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lunalimezestso slooow01:44
* lunalimezest is waiting for a metal bird01:48
* lunalimezest has entered England10:26
daftykinshappy Tuesday!15:19
daftykinsoy i had to struggle through moving all the IT at an old clients for his house move yesterday, lots of spaghetti to rip out and drive around the corner - all whilst one ear down :P15:20
daftykinswhat blew my mind was he was trying to leave his son's games consoles behind for the new owners who only have children of ages 2 and 315:21
zxmpigoing through life in mono, how awful. I SAID HOW AWFUL! :-P15:48
daftykinsHUH!? *turns head to one side*15:48
zxmpimore importantly what consoles? and what games15:48
daftykinswell granted the lad already has a PS5 over at his mother's home, but a PS4 slim with a disc for a "Worms" title and a Nintendo Wii were up there15:49
zxmpinot too shabby, not going to be appreciated by toddlers mind15:50
daftykinsi had to explain that you can't just give away modern platforms because they'll be signed into accounts with purchase history etc15:50
zxmpiyeah, paperweights now.15:50
daftykinswell the games that are installed run without being online, gave it a quick test last night15:51
zxmpiand if you add your account to it to add 1 new game?15:52
daftykinsyou'd have to muck about with switching between profiles i'm sure15:53
daftykinsbut then i think anyone would just factory reset the sucker before trying anything like that15:53
daftykinsin other news i liberated his ex-wife's old iMac which i can prepare and give to a school along with the other one i have here for fixing up15:55
daftykinsand even better, a second file server with RAID controller and 8 x 4 TB HDDs :)15:55
penguin42not too shabby16:27
daftykinsit's in a coolermaster stacker 831 with a little haswell board at the moment - https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9a7dc6376a367d060dcccf36f3c8589a.jpg16:28
* lunalimezest has arrived in Notts17:15
daftykinsi hope you can become unravelled soon! :)17:15
zxmpii'm a frayed knot17:24
daftykins:D17:25
daftykinshttps://gsy.bailiwickexpress.com/gsy/news/ofcom-investigating-alleged-pirate-radio-station-alderney/20:50
daftykinspirate radio up on Alderney :O20:51
zxmpii miss the 80s when dublin had a tonne of pirate stations. great days was when there'd be a police raid live broadcast on radio20:58
daftykins:D20:59
zxmpisome of them used to broadcast zx spectrum and c64 code over the air for their listeners :-)22:01
daftykinshah neat trick22:02
zxmpii think tape was recorded at about 600-1200 baud?22:05
zxmpieasy enough to put across fm22:05

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