| knightwise | good morning everyone | 06:56 |
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| zxmpi | o/ | 07:49 |
| knightwise | heyhey | 08:02 |
| knightwise | playin with ncspot today | 08:25 |
| knightwise | listening to spotify from dah commandline | 08:25 |
| zxmpi | never got into command line audio for some reason. | 08:29 |
| knightwise | i love it . Stream me some soma fm via curl and stuff | 08:56 |
| zxmpi | not sure if it's that i can and do use android or an fm radio with nice physical buttons instead | 08:58 |
| knightwise | the audio quality on this old imac isnt great though | 09:16 |
| knightwise | but hooking up speakers to my rasp pi 4 isnt going to be ideal either | 09:16 |
| * zxmpi grew up with am/fm radio and is satisfied with... less :-P | 09:35 | |
| knightwise | I hate radio these days | 09:36 |
| knightwise | started listening to podcasts in 2005, never went back | 09:36 |
| zxmpi | half my podcasts are radio shows | 09:41 |
| davef | Hi-de-Hi! | 14:29 |
| zxmpi | hi-de-ho | 14:29 |
| zxmpi | *bing* *bong* *dink* | 14:29 |
| davef | Don't tell Miss Cathcart! | 14:30 |
| diddledani | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1859290/Crypto_Miner_Tycoon_Simulator/ | 14:36 |
| zxmpi | that is just... wrong? :-P | 14:40 |
| * davef mumbles something about crypto and goes back to his basement | 14:44 | |
| knightwise | hey everyone | 19:08 |
| zxmpi | o/ | 19:09 |
| knightwise | heyhey | 19:09 |
| knightwise | been mucking about with an old laptop this evening | 19:09 |
| zxmpi | how old is old? | 19:10 |
| knightwise | managed to revive an old panasonic toughbook | 19:10 |
| knightwise | its a cf 53 with a windows 8 pro sticker | 19:10 |
| zxmpi | always liked the toughbooks but way way out of my price range | 19:10 |
| knightwise | so .. i'm thinking about 7 years ? | 19:10 |
| knightwise | yeah , they are pricey when new | 19:10 |
| zxmpi | what if they made a laptop that would survive what a nokia 3310 would survive :-) | 19:11 |
| knightwise | yeap I'm pretty sure that i can smack somebody to death with this thing | 19:11 |
| knightwise | (it has a handle) | 19:11 |
| knightwise | the screen is not the highest resolution, but the keyboard is nice and responsive | 19:12 |
| knightwise | and NOT reflective :) | 19:12 |
| zxmpi | that's so if you forget your riot shield you can use it instead | 19:12 |
| knightwise | indeed | 19:12 |
| knightwise | + it has a serial port :) | 19:12 |
| zxmpi | when you positively absolutely have to get data in AND out of a device | 19:12 |
| knightwise | yeah , i'm probably gonna use it for when we do live stream productions on the road | 19:13 |
| knightwise | i need to do site visits to check the bandwidth | 19:13 |
| knightwise | so its perfect for that | 19:14 |
| zxmpi | don't have to treat it like a normal fragile laptop | 19:14 |
| knightwise | yep , kinda what it around a little and stuff | 19:15 |
| knightwise | I'm pretty carefull with my other devices :) | 19:15 |
| zxmpi | i have used nokia phones as a hammer :-) | 19:17 |
| knightwise | hahah :) indeed | 19:17 |
| knightwise | I've been running budgie linux on it. | 19:17 |
| knightwise | turning out to be my favorite mate alternative | 19:18 |
| zxmpi | never heard of it, looks interesting though | 19:18 |
| knightwise | I'm not a big gnome fan, and i've always been looking for something simpler yet elegant | 19:19 |
| zxmpi | i started a long time ago with xubuntu and have stuck with it mostly since then. would take a lot to move me to something else but it will happen someday | 19:20 |
| knightwise | xubuntu is pretty nice too. | 19:21 |
| zxmpi | chosen because it's 'lite' | 19:21 |
| knightwise | i"ve never gotten around to KDE , just too 'much' for my taste i guess | 19:21 |
| zxmpi | i usually have bottem end of the spec list hardware | 19:21 |
| zxmpi | tried kde back in red hat 5.2 days. was nice, didn't go back | 19:22 |
| knightwise | I"ve installed it on a old imac too | 19:22 |
| knightwise | my sister in law wanted to throw it out. This way it still gets a second lease on life | 19:23 |
| knightwise | but the speakers are not that good under the linux drivers | 19:30 |
| knightwise | too bad actually since a mac has awesome sounding hardware | 19:30 |
| zxmpi | in 80s and 90s i used to spend so much times getting sound working on pcs for games. now i care very little. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and i blame crappy web pages blasing audio and video | 19:32 |
| knightwise | yeah | 19:51 |
| knightwise | i've hardly played games the last couple of years. Recently reinstalled Duke nukem and return to castle wolfenstein | 19:52 |
| zxmpi | i don't have speakers attached to my desktop pc anymore. just a cheap eurostore headset. and a bt speaker near by if i want to listen to a podcast on them. otherwise no sound | 19:52 |
| knightwise | I played the new wolfenstein but these days games are just "too much" | 19:52 |
| knightwise | Same here. Jabra bluetooth headset and thats it | 19:52 |
| knightwise | its been YEARS since I hooked up pc speakers | 19:53 |
| zxmpi | i split my gaming between android shattered pixel dungeon and dumb nokia sodoku and boggle | 19:53 |
| knightwise | nokia soduku ? on what machine ? | 19:54 |
| zxmpi | on my nokia 3310 (2017 version) | 19:54 |
| knightwise | awesome | 19:54 |
| knightwise | just found a whole box of old blackberries at work | 19:55 |
| knightwise | damn i miss those things | 19:55 |
| zxmpi | good for a 2-3 minute game and also helps me to spot when my brain isn't working right and it takes twice as long to finish simple puzzle | 19:55 |
| knightwise | I medidate in the morning (i try to | 19:55 |
| knightwise | that helps me focus these days | 19:56 |
| knightwise | work at one of the clients can be a liiiitle stressfull | 19:56 |
| zxmpi | unihertz pocket titan if you want qwerty android https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket | 19:56 |
| knightwise | yeah i read about them | 19:56 |
| knightwise | but they are pretty pricey | 19:56 |
| zxmpi | mid range phones 300 shekels last i looked | 19:57 |
| knightwise | hmmm. doable | 19:57 |
| knightwise | sometimes i didnt even carry a phone in the weekend | 19:58 |
| knightwise | but now we need to show our covid pass app on our phone when we want to grab a bite to eat | 19:58 |
| zxmpi | well... when i'm carrying my nokia 3310 technically it's a hammer :-P | 19:58 |
| zxmpi | it could carry the covid pass as a pdf but might not work displaying qr code on screen so small | 20:00 |
| zxmpi | but it has games, ereader, a notepad, mini spreadsheet, fm radio, mp3 player and holds appointments and alarms well enough | 20:01 |
| knightwise | true. mostly all you need | 20:01 |
| zxmpi | and a battery life of days on a 5 year old phone that has seen a lot of usage | 20:01 |
| knightwise | i've ditched social media apps from my phone months ago | 20:01 |
| zxmpi | and no wifi so you're not tempted to just browse the web for ages. | 20:02 |
| zxmpi | also have google maps and street view working on it. or did a few years back. | 20:02 |
| zxmpi | even if phone has no gps so you have to tell it where it is | 20:02 |
| knightwise | yeah , i've been watching out for those endless scrolling traps that eat up your time | 20:03 |
| zxmpi | very basic, very cheap, highly recommend | 20:04 |
| knightwise | i'm working on a little project where I try to use command line apps and make some flashcards with the right keybindings | 20:05 |
| zxmpi | index cards are super handy for that | 20:05 |
| knightwise | that way i'll try to commit some of those commands in memory | 20:06 |
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