@AgnesK.Cathex for certain values of easy...

@rahuldottech that's precisely what bonjela is for

@Burgi NFC?

@djsmiley2k we should crowdfund you a new CPU :P

Hi all, I haven't been in chat a while, but I just noticed I clicked over the 50k rep mark. Mostly passive but still :) Happy 50k day to me.

@djsmiley2k funny thing is I bought 2 sticks of chinesium DDR3 at 1300...

PC wouldn't boot at default settings. Would boot with either old or new ram

ended up running it at fixed not automatic ram speeds and it works... at 1600

@Paul happy 50k to you indeed!

Some amazing answers there!

@ankii Thanks ankii

Wish I could participate as much as I used to

@Bob but shitty systems are fun ;p

I should visit SU more often.. some questions seem simple and turn out to be great

@Aibobot as long as it's working.

that's boring

or you have an emotional attachment of making it ground up

@ankii the joy is in fixing things

@Aibobot I never got to fix hardware...

so I stay in the software part

@ankii it takes a certain sort of person XD

but the feeling of accomplishment is amazing indeed.

I occationally bring home stray hardware and fix it up

@Aibobot Do I need a garage ?

naw

Its actually been a few years since I dumpster dived anything

@Aibobot to mess with, not for daily use lol

@Bob eh

I ran a dumpster c2d shortly before I got my core i5 3770

and it was a bit... uhm ...

strange

and if you can fix it good enough to be a daily driver, you did good ;p

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/…

morning

o/

engadget.com/2019/09/24/tilt-five-kickstarter-hands-on

this seems neat

....

bbc.com/future/story/…

> I couldn’t unscramble it,” he told the researchers. And he claimed it had been the work of a programmer who developed it while not entirely sober: “He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain.” Aycock tried to contact the programmer in question but got no response.

Ballmer peak!

@bwDraco Hm? AFAIK, EMI are payments in installments? Sometimes they have additional interest applied to them, sometimes they don't

Hence the terms "Zero interest EMI" and "No cost EMI" being used on amazon.in or flipkart.com

Uh, see: economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/EMI

And amazon.in/no-cost-emi/b?ie=UTF8&node=14072630031

also I suspect the fact that its electronic has something to do with it

that still a thing?

used to have that on my S...4?

Open Camera seems to have trouble with the high-speed video mode on on the Note10+.

solution: don't use slo-mo

It also doesn't seem to recognize all the cameras correctly (it can't access the telephoto lens).

I'll just use the stock Samsung Camera app.

ah I only ever used the standard camera apps

It even managed to cause normal video recording on the stock camera app to fail, forcing me to reboot the device.

(apparently putting the Snapdragon video encoder in an inconsistent state)

I got an matte screen protector thingy for my laptop

And it makes this so much better

@bwDraco Check and see if there's a Google Camera port for your phone

oh god I'm in love with this screen

Glossy screens suck

indeed they do

Why do they still make those? They don't even make sense unless it's a touchscreen

Does it make sense then?!

because 'ooo shiny'

shiny sucks when it comes to screens

more prone to fingerprints and smudges, more prone to scratches

more reflective

public-pihole.com

This is neat!

Holy smokes man

Matte screen protectors are the greatest thing to ever be invented

I mean. Except vaccines. Vaccines are probably greater.

But matte screen protectors are a close second!

Troubled configuring sshd with kerberos

debug1: Got no client credentials

@JourneymanGeek ^

Wait so the dude's never worked at SO?

he is indian though

Never heard of him

And what good does his place of birth do us?

india owns all the companies these days

its either india or china

being ceo != owning

he'll do the needful ;P

tbh at C-suite level you have to recruit externally

@Burgi well - he's supposed to Shepard SO into an IPO

Also eh, I don't think origin matters as much as who you might know and how good a fit you seem.

well let ssee how much more angry this makes people :D

@djsmiley2k It is the internet, probably extremely.

s/probably/extremely/

The only new CEO that the internet would tolerate would be Keanu Reeves

and thats only if he never speaks

"Hello board, thank you for coming to this first meeting. You're all breathtaking!"

Well... time to update my phone.

Samsung is pretty good with security updates, releasing them within the month. It helps this is not a carrier-branded device.

This is why I don't buy phones from the carrier.

Is it why you spend an extortionate amount tho?

sigh

seems the kids have managed to kil the usb keyboard to D:

hmmmmm where has my tiny screwdrivers gone o_O

@djsmiley2k check the christmas crackers

lol

urggggggggggh

major downer atm

money is real bad

catflap is bust, keyboard is bust, laptop seems to be bust

@djsmiley2k lol

much like the victorians, I am not amused

:(

today is a bad day

stress is bad

Ow.

@djsmiley2k If I wasn't literally on the other side of the world, I'd probably send you a spare...

Thanks man. I'm gonna see if work have a spare usb keyboard. T that'll hopefully do until I can replace the laptop

I meant laptop, but yea... probably a keyboard too :)

Precisely what happened?

Well you see, when two adults love each other very much...

eight hours of exposition later

...and then the kids wrecked the keyboard.

Probably trying to beat their Happy Mrs Chicken high score.

Would a canonical question for How do I fix my slow computer? be of use / interest on this Stack?

i think we have one

Ooo is there? I must have missed it, (unless there isn't one of course)

Just typed 'slow computer' and going through page after page.

Building a game plan just now and trying the odd bit here and there

ask on meta

Yeah, figured I'd throw it up here first. Chat -> Meta Chat -> Meta -> ????? -> Profit

Right, disappearing again. Cheers.:)

@RyanfaeScotland also really broad

uhm

theverge.com/2019/9/24/20881678/…

I am staring at this

and cannot. find. the. enter. key.

@JourneymanGeek third up from bottom right

and 4th down from top right

also

looks like a handbag

a very geeky handbag

ctrl - shift - enter - |\ - ← - enter - ??? - (minus) - plus

their explanations for the layout: picyc.com/chassepots-revolutionary-layout

which has some godsawful carousel to read each individual point

I am going to find them and beat them to death with Principals of Good UX Design, (vols. 1-100)

I can't even copy and paste from the 'cards' they show

@JourneymanGeek I hope you're happy with the pain you've caused me here ;-P

@bertieb Considering you're complaining Maurice... it must be pretty bad.

Crushed fingers. Meh. Broken arm. "Its only a fleshwound". Poor keyboard UX "OH WOE IS ME I AM UNDONE!"

@JourneymanGeek It was the website that really drove me over the edge into the vortex of madness

"Okay, let's see what they have to say about it, I bet it's a nice long document which is an interesting rea--- What. The. HeYH"""{!!!E I^WNOCARRIER

...and when I came to, the bodies of the damned were strewn around me

I like the "We put the arrows keys on the left cause gamers!"

What's wrong with WASD?

Filthy casuals?