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ok -- paint 3d is .... odd
@Burgi dang it you cursed us! - telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/05/…
@rahuldottech You need friendly URLs.
@ThatREDACTEDGuy I do
What is that? Are you creating a CMS from scratch?
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Nah, nimbleblog
I've been looking into starting a new blog with Jekyll but I just haven't been able to set aside the time to do it.
14:07
I suppose you mean this: github.com/dignajar/nibbleblog ?
Besides, the Jekyll packages from the openSUSE repo are broken for some reason.
@ThatREDACTEDGuy yeah
New to me. Why such an obscure choice?
@ThatREDACTEDGuy It's not maintained anymore, only security updates
So I'm looking to export to the new platform the same dude came up with
Any specific reasons for not chosing a more popular CMS?
14:11
@ThatREDACTEDGuy I liked this
I don't like WordPress
I tried anchor, loved it, but they've stopped updating it
I know only WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, and have experience using and building stuff bashing my head until code appears only for the first two.
I'm slightly partial to WordPress and I dislike Drupal a teeny tiny little bit.
Lets see wordpress - highly hacked, drupal -- hacked a bit, hated a lot, Joomla I'm not actually sure of the security on.....
@rahuldottech Do you mind if I ask why? The most common complaints I hear are about security, it being PHP, and a lack of OOP.
@ThatREDACTEDGuy To me, it's mess, and yeah, insecurity and stuff
Mar 3 at 13:07, by Rahul2001
@Burgi I don't want to use wordpress because it's overly complicated and filled with bugs. I won't want my blog hacked!
Jun 23 '16 at 10:29, by Rahul2001
nah, it's to messy for my liking
14:17
Security is a fallacy, anchor and nibbleblog are also PHP, and about OOP, well, I don't program welll enough so I can't comment on that.
ah ffs
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Yeah, but simpler and more well-built
@ThatREDACTEDGuy ... 'security is a fallacy'
sorry, what?
@djsmiley2k Concerns of WordPress being inherently insecure are a fallacy
Saying WordPress is insecure is like saying Windows is insecure. They're the most popular in their areas and highly targeted. And a wide userbase includes those that never update and "just click next next ok" and use hacked plugins with embedded malware
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Yeah, I get it
14:19
...
But it was developed over a decade and a half
The WordPress core is extremely responsive in fixing vulnerabilities
I know.
It's just... not my thing, really
@rahuldottech Yeah, fair enough, I understand.
As much as I like WordPress, I'll never force it down anyone's throat
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Do you think the article is good enough for hackernews maybe?
14:21
@rahuldottech I don't think there's enough content, personally
Many many many people echo your view.
But it's not original enough I'd dare to say
Oh, cool
Just adding a teenagers perspective, you know
@rahuldottech (1) I didin't know you meant the content and was looking at the platform and design, just skimmed the content, will read
@ThatREDACTEDGuy :)
(2) sorry, but I don't have an habit of reading hackernews. Maybe I should add it to my list of feeds that I never read while it grows and grows
sigh
I really need to come up with a project
hmmm
how can i setup openvpn to add dns entries for clients
14:27
@rahuldottech Sorry to say that, but the article is a bit superficial. Not because it's badly written, but because it touches the subject briefly and doesn't elucidate much. There's no introduction on what the problem is or why do you think it should be discussed (some intro such as "Today in India's schools there's a increasingly effort to teach programming classes, the first ones have been included in curriculums in the 80's and today xxx% of the schools offer mandatory classes such as so and so")
@ThatREDACTEDGuy ahhh
yep, got it
improving...
And the most important, you have an advantage as a kid, a student, who is experiencing and witnessing the subject you want to discuss from up close.
You have a paragraph that introduces this idea, but you should expand on it
Besides, your argument could be resumed into "don't teach the same subjects to everyone, have carreer-oriented curriculums instead of a generalist curriculum for everyone"
That's not really a new idea. But that's nothing wrong with it not being new
But if that's what you advocate, present some arguments and counter arguments in favor of it
14:29
@ThatREDACTEDGuy very much helpful. thanks.
And if you really think basic computing classes are overlooked, give examples such as "I'm 16 and my friends can only use cellphones and are clueless and"...
Something like this excellent article -- coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers -- but from the perspective of a student
Not telling you to mimic his style, mind you (it's got a huge, story-like intro) but, if you'd like, you can get the gist of it for using as thematic inspiration
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Yeah, it's a nice article, thanks :D
Glad if I was able to be of any help :)
@ThatREDACTEDGuy loads
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hm. I have no idea which program I used for bitcoin :D
14:41
oh shit
shitshitshit
our frontend dev might be next to go
he hasn't done his timesheets for last month
and he just doesn't have the passion that i thought he would have
i've got a basic plan to rebuild a customer site in WP for free (just while we are quiet) and he was all "ugh i hate wordpress."
so i asked him to recommend something else based on the fact that it has to be super cheap and easy to maintain
nothing
not a sausage
lol
Probably ate it
he is really anti-windows too which is becoming an issue with debugging stuff
I have, somewhere in some backup in some lost HDD or DVD-R, either 0.05 or 0.5 btc.
From back when it was new and there were "bitcoin faucets" that would give you free btc, just because.
14:54
@Burgi stupidd
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy you should go find your $2.5k :P
@Bob THAT MUCH??????
Probably $250. But I could buy me a much needed new cellphone with that amount.
In Brazilian Spanish dollars that translates to a new Moto G5.
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lol
I have like $20 on there
(Well, 75% of the price, but there's a discount)
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should've bought more (at the $2k per BTC mark)
in unrelated news, it's surprisingly hard to get your hands on a (leaked) password dump
14:57
@Burgi Hm. I think every front end I know uses either mac or linux
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well, hard without active participation on some rather dodgy forums
@ThatREDACTEDGuy I'm so disappointed with Moto, man
I was quite satisfied with my Moto G1, until it broke (a couple years of use).
I think the Moto G line has a great cost / benefit ratio. Not as great as back with the Moto G1, but still niceish
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy what are you currently using?
@ThatREDACTEDGuy doesn't help with debugging, especially when our main customer is stuck using IE9
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15:02
@Burgi ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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tbh every time I was asked to look at an IE[8-10] bug I'd complain :P
(I'd still do it, cause ... eh, but boss is just gonna have to live with a bit of whinging :D)
@Bob A badly broken Defy with two huge dead circles and half of the touchscreen broken and Android 4 flashed that it can barely run and some apps like Uber take up to five minutes to load nothing.
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy Man, I should send you a phone...
*looks at shipping prices*
Actually the $30 shipping isn't too bad. But ... I don't think auspost takes anything remotely resembling a battery :\
Ha. One can dream.
@Bob Wait, are you serious?
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bleh, the guys that do take batteries charge $60 min.
@Bob If you mean you have a spare phone that you want to give to me
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15:07
would be cheaper to buy something from china :P
@Bob Send me one without the battery and I buy a battery here!
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy I have ... a pile ... of old phones. Some of them probably worse than that Defy...
*googles*
oh wow. nope, even the $35 phone is better :S
@ThatREDACTEDGuy what's the customs situation, btw?
I have a moto Spice too, but it is worse than the Defy
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I mean, say, something bought from a online store shipped from China. What happens with customs?
@Bob IIRC, if you ship it as a gift I don't have to pay customs. Let me check.
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15:09
@ThatREDACTEDGuy lol, all the chinese stores mark it as a gift or sample or some crazy low value (like $5)
@Bob They charge me 66% ~104% of the (price of product + price of shipping)
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy ...wtf.
@Bob In that case they pick a price themselves from a similar product. And they could consider a Galaxy S8 as similar.
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this is what passes for a random cheap phone these days
@ThatREDACTEDGuy then how the hell would they tell the difference between a real gift and ..?
As they are quite understaffed, they don't charge everyone
it's kind of a reverse lottery. If you get picked, you lose. :P
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15:19
:S
@Bob Package sent from person to person, without "any indications of commerce taking place" (whatever that means)
Oh wait, gifts are exempt, but only if < USD 50
And declared as gifts by the sender
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> Prohibitions*

In addition to items prohibited by the Dangerous and prohibited items guide, Brazil prohibits:
> Toys
???
> Writing material.
??????
sooooo I can't send paper
> Animals and animal products, except bees, silkworms and leeches
but I can send bees!
the weird thing is that you can't import bees to australia
Trying to find legal infrmation in Brazil leads to utter madness
They just reference each other in a loop
It's kafkaesque
@Bob Apparently it's toy guns.
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15:37
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Do you have 4G, btw?
Yeah. Ridiculously overpriced ($10 / 1GB), but yeah
Let me check what are the brazilian GSM / LTE bands
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Ah. I think most of my old ones are 3G only :P
That, or dead.
@ThatREDACTEDGuy How much does a random cheap phone cost anyway?
I mean, ignoring brands, etc
Brazil
2G capabilities - GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900
3G capabilities - UMTS 850, UMTS 2100
4G capabilities - LTE 700 (28), LTE 1800 (3), LTE 2600 (7, 38)
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locked, locked, 3G, locked, not-a-smartphone
@Bob I don't really know. I think cheapish phones are about BRL 200 ~300 (USD 64 ~96), average phones like the Moto E2 are circa BRL 650 (USD 208), the Moto G4 or G5 are about the same price (BRL 750 ~ 1000 / USD 240 ~ 320) and a Galaxy S8+ is USD 1000
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15:50
@ThatREDACTEDGuy huh. S8+ costs about as much here. G4/G5 a bit less. E2 a lot less.
too bad they're not selling the E2 anymore :\
@Bob I paid about the same for a Moto G 4G back then.
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy Do you have an example of what <$100 gets? :P
@Bob I wonder if it's like the USA, and you can't take Kinder Eggs...?
they are toys
@Bob A goddamn Defy is USD 115. O.o
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy ...wat
15:58
EXACTLY!
Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini SM-J105 - USD 95
Dunno the specs of this one
480x800 display. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.
@bwDraco Meh. Phones with decent screens are expensive.
Spreadtrum SC8830, 4C Cortex-A7 @ 1.2 GHz. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Asus ZenFone Go 8GB - USD 118
@bwDraco No 4G.
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy Miles ahead of a Defy, that's for sure.
16:03
@bwDraco OK for non-intensive use
It's slower than even my old Nexus 7.
I know, I've used phones with what you would call crappy specs in the past
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@bwDraco Nothing wrong with that, tbh. The comparison here is a Defy.
Of all things.
@bwDraco You're comparing it to a Nexus. Look at the price.
@rahuldottech That's a 2012 tablet priced at the entry-level.
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16:04
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Can you get Moto Cs there yet?
@bwDraco Yeah. And this is a frigging cheap phone
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what're the cheap phone manufacturers these days, anyway?
Sorry, I'm just feeling bitter
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Huawei, ZTE, Alcatel, Xiaomi are all pumping out mid to high now
The Moto C is not available in most developed regions.
We have the Moto E (4th gen.), which runs US$129 at retail, which has a 720p display and a Cortex-A53.
16:05
@Bob There's the Moto C Plus XT1726, USD 160 ~ 190
@bwDraco But yeah, you might want to not make your "yuck"s and "ew"s less pronounced because there very well may be people in this room using phones of that sort because of reasons, monetary or otherwise
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy That's actually decent.
@rahuldottech Eh, I'll also eww them if just generally talking about em.
Idk about moto C, but we have decent moto Es here
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looks like the E had some feature/price creep
so they introduced C?
wonder where D went
@Bob Yeah, it's marginally better than my previous Moto G 4G. Not sure about CPU / GPU
Chipset (Qualcomm MSM8926 Snapdragon 400) vs (Mediatek MT6737)
CPU (Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7) vs (Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53)
GPU (Adreno 305) vs (Mali-T720MP2)
@bwDraco -----^ opinions?
16:09
I'd lean towards the Mediatek at this point.
AND IT'S GOT A REMOVABLE BATTERY <3 <3 <3 <3
The SD400 is really old at this point. Is an SD425 phone an option?
@bwDraco The left column is my old broken Moto G 4G (released 2014), the right column is the Moto C Plus I'm considering (2017)
(the US version of the Moto E has an SD425, and the battery does come out)
@ThatREDACTEDGuy HEADPHONE JACK BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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16:12
@ThatREDACTEDGuy What do you think of ztemobiles.com.au/ZIP.htm? :P
Probably worse than G1
@bwDraco The moto c has a bigger screen, bigger pixel density and Android 7
@rahuldottech Phones withouth headphone jack are not real.
@ThatREDACTEDGuy Same 5" 720p display.
@ThatREDACTEDGuy yeah. They're FAKE NEWS!
@Bob: We can unpin this.
Thanks.
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@bwDraco Done.
16:14
@bwDraco Hm. I'm looking at the Moto E wnd gen, released 2015. Here it's more expensive and lesser specs than the Moto C
@Bob Let me check
My parents are both using Moto G5 Plus. Quite remarking how much phone you can get for the money these days.
Have to leave for work in half an hour - will be winding down in a bit.
@bwDraco ...not a nice way to put it
I think I'll go offline for a bit
I'm not thinking straight and I don't want to offend anyone
Goodnight
Sorry.
@Bob, can you remove this?
I'm very, very sorry.
Move to trash is fine.
pffft
i think you are doing ok
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1 message moved to trash
16:21
Eh, that invite might not have been necessary.
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@bwDraco It's auto
Whoops.
@bwDraco Dude. Relax. First, it's a true statement. Second, it's no offense to me.
lol
I thought I offended someone here...
I just don't get Brazil's economic situation.
Protectionism?
@bwDraco I considered a Moto G5 non-plus, but it's usd 250 if I pay in cash or USD 320 if I pay in 10x; I could get one of those and my budget would still be OK but the cost / benefit of a Moto C is better.
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16:30
@ThatREDACTEDGuy If you want something like that ZTE phone (read: functional but rather shitty) I'll see what I can do about sending one over. Maybe it'll tide you over till you can more easily afford a decent one.
@Bob That's quite good for its price, but it's got quite a low dpi display and a low battery life
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy Its price is $39 here :P
(well. $79 most shops but OW has it cheap for some reason)
or wait a bit and maybe Coles will get one of the Moto phones in
they used to do decent prices (~$50 on special) on the Es, IIRC
if you could actually find it in stock
@Bob Well, I appreciate the offer (no, I really do!) but I think I'll buy probably a Moto C or maaaaybe a Moto G5, in 10 or 15x
Besides, I don't know from AU but from China the mail takes 4 to 6 months to deliver it
When your phone arrives I'll be using my new one for months :P
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy "10x"? "15x"? idk what those are :P
@ThatREDACTEDGuy ah... customs delays? yea not much I can do about that
10 or 15 montlhy payments
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16:33
ah
I was offered to teach Moodle classes for a month and they'll pay me a bit extra.
The course was being delayed since january and yesterday it got OK'ed
I just remembered that. I'll use the money to buy me a phone.
(That is, if they pay me before December. If they postpone it, red tape becomes involved and it will become a "someday we'll pay you" issue)
Sorry I just remembered that now and made you look for phone prices @Bob +_+"
...I think I got Bob mad at me? ._____.
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy naw, just sleepy and distracted :P
Even if it didn't happen, I really appreciate the gesture of you offering me a phone :D
Thanks for that
@Bob Get some sleep!
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy I was gonna say I might as well chuck the postage $ your way, but ... international transfers somehow cost a lot
godammit, banks
also TIL auspost changed its battery policy two years ago and I actually can ship batteries as long as they're installed in a device
@Bob Relax. I'll take care of it.
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16:46
@ThatREDACTEDGuy too much caffeine to relax :D
(nah, last cup of tea was around 3pm)
IT'S 2 AM STOP DRINKING COFFEE AND GO TO SLEEP
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy 3 am* :P
lol. there's a 9to5google ... copy of 9to5mac?
@bwDraco During the late 80's and early 90's (dates may be incorrect), you couldn't import hardware or software. At all.
It was (in theory) meant to stimulate local development.
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy s/simulate/starve/
In fact, it isolated the local industry, made the prices more expensive (IIRC) and when finally the tech protecionism ended, we were years behind the rest of the world
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16:54
you're doing globalisation wrong :P
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I do believe in the role of the government in regulating and inspecting the economy, work laws and worker rights, etc. But not like that.
Well, 2PM and I haven't eaten my lunch yet. I'm fixing this right now.
@Bob Bob, you're drunk zombie. Go to sleep!
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@ThatREDACTEDGuy but... the sizes...
O.o
@Bob What are those? Finger hoodies?
It was a joke... .___.
Meh. The Fedora live USB I prepared yesterday is apparently bad. System crashes with lots of block read errors.
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17:02
get a new flash drive
I suspect my USB drive is dying. It's an old Kingston 2GB flash drive.
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only $50 for 16GB!
It lived a good life.
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(is it actually?)
No, 6 USD for 16 GB USB 2.0
But.... It's SanDisk
And this is the cheapest price possible ever, cash only, in somewhat-shady kiosks
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17:04
@ThatREDACTEDGuy that ... is actually cheaper than here
There's a risk of it being fake. Not a huge risk, but it's there and happened to me.
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ignoring the income differences, anyway
About 4x the bus fare here
But my old flash drive had a LED light and a cool metalic cover
Sandisk is cheap fragile plastic
Hm. Kingston DT100G3/16G USB 3.0 is USD 10.
aaaaaand I forgot to eat.
/me quits
17:24
The problem with flash drives is that they're made to be as cheap as possible, as a simply way to store and transfer data, rather than as a robust long-term storage solution.
If you need quality, spend the extra money on a premium USB 3.0 flash drive, or better yet, a portable SSD.
(though "portable SSD" is too expensive for many people)
We see lots of stories of flash drives failing:
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Q: What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only?

bwDracoWhen I plug in my USB flash drive, it shows up on my computer as write-protected or read-only. I am unable to transfer data to it, nor can I modify or delete any files already stored on it. I also cannot repartition or reformat the drive using Windows Disk Management, DiskPart, GParted, or other ...

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Q: USB flash drive not working or is appearing as an empty disk drive, Disk Management reports "No Media" with 0 bytes size

bwDracoI have a USB flash drive which is no longer recognized by my computer. Windows Disk Management and DiskPart report No Media with no storage space (0 bytes) on the drive and I cannot partition or format the drive: Source If the drive appears in Windows Explorer, trying to access it returns an e...

Problems are so widespread that I had to write not one, but two canonical questions, each with several dozen duplicates.
"SSD-on-a-stick" flash drives with premium NAND and SSD-grade controllers (like the Corsair Flash Voyager GTX) are not much cheaper.
17:54
@ThatREDACTEDGuy ./me quits at Gigabit symmetrical speeds
Macbook Pro -> thunderbolt 3 dock -> GbE NIC -> 25 ft Ethernet Cable -> edge router -> ethernet cable -> Optical Network Terminal -> FIBER BACKBONE -> world
GIGABIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
18:08
¬¬'
I'm on a 100 Mbps link at home and T-Mobile LTE Advanced when I'm outside.
18:27
##define outside
I am getting a 75 Mbps link at home with 200GB cap (both up and down).
costs about 20 USD/month.
Not like anyone cares :/
@jokerdino -_-
hey, what's advertised may not be true.
could very well be 7.5 Mbps
>.<
I'm getting 250Mbps/20Mbps with no cap for like $80/mo
And I would gladly settle for less except that this is the only way to get more than 10Mbps upstream
18:36
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WTNT31 KNHC 051742
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BULLETIN
Hurricane Irma Intermediate Advisory Number 26A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       AL112017
200 PM AST Tue Sep 05 2017

...POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE IRMA HEADING
TOWARD THE LEEWARD ISLANDS...
...PREPARATIONS SHOULD BE NEARING COMPLETION IN THE EASTERNMOST
LEEWARD ISLANDS...


SUMMARY OF 200 PM AST...1800 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...16.9N 59.1W
ABOUT 180 MI...290 KM E OF ANTIGUA
ABOUT 185 MI...295 KM ESE OF BARBUDA
I'm paying 20$/mo for 70/7 with 150gb cap (and 20/2 after that)
though due to ADSL I can only get 20 and so it's kinda like I have no cap.
> The combination of a life-threatening storm surge and large breaking waves will raise water levels by as much as 7 to 11 feet above normal tide levels [...] rainfall may cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides [...] swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions
Wow. Just wow.
First it's Texas, now it's the Caribbeans, and soon it'll be Florida.
I already donated to American Red Cross for Harvey and I simply do not have the budget to put out more donations to humanitarian organizations.
@bwDraco Do not donate to the American Red Cross
Also, you do not necessarily have to donate to organisations to help during times of crisis, there's a lot else which can be done.
I know there have been issues with inefficient use of money - will be directing funds to Salvation Army as well.
18:44
But that's when the funds become available.
The Salvation Army are also a dumpster fire in the ways their name implies
Hi,fixer1234,I need your help.How can I share a Windows folder.Because I'm not an expert with these things.Thank you
@ubu16 why do you want to share your windows folder
@Avery,hi.I need to share a folder because I need to try to solve an update problem.Can you,please,be so kind to take a look to my question - Windows 10 Update error?
19:05
Please be patient - there are many questions posted to the site, and most of them receive responses in a couple days. If yours doesn't, please see What should I do if no one answers my question?
@BenN,hi,I just trying to explain why I want to share a folder
@allquixotic Oh really? Well, I doubled my home connection speed last week! Ha!
I'd recommend you to ask about your update problem and not the windows folder share thing
which you actually did, apparently.
19:20
what IS this
@djsmiley2k Either a cheap ripoff, or the original of which Disney's Lion King is a ripoff
@ubu16 I recommend wetransfer.com
@ThatREDACTEDGuy AND jungle book?
@Avery,OK.Thank you for you answer
19:54
ships in October... wait, isn't there some kind of a new candy bar thingy that's supposed to ship in October too?
what a coincidence
user226528
Hey, guys. I have a thought-provoking hardware question.
user226528
Oh, wait. Wrong chatroom. Nevermind.
omg don't tease
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you can ask it here
20:13
Erf. So it seems the last partial backup of my phone was from April and last full backup was last November.
Also the replacement has defective waterproofing seals
 
1 hour later…
21:21
@CircusCat :S Is it one of those (like Apple) that requires WiFi to do backups?
@allquixotic No, I suspect I did some goofy thing to the backup service (like disabling or removing it) when I last rooted my device
21:56
Last day!

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