[12:22] <daftykins> happy Friday gang
[12:25] <daftykins> brightened up nicely versus morning: https://i.imgur.com/1a3A5xs.jpg
[12:30] <zxmpi> warm overcast and manky looking here atm
[17:14] <daftykins> https://imgur.com/gallery/MiZFIl1 - only cat fans need apply
[17:17] <zxmpi> i remember my childhoods cat only meeting with a rottweiler. she by stage was ripping the bejebus out of every dog. so i made sure there were 2 shut doors between her and dog at front window
[17:18] <zxmpi> dog was banging head to get to cat. cat examined him like she was memorising location of arteries and veins like i'd seen her do before.
[17:18] <zxmpi> and then stopped and started washing her fun zone in front of the dog.
[17:18] <zxmpi> i thought the dog was gonna burst a blood vessel banging head off window harder :-P
[17:18] <daftykins> :O
[17:19] <zxmpi> her biggest was a great dane. he lasted 5 minutes instead of the usual 30 seconds because his head was so big she couldn't shred his ears which was a fave tactic
[17:20] <zxmpi> in the end she proved to me AND the dog that 'cat got your tongue' isn't just a saying
[17:21] <daftykins> ooh my, that sounds like a clean-up on aisle 5 kinda day
[17:22] <zxmpi> owner tried to sue my mother. she settled with him paying for carpet to be professionaly cleaned of the dogs blood and when that failed to replace the carpet with very expensive carpet instead.
[17:23] <daftykins> :O
[17:23] <zxmpi> dog barked with a lisp after that one
[17:24] <daftykins> rutth! rutth!
[17:25] <zxmpi> wuff wuff
[17:25] <daftykins> oh in pet related news, current meds seem to be doing the trick for my little lady
[17:25] <zxmpi> huzzah  \o/
[17:25] <daftykins> she had some pee trouble after the earlier woes, keeping our bank accounts taxed 
[20:36] <m0nkey_> Sweet, EAC and BattleEye anti-cheat software are both coming to Linux, thanks to Steam.
[20:39] <daftykins> EAC made me think of Exact Audio Copy
[20:39] <daftykins> "how is reliably ripping FLACs going to help games?" :D
[21:13] <m0nkey_> lol
[21:14] <m0nkey_> It's the missing piece of the puzzle for me. I planned to migrate to Ubuntu full-time. Mostly because from what I've seen of Win11, it's not the direction I want to go. 
[21:15] <m0nkey_> Also, I pre-ordered the Steam Deck.. I want gaming on Linux to become a full-blow reality.
[21:15] <daftykins> m0nkey_: d'you mind if i ask what your tickets to hop the pond cost you? just looking up my last jaunt from Gatwick to Boston, £360 by the looks
[21:16] <m0nkey_> Well, I'm going business because it'll be my birthday while I'm there and figured I'd treat myself.
[21:16] <daftykins> that was October 2019
[21:16] <daftykins> ah ha :D
[21:16] <daftykins> that's some serious dinero!
[21:16] <m0nkey_> But a regular return ticket would have been $700CAD
[21:17] <m0nkey_> My business return ticket was $1600, because why not.
[21:17] <daftykins> hey, big spender!
[21:18] <daftykins> $700 CAD is basically £400 so that's not far off
[21:19] <m0nkey_> Most airlines are doing a "piece of mind" promotion, so you don't have to worry about the cost if you change dates etc.
[21:19] <m0nkey_> And yes, I got 'rona insurance.
[21:20] <daftykins> least they can do, really
[21:24] <m0nkey_> Well, kinda ... airlines have hemorrhaged money since the pandemic started, very few of them actually budgeted for a global pandemic situation. A lot of them didn't refund flights and package deals that were booked before the pandemic happened, they kept the cash, cancelled flights.. a lot of customers lost money.
[21:24] <daftykins> yeah, common facts
[21:25] <m0nkey_> For example, there's a clause for my ticket.. I can't get a refund (I knew this going in of course) .. however I can still cancel, but they give me a non-expiring credit.
[21:25] <m0nkey_> So I kissed that money goodbye.
[21:28] <m0nkey_> But whatever, I'm going. If I don't go when I booked, I'll go another time.
[21:29] <daftykins> \o/
[21:29] <daftykins> fish and chips here you come
[21:37] <m0nkey_> But whatever, I'm going. If I don't go when I booked, I'll go another time.
[21:38] <m0nkey_> Indeed. Looking forward to it.
[21:38] <m0nkey_> that was me accidently hitting the up arrow followed by enter. still not used to this 60% keyboard :/
[21:39] <daftykins> :D
[21:40] <m0nkey_> I might go to a TKL, this keyboard has a tiny right shift key and the up arrow is right next to it.
[21:42] <daftykins> i don't think i ever use right shift
[21:42] <m0nkey_> Apparently I use it more than I expected
[21:46] <m0nkey_> Maybe I should just build my own damn keyboard, with blackjack.. and hookers
[21:50] <daftykins> \o/
[21:50] <m0nkey_> Yeesh, that'll get expensive quickly.
[21:50] <m0nkey_> it aint cheap
[21:52] <zxmpi> thought i saw a few kits for making your own keyboard. i seem to remember some have done it with a microbit
[21:59] <m0nkey_> there's plenty of kits.