Root Access

(but if they went "hey, geek, you can get a laptop for work, no real budget" I'd ~~check if I hit my head~~ see if I can get a 13 inch razer blade stealth yet)

I currently run a 1st gen one and so far, no real complaints

Avery

I'd buy a dell xps if I were you

HackToHell

Yeah looked at the dell precision 5510 and 5520 starts at 1.5L

Budget is 1.2L

Avery

what is L?

HackToHell

3:08 PM

:D

Lakh INR - Indian Rupee

Avery

ah

Journeyman Geek

Lakh = 100K

Indians don't do millions and billions, the do lakhs and crore

Avery

ah, til

HackToHell

basically 1500 USD

But things are more expensive here so will have to check local stores in INR

Avery

you can buy xpses for around 800-1200usd

check amazon?

Boris_yo

3:09 PM

What's 80%?

HackToHell

I have to custom order from Dell India for the precision series

Bob

@HackToHell www1.ap.dell.com/content/…

HackToHell

And they have limited configs :'(

Bob

They don't seem to have much on the Indian Dell Outlet :\

HackToHell

yeah I have to call and ask for price

dell.com/in/business/p/precision-m5510-workstation/pd

Avery

3:10 PM

@Boris_yo alcohol

HackToHell

and very expensive

Avery

@HackToHell state that you don't want an OS installed, that'll bring costs down

that is assuming that your IT dept has windows keys

Boris_yo

@Avery +1

Rahul2001

SOMEONE HELP

Avery

@Rahul2001 what? your OS is too good?

Rahul2001

3:15 PM

Uh, "Windows cannot be installed because the drive is of the GPT partition style"

Even after formatting it

@Ave ^

Avery

oh

there's a way to switch to mbr

but I'd boot in uefi mode and install like that if I were you

Rahul2001

huh, let's see

Journeyman Geek

ugh

I forgot to bring my paycheck home. Again

Avery

(that requires you to write the iso to drive in uefi mode too- check out rufus)

Rahul2001

@Avery I used YUMI :/

Going to have to re install the thingy

0_0

Avery

3:18 PM

oh

yumi is bios/legacy/non-uefi only

Rahul2001

wait

Avery

at least unless you use the uefi alpha

Rahul2001

Somehow it booted in UEFI

Avery

which is buggy

Rahul2001

But... I didn't use the alpha thing

what is going on -_-

Avery

3:19 PM

Is it allowing you to install to gpt?

Rahul2001

@Avery started, yeah

Avery

ah cool

HackToHell

@Avery they don't allow intricate modifications

Rahul2001

Wait, I think it might have booted from the recovery partition

Avery

tech 101: if it works, then don't question why

Rahul2001

3:19 PM

facepalm

HackToHell

They have some present configurations

Avery

No.

Rahul2001

@Avery hm?

Avery

Dell allows you to buy a device without an OS ALA you contact them through support.

Well, they do in US and they do it here. They likely do so in India too.

Rahul2001

@Avery Okay, idk what's going on

Avery

3:21 PM

@Rahul2001 I'm talking to hacktohell

Rahul2001

@Avery I know

Avery

regarding you, you should probably shut down your pc

Rahul2001

I'm talking about the install

Avery

go to another pc

Rahul2001

No, it's working!

No idea how

Avery

3:21 PM

is it installing ltsb?

this is crazy

you sure?

yes

@Avery they keep telling me they can't do it >.<

Avery

2 mins ago, by Avery

tech 101: if it works, then don't question why

@HackToHell >_>

Rahul2001

3:22 PM

I don't even get the multiboot choose distro thing

staight up starts installing ltsb

Avery

weird

Rahul2001

very

Avery

likely because of windows isos' weird thingies

HackToHell

I can get a cheap thinkpad and put in a SSD and RAM I suppose

Avery

yeah that works

that's what I did with inspiron

paid like 300$ for a decent machine of that time

Rahul2001

3:23 PM

@HackToHell The first laptop I buy with my own money is going to be a thinkpad

HackToHell

ah, yup shoplenovo.co.in/…

Avery

threw in 50$ and installed ssd

HackToHell

@Rahul2001 yeah it's awesome !

I had an ideapad, died on me after 2.5 years :(

Rahul2001

@HackToHell seems amazing, just upgrade ram

Avery

@HackToHell damn that's cheap and powerful

Rahul2001

3:24 PM

@HackToHell I have an ideapad right now

Hell, even I could pay that EMI

@HackToHell That appears to be too good to be true

HackToHell

@Rahul2001 get the extended warranty for free after your primary one (1 year) expires

It has a 13 hour battery life :O

Rahul2001

@HackToHell too late

Avery

hot damn

Rahul2001

@HackToHell GO GET IT

Avery

13 hours?!

Rahul2001

3:25 PM

@JourneymanGeek Should take a look maybe

HackToHell

Two batteries it seems, one internal and one external

I am reading a review on it

Avery

@Rahul2001 can you convert the price of that pc to turkish liras?

(TRY)

HackToHell

Wait only the high end has 2 batteries

Rahul2001

@Avery duckduckgo.com/…

Journeyman Geek

iirc the edges are 'semi' ideapads

Rahul2001

3:26 PM

2542.88 @ave

Journeyman Geek

not really proper ones

Avery

@Rahul2001 dang

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek yeah I noticed

Avery

that's a ton

Rahul2001

@Avery That's expensive?

Seems like an amazing offer compared to the indian market

Avery

3:28 PM

that's more than average wage.

djsmiley2k

DOS

wut

Avery

freedos probs

Rahul2001

Hell, my mum's crap HP cost that much

@Avery wait what just happened to the windows install

Avery

@Rahul2001 hm?

Rahul2001

wait

brb

djsmiley2k

3:29 PM

wit

Rahul2001

this is weird

It just asked me to choose out of two windows installs

But then chose one before I could

But... I nuked the old one!

@ave

Avery

oh

that's normal

windows does that

there's probably a question on how to fix it on superuser

you nuked it wrong

you didn't nuke it

clean up your BCD

3:32 PM

he did.

djsmiley2k

you just deleted the data on the windows parttion

@Avery clearly not

nuking it means getting rid of the entire partition table

Avery

he forgot to clear, what /boot/

djsmiley2k

and recreating it from scratch

Avery

@djsmiley2k you make that sound easy

esp. with windows setup, it's painful

djsmiley2k

it is....

no, it's not

1. it'll show you all the partitions

select delete on each one

Bob

3:33 PM

either clear boot partition before install, or remove the old entry after install

djsmiley2k

select free space

windows will ask you if you want it to do the partitioning for you

select yes

Bob

@Avery clearing all partitions from the Windows installer is ridiculously easy...

djsmiley2k

with win 98 it was hard!

boom.

Boris_yo

@djsmiley2k Batshit is happening in UK I hear...

djsmiley2k

@Boris_yo such as? I'm at work., nothing happened here...

Bob

3:34 PM

@djsmiley2k still easy, you just have to do it from DOS (literally MS-DOS) on the startup disk

Avery

Boris_yo

I should get rid of Samsung's news widget... Fear mongering 24/7

Avery

why are you doing this to me

Boris_yo

That tower...

djsmiley2k

@Boris_yo that's just 'news' tbh

Avery

3:34 PM

you're just supposed to make calls to msft servers

djsmiley2k

@Boris_yo ah right

,eh

we might get london riots again

Rahul2001

Shit

Boris_yo

@djsmiley2k When was the last time you heard something positive on news?

Avery

riots are fun!

Bob

@Boris_yo this morning?

djsmiley2k

3:35 PM

bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/40457048

negative news sells, unfortunately

Rahul2001

I used express settings by mistake

Avery

all news here are positive

Boris_yo

@djsmiley2k My thoughts too. People respond better to negative than positive.

Avery

@Rahul2001 don't worry you can disable it all with shutup10 later

Rahul2001

@Avery did your thing fetch "critical updates"?

Boris_yo

3:36 PM

Positive is boring... Negative is all about drama and action...

djsmiley2k

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-40467221

Avery

@Rahul2001 don't remember

Rahul2001

This is like the 20th reboot

Avery

if it asks you to login to a microsoft account then that's not ltsb

djsmiley2k

Now that's not good.

Rahul2001

3:37 PM

@Avery hasn't

djsmiley2k

What is ltsb/

Avery

it should ask if you're local or going to use AD

@djsmiley2k long term servicing branch

windows without crapware.

djsmiley2k

ah like LTS kernels

oh right

Avery

where metro means crapware

Rahul2001

@Avery yep got that screen

Avery

3:38 PM

also no candy crush

@Rahul2001 ok pick the one on bottom

djsmiley2k

@Avery was gonna say

surely that's a blank disk.

Avery

it takes something like 9 gigs

compared to 18 of windows 10 cb

Rahul2001

@Avery "Getting things ready, please don't turn off your PC"

Avery

yeah I had that too

Rahul2001

@Avery It takes very long

Avery

3:49 PM

oh that's like that for any version of windows 10

djsmiley2k

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-40467221

err

finally.

what about the other 200?

Avery

not supported by vamt.

visual studio or odd versions of windows/office/server

Rahul2001

@ave it's still stuck on that screen and the suspense is killing me

Avery

3:55 PM

it'll work.

djsmiley2k

my shrimp tank looks awesome now at least

wooo, £200 extra this months for shift pay

i guess I could look for some shimps ;D

I have such a huge list of things to 'do' in my head :/

djsmiley2k

4:23 PM

and i've tried various tools to help, nothing works :/

or i can't work with them, lul

Rahul2001

YAYAYAYAY!

OH YEAH BABY

djsmiley2k

Wut you done?

Rahul2001

YEAH

Using it

this is amazing

djsmiley2k

4:38 PM

oh right

Rahul2001

6:55 PM

-_-

djsmiley2k

chAIR -Manned multirotor Part 20 -First Flight! Axel Borg

►

djsmiley2k

7:35 PM

yey terrorism!

This Is EXACTLY What Happens If You Do 🔥

►

but how can you use this for terroism @djs? after all it's just a flame?!

easy my son

1. put the powder inside a balloon

Avery

@djsmiley2k pro tip: if the video cover has a guy wearing "the king of random", it'll be very, very annoying

and will involve a loud person.

djsmiley2k

2. put the brake fluid inside a can such as a beer can or coke can

put something in the can that'd cause the ballon to break when hit/thrown

3. add ballon, seal can

@Avery so you didn't actually lcick then

he's a really knowledgable and good guy

Avery

I know him

djsmiley2k

unlike a lot of the idiots on youtube

Avery

he's knows what he's doing, but lately got very clickbaity and all braggy.

djsmiley2k

7:40 PM

such is the way of youtube unfortunately :/

LTT explained exactly that fact

Avery

he's not one of the "you won't believe what happens when you plug a usb drive full of acid to an xbox one x [gone sexual]" people, but he's still annoying.

djsmiley2k

the clickbaity stuff gets clicks.

ok

who don't you find annoying btw?

I need more things to watch :/

Avery

@djsmiley2k LGR, 8bitguy, techmoan are good channels.

djsmiley2k

i think i tried to watch 8bitguy and just got bored, but maybe not

lgr?

Avery

lazy game reviews

djsmiley2k

7:42 PM

oh pffft

I don't want no game reviews

Avery

it's not your generic game review channel

check it out a bit.

djsmiley2k

7:57 PM

i'll try shortly

after documenting the wall hax i saw

Not Dog

8:15 PM

@allquixotic Forever? I gave up after a while

I just use a co-op mining service thingy

Also not to mention having a geth node on a laptop with a mobile connection is stupid

djsmiley2k

That's the problem with bitchains that no one talks about

the chain gets long, fast

and big, fast

and you can't just dump parts of it

@NotDog Does that make you money?

i just remembered I managed to install dwarf fortress on this machine at work

not that it runs very well :(

Not Dog

8:36 PM

@djsmiley2k Yes

djsmiley2k

@NotDog :O

Riches!

Not Dog

9:08 PM

@djsmiley2k Pennies!

It's like $5 a day but on hardware I already have it's basically free

I wouldn't buy new GPUs just to farm that shit

djsmiley2k

Nod

and I guess you're not paying for power?

I can't remember what hardware I have :(

ati card :/

Not Dog

9:47 PM

@djsmiley2k Not in a hostel, no

Also even if I were, it's like 90% profit at the moment so that's not a real issue

allquixotic

@Bob Starting today (Saturday in the US) and until Wednesday evening my time, I'm off work and available for games whenever you want

It's almost 6pm right now

djsmiley2k

product: Barts PRO [Radeon HD 6850]

DavidPostill

Hmm.

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