| * daftykins yawns | 07:37 | |
| daftykins | this... this is a morning from the conventional side, eh | 07:38 |
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| zxm-pi | morning people will try and tell you how wonderful it is. | 07:43 |
| daftykins | different breed, those | 07:44 |
| daftykins | glad to hear my pal's spare little AMD CPU made it to penguin HQ yesterday intact \o/ that means he can get diagnosing his machine on Friday | 07:45 |
| zxm-pi | nice | 07:45 |
| daftykins | i wonder if it will turn out to be CPU death | 08:01 |
| daftykins | good morn bigcalm \o | 08:02 |
| bigcalm | Hey ho | 08:05 |
| === bigcalm_ is now known as bigcalm | ||
| bigcalm | So Virgin Media didn't get any better from last night. Still using 4G today | 08:41 |
| zxm-pi | amazing how comapnies can sell a wonky service and get away with it | 08:48 |
| * bigcalm_ shakes fist | 09:13 | |
| bigcalm_ | VM are great when they work. They just have occasional upsets | 09:13 |
| bigcalm_ | As I've worked from home for the last 13 years, and need to have a 'net connection all the time, I have a router with 4G fail over. | 09:14 |
| bigcalm_ | So I stay online, but get to grumble about it | 09:15 |
| bigcalm_ | Oh, new kernel - time to reboot | 09:15 |
| bigcalm | Is there a way to have hexchat auto regain a nick after reconnecting? | 09:41 |
| bigcalm | Alternative would be to have irssi running on my home server, have it use the keepnick.pl script, and use it as a proxy for hexchat | 09:49 |
| daftykins | some pals have moved to trying out "thelounge" for a self hosted IRC that you can still use a GUI client to connect into, but also has a web frontend for when you're on other devices as i understand it | 11:10 |
| zxm-pi | u wot? you don't use a java app on your dumb phone to connect to irc?! :-) | 11:13 |
| daftykins | xD | 11:13 |
| daftykins | oi put the nokia away, it's barely afternoon! | 11:14 |
| zxm-pi | nokia battery laughs at your measurments of time less than weeks | 11:18 |
| daftykins | <smartphone> noooo, my one weakness! | 11:19 |
| zxm-pi | nokia chuckles and leaps off a tall building and plummets to the ground destroying pavement | 11:20 |
| daftykins | :D | 11:25 |
| zxm-pi | of course being an elderly 9 year old nokia the back pops off and the battery falls out but is fine once it's put back in and turned on | 11:26 |
| daftykins | well worth the price of admission! it just wants to worry you, so you'll value its' life | 11:36 |
| zxm-pi | this was a phone sold to me with a 30 day warranty from a grey importer. like it could be damaged :-P | 11:57 |
| zxm-pi | no wait, 90 days | 11:57 |
| * bigcalm_ shakes fist at Three | 12:16 | |
| bigcalm_ | Connections don't last long, do they? | 12:16 |
| bigcalm_ | VM's fix estimate is for 3pm | 12:18 |
| * bigcalm_ keeps fingers crossed | 12:18 | |
| zxm-pi | fingers crossed | 12:18 |
| bigcalm_ | Which will make eating lunch somewhat tricky | 12:18 |
| daftykins | surely you're not using Lunch over IP? ;) | 12:19 |
| daftykins | Lunch as a Service | 12:19 |
| bigcalm_ | Has anybody's NHS dentist started doing appointments again? Mine haven't, which is annoying me somewhat | 12:20 |
| zxm-pi | cooking the pigeons meant for rfc2549 ip over avian | 12:20 |
| zxm-pi | i know my dentist mate here in ireland never closed, just doing emergency work though for last year. probably opening up again soon by irish rules | 12:21 |
| diddledan | I'm a teapot | 12:23 |
| daftykins | i had heard rumours | 12:23 |
| daftykins | ;D | 12:23 |
| daftykins | diddledan: happy hump day! | 12:23 |
| * diddledan humps | 12:23 | |
| * diddledan been fixing packages.u.c: Parse Ubuntu Ports more completely | 12:24 | |
| diddledan | err https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/packages/-/merge_requests/19 | 12:24 |
| lubotu | Merge 19 in webmaster-team/packages "Parse Ubuntu Ports more completely" [Opened] | 12:24 |
| diddledan | bad copy-pasta, bad! | 12:24 |
| daftykins | * copy-pasta twists into fusilli and runs away | 12:25 |
| diddledan | spot the difference: | 12:30 |
| diddledan | packages.u.c: https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/Ev53PK1c/image.png | 12:30 |
| diddledan | my copy: https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/NWjjArkl/image.png | 12:30 |
| daftykins | ooh you're taking java and infecting more archs with it D: | 12:32 |
| diddledan | :-p | 12:32 |
| daftykins | can't tell if i should congratulate or condemn! | 12:32 |
| daftykins | ;D | 12:32 |
| diddledan | the non-x86 arches weren't indexed properly | 12:33 |
| daftykins | so they're on there but unusable? | 12:34 |
| diddledan | nah, the packages were usable, but packages.u.c didn't show them | 12:34 |
| daftykins | ah i see | 12:35 |
| diddledan | openjdk is just the one that prompted me to fix it | 12:35 |
| diddledan | .. 'cos it confused someone asking for help | 12:35 |
| daftykins | ooh | 12:39 |
| diddledan | Netflix is totally jumping the shark at this point: https://twitter.com/NetflixUK/status/1407669844594642948 | 13:06 |
| zxm-pi | the joke is the prosthetics make them look more human :-) | 13:08 |
| daftykins | you're not wrong there | 13:09 |
| zxm-pi | didn't just hit every branch falling out of the ugly tree but climbed back up a few times to go again :-P | 13:10 |
| diddledan | "weeee" | 13:11 |
| diddledan | or rather "wee-ow. wee-ow" | 13:11 |
| diddledan | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57583363 | 13:13 |
| daftykins | it's the wrong sea, gromit! | 13:15 |
| zxm-pi | launch wensleydale interceptor! | 13:18 |
| daftykins | :D | 13:24 |
| daftykins | wow Sonic is 30 today | 13:31 |
| bigcalm__ | 15 minutes until the 3pm fix estimate gets here | 13:44 |
| * bigcalm__ drums fingers | 13:45 | |
| daftykins | heh VM are the worst | 13:47 |
| zxm-pi | is that 3pm allowing for tea breaks? :-P | 13:47 |
| daftykins | client just had a potential buyer enquire about his Spain apartment, the lady asked what the internet connection speed was like due to her 'super important Zoom calls' | 13:47 |
| daftykins | i replied to the estate agent and said it's symmetric fiber up to gigabit, not gonna have much trouble! | 13:48 |
| zxm-pi | the listing with pics of all the rooms didn't have a jpg of speedtest.com showing internet connection? :-P | 13:48 |
| bigcalm__ | Fibre would be nice :) | 13:48 |
| daftykins | hehe | 13:48 |
| zxm-pi | assuming when the occupant sells up and new person moves can get the fibre if it hasn't been reallocated in the local cabinet | 13:49 |
| daftykins | well amusingly his setup has been down for months and the remote hands lad we know down there never replied with results when i asked him to pop in | 13:49 |
| bigcalm__ | s/Fibre/Fiber | 13:49 |
| daftykins | i've notice both used so much i can't commit to one or the other | 13:50 |
| daftykins | *noticed | 13:50 |
| zxm-pi | bran muffins for everyone \o/ | 13:50 |
| daftykins | well, i always write fiber but others seem to mix it up | 13:50 |
| bigcalm__ | Google has me confused as to the correct spelling | 13:50 |
| * bigcalm__ hands out prunes | 13:50 | |
| zxm-pi | prune juice. a drink for warrirs. - because he's worf it | 13:51 |
| daftykins | :D | 13:53 |
| bigcalm_ | Is this getting boring for anybody else, or just me? | 14:44 |
| Myrtti | hm? | 14:45 |
| bigcalm_ | My connection dropping every hour because I'm stuck on Three 4G for the time being | 14:48 |
| bigcalm_ | VM have updated their fix estimate from 3pm to 11.40pm | 14:48 |
| Myrtti | oh, that | 14:50 |
| bigcalm_ | The hourly drop reminds me of dial-up days | 14:51 |
| bigcalm_ | Where local phone calls were free for up to 1 hour | 14:51 |
| daftykins | don't mind - not your fault :) | 14:51 |
| bigcalm_ | So your ISP would drop you after 59 minutes | 14:51 |
| bigcalm_ | Fair do. Sorry for the quit/join spam | 14:51 |
| daftykins | a pal in Lebanon imitates a lady of the nights drawers - now that gets on the nerves :D | 14:52 |
| bigcalm_ | Interesting comparison | 14:52 |
| daftykins | i toned down the phrasing slightly from the common one xD | 14:54 |
| === bigcalm__ is now known as bigcalm | ||
| bigcalm | Yesterday I saw mince pies on sale in Aldi. What's that all about? | 15:17 |
| rbasak | "Due to Covid" | 15:18 |
| bigcalm | That's the answer to everything | 15:18 |
| daftykins | lol | 15:22 |
| daftykins | ooh nice, (ex-MS employee) Dave Plummer's Oxford talk is up \o/ https://youtu.be/KclSIRRuBIE mostly recap but seems good so far | 15:23 |
| bigcalm | VM being down for the day reminds me of how pants 4G is here (not the worst, just pants for the job I do). Now considering putting a directional 4G antenna on my roof | 15:58 |
| daftykins | :( what does your spot look like on ofcom's coverage maps? | 15:59 |
| daftykins | i used those recently to check a client's home options | 16:00 |
| Myrtti | I HATE ALLERGIES SO MUCH | 16:06 |
| bigcalm | If I could get up to my TV antenna, I could see if I have enough elevation to the local EE cell tower. I just don't have 1. a head for heights, 2. a long enough ladder | 16:11 |
| rbasak | Stick a webcam on a stick. | 16:14 |
| === bigcalm is now known as Guest9974 | ||
| === bigcalm_ is now known as bigcalm | ||
| bigcalm | Well, I can get onto my garage's flat roof. So that might be possible - if I can find a long enough stick | 16:27 |
| bigcalm | It's just the thought of going from the garage roof to the house roof that causes a puddle under my chair | 16:28 |
| === bigcalm_ is now known as bigcalm | ||
| bigcalm | I worked out how to get HexChat to auto-regain my nick | 17:20 |
| popey | That's good news, right? | 18:09 |
| daftykins | yup | 18:10 |
| daftykins | popey: what's new, all well? | 18:11 |
| popey | Hullo! Yes, all is well. | 18:11 |
| popey | How's the islands? | 18:11 |
| daftykins | pretty good ta :D wee bit sunnier today than the last few | 18:12 |
| daftykins | also i'm working on a pizza, so \o/ | 18:12 |
| === bigcalm_ is now known as bigcalm | ||
| popey | Perfect | 18:13 |
| bigcalm | I like that I auto-regain my nick, but I wouldn't say that it's perfect ;) | 18:15 |
| daftykins | now you just need to find Hexchat's feature to light a fire under Virgin Media employees :) | 18:36 |
| === bigcalm is now known as Guest832 | ||
| === bigcalm_ is now known as bigcalm | ||
| === bigcalm_ is now known as bigcalm | ||
| === bigcalm_ is now known as bigcalm | ||
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