[00:43] <zxm-pi> best comment i've seen so far is they've finally found a way to charge you twice to run windows :-P
[01:04] <m0nkey_> yup, i'm going ubuntu on the next reinstall
[09:08] <bigcalm> o/
[09:09] <zxm-pi> \o
[09:27] <bigcalm> I've got that Friday feeling. Which is terribly disappointing when I remember it's Thursday
[09:27] <zxm-pi> has no one written a blursday song yet?! :-P
[09:52] <daftykins> mornin'
[11:12] <daftykins> diddledan: https://i.redd.it/fkctrzmn08a71.jpg
[11:13] <bigcalm> Heh
[11:14] <bigcalm> Clients who do dev with us and use M1 machines are problematic - most of our projects are set-up to use VirtualBox, which appears to be a problem for ARM
[11:15] <daftykins> is the virtualbox experience really that reliable to begin with? i always get the feeling it's like a house of cards
[11:22] <bigcalm> I guess it depends upon what you want to do with it
[11:23] <bigcalm> We use virtualbox, vagrant, and ansible to create repeatable dev environments
[11:23] <bigcalm> All of our devs use variants of Ubuntu, which helps
[11:23] <bigcalm> The boss is on Windows, so nothing works for him
[11:24] <zxm-pi> but, it doesn't work reliably :-P
[11:26] <bigcalm> We're setting up some client projects with Docker, in an effort to try and make them work cross-platform
[11:28] <zxm-pi> ::flicks lighter:: FREEDOS!!! WHOOOOOO! :-P
[13:58] <bigcalm> Boss has agreed to the idea of budget for a high end laptop with gpu enclosure. You never know unless you ask I guess
[14:01] <zxm-pi> gonna mine your way to a crypto fortune? :-P
[14:05] <daftykins> bigcalm: what for?
[14:06] <bigcalm> Copying popey and looking at the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon gen 9 and a Razer Core X to house my existing nVidia GeForce 1070Ti
[14:09] <daftykins> mobile on the go and some beans at home eh? i always read eGPU enclosures hamstring card performance to 70% or less of top
[14:09] <bigcalm> I have no experience of them :)
[14:10] <bigcalm> I'm not much of a gamer. But I have 3 x 27" UHD screens that would likely piss off a laptop
[14:10] <daftykins> ah if that's the focus, makes sense
[14:11] <daftykins> often wonder why gimp yourself with a laptop to begin though o0
[14:11] <bigcalm> Considering I run my displays at 150% scale, I wish I had gone for lower spec and run them at native res
[14:11] <daftykins> suppose it's a pig keeping a desktop + laptop in sync
[14:11] <bigcalm> daftykins: exactly
[14:11] <zxm-pi> wow, i just got 1 27" screen and it's frickin huge. can't imagine what it would be like with 3. you could see 1 whole line of perl on those :-P
[14:11] <daftykins> mm i like my Dell U2719, 2560x1440 27" - 4K is too much imo
[14:12] <daftykins> well that's the centre and primary anyway
[14:17] <bigcalm> https://twitter.com/bigcalm/status/1415676809601982467
[14:19] <zxm-pi> impressive. i got the 27" as it is 2 old fashioned screens side by side for me :-)
[14:19] <zxm-pi> i really need to move to a tiling window manager to make best use of it
[14:20] <daftykins> ooh slippery slope
[14:20] <daftykins> quite happy with window snapping here
[14:21] <bigcalm> I keep pondering altering kubuntu to give me a tiling WM. But I never have the time to invest for it to be beneficial
[14:22] <zxm-pi> i think because i spend so much time in tmux i reckon i could get used to one in gui
[17:04]  * m0nkey_ just uses gnome