[01:24] <average_guy> Hello all o/
[01:37] <JackFrost> Heya!
[01:45] <average_guy> it's been a while since I lurked in this group.  I am in Harriman near Oak Ridge. Hope everyone is happy and healthy.
[01:46] <JackFrost> ...I'd be happier if it were colder? :3  But, you'll perhaps remember me as Unit193.
[01:47] <average_guy> I do remeber you my friend.  you were heavy into lubuntu I believe
[01:49] <JackFrost> To some extent, both Lubuntu and Xubuntu at the time.  I'd since moved on to Xubuntu fully, then Debian proper.
[01:50] <JackFrost> (I still help out on the Ubuntu side, specifically a lot with Xubuntu.)
[01:56] <average_guy> That is super cool man.  I've been turned to the Windows side of the force but here I am back playing with ubuntu, in azure for now
[01:57] <JackFrost> While Win 10 really isn't for me, whatever works best for you. :)
[02:05] <average_guy> I used to say that about Windows.  Powershell destroys Bash
[02:10] <average_guy> I hear rumor of a Microsoft full liunx distro coming
[02:11] <JackFrost> I mean honestly, that wouldn't surprise me...
[02:47] <JackFrost> average_guy: So only using Ubuntu/Linux on servers now?
[03:04] <average_guy> I am also playing with the windows subsystem for linux.  I really just miss playing with linux and dont have any hardware to put it on
[03:04] <average_guy> on a surface tablet
[03:08] <average_guy> that I bought for my daughter to do art.  she completely uninterested... xbox
[03:08] <average_guy> I just a bored guy hidin my house tryin not to get the rona
[03:11] <average_guy> I have no actual "use" for ubuntu server.  just screwin around
[03:12] <average_guy> i like learning stuff
[03:17] <JackFrost> Fair.  If I may, how old is this offspring?  I can most certainly understand a complete lack of interest in art though. :>
[03:17] <average_guy> she 13 and diggin online school
[03:18] <JackFrost> Really?  I couldn't imagine liking that.
[03:20] <average_guy> she can knock out a whole day in 4hrs layin in bed with Naruto on
[03:21] <average_guy> you have any little ones?
[03:28] <JackFrost> Thankfully no. :3
[03:28] <JackFrost> My sister had her first kid in 2020 though, and my cousin his first the year before.
[03:29] <average_guy> I see. your time will come muhahah
[03:31] <average_guy> I've got kids out of college.  between the wife and I we have 7.  this the last one out the house
[03:36] <JackFrost> Wow, OK.  And nah, or maybe I guess, but not for a long time yet.  Not even married.
[16:16] <ZachGibbens> wb average_guy
[16:17] <ZachGibbens> Azure is a good way to play. I use Linux on my laptop but I'm more of a server guy so it fits.
[16:21] <ZachGibbens> I'm not all that into Powershell, it's a major upgrade from the more limited DOS Command Prompt with a few Windows tools like netsh sprinkled on (but I've been such a heavy bash, dash and zsh user, I don't feel that powershell does more than match here. Maybe that's cause it's still like apples and oranges to me)
[16:23] <ZachGibbens> Not sure what username you saw me have last time (guessing cyberanger) I was located in Cleveland, TN (Moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia this year, less Rona here)
[17:00] <average_guy> Hello ZachGibbens.  I do remember you as cyberranger.  I remember that you'd moved somewhere far.  Canada, burr
[17:00] <average_guy> I remember you being pretty pro with linux also
[17:03] <ZachGibbens> It's not that bad (unfotunately, we've got it a little too mild here for my liking. Might even be milder than most of the US on average honestly)
[17:05] <average_guy> is that the french speaking part?
[17:08] <average_guy> Is that even a thing? I feel like id read parts of e canada the language was heavily influnced by french like louisiana
[17:19] <ZachGibbens> Where I am, there are Acadian areas (French Settlers that have been here since before the French and Indian War) but it's not really in Halifax.
[17:21] <ZachGibbens> I spent Christmas about a 4 hour drive east-northeast in Chéticamp, which is a large Acadian region, but it's fueled by tourism from the US and the rest of Canada that you really can't feel it.
[17:24] <ZachGibbens> Quebec is the most heavily French area in Canada, and even then if your just passing through it's not really a problem. I drove from Toronto to Montreal, had Mexican food at a local place (That was a bit wierd to me, hearing French from the other customers, Spanish from the staff and my GF and I speaking English, our Hostess and Waitress speaking all three perfectly)
[17:26] <ZachGibbens> From Montreal to Quebec City I was helping my GF (well, just friends back then) move, so the rented Prius was full and overweight, we stopped so I could check it out. I was asking for help at a gas station in between and google translate helped but nobody really knew what to suggest (language barrier didn't help, but wasn't really the issue. Everything had closed by then in the area, didn't
[17:26] <ZachGibbens> find that out until later)
[17:28] <ZachGibbens> Anyway, we kept going. (It was clear to me that the shocks just couldn't handle it on bumps and bridges but otherwise we were fine) We stayed in St Foy area of Quebec City for the night, an anglophone area & went to the tourist part of downtown too.
[17:32] <ZachGibbens> After that we had a bit of an expirence with Avis switching to a minivan, the staff were from Dominica, and used to a French Creole. Found out later that I didn't have paperwork on the van, I don't know how I got back across the border to the US with it, had to deal with a little hell from Avis Loss Prevention too, worked out in the end.
[17:38] <ZachGibbens> Last part of the story, we stopped at a seafood place in Edmundston, NB called The Pirate. I knew this was a Francophone area based off the stop signs, clearly a stop sign but instead of Stop, it's Arret. Also Rue for Road etc. but The staff greeted us in English, Menu was English for what I recall, I found out later that about 95% of the town was French only. I guess that restraunt was a
[17:38] <ZachGibbens> known tourist stop (but we didn't plan it, dumb luck)
[17:38] <ZachGibbens> Anyway, sorry. I never tire from that story.
[18:54] <average_guy> wow
[18:54] <average_guy> literally an epic journey
[18:55] <average_guy> I can barely speak english so I would have been lost
[23:17] <ZachGibbens> All I knew was English too (I know more now, but it isn't really enough to help)