| === arif-ali_6 is now known as arif-ali_ | ||
| === arif-ali- is now known as arif-ali | ||
| bigcalm | Hola | 08:17 |
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| * zxm-pi blinks and attempts telekinesis to make cup of tea and bring it to my hand... | 08:36 | |
| bigcalm | 42nd b'day present to myself https://scontent-lhr8-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/213359888_10157727329782105_2321510996946289660_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=kcBzH5OilJIAX_qJipo&tn=i2zi6yFnsJeLMDRc&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-2.xx&oh=7eadf13070adda39f8b3fe523265a1cb&oe=60F5850E | 09:26 |
| zxm-pi | all ripped to mp3 here :-) | 09:40 |
| daftykins | :) | 09:42 |
| bigcalm | That will be the next step. CD box set likely to never see the light of day again | 09:44 |
| bigcalm | What's the go-to CD ripper in KDE/ubuntu? | 09:47 |
| daftykins | hrmm, let's see - https://alternativeto.net/software/exact-audio-copy-/?platform=linux | 09:48 |
| bigcalm | One that talks to cddb.org (if that's still a thing) would be nice | 09:49 |
| bigcalm | Did you just "let me google that for you" me? | 09:49 |
| bigcalm | :P | 09:49 |
| daftykins | lol, i was hoping you wouldn't take it that way - i was genuinely curious myself | 09:50 |
| bigcalm | :D Thank you :) | 09:50 |
| daftykins | to date i've never come close to EAC on Windows for those bit-perfect copies | 09:50 |
| bigcalm | When helping my father or sister, I'd install CDex for them on Windows | 09:50 |
| daftykins | i remember that :D | 09:51 |
| bigcalm | Cool, there's a snap for fre:ac | 09:52 |
| bigcalm | https://snapcraft.io/install/freac/kubuntu | 09:52 |
| daftykins | folks moving to streaming platforms has definitely reduced the workload of curating local libraries, been a long time since my wealthy client asked me to rip a new CD | 09:53 |
| daftykins | i'd have to rip the main FLAC for the house library (r-pi's dotted around the house plugged into amps able to play music from smartphone apps) then convert to a lossy copy for some old iPods he holds onto for no decent reason, plus copy them all to London and Spain apartments | 09:54 |
| daftykins | i think he's going to dump the Pis in the new house :( | 09:55 |
| zxm-pi | i use ripper x on linux for ripping to mp3 | 09:56 |
| zxm-pi | sounds like you're getting free rasp pis :-) | 09:57 |
| daftykins | it does! | 09:58 |
| daftykins | i forget which models, probably 3Bs | 09:58 |
| zxm-pi | you'll have a rasp pi minion army cluster | 09:58 |
| * daftykins ponders | 10:00 | |
| daftykins | i can think of at least 4 | 10:00 |
| daftykins | i have a few appointments next week up at the new house with cabling contractors and satellite/aerial folks to go and get things done at the new place, oy | 10:01 |
| daftykins | today i have to return to the couples house i put the new WiFi system in for on Wednesday, as i must now do the dangerous bit of moving the master telephone socket and router into the wall mounted cabinet and reattach all the existing telephone sockets after the filter portion | 10:02 |
| * daftykins starts waving his hands out in front of him like Mystic Meg | 10:02 | |
| daftykins | ...i see ladders in my future | 10:02 |
| daftykins | they're on an MSAN but i spy their line sync has dropped to 36 Mb, hopefully there'll be a little bump up once i take all the internal wiring out of the equation \o/ | 10:04 |
| daftykins | reaaaaally old local house | 10:05 |
| zxm-pi | be super careful. ladders are super sneaky | 10:05 |
| zxm-pi | i wonder if there's a rasp pi adoption service. all those abandoned rasp pis out there needing a new home :-P | 10:06 |
| daftykins | hehe | 10:06 |
| daftykins | i'll try! someone put their incoming line termination box quite high close to a ceiling in a little side alley down the house that's covered over, i'll need to crack it open and then get out my new jelly crimps to redirect the incoming line | 10:06 |
| zxm-pi | delivered in a cute little basket on your doorstep. 'my name is sambaserv07' | 10:06 |
| daftykins | "my root password is..." | 10:07 |
| daftykins | heh so for today's client, we had their electrician run cables all the full width of the house to a complete dead spot room at the opposite end from any of their current kit, the client keeps asking if this will enable having the landline phone out there as well | 10:31 |
| daftykins | keep having to explain that network != telephone | 10:31 |
| bigcalm | But it could with a SIP phone ;) | 10:32 |
| zxm-pi | it is if you can sell him a whole voip system, KERCH$NG :-P | 10:32 |
| daftykins | heh | 10:32 |
| daftykins | i'm debating a FreePBX setup at the wealthy client's new house, right now he's obsessed with using all these stupid basic telephone sockets dotted around the property | 10:33 |
| bigcalm | Is that something you want to maintain? | 10:33 |
| zxm-pi | all that copper corroding | 10:33 |
| daftykins | exactly that question is what i have been asking myself | 10:33 |
| zxm-pi | when it could be scrap value down at metal merchant :-P | 10:34 |
| daftykins | not only that but it's not very easy to source the very old Cisco/Linksys ATA devices with FXO/FXS ports to pop a landline onto the network | 10:34 |
| daftykins | tonnes on ebay but most in China now | 10:34 |
| daftykins | muggins here will still need to label every telephone cable since they're blank right now | 10:38 |
| daftykins | or mostly "8 w" has been written above some, which is extremely unhelpful | 10:39 |
| bigcalm | 8 wires? | 10:43 |
| daftykins | yeah, helpful eh? :D | 10:45 |
| daftykins | ok i've got to head out, have a good one all \o | 10:45 |
| bigcalm | Enjoy | 10:46 |
| === arif-ali_5 is now known as arif-ali_ | ||
| penguin42 | daftykin1: Wow, this cooler is HUGE | 13:20 |
| diddledan | penguin42: keep quiet or all the ladies will want their own | 13:21 |
| zxm-pi | you're goning to wear it as a hat during the summer? :-P | 13:29 |
| penguin42 | so they should, it'd keep them happy in all weathers | 13:29 |
| penguin42 | https://support.arctic.de/LF2-280r4 is the installation manual fo rit | 13:36 |
| penguin42 | and it's got me watching a youtube video of how not to mount it | 13:39 |
| diddledan | oh it's one of them fancypants leaky things | 13:40 |
| diddledan | ;-p | 13:40 |
| penguin42 | diddledan: These are supposed to be sealed.... | 13:40 |
| diddledan | I don't trust myself with water inside an electronic device :-D | 13:40 |
| penguin42 | diddledan: Me neither, but I just had to replace my 3950x after ~8 months, so now I want to run it cooler | 13:41 |
| diddledan | they may be sealed from the factory, but I'm bound to puncture it | 13:41 |
| penguin42 | yes, indeed | 13:41 |
| diddledan | yikes, 3950 is quite a recent CPU to be replacing already | 13:41 |
| penguin42 | yes, last October | 13:42 |
| penguin42 | fortunately Scan RMA'd it easily | 13:42 |
| diddledan | it died? | 13:42 |
| penguin42 | nod :-( | 13:43 |
| penguin42 | with the current bequiet2 cooler it's just over 70c flat out (16 md5sum's) | 13:49 |
| diddledan | toasty | 13:50 |
| penguin42 | yeh, I think I'd seen it a bit higher on the original CPU as well, maybe when I refitted the new one I did better with the grease and mounting, still lets see what this beast gets it down to | 13:53 |
| penguin42 | now, lets see if I can get the thing into the case... | 14:08 |
| penguin42 | ok, so not going to fit at the top of the case - there's not enough gap between the case and the mb | 14:13 |
| penguin42 | hmm it...kind of ish fits at the front | 14:24 |
| penguin42 | phew, that's better - it tops off at 56c rather than 71c | 15:31 |
| diddledan | much friendlier temp | 16:19 |
| penguin42 | and I only needed the tinsnips to get the CD drive in | 16:26 |
| bigcalm | Just realised that if I do get to replace my work desktop with a laptop, it will be without an optical media drive. I was wondering if I even needed one - then remembered that I am actively ripping THHGTTG CDs to MP3 *face palm* | 16:29 |
| zxm-pi | get an external usb AND floppy drive just to confuse everyone :-) | 16:29 |
| bigcalm | Think I'll need to dig out my bluray drive in an external enclosure | 16:30 |
| zxm-pi | get an external dvd AND floppy drive just to confuse everyone :-) | 16:30 |
| bigcalm | Everyone being my wife? Work from home - and have done for years :D | 16:30 |
| zxm-pi | you're forgetting the archeologists trying to date your laptop in the future :-P | 16:31 |
| bigcalm | Ah, them | 16:32 |
| * bigcalm nods | 16:32 | |
| diddledan | tis warm in my flat today.. 27C right now | 16:32 |
| zxm-pi | fighting nazis and cracking whips. just like the 1930s :-P | 16:33 |
| penguin42 | diddledan: Yeh warm here as well, so reassuring I can keep this thing sane on a hot day | 16:33 |
| diddledan | my noisy server is extra noisy with this heat | 16:33 |
| zxm-pi | 25c here with 2 fans creating a nice tornado of moving air in which i am sitting | 16:34 |
| diddledan | that's cheating | 16:34 |
| zxm-pi | no, the 3 boxes of choc-ices in freezer is cheating | 16:34 |
| diddledan | ooh. good plan. | 16:35 |
| zxm-pi | lidl do a lovely half choc-ice. half the width of a normal one. so you can have 2 half ones at seperate times instead of 1 normal one | 16:35 |
| diddledan | or you could buy twice as many and have 2 normal ones at separate times instead of 1 normal one ;-p | 16:37 |
| bigcalm | I think that would confuse my father, and he'd have 4 | 16:37 |
| zxm-pi | extra memory cards and serial cables have arrived for psion. the psion ssds are massive for tiny capacities. they're so cute | 16:37 |
| bigcalm | Psion is still a thing? | 16:37 |
| diddledan | and here's me with a swanky new HDR-capable monitor | 16:37 |
| diddledan | 4k! | 16:37 |
| diddledan | 28 inches of pure love | 16:38 |
| zxm-pi | bigcalm: i got a psion 3mx refurb a few months ago. a pda from mid 1990s :-) | 16:38 |
| zxm-pi | still running on batteries i put in at end of april :-) | 16:38 |
| diddledan | what is it, a nokia?! | 16:38 |
| penguin42 | diddledan: Yeh I've got a 28 4k, they're lovely - I do a lot of datasheet stuff at work; okular gets 8 sheets on at a time | 16:38 |
| diddledan | that's stupid battery life! | 16:38 |
| penguin42 | yeh the Psions were good like that | 16:39 |
| zxm-pi | well i've been going slow with it. less than an hours use per day. as i transfer bits and bobs of data from other systems into it. i just love the little beast | 16:39 |
| zxm-pi | had trouble using first serial cable as i'd never used serial on linux before and had to learn that i needed to add my user to dialout group before i could use it :-) | 16:40 |
| zxm-pi | then trying a few different terminal programs to find one that i didn't hate. cutecom, minicom. they all gave me fun errors i had to deal with | 16:41 |
| diddledan | screen works ok | 16:41 |
| diddledan | i.e. screen /dev/ttyS1 | 16:41 |
| zxm-pi | it does but i wanted something.... more.... modemy | 16:41 |
| diddledan | aah | 16:41 |
| diddledan | course, file transfers. dummy me | 16:41 |
| zxm-pi | and finding help is fun when you're following a thread describing your problem and it's from the 90s :-) | 16:42 |
| zxm-pi | but getting there. enjoying the fun of psion. just a beautifully designed machine. full help on board in rom | 16:43 |
| diddledan | its those threads that always leave you hanging a la XKCD | 16:43 |
| penguin42 | zxm-pi: I had a psion 3a back in the day - actually the acorn verison | 16:43 |
| zxm-pi | next getting agettty working so i can log into a linux system via serial. then put a rasp pi on a power bank and portable linux on a psion :-) | 16:44 |
| diddledan | https://xkcd.com/979/ | 16:44 |
| penguin42 | zxm-pi: There's a magic systemd line these days to enable a serial terminal | 16:44 |
| zxm-pi | the acorn version was pretty cool. a few schools used it as a mobile device for kids | 16:44 |
| * zxm-pi casts ward evil at mention of systemd :-P | 16:44 | |
| penguin42 | zxm-pi: https://www.rogerirwin.co.nz/open-source/enabling-a-serial-port-console/ - systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0.service probably has a chance | 16:47 |
| diddledan | I've been learning about why it's almost impossible to get gnome running on WSL2... seems systemd is a hard requirement for a start. then you need to run a session manager to assign a new thing they're calling a "seat" to your terminal session (impossible in WSL2 from what I have tried) and then finally start a new X or Wayland session from there - you cannot. repeat, cannot. launch a new session without a seat and not against | 16:47 |
| diddledan | an already running wayland server | 16:47 |
| * penguin42 is confused why you can't fudge a seat - I think there's some tools for it | 16:49 | |
| zxm-pi | running linux sub system under windows. it's just wrong. :-P | 16:50 |
| penguin42 | diddledan: Have you tried running lightdm ? | 16:50 |
| diddledan | I think my google foo failed me :-) | 16:50 |
| diddledan | the big problem is I want to run on an already launched wayland server (the OOTB wayland from WSL2) not start a new Wayland or X11 | 16:50 |
| penguin42 | oh | 16:51 |
| penguin42 | yeh, no idea how to work that | 16:51 |
| penguin42 | zxm-pi: It's even crazier when you find people running Windows in a VM on Linux running WSL2 | 16:53 |
| diddledan | hah | 16:53 |
| zxm-pi | ouroboros os :-P | 16:53 |
| zxm-pi | or would it be ouroborOs | 16:53 |
| zxm-pi | if you can't use camel case on an egyptian word... :-P | 16:55 |
| bigcalm | Our Rob or Ros? | 16:55 |
| penguin42 | should that be single or double camel? | 16:55 |
| zxm-pi | double camel the bactarian is mongolian i think | 16:56 |
| diddledan | camel toe? | 16:56 |
| bigcalm | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dD4crUBIA | 16:56 |
| zxm-pi | right, have to dash to shops. o/ | 16:57 |
| bigcalm | Weekend! | 17:06 |
| diddledan | Will Will Young will Will Young young? | 17:06 |
| === daftykin1 is now known as daftykins | ||
| daftykins | oh my Tux that job got so much worse xD | 17:11 |
| diddledan | oh dear :-( | 17:11 |
| diddledan | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BvJlVEbf3c | 17:11 |
| daftykins | got there ventually, just really challenging telephone wires - ended up having to pull the incoming one off the wall and strip some more insulation back, which was then wax coated inside - so cue repeated hand washing and wiping that up | 17:14 |
| daftykins | should see the router stats though, noise margin went from 6 dB to 20 dB after :) | 17:16 |
| daftykins | penguin42: install all done? :) | 17:19 |
| daftykins | here's the 'before' - https://i.imgur.com/iFvlh7V.jpg | 17:21 |
| * m0nkey_ just reserved his SteamDeck | 17:54 | |
| daftykins | heh haven't even had a chance to read about those yet | 17:54 |
| m0nkey_ | it's a linux based handheld in the switch form factor that can play AAA PC titles | 17:55 |
| m0nkey_ | some custom Zen2 APU, 16GB RAM and 512GB NVME | 17:56 |
| zxm-pi | can you get a terminal and run python? :-) | 18:29 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: All done! | 18:38 |
| m0nkey_ | zxm-pi: yup. totally unlocked. run windows if you want lol | 18:39 |
| zxm-pi | running windows on a steamdeck... kinky :-P | 18:44 |
| daftykins | tech masochism knows few bounds :) | 19:07 |
| diddledan | ... I'm on my mac right now.. I resemble that remark! | 19:08 |
| zxm-pi | install os/2 in a vm under windows on it. scare little children and family pets | 19:08 |
| daftykins | diddledan: xD | 19:09 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: https://mastodon.org.uk/system/media_attachments/files/106/591/908/934/153/876/original/a62b6ee45f13968d.png | 19:27 |
| penguin42 | who let diddledan have a mac? | 19:27 |
| zxm-pi | left in a basket on his doorstep... | 19:28 |
| penguin42 | LO build is still a little toasty for my liking: https://mastodon.org.uk/system/media_attachments/files/106/591/919/243/762/334/original/09475f949bec328b.png | 19:29 |
| daftykins | penguin42: nice graphs! | 19:35 |
| daftykins | how's your ambient temp today? | 19:35 |
| penguin42 | too hot | 19:35 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: about 29c | 19:37 |
| daftykins | mmm time for full air con at penguin HQ :) | 19:40 |
| penguin42 | I do wonder | 19:40 |
| daftykins | i have no idea if they would last, but i've seen some cheap portable units on https://cpc.farnell.com | 19:41 |
| penguin42 | yeh I've used those at work years ago | 19:52 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Although I measured the xy of the radiator to make sure it would fit, the thickness was a surprise - so it couldn't go in the convenient top place that it's supposedly intended to go in, but it just about fitted at the front | 19:54 |
| daftykins | ah ha | 19:59 |
| daftykins | i bet a few drinks were consumed during that installation :) | 20:00 |
| penguin42 | fortunately I'm t-total | 20:00 |
| daftykins | ah i was thinking coffee/tea/iced something | 20:00 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: the case is just bad; it's got a big vent at the top and a big vent at the front; the one at the top is way way too close to the MB to get a radiator in | 20:01 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: The one at the front has an annoying PSU chassis section in the way - but it fits; just | 20:01 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: The tin snips were only needed once, to allow me to move the DVD drive up by half-a-bay because the radiator now got in the way | 20:02 |
| daftykins | ooh i don't like that modern trend of the PSU tunnel type thing | 20:02 |
| penguin42 | nod | 20:02 |
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