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daftykinsgood morning gang06:54
daftykinsmmm early morning fry-up down at a harbour cafe, soooo good06:55
zxmpitaking monay head on... brave... :-P08:05
zxmpi*monday08:05
daftykins:D08:06
daftykinsreally this is my late evening already08:07
daftykinsooh Irish healthcare got ransomware'd after a signal user opened a dodgy phishing attachment, PWC says08:19
zxmpiyeah it was particularly sad. the odd part was, no ransom paid (it's claimed) but key was handed over by the hackers08:20
daftykinso008:20
zxmpistill took months to get things back to chaotic normal08:21
zxmpiyou'd think by now there'd be some sort of no attachments allowed on system or super strict system processing attachments08:21
zxmpiturns out some work stations anti virus was a year out of date08:22
daftykinsyeah :( sadly convenience still wins for all the normies08:22
zxmpii despise outlook and exchange. such an awful email system08:22
zxmpiyou'd think they would have some sort of seperate network for the mri and cat scanners so that their obsolete windows pcs that can't be upgraded would have an extra wall or 3 between them and bad actors08:26
daftykinsi mean, Outlook works - most don't need any of its' features and so on, they tend to just stick to it 'cause it looks familiar, much like the whole Office suite really08:26
zxmpii much preferred outlook express in the ancient days of me using windows as daily driver pre 201008:27
zxmpiless clutter, less ram, faster to load08:27
daftykinsi'm not fond of email clients at all :D08:28
daftykinsmainly 'cause i'm usually having to unpick someone elses and migrate it between systems08:31
zxmpii currently use claws email client. an imap link to gmail. very light on resources. suits me for the moment09:22
daftykinshmm i thought it was abnormally warm, darn thermostat batteries died again so the heating ran09:39
daftykinsfoolish machine!09:39
zxmpiweekend here was warm. was 14c yesterday. supposed to be back to 9c or so today i think09:41
daftykinsooh09:41
zxmpiwhat type of batteries does thermostat take?09:42
daftykins4 x AAs, though i use rechargables which seems to be part of the issue, get a good month or so out of one charge though09:43
zxmpimaybe lithium jobbies so you never have to change them again for a decade or so? :-)09:44
daftykinsdoesn't work that well and there's no warning on when it'll die, so the same thing happens09:45
daftykinsif i'd known it was a wireless setup when i ok'd the new boiler i'd have refused it09:45
zxmpii think this is when you build an arduino or micro:bit gizmo to notify you when heating is on and temp on bbc page is too high for that :-)09:46
zxmpior you could 3d print a bigger battery case and bung in bigger or more batteries to stretch out the life09:48
daftykinsi pondered just getting a small power supply before and clip it onto the battery terminals xD09:49
zxmpithat works too09:49
zxmpii used to have great fun trying to decode what the polarity was on devices when setting those up :-)15:51
diddledaniif startrek taught us anything it's that when something is broken there is a polarity somewhere that needs inverting16:04
zxmpi...and avoid red shirts16:08
davefNot good news16:29
davefI have the human malware16:29
zxmpibugger.16:31
zxmpistill mild?16:31
davefyeah, feeling better today in fact16:32
zxmpiso wait for x days and or clear test now?16:33
diddledanithe real one, or an alsoran?16:34
davefno idea, they want me to go to the hospital to determine the variant, but i don't have any means of getting myself there.16:38
zxmpihow are you supposed to quarantine if you have to head to a clinic?16:46
davefexactly16:47
davefand i'm calling and asking these questions16:47
davefnobody is able to answer16:47
zxmpipost you out a brain stabbing kit?16:47
zxmpiin early days of covid here they sent an ambulance to peoples home to do testing16:48
zxmpinot sure if they still do16:48
davefGreat, so public health say "Don't take public transit", yet when I call they said "It's okay to take public transit" .. like wtf?!17:35
zxmpiwhich translates to do take public transit but if anyone asks you didn't :-/17:54
davefthe whole situation is weird18:01
davefanyway, i have an appointment tomorrow18:01
* davef facepalms21:27
davefThe second call I've had from public health21:27
davefAnd they couldn't tell me why I have to go get another test tomorrow21:27

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