[00:49] <ball> Hate asking this but how do I burn a CD-R from a .iso image?
[00:50] <daftykins> grab some prog like brasero or some jazz, should be something built-in with whatever base OS you went with
[00:51] <ball> daftykins: I have Ubuntu.
[00:51] <daftykins> just the context menu should offer something even? i.e. right click on the file 
[00:51] <ball> (on the machine I'll be using to burn the disc).
[00:51] <ball> Hmm... I wonder whether it can erase a CD-R/W.
[00:52] <ball> Oh hey, I have Brasero installed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[00:53] <ball> Sorry, this keyboard stutters.
[00:53] <daftykins> i thought you were just that happy!
[00:54] <ball> I'm happy but I'd be even happier if I had that Ducky One 2 Skyline that's on my wish-list.
[00:54] <ball> I honestly can't remember the last time I had to burn a CD.
[00:56] <daftykins> i've done a few :D
[00:56] <daftykins> i was preparing some drivers for a win98 Pentium III at one point
[00:59] <ball> Pretty sad that the OS I'm installing won't even boot on any of my computers.
[00:59] <ball> Still, this might do, temporarily.
[00:59] <daftykins> which?
[01:00] <ball> NetBSD/amd64.  They "modernised" the USB install image I think.
[01:03] <ball> The .iso is 466 MB so it still fits on a CD (though not the 8cm CD I used to install from)
[01:11] <daftykins> teeny-tiny
[01:17] <ball> Well, it's installing...
[01:17] <ball> I like Brasero, too.
[01:18] <daftykins> \o/
[01:19] <daftykins> time for bed i think, ttfn \o
[01:48] <ball> Sleep well!
[10:30] <daftykins> mornin' gang
[10:30] <daftykins> ooh a shiny new laptop has arrived on my doorstep, awaiting prep and shipping off to a client employee
[11:03] <zxmpi_> shiny new or shiny new to you? :-P
[11:03] <daftykins> well, i buy from the Dell Outlet for my pal's biz, so 'new'
[11:03] <daftykins> :D
[11:04] <daftykins> 11th gen intel though, pretty up to date
[11:04] <zxmpi_> but if you saw an osborne-1 you'd grab it, right? :-P
[11:06]  * daftykins looks around his junk-filled home office
[11:06] <daftykins> err...
[11:06] <daftykins> it's already quite dangerous, my folks have uncovered my last remaining CRT at their house
[11:08] <zxmpi_> it's for sentimental reasons! the cats need it to sleep on :-P
[11:09] <daftykins> might be kinda fun to see one again... but i don't fancy storing one
[11:13] <zxmpi_> i've seen people lamenting recently in other channels about throwing out a skip of vt100 terminals to the point they're cruising ebay to get 1
[11:13] <daftykins> heh
[11:13] <zxmpi_> they are not cheap
[11:15] <daftykins> hrmm they're useless without a connection to a backend service though, no?
[11:16] <daftykins> i suppose that's yet another job for a Pi
[11:18] <zxmpi_> suggeste getting a vt100 board abd build a clone and fill it with storage and use the pi pdp as monitor top toy/server :-P https://www.clivemaxfield.com/mega-cool-vt100-emulator-on-a-chip/
[16:16] <zxmpi_> facebook and whatsapp are down
[16:17] <zxmpi_> they'll be flooding into irc soon :-P
[16:17] <daftykins> already seen questions popping up elsewhere
[16:18] <zxmpi_>  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748203
[17:16] <m0nkey_> ^^ and nothing of value was lost
[17:17] <daftykins> agreed
[17:17] <daftykins> the people rejoiced!
[19:56] <diddledani> https://twitter.com/secparam/status/1445073438918463493
[20:00] <daftykins> :)
[20:01] <m0nkey_> Sorry, my bad. I shouldn't have uninstalled Instagram from my phone this morning.
[20:02] <m0nkey_> srsly.. I deleted it from my phone only minutes before it went down lol
[20:02] <diddledani> story goes that they can't access the servers/routers to fix the BGP because they're behind locked doors that can't access the corporate LDAP because their BGP is dead
[20:03] <m0nkey_> If it's not DNS, it's BGP.
[20:03] <diddledani> in this instance, it's BGP causing DNS to die ;-p
[20:03] <m0nkey_> But it's incredible that it happened just as a data leak was published 
[20:10] <diddledani> https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/1445119021565755393
[20:12] <m0nkey_> Apparently Gmail is now having problems
[20:13] <diddledani> everyone is resorting to email instead of facebook?
[20:13] <m0nkey_> Good news, https://myspace.com/ is still up.
[20:13] <diddledani> is that good news?
[20:13] <daftykins> phew, well so long as i can tell Tom about my day
[20:36] <diddledani> https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/1445125492957347845
[20:36] <diddledani> twitter is comedy gold
[20:37]  * daftykins routes around the jokes
[20:40] <m0nkey_> RIP
[21:26] <m0nkey_> Buhahaha! Reports of FB staff unable to get into FB campus because their smart cards aren't working because of the outage.
[21:26] <daftykins> yeah that's already been in a link above essentially
[21:27] <daftykins> though pastes of the one-liners is more efficient than twitter links ;) *cough*
[21:28] <m0nkey_> And FB stock has lost $7B today
[21:28] <daftykins> \o/
[21:28] <zxmpi_> gmail is having problems as people are all sending password resets for myspace :-P
[21:29] <zxmpi_> fb stock is down over the whistleblower leaks rather than the outage... probably
[23:29] <m0nkey_> lol, apparently my Surface Pro doesn't meet the requirements for Windows 11 
[23:30] <m0nkey_> haha.. my CPU is not supported.. i7-7300U
[23:37] <daftykins> RIP
[23:38] <daftykins> yep my 2015 build skylake i7-6700 is ruled out also, allegedly
[23:38] <daftykins> feel like manual installs will be fine though (not that i'm in a hurry)
[23:39] <zxmpi_> psssst, wanna buy a copy of os/2? :-P
[23:48] <m0nkey_> I can do a manual install on a Surface Pro, but it doesn't install all the Surface drivers/apps.
[23:49] <daftykins> i'm not convinced you'd be lacking much
[23:50] <m0nkey_> I did a clean install of 10 before, there were small things that didn't work properly which were kinda annoying
[23:50] <daftykins> but 10 grabs all drivers via Windows Update, you just have to pop it online and let it slurp all the things
[23:50] <m0nkey_> Otherwise I just put Ubuntu on it. There's a kernel patch up on github to make the touch screen work and everything.
[23:51] <m0nkey_> Drivers, yes. But things like the pen doesn't work correctly.
[23:51] <m0nkey_> You lose half the sensitivity of the pen pressure
[23:51] <daftykins> o0
[23:52] <daftykins> that doesn't make an awful lot of sense, but eh, gimmicky tat anyway - not fond of MS devices at all
[23:52] <m0nkey_> Probably time for a new laptop
[23:52] <m0nkey_> Maybe one of them Framework laptops
[23:55] <daftykins> whoa you're gonna have to stop shaving your neck if you keep going on like this :D