[10:25] <daftykins> good morning campers
[10:25] <daftykins> well, it seems another iMac has surfaced on the local trade sites... no, 2 even
[10:26] <zxm-pi> a pair of macs? what's the collective noun? a print shop? :-P
[10:32] <daftykins> it's a trap!
[11:06] <daftykins> yikes there's one that wants to trade their 3 month old iMac for a similar spec PC, but they got a real bottom of the barrel model
[11:08] <zxm-pi> still a 3month old mac
[11:09] <daftykins> they claim they spent a grand on it, rubbish low tier i3
[11:09] <daftykins> https://tig.gg/category/home-living/electronics-and-diy/16271/swap-wanted
[11:10] <zxm-pi> huh, i thought all new macs came with the m1 thingy with 16gb of ram?
[11:19] <daftykins> if you look at their 3rd pic it seems they bought it from some alternative source that was likely hocking the old gen models
[11:23] <zxm-pi> so should knock a few shekels off the asking price
[11:23] <zxm-pi> most software now for mac will have a hissy fit if you don't have 16gb of ram or very soon will knowing coders :-P
[11:25] <daftykins> heh
[11:26] <daftykins> think i read of M1s with 8GB, saw a piece on some brave folks in China who desoldered the NAND chip from the package and upgraded it, heh
[11:28] <zxm-pi> some of the very first unlocked iphones where ones where phyiscally unlocked by desoldering and replacing a logic chip in vietnam. brain surgery would be easier
[11:34] <daftykins> :D
[11:34] <daftykins> time to switch gears and prepare an RMA of that pfSense router
[11:37] <zxm-pi> and recite the sacred incantation... 'do not bend, fold or stomp on' while packing item for post office :-P
[11:49] <daftykins> "oh patron sakn
[11:50] <daftykins> oops
[11:50] <daftykins> "oh patron saint of wobbly kit, protect this shipment as it returns to whence it came!"
[12:23] <daftykins> haha one of these has the same phone # as the guy i just bought the last one from
[12:25] <zxm-pi> which reminds me of the old irish word smee :-P https://www.davesjokes.com/?joke=smee-again
[15:05] <diddledan> Don't try to stop me, Smee!
[15:05] <diddledan> https://youtu.be/lbv1DE0-JBE
[15:07]  * zxm-pi takes time to teach diddledan proper hiberno english grammar... smee again, what are you looking for that mac? :-P
[15:15] <diddledan> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOXaD-7FYOg
[15:17]  * zxm-pi starts the video knowing it will only make me sad 
[15:52] <zxm-pi> just sad to see an iconic brand reduced to lawyer food
[19:42] <m0nkey_> Jim Browning's YouTube channel has been deleted
[19:48] <daftykins> who's that? rings a bell but i can't place the name
[19:51] <m0nkey_> scam baiter
[19:52] <daftykins> oh did he have a regular thing of watching Indian call centre scammers through their own cameras or something? i may be mixing up with someone else
[20:09] <m0nkey_> yes
[20:16] <daftykins> weird, wonder what has gone down
[20:51] <zxm-pi> spammers launched an all out take down request bombardment till googlebots autokilled it, wouldn't be first time
[20:52] <zxm-pi> guessing
[20:55] <diddledan> nothing on their twitter about it, either: https://twitter.com/JimBrowning11
[20:55] <diddledan> although the youtube link on twitter is pointing at a random person
[21:02] <daftykins> how strange
[21:09] <m0nkey_> omg, he got phished
[21:10] <m0nkey_> he just tweeted
[21:13] <zxm-pi> of course you know what this means, this means war - bugs bunny
[21:17] <zxm-pi> when you can con a techie you know the medium is unsafe for regular folk
[21:25] <m0nkey_> https://twitter.com/JimBrowning11/status/1419765976074268682
[21:37] <daftykins> i can only imagine how that was phrased
[21:39] <zxm-pi> social engineering, when you attack the human not the machine
[21:40] <daftykins> makes you wonder how "delete your channel" was phrased though eh xD
[21:40] <daftykins> i suppose it could have been an indirect action
[21:44] <zxm-pi> i'm hoping there'll be a long writeup later