie. she did [18:37] xD [19:02] thats like saying, my dog eat my homework. [19:03] and your point is? :-P [19:03] the excuses i have heard over the years for failing hardware.... [19:04] the dot matrix printer that had every wire, cable, resisitor cut with a diagonal snips 'just stopped' [19:04] lol. [19:05] :D [19:05] 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' [19:53] dead??? that's not dead!! Stick some gaffer tape on it and give it back! ;-) [19:55] the engineer who installed ram by shoving it through gap under floppy disk drive... [19:55] ouch. [19:56] 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] i bet. [19:57] they of course wanted me to fix it if the ram failed at some point in the future. [19:58] yeah, it's your fault now ;D [19:58] remember that parallel cable you sold them in 1992? that's why their internet is down now!! [20:04] i knew it was the wrong colour! [20:04] ;) [20:05] you ordered battleship grey but they only had morning mist gray. you did sign for it [23:28] 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. [23:29] "Stuff to leave running 24/7", not expense. It's cheap kit. [23:29] Oli: amusingly i have exactly the same thing! i use picoreplayer on a 3B connected to my lounge AV receiver [23:29] i just pipe HDMI audio though [23:30] 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 [23:31] We have a Boom, a Radio, a Classic3 a couple of Duet Recievers and a couple of pis. [23:31] :D [23:31] It's sad that it's still about the best you can do without spending megabucks [23:32] Sad for progression, it's still awesome [23:33] 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] Not currently a Spotify user but we used to play Spotify through the SB [23:34] i know it's do-able but they have network AV receivers so it's easier to cut out the middle man [23:37] anywho i'd stick to the Pi and go for the addon boards probably, but i'd rather have an amp between