Root Access

12:04 AM

@Annaduh I've used it during accessibility testing! The thing to realize is Dragon is specifically tuned to an individual user, with an extensive training session

I'm not going to have each person in TS take 30 minutes and read prompts to train to the system

Google's system is good enough that you get nice accuracy even without any individualized user training, and it's much better than Dragon in noisy environments too

Journeyman Geek

12:15 AM

@Annaduh someone on one of the chatrooms uses it. It occationally does odd crap

@user334283 I've looked at it before. There's ways to track such things, though if you're going to even think about it, you need to understand what you're doing. That said there's no reason to

Do a site survey, pick one of the 3 'main' bands that's relatively empty

@allquicatic if you ever want to test if a voice recognition software is robust, just use my voice.

I break everything except the one on my smartwatch ._.

Anna duh

@allquicatic But but but but

Google does amazingly well for a generic model with no per-user calibration

But it is nonetheless still a generic model with no per-user calibration

Anna duh

12:34 AM

Err lolz

Journeyman Geek

@Annaduh when you fill my 2160p screen with gratuitous contextless pussy ... you're somewhat overdoing it.

5

Ok, so the last one was a "laser sword"

bwDraco

Oct 8 at 19:08, by bwDraco

...you're flooding the room with cat pictures.

Nov 27 at 3:35, by bwDraco

@Annaduh: Can you please not flood the room with cat pictures from the chatbot?

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco technically he isn't

well not the latter

Shouldn't you be ignoring them?

bwDraco

Clearly an attempt to bypass our cat filters.

Ignored.

Journeyman Geek

12:52 AM

and left chat.se running all night on the ~~beos~~ haiku system

all's good

not really enough ram in my test box tho, the browser seems to eat most of the 512 I have in it

Its still seriously snappy for a random spinning rust drive

theverge.com/2016/12/2/13819288/…

._.

cue someone writing a remote phone locking software for a smartwarch

hell, you could do it with a NFC ring I guess, and tasker

speaking of cats

Sharpening a $1 knife

►

Anna duh

Turns out the CPU cooler I bought is an excellent specimen

Journeyman Geek

yay?

Anna duh

Can't wait till it arrives tomorrow

And I have to spend 2-3 hours dissasembling my system to the bones, again, just to fit it

Thankfully once fitted, swapping the fans only requires removing the power supply :-/

@JourneymanGeek But they're so cuuuuuuuuute

Journeyman Geek

@Annaduh you can spread out the cattitude ;p

Anna duh

I still do have to decide whether to use the 120mm stock fan that comes with the cooler or my spare 140mm Thermaltake monster

Journeyman Geek

1:04 AM

would the 140mm fit?

Anna duh

@JourneymanGeek Nobody had said anything for like half an hour before or after, so it's not like there's anything to spread the pussy between

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, it's one of those 140mm-blades-with-120mm-mounting-holes weird hybrids

Journeyman Geek

ahh

I'd prefer the bigger fan

just cause

Anna duh

The 140mm is insanely loud at full speed, but basically silent at minimum PWM settings

Also all the reviews seem to say the cooler has stunning performance for something so silent, but it's held back by the stock fan being, well, siilent.

@JourneymanGeek I'd probably do too, but it's bright orange

Journeyman Geek

heh

Anna duh

Journeyman Geek

1:07 AM

I have one of those maroon and tan noctuas in my otherwise murdered out case

Anna duh

I replaced the black Silverstone 120mm at the front of my new case with one of those - you can clearly see the bright orange through the front grille, and it's rather odd

@JourneymanGeek Ah the Noctua's

I've constantly wanted one, seen them so many times, but never actually got round to buying one.

Journeyman Geek

funny story that

Anna duh

They make IP67/68? rated versions too that can work underwater!

Journeyman Geek

My old desktop fan was noisy

so I went and saw one of them and went OOOOH

then it felt like a waste, so I stuck that in my current PC and used the old one from my current desktop to that.

Anna duh

Every time I look for a fan, heatsink, radiator, etc. the Noctua's always come near the top of my list because "ooh awesome" but never have actually been bought :-/

@JourneymanGeek Heh, I just found today I have a box of a dozen spare 80mm-120mm-140mm fans

About 4-6 each of different models of each size

Now I've discovered you can get just as much performance in an 11 litre mini-ITX case as you can in a 60+ litre E-ATX, I'm wondering to myself what the hell am I ever going to do with all these fans

When the biggest mini-ITX case can fit like a maximum of ... one

Journeyman Geek

1:16 AM

lol

Anna duh

I might actually end up getting one of those Noctuas one day

Planning on getting one of those A4-SFX cases when they come out, and the maximum cooler height is like, the ultra-slim Noctua cooler

Journeyman Geek

That's a rediculous case in the best way

Anna duh

You've heard of it? Or managed to figure out from just that picture? :-P

Journeyman Geek

1:39 AM

@Annaduh the latter.

Anna duh

:-o

I want my phone back :-(

bwDraco

@allq: It seems this drive enclosure does not support UASP. I may have to periodically pull the drive out to get it trimmed on my hard drive dock.

It is, however, overprovisioned (400 GiB formatted of 466 GiB, 14% OP), which should minimize impact.

I might get a better enclosure in the future, but I don't think this is going to be an issue for the time being.

At least the SMART data is still readable.

It would still be rather difficult to cause the drive to run out of spare blocks and enter a steady-state condition. Given the overprovisioning, it would take writing more than 66 GiB nonstop to cause it to enter a steady-state condition with the drive near full.

Besides, Samsung SSDs are very well-behaved even under these sorts of conditions.

anandtech.com/show/8747/samsung-ssd-850-evo-review/5

It's been overprovisioned right from the start, when the drive's partitioned and formatted. This means the LBAs at the end of the drive's address space have never been written to; hence, the drive is always able to use this area as spare space (no need to TRIM this area). There's no real possibility that the drive will enter steady state.

Journeyman Geek

2:51 AM

@Annaduh heh. Mitx is fine for single card builds, especially with ATX power supplies

user334283

@Annaduh Uh na na Anna I know what DDOS attack is..de-auth attack is not DDOS but I find it a little bit relevant

guys my friend is still using Samsung Note 7 despite giving so many warnings..is he taking risk of getting himself burned?

I'm telling him to return it before the due date but he is saying he likes this phone

bwDraco

@user334283 It's a DoS attack, just not distributed (the extra D).

Hotels have been caught doing this to make people use their expensive hotspot service; here in the US, this has been ruled illegal by the FCC as jamming of lawful communications (Marriott got fined $600k for doing this).

user334283

3:14 AM

How those hotels were caught?

bwDraco

FCC complaints.

user334283

what was the evidence that they were doing this?

bwDraco

1 (855) 55-NOJAM

fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

Press release: apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-329743A1.pdf

user334283

it's a standard law..one is not allowed to use jammers or any related blocking technology which is capable of blocking public resources..you can only use them on your own resources

bwDraco

> [...] The FCC Enforcement Bureau’s investigation revealed that Marriott employees had used containment features of a Wi-Fi monitoring system at the Gaylord Opryland to prevent individuals from connecting to the Internet via their own personal Wi-Fi networks, while at the same time charging consumers, small businesses, and exhibitors as much as $1,000 per device to access Marriott’s Wi-Fi network.

[...]

In March 2013, the Commission received a complaint from an individual who had attended a function at the Gaylord Opryland. The complainant alleged that the Gaylord Opryland was "jamming m…

They were basically sending deauth packets to prevent users from tethering their phones.

user334283

3:27 AM

@bwDraco It's good they were penalized for that.

Journeyman Geek

@user334283 why do you want to knock out your neighbor's wifi?

user334283

@JourneymanGeek I don't..did I mention anywhere..deauth attack is actually a waste of time

Journeyman Geek

Ah.

On its own. Quite.

user334283

I like the concept how it works

I keep my laptop plugged in while using..it does no harm to its battery right?

bwDraco

3:53 AM

@user334283 This is a question we get all the time. The question is yes. Chargers (including your computer's charge control circuitry) will not allow the battery to become overcharged. It will just keep it at 100%.

Journeyman Geek

4:30 AM

hmm

So, superuser.com/questions/842667/… is a oneliner. I tried to make it better by adding a link to the changelog and mentioning why that version helped

Its a useful answer, but I'm not quite sure how to make it better

Rahul2001

5:00 AM

@user334283 some laptops have a "conservation mode" for the battery which keeps it charged a 50-60% constantly. This is the best for your laptop battery if it is going to be plugged in most of the time

If it's a lenovo laptop, the feature should be accessible through the Energy Meter app

bwDraco

...rebooted from an SSD firmware update.

Unfortunately, for the external drive, I can't get TRIM to work, whether from the BlacX dock or the Magnolia (Best Buy house brand) enclosure, even though the former supports UASP, on both Linux and Windows machines.

This is why the drive is overprovisioned.

3 hours ago, by bwDraco

It's been overprovisioned right from the start, when the drive's partitioned and formatted. This means the LBAs at the end of the drive's address space have never been written to; hence, the drive is always able to use this area as spare space (no need to TRIM this area). There's no real possibility that the drive will enter steady state.

(fstrim returns "discard operation not supported.")

Wait a sec...

...nope.

linux-203v:~ # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt -o discard
linux-203v:~ # fstrim /mnt
fstrim: /mnt: discard operation not supported.

bwDraco

5:31 AM

The easiest solution at this point is to get an eSATAp to SATA adapter cable (both of my laptops have eSATAp ports), which would eliminate the USB adapter issue and allow the system to communicate with the drive as if it was internally installed, but I'd rather not spend another ~$10 on another part.

eSATAp is an obscure but surprisingly common port (especially on older laptops) which accepted eSATA and USB devices. The "p" means powered; the power comes from the USB pins.

amazon.com/Monoprice-108492-19-Inch-eSATAp-22-Pin/dp/B009GUP7HQ

103

Q: I accidentally plugged my USB mouse into my eSata port... it works?

I'm on a Thinkpad T510 and I accidentally plugged my Razor USB mouse into the eSata port not realizing my error because it has been working fine this whole time. Does this seem a little odd?

...and I am getting ready to update this old laptop to openSUSE Leap 42.2.

2,016 packages in 1.11 GiB.

It's not often that I turn this old HP laptop on, but if for some reason I need a Linux machine to work on, this is what I use.

The colors are absolutely horrible on this ancient SVA panel.

...and no, I am not going through the trouble of calibrating it (even though DisplayCAL packages exist in the openSUSE repositories).

Journeyman Geek

5:57 AM

lol

bwDraco

Shockingly, the original battery still works and is charging as I write this, reporting 70 Wh capacity.

(The HP MU09 battery is rated for 93 Wh.)

This laptop is six years old, for crying out loud.

Linux runs great on this sort of older hardware.

Journeyman Geek

6:17 AM

lol

@bwDraco the thinkpad r60 I'm playing with is around that age

Journeyman Geek

7:37 AM

Marlin's back

Essay spammer

I thought the point of scouting out is to find a place no one pays attention. Most of those got a ton of flags

anyway, handled the latest bunch

Anna duh

9:08 AM

@user334283 notebookcheck.net/…

Journeyman Geek

ow

Anna duh

@Rahul2001 the best would be to take the battery out and put it in the fridge, though not all laptops allow that

Oh look 3DXpoint has been delayed again, possibly until 2018

Journeyman Geek

9:48 AM

0

A: Webcam via LAN / direct connection

you have to spend some bucks. Go Get Lan Cat5 Cable Type: PC to Router. cut the one end and cut one end of Usb webcam, join it by colour match. On other end there's RJ45 connector, push fit in router's port. Simple ! Webcam will act as network device ! Thanks Now anybody can see

._.

Whaaaaat?

Hennes

10:53 AM

Those webcams work especially well under a bridge

allquicatic

11:28 AM

hi

Journeyman Geek

11:40 AM

woof

allquicatic

11:53 AM

0

Q: How to encode to FLAC using QtAV?

I am trying to use QtAV in C++ (gcc g++ 5.4.0 on modern GNU/Linux) with Qt 5.6.2, to encode Linear PCM data to FLAC. My input data consists of linear PCM samples, signed 16-bit little endian, 48 kHz sample rate, and variously either 1 or 2 channels. I have the input data stored in a QByteArray. ...

c++ qt

Wao :( the fwog needs halp

Bob

12:18 PM

@allquicatic uh.

    /*!
     * \brief encoder
     * Use this to set encoder properties and options.
     * Do not call open()/close() manually
     * \return Encoder instance or null if createAudioEncoder failed
     */
AudioEncoder* audioEncoder() const;

github.com/wang-bin/QtAV/blob/master/src/QtAV/AudioEncoder.h

    /// output parameters
    /*!
     * \brief audioFormat
     * If not set or set to an invalid format, a supported format will be used and audioFormat() will be that format after open()
     * \return
     * TODO: check supported formats
     */
    const AudioFormat& audioFormat() const;
void setAudioFormat(const AudioFormat& format);

github.com/wang-bin/QtAV/blob/master/src/QtAV/AudioFormat.h

Bob

12:29 PM

@allquicatic Is this a work thing or a personal thing? (read: can you share more code?) :P

if you have an almost-compileable example I wouldn't mind trying out a couple things... tossed them in as suggestions in comments anyway

DavidPostill

15 hours ago, by allquicatic

I'm writing a plugin for TeamSpeak 3.1 in C++11 to help a deaf person: whenever someone says something, it will encode it in FLAC on the fly and submit it to Google's Cloud Speech API to have it recognize the text... and print it out for the user to see... might also implement client-side text to speech, where the user can type something into chat and a TTS engine renders it to audio and "mics up" to say it

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I think its a personal thing he mentioned before

DavidPostill

@Bob

Journeyman Geek

That ;p

Bob

pretty sure I was dozing when that happened :P

DavidPostill

12:32 PM

@Bob You missed an interesting conversation :)

Anna duh

@Bob its a personal thing

I'm wondering why he's using qtav in particular

Bob

@allquicatic I wonder if the Bing Speech API is something to consider too? *shrug*

allquicatic

@Bob yeah I can post the entire thing, just gotta make a repo for it somewhere, proly github

Bob

(I've found MS/Bing APIs, especially the free tiers, to be more attractive than Google for little projects like this. See: Translate)

Hm. microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing

5k calls per month free, then $4/1000 of 15sec each

maybe you can measure how often people talk :P

allquicatic

@Bob Google is $0.006 per 15 seconds

4/1000 = $0.004 per 15

except Microsoft always rounds up, so it'll be more expensive on average

most people don't talk for a full 15 second block, or if they do, it might be for 16, or 20 seconds

Bob

12:38 PM

@allquicatic Always rounds up?

Oh, that.

allquicatic

Google rounds up to the nearest second per call; Microsoft rounds up to the nearest 15 seconds

Bob

Ah.

allquicatic

Google bills you by the second, not by the call (although each call is charged at a minimum of 1 second)

Bob

MS long form is $9/h for first 10 hours, not sure about rounding. But that's more than the Google one I think

allquicatic

"Hi!" --> $0.006 / 15 for Google
$0.004 per Microsoft

and Google's is probably better or around the same quality as Microsoft's implementation

seems unlikely that it'd be strictly worse

Journeyman Geek

12:40 PM

I'm kinda wondering why flac

Bob

@allquicatic I would assume they're reasonably equivalent

Journeyman Geek

I like flac as much as the next guy but for voice, its not really efficient

allquicatic

@JourneymanGeek because Google's Speech API only supports FLAC, raw uncompressed PCM, and some extremely lossy and inefficient narrowband codecs commonly associated with telephony

Bob

@allquicatic lemme know if the suggestions I made on SO get you anywhere?

if not, I'll keep digging

Journeyman Geek

ah ok

allquicatic

12:43 PM

they claim that lossy encoding artifacts mess up the speech rec

I think the way they do it is, they have a dataset of samples trained on the specific type of encoding loss you get from the narrowband telephony codecs, and another set of samples based on lossless input

but they don't have a dataset for, say, ogg/vorbis or mp3 with significant levels of loss

it's coming off the wire as highish bitrate Opus (high for voice anyway) so let's hope it's able to cope

@Bob I'll get started on it and see what I can do

djsmiley2k

yawn hey all

busy weekend is duely busy

dueley? hmmm

due-ly? :D

Bob

@allquicatic I suspect/hope it's a simple matter of a enc = avt.audioEncoder(); enc.setCodecName(...); enc.setAudioFormat(...);

but who knows *shrug*

allquicatic

@Bob how about specifying the source format? that's for the encoder

Bob

@allquicatic ...yea, I was focusing on (3) :(

kinda hoped it'd auto-detect the source format?

it is using ffmpeg

allquicatic

I need to go from s16le 48 kHz stereo to s16le 16 kHz mono

@Bob that's not possible; at least with sample rate, it's completely arbitrary and you have to tell it... all I'm passing it is a raw block of memory (a QByteArray which is basically a char* and a length)

it can make completely arbitrary assumptions about the sample format but they'd probably be wrong

remember, there's no WAV header here, it's just raw PCM data

gstreamer, ffmpeg, etc. can automatically transcode your .wav file because the header tells it the sample format

Bob

12:55 PM

@allquicatic ah. somewhere on AVPlayer then

gimme a sec

allquicatic

ah

AVPlayer has an audio()->audioFormat()

Bob

@allquicatic I was juuuust about to say that :P

this reminds me of digging through Firefox source (yay dxr)

would be easier in an IDE though

allquicatic

hmm, I'm going to implement a unit test framework using QtTest and I need some raw data in the input sample format I expect to make sure this works :P

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi winterbash2016.stackexchange.com

allquicatic

I know, I'll use gstreamer! :D

djsmiley2k

1:01 PM

That's a LOT of seconds...

Bob

@djsmiley2k ~15-16 days

djsmiley2k

:O

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Lol. It won't let me login ;p

allquicatic

gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=bensound-littleidea.raw ! audio/x-raw,channels=1,rate=16000,format=S16LE ! autoaudiosink - it works!

grabbed a creative commons sound file from bensound.com

here's how I converted it:

gst-launch-1.0 filesrc blocksize=4096 num-buffers=100 location=ben.mp3 ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! audio/x-raw,channels=1,rate=16000,format=S16LE ! filesink location=bensound-littleidea.raw

I'm comfortable committing an ~80k sound binary to git :P

actually, shit, that's the wrong format

it needs to be the input format from TS

Bob

@allquicatic ha, what you use assorted tools with funny command lines to do, I'd probably use linqpad for instead :P

allquicatic

1:15 PM

@Bob I've been using gst-launch to launch gstreamer pipelines as a swiss army knife since around 2006, so it's what I always fall back on

in fact, if QtGstreamer didn't look so dodgy (poorly maintained and harder to compile and distribute, esp. on Windows, vs. QtAV) I'd use it for this project

after all I wrote rbpitch using Gstreamer so I have "credentials" of having successfully shipped software using gst

Bob

@allquicatic yea, linqpad is very much my swiss army knife, but I've not dealt with much audio

ffmpeg for conversions usually

allquicatic

@Bob I usually use ffmpeg over gstreamer on Windows for one-offs because of the (now historical) difficulty of compiling/installing gstreamer on Windows; fortunately now they have an installer

but gstreamer is still a wad of scattered files and ffmpeg is one self-contained statically-linked exe, so the latter is better for distributing

also I don't think Zeranoe cares about patents

the gst installer omits patented codecs

I tested it, and teamspeak can actually deliver you samples in either stereo or mono depending on your channel's codec.... Opus Voice and Speex are mono but Opus Music is stereo :P

fortunately the API tells you which one it is so I can pass that info down to the AVPlayer's AudioFormat

Bob

that's convenient :P

allquicatic

//Assume `QByteArray` contains Signed 16-bit LE PCM samples at 48 kHz
QByteArray convert::convertRawToFlac(QByteArray data, qint32 channels)
{
    QBuffer buf(data);
    QByteArray retval;
    QBuffer retbuf(&retval);
    AVTranscoder avt;
    AVPlayer player;
    QVariantHash muxopt, avfopt, encopt;
    AudioEncoder *enc;
    AudioFormat enc_avformat, dec_avformat;

    dec_avformat.setSampleFormat(AudioFormat::SampleFormat::SampleFormat_Signed16);
    dec_avformat.setChannels(channels);
    dec_avformat.setSampleRate(48000);

that's starting to look pretty okay; next I have to figure out how to tell it to perform the conversion

Anna duh

3:26 PM

@djsmiley2k Duly

watonis

hi guys

so i have a problem

wait

i forgot i have to post

LOL!

Journeyman Geek

So, bad memory?

yeah, that is a problem. Might I suggest a diary?

Anna duh

4:33 PM

Man this small case comes with some serious serviceability compromises.

To replace the CPU cooler I have to remove the motherboard. To remove the motherboard I have to remove the power supply. To remove the power supply I have to remove the CD tray. To remove the CD tray I have to remove the HDD tray. To remove the HDD tray I have to remove the graphics card. And also the front cover. And to remove the front cover I have to unplug everything from the motherboard

On my XL E-ATX case to replace the CPU cooler I had to remove... nothing but the CPU cooler.

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek thats 153 days...

no wait

15.3 days

too many zeros :)

Hennes

5:23 PM

@Annaduh Wait, a CDtray? How old is that case?

Beer o'clock.

DavidPostill

mmmm. Kruidnoten. Me wants some :)

Kruidnoten

Kruidnoten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkrœytnoːtə(n)]) are a cookie-like confectionery, traditionally associated with the early December Sinterklaas holiday in the Netherlands. The term kruidnoten is often confused with pepernoten. Kruidnoten, which translates to "spice nuts" in English, are harder, have a different colour and shape, and are made with the same ingredients as speculaas. Another variety of kruidnoten, called chocolade-kruidnoten, are covered in either dark, milk, or white chocolate. == References == == External links == Media related to Kruidnoten at Wikimedia Commons...

Hennes

That reminds me, I need to get a few kilo bags of those for when I am on vacation.

That usually includes shipping those and stroopwafels with me on the trip out.

DavidPostill

@Hennes Kilos?! That's a lot of calories especially when combined with stroopwafels!

Hennes

Last time to the US (for work) both me an my coworker had about 4 kg of candy with out. All intended as gifts.

DavidPostill

Ah. Gifts. That's different :)

Hennes

5:32 PM

uhm, no wrong. 4x 400gr stroopwafels and 2x 1kg kruidnoten is more than 2kg.

The cleveland cantine suddenly gained a large bowl with Dutch treats

DavidPostill

I have to say Dutch candy/biscuits/cakes is much better than the rubbish you can buy in the UK.

Hennes

I like the UK's bittermints.

And the gingermints (which they no longer make)

All other cookies I usually ate were home baked, often with me in the kitchen trying to assist.\

Fresh scones with jam. Forraging in the park for gooseberries and mushrooms, etc etc

Anna duh

6:01 PM

@Hennes three days?

Hennes

oh

I thought they dropped floppy drives and cdroms.

Anna duh

The model is from the mid 2000's IIRC, but all the more recent revisions are bigger. Also, a lot of modern cases still have space for a low profile CD drive

Hennes

At least, from laptops and from mini-cases

Anna duh

EVGA Hadron for example

Hennes

I am still using my old dual AMD 2200+ tower (2005 era) for my modern builds.
Big, big. Heavy. Quite non-portable.

And a laptop as HTPC.

Laptop is beginning 2009. Still had CDROM (sadly, but replaced by a bay for a second SSD)

Anna duh

6:04 PM

NCase M1 which was just kickstartered a few months ago has an optical bay too

@Hennes heh I had the same until about a year ago

Hennes

Maybe it is me, but a small case and wasting space for optical media simply does not make sense to me

Anna duh

When I decided to go watercooling which sorta needed some newer designed case

@Hennes I agree, but there's not much better.

I think the Dan Case A4-SFX is the only thing that beats it but that doesn't have space for a 3.5" HDD

They could have shaved an inch or so off the top if they'd left out the CD tray

Hennes

I grabbed an Antec 300 for cheap (which I later learned is a bad choice. Great tower. Very cheap. Dual temp controlled fans.
One of which does not spin up at the lowest setting. It tries, fails, tries again, fails again, ....
And the build in USB3 ports do not work well with USB3. Often disconnecting or falling back to a few hundred KB sec.

I am looking more at 'less sound' than 'small as possible' though

Space for a single huge (and silent!) fan is a good thing.

Anna duh

@Hennes lol

Hennes

USB3 and me are not a match.

MOst of the time (on three PCs!) USB3 simply does not work until you use an USB2 cable (and then get stable USB2 speeds)

Anna duh

6:08 PM

My large case with watercooling was designed around quietness, packs a huge pile of fans to the extent I bought a dedicated climate control computer to control all the fans and pumps

@Hennes hah, I had some extreme bad luck with my micro SD card and USB 3 too

Hennes

Old work PC: failed.
New work PC: Failed half the time.
New home desktop: Front sockets USB3 not suited for anything but USB2

Anna duh

Are you sure it's not the device? :-P

Hennes

Really made me curse the move from eSATA pendrives to USB pendrives

Yes, the devices (two of them) work when plugged into the rear motherboard ports.

Anna duh

I kept thinking my SD card was broken or my USB controller or my USB port or just about everything else but it turns out there was a wonky pin in the card reader.

Hennes

Actually, I also tried with the USB3 8GB flashdrives. So 4 devices to test with

Anna duh

6:10 PM

It got enough power without it in USB 2 mode, or when connected directly to the motherboard but not on my laptop or the front USB ports

Well samsung guys have had my phone for 6 days... Eurgh

Bah they said it'd be ready an hour ago, turns out its going to be Tuesday now

Hennes

I hope they gave you a replacement while repairing.

djsmiley2k

@Annaduh hah

i remember having that trouble with my sdcard reader on the hdd caddy

some superglue fixed that up (basically, the cards were going past the pins completely, due to the backplane bit being not fixed in place)

they figured out wtf is up with the leaking yet @Annaduh?

Anna duh

6:28 PM

@djsmiley2k nope

But the manager is supposedly going to watch his lead engineer do the work again and check all the seals to see if someone's doing it wrong or something

I dunno

Hennes

6:40 PM

xmas is coming. Resistance is futile.

djsmiley2k

6:51 PM

kittens could defeat it lol

yes they r here

djsmiley2k

7:05 PM

bwDraco

Trying to run the SSD from my phone and Android tablet: Nexus 5X has no trouble, but Nexus 9 is unable to communicate with it due to insufficient power from the USB port (a Y-cable might help here).

Hennes

7:31 PM

No decidated PSU for the SSD?

allquicatic

ya need a powered usb hub

iphone gives you the best of both worlds because you can get a cable that will charge the iphone and accept USB input, so you can connect peripherals to a hub and away you go

unfortunately there's no mouse cursor support in ios

you know what would be awesome? if they had a small, compact keyboard with a touchpad with as good palm rejection as the Macbook Pro's

I find it's even better than a trackpoint for dev work

Hennes

7:51 PM

Time for an USB powerbank with build in mouse and keyboard.

bwDraco

8:02 PM

Also, Trim woes as indicated last night, although my configuration, with 14% overprovisioning, should prevent the drive from entering steady state and suffering from degraded performance or higher write amplification.

18 hours ago, by bwDraco

It's been overprovisioned right from the start, when the drive's partitioned and formatted. This means the LBAs at the end of the drive's address space have never been written to; hence, the drive is always able to use this area as spare space (no need to TRIM this area). There's no real possibility that the drive will enter steady state.

18 hours ago, by bwDraco

It would still be rather difficult to cause the drive to run out of spare blocks and enter a steady-state condition. Given the overprovisioning, it would take writing more than 66 GiB nonstop to cause it to enter a steady-state condition with the drive near full.

Samsung SSDs aren't dumb.

allquicatic

8:45 PM

@Hennes that would be awesome

djsmiley2k

9:08 PM

Tales of Zestria is so confusing me with skills :(

djsmiley2k

9:29 PM