| daw | Hello | 11:39 |
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| penguin42 | hey | 11:49 |
| daftykins | aww penguin42 you scared them off! | 12:22 |
| penguin42 | hmm | 12:58 |
| m0nkey_ | lol, so this usb-c dock does not like my monitor over display port. using it this morning the screen goes blank under load. switched to hdmi and it's fine. time to report a bug to IT. | 15:27 |
| zxmpi_ | seems wrong that usb-c cannot handle hdmi. wasn't that part of the whole point? | 15:28 |
| m0nkey_ | it's weird that it has issue driving it over DP, I even dropped the refresh to 60hz and it still blanked on me. since going over to hdmi, running at 100hz without issue. | 15:30 |
| m0nkey_ | I tried changing the DP cable too | 15:30 |
| daftykins | when i set up the Lenovo dock for a client, they all have firmware updates that need applying - could well be worth giving that a whirl | 15:30 |
| m0nkey_ | today is just a day of IT errors.. can't get my server in the DC to talk to the network and now this lol | 15:31 |
| daftykins | :) | 15:31 |
| daftykins | i just got called up by a client who didn't know how to log out of his secretary's account and into his own | 15:31 |
| * m0nkey_ facepalms | 15:32 | |
| m0nkey_ | seems you have greater challenges than I | 15:32 |
| daftykins | hehe, sometimes | 15:34 |
| daftykins | thankfully less frequent perhaps | 15:34 |
| daftykins | but yeah, you should be able to track down the firmware updater for the dock if it's one of the thunderbolt models i'm thinking of (big rectangular box) | 15:35 |
| m0nkey_ | nah, it's a usb-c dock.. laptop doesn't have thundebolt | 15:41 |
| daftykins | ah yeah being an earlier AMD model | 15:41 |
| rbasak | If it's not Thunderbolt over USB-C, is it actually DisplayLink and not DisplayPort? Because that requires CPU. | 16:20 |
| daftykins | i hadn't heard that name before, but it'd likely just be DisplayPort Alt Mode | 16:22 |
| daftykins | no idea how mobile AMD chips would achieve that | 16:23 |
| m0nkey_ | Whatever it is.. it doesn't like my monitor. Since switching it to HDMI I've not had a problem. | 16:32 |
| daftykins | very odd since it's an inferior connector type | 16:33 |
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| zxmpi_ | it's been all down hill since they started phasing out vga :-D | 17:28 |
| daftykins | nooo, dumping analog was great | 17:32 |
| zxmpi_ | vinyl sales would suggest not :-P | 17:32 |
| daftykins | obviously i was only referring to display connections, but i think anyone preferring vinyl does so for the ritual of the experience and not necessarily any belief in genuinely detecting a difference aside from using different equipment they invested more in, perhaps | 17:34 |
| daftykins | the idea that you have to clean the things to keep them tip-top shocked me xD | 17:34 |
| zxmpi_ | yeah there is a ritual component to the enjoyment of vinyl alright. odd that cassette might go same way | 17:34 |
| zxmpi_ | though i did enjoy the hackaday project to save data to tape :-D | 17:35 |
| zxmpi_ | i finally bought a hdmi monitor and the one hdmi cable gave me so much grief i went back to vga cable (it has both sockets) and stuck with it | 17:36 |
| daftykins | what was it doing? was this combined with that ailing ThinkPad you mentioned? | 17:37 |
| zxmpi_ | me, nah, just a cheap hdmi cable i reckon. but have never had a single vga cable fail. even bent pins could be fixed with care | 17:38 |
| daftykins | more of a sign of the times as to how much trash is out there perhaps | 17:39 |
| zxmpi_ | very much so | 17:39 |
| daftykins | i was discussing a client's TV plans with him and his electrician and carpenter the other day, had to mention how it's worth getting the right cables 'cause they're not all born equal | 17:39 |
| zxmpi_ | you could abseil out a building with a dozen nokia chargers tied together. you wouldn't try that with a half dozen apple charging cables :-D | 17:40 |
| daftykins | sparky said "i've never had a problem" so i had to stress that yes it happens :D when i moved to 4K kit all my existing ones couldn't handle it | 17:40 |
| daftykins | well those are designed to fail to give them more profit! | 17:40 |
| daftykins | interesting that MS just knocked them to the second spot in most valuable company | 17:41 |
| zxmpi_ | all those corporations jonesing on office365 subscriptions will do that | 17:42 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Yeh when I got a 4k monitor I had a problem where it would occasionally blank on some images; especially G.maps satellite view for some reason | 17:45 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I found out how to read the BER counters on the monitor | 17:45 |
| daftykins | neat :) | 17:54 |
| daftykins | probably higher throughput utilised with the satellite imagery than standard desktop use with blocks of the same colour? | 17:54 |
| penguin42 | yeh maybe | 18:21 |
| zxmpi_ | wonder if it comes with a tree detector as standard :-P https://www.breakingnews.ie/lifestyle/hoverbike-goes-on-sale-for-e600000-as-startup-tries-to-lure-supercar-owners-1205709.html | 23:30 |
| * penguin42 hopes it doesn't lose any fan blades | 23:34 | |
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