[06:07] <brobostigon> morning
[06:34] <zxmoypi> o/
[06:34] <brobostigon> \o/
[12:55] <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.
[14:01] <daftykins> Oli: what to do?
[18:22] <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
[18:23]  * zxmoypi is slightly biased of course :-)
[18:24] <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
[18:28] <zxmoypi> dead hinge.... did they use it as a bottle opener or something? :-P
[18:31] <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
[18:32]  * 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
[18:33] <daftykins> hehe
[18:36] <daftykins> oh nice, she says the child knocked it off the bed
[18:37] <zxmoypi> ie. she did
[18:37] <daftykins> xD
[19:02] <brobostigon> thats like saying, my dog eat my homework.
[19:03] <zxmoypi> and your point is? :-P
[19:03] <zxmoypi> the excuses i have heard over the years for failing hardware....
[19:04] <zxmoypi> the dot matrix printer that had every wire, cable, resisitor cut with a diagonal snips 'just stopped'
[19:04] <brobostigon> lol.
[19:05] <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'
[19:53] <Gargoyle> dead??? that's not dead!! Stick some gaffer tape on it and give it back! ;-)
[19:55] <zxmoypi> the engineer who installed ram by shoving it through gap under floppy disk drive...
[19:55] <brobostigon> ouch.
[19:56] <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.
[19:57] <zxmoypi> they of course wanted me to fix it if the ram failed at some point in the future.
[19:58] <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!!
[20:04] <daftykins> i knew it was the wrong colour!
[20:04] <daftykins> ;)
[20:05] <zxmoypi> you ordered battleship grey but they only had morning mist gray. you did sign for it
[23:28] <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.
[23:29] <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
[23:30] <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
[23:31] <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
[23:32] <Oli> Sad for progression, it's still awesome
[23:33] <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
[23:34] <daftykins> i know it's do-able but they have network AV receivers so it's easier to cut out the middle man
[23:37] <daftykins> anywho i'd stick to the Pi and go for the addon boards probably, but i'd rather have an amp between