| knightwise | morning everyone | 06:52 |
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| zxmpi_ | o/ | 07:02 |
| knightwise | hey zxmpi_ | 07:28 |
| knightwise | hows you doin man | 07:28 |
| zxmpi_ | currently looking at a new desktop to replace my ailing laptop. it has reached the end of it's life. getting wonkier every day | 07:32 |
| knightwise | what are you lookin at ? gaming machine ? | 07:32 |
| zxmpi_ | nah a refurb corporate desktop. 8gb ram which will be more than i've ever had before :-) | 07:33 |
| knightwise | ok ... should not be too hard to find | 07:33 |
| knightwise | even those older I5s still pack a nice punch depending | 07:34 |
| knightwise | or maybe a second hand imac. Even those of with +5 years on the clock still work well | 07:34 |
| zxmpi_ | considering how low power the laptop is a rasp pi 4 8gb would have more power. but you can't get them for love or money. was my first intention last year. | 07:34 |
| knightwise | I was also thinking of a pi 400 or something | 07:35 |
| knightwise | i'm looking to go "low power" this autumn when it comes down to my servers | 07:35 |
| zxmpi_ | the pi 400 is only 4gb. i did get 2 of the rasp pi keyboards which the pi is inside. 1 broke. the other is going fine but i wouldn't buy a 400 based on my experience with the keyboard | 07:36 |
| zxmpi_ | i'd prefer to get a pi 4 8gb, put it in a decent case with a fan and an ssd and hang it off back off a monitor | 07:37 |
| knightwise | good to know. I'm better of getting a pi 4 then | 07:37 |
| knightwise | thinking of getting onw with Windows just to try it out | 07:41 |
| knightwise | I stuffed my old PI3 in my desk at work, put tailscale on it and can now access it from anywhere | 07:42 |
| zxmpi | and back... | 07:44 |
| knightwise | no worries dude | 07:44 |
| knightwise | Have you played with Umbrel yet ? | 07:48 |
| zxmpi | nah, i just use local drives and sync them sporadically | 07:49 |
| zxmpi | i do occasionly think of adding some storage to my pi and use that as a server but never got around to it | 07:50 |
| zxmpi | 1tb per system seems to do well enough most of the time | 07:51 |
| * zxmpi transfers zork to my dumb nokia :-) | 07:53 | |
| knightwise | man :) I wish i had a dumbphone :) | 07:59 |
| zxmpi | can be picked up for 50 shekels | 07:59 |
| zxmpi | battery life measured in days rather than minutes. you're never short of a hammer when you need one :-P | 08:00 |
| zxmpi | and distraction free for a myriad of notifications | 08:00 |
| knightwise | yes | 08:00 |
| knightwise | i've dumbed down my phone as much as I could | 08:00 |
| zxmpi | i do have android. but the dumb phone is my main phone. android is for podcasts and playing movies, tv shows on 256gb memory card | 08:01 |
| knightwise | I love your high tech - low budget lifestlye | 08:02 |
| zxmpi | the nokia only has 32gb so only emergency backup, blackadder, porridge and yes minister on that :-) | 08:02 |
| knightwise | haha what nokia is it ? | 08:02 |
| zxmpi | nokia 3310 2017 edition. grand phone but battery is showing it's age after 5 years heavy use. battery gauge now drops 10% by end of every 2nd day | 08:03 |
| knightwise | love that phone | 08:04 |
| zxmpi | i use it for taking notes, ereader, games, fm radio, torch, alarms and a myriad of other tasks | 08:04 |
| knightwise | notes on a T9 keyboard ? | 08:09 |
| zxmpi | you get used to it. works well enough | 08:09 |
| knightwise | Hardcore :) | 08:12 |
| zxmpi | no no, hardcore was when i installed a morse keyboard on android and started learning morse. haven't gotten far with it yet but will get back to it at some point :-) | 08:12 |
| waveform | a dumbphone is a very tempting notion, but at this point google calendar pretty much runs my life (which should probably depress me more than it actually does :) | 08:13 |
| zxmpi | i got the dumb phone to get away from living in the cloud. i keep as much of my data local | 08:14 |
| knightwise | i'm also going in that direction. More self hosted stuff if I can help it | 08:15 |
| zxmpi | even if you only use the dumbphone for calls it's worth it for the convenience of having a small phone in your hand rather than the monster phones of today | 08:16 |
| zxmpi | and battery life | 08:16 |
| zxmpi | and physical buttons | 08:16 |
| zxmpi | and a few mindless java games | 08:16 |
| zxmpi | the ereader might take getting used to but you can have an ereader that you never have to worry about using the battery on | 08:17 |
| zxmpi | same for the fm radio. some of the android phones would eat 10% of the battery for 1 hour of radio listening | 08:17 |
| zxmpi | i have accidently on purpose left fm radio going for a week on a dumb phone to see if battery would last | 08:18 |
| knightwise | ha :) i probably did i suppose | 08:24 |
| zxmpi | i wonder would there be a way for google calendar to sms your days schedule to a dumb nokia :-) | 08:43 |
| knightwise | that would be cool | 09:00 |
| * waveform could probably rig up something like that ... hmmm ... | 11:52 | |
| waveform | and the whole "it's not monster sized" is very tempting -- my current (rather long in the tooth) one is a lovely little sony xperia compact, and I've not seen anything in a similarly sensible size since | 11:54 |
| zxmpi | https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2 it's tiny :-) | 12:03 |
| daftykins | nasty | 12:04 |
| davef | Right you lot, have tea and jaffa cakes on standby. I land in 1 week. | 14:34 |
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