Root Access

@JourneymanGeek Of course, I completely agree. But I don't have a problem with them not going deep. I have a problem with poor content - especially since it's not targeted at geeks, so it's very likely that they'll trust what they're learning

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech and anyone interested enough will realise its crap

and go deeper

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek nah man. They just put out a video on OnePlus 7 vs. Pixel 3A. It was low quality in many ways, but I know so many people who are the type to trust it, and not do further research.

And then it'll come up in conversations and they'll influence those even less technically literate with that false info

Michael Frank

@rahuldottech I haven't

rahuldottech

1:33 AM

@MichaelFrank Boy do I have a treat for you

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech shrug its a phone

rahuldottech

How we built a $2000 custom gaming PC (Mirror)

►

Journeyman Geek

Its pretty much the most critical piece of semi disposable personal computing people own, and its getting to the point where it dosen't really matter what you own

@rahuldottech and that video started a conversation on where he went wrong

rahuldottech

The Verge Best PC Build Guide $2000 (reupload)

►

@JourneymanGeek (hint: everywhere)

But I completely get what you're saying.

Journeyman Geek

So I'm in one of those funny moods. I tried to do something, I failed hard. I had someone basically school me on how I went wrong, and its been educational

Michael Frank

1:35 AM

wait... tweezers?

rahuldottech

@MichaelFrank dude wait for it

Michael Frank

wait wait

anti static?

rahuldottech

HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA

I love it when people react to this video for the first time

Journeyman Geek

Ok, lets see

a pudding spoon, cable ties, a swiss army knife (._.) and .... that's not an anti static bracelet

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek Hah, you guys do that to me like... basically all the time?

Dec 12 '18 at 6:06, by rahuldottech

CORRECTING THE INFAMOUS VERGE PC BUILDING VIDEO

Michael Frank

1:37 AM

but he called them tweezers

rahuldottech

dude get to the actual building

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech true

(in this case - superuser.com/questions/1441598/… )

so - I basically got everything wrong

Michael Frank

hammer it in?

Journeyman Geek

and then I got something that bit me in the ass the last time wrong as well

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek It's fun, y'know. When I learn stuff here. I mean, I say stupid stuff and get corrected, but at least now my knowledge has been expanded. I like learning. And you guys share stuff and correct me :)

Journeyman Geek

1:39 AM

"screwing with confidence, but not screwing in to hard...."

TWSS

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek lol exactly what I was thinking

Michael Frank

Reminds me of that Tenacious D song...

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek ...otherwise you might crack it

Journeyman Geek

Oh dear

or split it, but you'd need to read grunts to get the full horror of the statement.

oh god

he is really using the SAK?

Michael Frank

That graphics card has a perspex cover, that's kinda cool

rahuldottech

1:41 AM

@JourneymanGeek what's that?

Journeyman Geek

swiss army knife

Michael Frank

wait? What was the pun?

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek ah lol

Yeh, he uses it

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech Its not that bad. so far

he called the PSU a brick

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek He also just called it a CPU cooler hose

I don't think that's the right terminology?

Journeyman Geek

1:43 AM

that's not inaccurate

its a radiator, ~~hose~~ tubing and waterblock

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek I've never heard it being called a hose before. Only piping.

Journeyman Geek

we'd call it tubing I guess?

rahuldottech

Huh, TIL

Or tubing, yeah

Michael Frank

The amount of time that CPU socket has been exposed is making me nervous.

Journeyman Geek

but its a tube that transfers water

hah

COnfession

Michael Frank

1:44 AM

wait... no more paste

Journeyman Geek

I'm scared to do that and got the shop to install the processor for me

Michael Frank

STHAP

STAHP

Journeyman Geek

there's paste on the waterblock

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, but water comes out of a hose. Not recommended inside PCs?

"It's kinda daunting at first so you're always gonna have to find the one that will fit"

...oh dear

Journeyman Geek

they've not used slots in processors since probably before @rahuldottech was born

@rahuldottech said the actress to the bishop

rahuldottech

1:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek as compared to a socket?

Journeyman Geek

wait.

he's adding MORE paste?

wait

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek This reference is lost to me

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech ooooh yeah

@rahuldottech means the same as TWSS

but britisher.

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek ah ok lol

Journeyman Geek

"top glass, back glass, side glass" whut?

rahuldottech

1:46 AM

@JourneymanGeek CPUs used to... slot in?

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech for about 2 generations

rahuldottech

HE CALLED IT A SLOT

(sorry I'm watching behind you guys here)

Journeyman Geek

Slot 1

Slot 1 refers to the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors, including the Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II and the Pentium III. Both single and dual processor configurations were implemented. Intel switched back to the traditional socket interface with Socket 370 in 1999. == General == With the introduction of the Pentium II CPU, the need for greater access for testing had made the transition from socket to slot necessary. Previously with the Pentium Pro, Intel had combined processor and cache dies in the same Socket 8 package. These...

rahuldottech

wow TIL

Journeyman Geek

the reason for that is cool

so they basically wanted to add more cache - but that lowered yields

so they literally had external cache soldered onto a daughterboard with the processor

rahuldottech

1:49 AM

oh wow

"installed a buuuuuunch of drivers"

Dude, this is 2019. That's not really a thing anymore.

Journeyman Geek

lol

rahuldottech

I mean I have literally never built a PC in my life

And even I could do a better job

Journeyman Geek

hah

I've built PCs from before you were born

and I still occationally go "huh?"

rahuldottech

"I can get around 300 FPS"

uh

Journeyman Geek

Don't get cocky ;)

rahuldottech

1:50 AM

um

that's... a thing?

@JourneymanGeek lol ofc not

Journeyman Geek

my dad asked me for a USB to care 12v adaptor to plug in a car camera...

I asked him "whyyyyyy? just plug it into a PC"

mind blown

rahuldottech

*wears rubber band on wrist*
HEY GUYS CHECK OUT THIS STYLISH ANTI-STATIC WRISTBAND YO!

Honestly I wonder if the writer was really pissed with management and wrote this piece before resigning as like one mega troll?

Michael Frank

I think they were just trying to make it a bit hip and exciting.

rahuldottech

33 mins ago, by rahuldottech

And they're doing it all wrong, trying to be "hip" and use slang and idk

Looks like they haven't learnt

Michael Frank

Oh ha

rahuldottech

2:04 AM

@JourneymanGeek lol he talks about using the CPU "applicator" but then just drops it in lmao

> Ironically, The Verge's Producer and Lead Video Director, Phil Esposito, once tweeted that Tech YouTubers (many of whom do a better, if not superb, job with such videos) “are not journalists.”

lolololol

what does that have to do

Journeyman Geek

so

I ordered one of these aliexpress.com/item/…

rahuldottech

at least get the "tech" bit of "tech youtuber" right

Journeyman Geek

I intend to build the shittiest, cheapest DIY router possible

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek Uh, Orange Pis are not known for their quality

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech yup

rahuldottech

2:08 AM

They often have hardware/specs on paper but they're impossible to get working

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech I literally just need the OS and the two physical ports to work

rahuldottech

That said, the last review I watched of one was more than two years ago, so...

@JourneymanGeek which ports?

Journeyman Geek

both of them

rahuldottech

ah Ethernet?

Sorry, didn't look at the image before

Journeyman Geek

(more or less I want to play with writing a scripted, semi automated way of getting my base router setup up)

or maybe doing it with ansible

rahuldottech

2:10 AM

hah, that antenna has shrink tube on it

Journeyman Geek

and stuff

@rahuldottech kindly read the second thing I said about this ;p

rahuldottech

No USB? interesting.

lol okay

> the shittiest, cheapest

y tho

Michael Frank

Reasons. obviously!

rahuldottech

Hm, today's gonna be a very interesting day

Gotta meet a friend who I'm not likely to meet every again, get some government documentation ID stuff sorted, study, drink lots of coffee, meet another friend.

So I'm back to living alone now. Have been for a couple weeks now. It's fun.

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech correct question

rahuldottech

2:22 AM

@JourneymanGeek hm?

Journeyman Geek

It runs ubuntu server so hopefully I can get a good enough approximation of my current network setup

which means I can test things first, see how the bits fall together, before I do it on the router that runs my network segment without taking down the whole network

rahuldottech

ah, makes sense

hah, I just make all changes to my production system. I like living on the edge.

Journeyman Geek

the alternative is about 150 usd minimum - and overkill

@rahuldottech oh, I was doing that too

rahuldottech

(Actually I don't even have an audience I get maybe 60 unique views a day and I'm sure most are bots so no one really cares if I break stuff rip)

Wow, the right-wing parties were big winners this EU election

That's ~~probably~~ not a good thing

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech My current router build was mildly inspired by github.com/nokia/intel-nuc-router and arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/… (and later iterations)

My build is a modern, streamlined version of the latter. I'd also like a way to do what the former does and have a more automated way to get a router up - partially cause it helps you work out the mistakes you made in the process

bwDraco

2:30 AM

Was thinking about AMD's claimed 13-15% IPC gains... this is likely to be amplified in gaming workloads.

Previous generations of AMD Ryzen processors were only a few percent behind Intel in benchmarks like Cinebench, but performed significantly worse clock-for-clock in games. Cinebench isn't particularly sensitive to memory latency, but games often do care about it.

(COMPUTEX keynote slide deck, via AnandTech)

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Might look into that Ars guide tonight..

rahuldottech

twitter.com/rahuldottech/status/1133125821600636928

Thoughts?

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank mine's slightly more up to date, though I kinda run an odd setup

I also do ipv6

bwDraco

Although we should note that there's a small increase in clock frequency between the two processors, the gains shown here are, in a number of cases, well in excess of 15% clock-for-clock.

rahuldottech

argh why did twitter onebox break?

bwDraco

2:35 AM

@rahuldottech That link returns an HTTP 404.

Michael Frank

rahuldottech

Does it work now?

bwDraco

Ok, that went through, but it didn't onebox.

rahuldottech

@bwDraco twitter hasn't oneboxed here for a couple weeks

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=twitter.com&room=118

32

Q: Twitter Oneboxing in chat appears broken

Twitter Oneboxing in chatrooms appears to be broken at the time of posting. Pasting a Twitter link in chat does not change the chat message to a onebox of the tweet in question.

Michael Frank

Thoughts? It's a bit like shouting at a kid cause they tripped over.

Journeyman Geek

2:38 AM

@MichaelFrank journeymangeek.com/?p=196 - my base setup . I also did ipv6 tunneling journeymangeek.com/?p=228

Michael Frank

On the other hand, your tweet about Inconsolata was interesing.

bwDraco

Lisa Su did state that they focused a lot on gaming performance, especially single-threaded games and lower resolution. Clearly, there's been work on improving the performance of the processor's memory subsystem because a lot of games didn't like the latency the Infinity Fabric introduced. Among other things, AMD doubled the size of the L2$ and L3$, with the latter being a colossal 64 MB on the Ryzen 9 3900X.

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech when faced with <redacted> one needs to act with grace, dignity, and a wit that will cut that <redacted>

rahuldottech

@MichaelFrank hah talked about it here

@JourneymanGeek yes, one should. My bad.

I think I was slightly drunk when I tweeted that. Or half asleep. That's no excuse tho.

Journeyman Geek

speaking of twitter....

twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1133155632964669440

rahuldottech

2:42 AM

@MichaelFrank read from chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/50326590#50326590

I'm not a font designer, but the response really annoyed me lol:

May 17 at 11:27, by rahuldottech

"it gives the font character" at the cost of readability? Lmao ok.

> the h in ghost is actually a little ghost waving to you

rahuldottech

3:51 AM

Okay just something I want to throw out there

Some people say second impressions matter, some say they don't

Idk really

But there's this one journalist in the tech space. Does a lot of high-profile interviews

The first time I consumed any of their content was when I listened to a podcast they put out.

They came off as biased and judgemental, saying stuff that they clearly were very ill-informed about

This was a few months ago. Since then I've seen a lot of articles written by them. But honestly I've never been able to take any of them very seriously due to that initial impression of them being a poor journalist

Now maybe that was a one-off thing. Maybe they're actually good at their job. But idk.

Am I in the wrong here?

Michael Frank

4:25 AM

Maybe they just had a bad interview?

You could always give them another shot.

Recently we went to the church my father-in-law plays at on Sundays, they have a new minister there that I haven't seen before. As soon as he started his message for the day, I had to walk out. It just felt and sounded fake and theatrical.

We actually ended up catching up with him after the service and ended up chatting with him for over an hour and that's just how he is as a person. It completely changed my point of view about him.

So yes, second impressions definitely matter.

Journeyman Geek

and third and forth...

I've had my opinion of someone swing about half a dozen times in a year ;p

Biswapriyo

Will there be any big difference between sh abc.sh or bash abc.sh? The file is without execute permission.

Michael Frank

This is true.

@Biswapriyo sh is probably an alias to bash

Biswapriyo

4:40 AM

@MichaelFrank Hmm.. It's true. But if a system has both binary...

Michael Frank

4:53 AM

Could be a sym or hardlink

LIFEBOOK-E734  ~ file -h /bin/sh
/bin/sh: symbolic link to dash
LIFEBOOK-E734  ~ find -L /bin -samefile /bin/sh
/bin/dash
/bin/sh
/bin/sh.distrib

Some good answers here:

1074

Q: Difference between sh and bash

When writing shell programs, we often use /bin/sh and /bin/bash. I usually use bash, but I don't know what's the difference between them. What's main difference between bash and sh? What do we need to be aware of when programming in bash and sh?

bash shell unix sh

djsmiley2k

6:55 AM

@bertieb Actual nest? Bee keepers will happily take bees (normally for free)

but some bees are solitary and just dig a tunnel in the ground.

Journeyman Geek

@avazula might know about bees

RaphX

7:27 AM

Hi guys

I have a doubt about VS Code

I am trying to run Git Bash in integrated mode from VS Code

I tried everything stated here

184

Q: How do I use Bash on Windows from the Visual Studio Code integrated terminal?

Visual Studio Code on Windows uses PowerShell by default as the integrated terminal. If you want to use Bash from Visual Studio Code, what steps should be followed?

visual-studio-code git-bash vscode-settings

However its still not working, git bash is opening as a standalone window

Tried this as well github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7286

rahuldottech

@RaphX I don't know if you'd get an answer here. Try asking a question on the main site or on stackoverflow chat

Burgi

morning

avazula

@JourneymanGeek Mmh?

It may be bumblebees as well

@djsmiley2k Indeed. If they are actual bees, they may take the nest for free. And if you're able and willing to, they may even put the hive in your garden and teach you how to take care of them

Michael Frank

7:50 AM

@djsmiley2k @avazula These looked more like bumble bees.

Large, fuzzy, mostly black with a thin yellow stripe or two.

nesting on the ground.

avazula

That's what I think too

bertieb

@rahuldottech Your twitter display name breaks screen readers horribly, FYI

@djsmiley2k See vid, it's a pretty small thing in the ground

Michael Frank

@bertieb If I were a beekeeper, I'd probably be pretty annoyed if I came expecting a hive and found 10 bumblebees...

Burgi

ugh.... why does FF insist on injecting new icons into the toolbar when they are already nicely hidden in the menu?

rahuldottech

@bertieb oh damn, never occurred to me. I'm usually careful about that stuff. I'll fix it ASAP

djsmiley2k

7:57 AM

@avazula wow that's cool.

@MichaelFrank o_O Can they?!

avazula

@djsmiley2k The females, yes. Males usually don't sting. Females do when they're threatened (or their children)

djsmiley2k

Ah ok, saw vid now, yup that looks like a 'normal' nest, not solitaries that i was talki nabout

Like this.

@avazula TIL!!!

avazula

:)

bertieb

8:12 AM

@rahuldottech When I found out how screen readers render that kind of text that was my reaction too!

Would never have thought

I try to add the extended description to media I upload too, for screen readers; can't remember if that lives in a setting you have to enable on your account tho

@MichaelFrank Heh; not that we have it here, but would make for a an interesting Craigslist ad

"Bumblebees for sale. 10p each or all ~ten for free (or best offer). Buyer to arrange collection."

rahuldottech

6 hours ago, by rahuldottech

Gotta meet a friend who I'm not likely to meet every again, get some government documentation ID stuff sorted, study, drink lots of coffee, meet another friend.

@bertieb the friend I met today? He's completely blind

Incidentally we were discussing screen readers today, and I promised to make him some stuff to help him

I'll send you a link to it when I'm done later tonight

Burgi

JAWS is the standard for screen readers

freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws

the issues most blind people have is with non-semantic websites

rahuldottech

@Burgi he uses both NVDA and JAWS

And also some really cool Android thing that allows him to control everything through gestures on a completely black screen

(since screen is never on, battery also lasts much, much longer)

Apparently WhatsApp is super accessible for him to use. Which is good to hear

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech slightly surprised about that

Burgi

my GF is a support teacher for a blind girl

i went to the manchester wordcamp last year and there were some great talks on website accessibility

wordpress.tv/2019/05/17/…

wordpress.tv/2019/05/15/graham-armfield-accessibility-hacks

the first one was an amazing talk

bertieb

8:25 AM

@rahuldottech Oh cool!

Must be tough being blind

Burgi

when we were in NYC there was braille EVERYWHERE

compared to the UK, NYC was hugely more accessible

one thing they did lack was visually impaired enabled street crossings

in the UK they have the knobbly pavements and beeps

bertieb

@Burgi And the rotating dealie under the crossing button control!

Burgi

i've looked for those and still haven't seen one

bertieb

In the UK?

Burgi

8:40 AM

yeah

maybe i'm not fondling the crossing button box enough

bertieb

No comment

;-P

Journeyman Geek

⭐

;p

djsmiley2k

9:02 AM

@Burgi it's normally a hole, because some nobber has nicked the twirly bit

Nzall

I have 150 GB of Twitch.tv VoDs on my computer, AND on my iPad Mini 2019 in the VLC app. I'm planning on reinstalling Windows 10 later this week, but I'm wondering: is it possible to transfer these files back from the iPad VLC app to my PC so I don't need to redownload them if needed?

bertieb

Oh that timing

just du'd my own un-uploaded Twitch recordings

(I have no helpful advice on the matter of iPads)

Nzall

Note: they're not my own channel VoDs, they're livestreams I downloaded from a streamer I like to watch but couldn't completely watch live. Some of them are no longer available since he forgot to turn them into highlights

Though I have already watched those so it wouldn't be too much of a loss if they are lost

Burgi

did you see that a load of educational video producers have launched their own streaming service?

Nzall

Yeah. I really don't like this trend of everyone with a moderately significant viewbase launching their own service, especially if it's a paid service

This is pretty much the same problem me and the other Arqade regulars have with game launchers: everyone wants to have their own game launcher so they can get a larger share of the profit and the gamer ends up having to install a dozen different launchers

Journeyman Geek

9:13 AM

yeah

at the moment, I have checks

steam, uplay and epic, and I do have but don't use an EA origin account

Burgi

@Nzall well GOG is launching a new version of galaxy that is meant to bridge all the services

@Nzall their main rationale is that they are too reliant on YT for their revenue stream

YT keeps changing the algorythm which can be the death knell for smallish channels

Nzall

I'm not kidding either. if I look at what game launchers I have (including game-based games): Battle.net, Steam, Origin, Uplay, Epic Games Store, GOG Galaxy, Beamdog Launcher, Rockstar Social Club, GW2 launcher, plus around 4 separate addon managers for WoW because of a similar reason

@Burgi Yeah, and this seems like it might be something interesting since it allows users to define their own launchers

Michael Frank

Discord sorta consolidates them as well, doesn't it?

Err no... looks like it's just Steam

bertieb

@Burgi I still grumble that YT seems to recommend 'popular' videos now

Time was, used to be if you were watching a video with a handful of views you got related videos also with a handful of views

Now you just get whatever popular anodyne crap with an attention-grabbing thumbnail that happens to be 'hot' that particular day/week/month

"Hey, looks like you watched this 25 part series on a niche game. I guess you want to watch 8 SECRETS OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY next, huh?"

(thumbnail with title, a stock photo of a plane and someone looking 'shocked')

grumble, grumble

Old Man BertieB doesn't want your youtubes!

Somewhat hypocritically - some might say extremely hypocritically - I'm investigating scripted uploads to YT at the moment to clear the huge backlog of footage I have

Nzall

9:30 AM

@bertieb I pretty much ignore anything on Youtube that's not my subscription inbox

And weirdly enough, I haven't yet encountered that "content creator video doesn't appear in your inbox" bug yet

bertieb

I guess that's the way to go

Reckon I produce more than I consume though

Which brings to mind a line from one of the great cult comedies of last decade:

> I'm one of the few people you'll meet who's written more books than they've read.

oh my, Darkplace was 15 years ago

feelsoldman.jpg

Burgi

9:52 AM

veritasium did a great video about the issues with youtube

djsmiley2k

10:06 AM

@Nzall that whole thing is utter bollox I'm sure

I don't think it ever happened, people are just dumb, and thought that the homepage of 'reccomended videos' would always be subscription videos, then were shocked when they were missing some.

I find it amusing how it's all like 'Give us money on patreon, and then sign up to our seperate service here, and buy our stuff here, and we need more of your money'

Burgi

there does need to be a rival to youtube

bertieb

10:52 AM

> Except almost every change YouTube makes is bad, and that's not an opinion.

djsmiley2k

Reddit tho.

bertieb

Yeah

Glass houses amirite?

djsmiley2k

dat ui.

Anyone claiming stuff about youtube's UI, other than YouTube, and university researchers who've actually done research on it, are talking utter and entire BS.

'Bad' is subjective.

If you really believe youtube just roll out changes, without doing proper UI and UX testing first....

Nzall

@djsmiley2k What people are saying isn't that they release poorly UI/UX tested changes, but rather that the changes they are making are negatively affecting the users of the platform, both creators and consumers

Like, a chef can definitely take a recipe for chocolate mousse and change it so that instead of chocolate it works with coffee, including the texture and consistency, but if people want chocolate mousse you're not going to make them happy with coffee mousse

djsmiley2k

11:18 AM

@Nzall subjective.

No one who's happy with the change (or not bothered by it) is shouting about it.

And I've seen very very very little backlash to this, compared to the backlash for some things they've done

rahuldottech

11:39 AM

@JourneymanGeek I have a very major hardware mod planned for my laptop

djsmiley2k

gonna stick a raspi inside it?

rahuldottech

12:20 PM