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In 2014, I was using a Net plan which has a monthly usage cap, of, I think it was 16GB. Or something close to that. It wasn't cheap, either. Since then, unlimited plans have become the norm, though they still throttle after a certain amount of usage.

Proper unlimited plans aren't here yet. And Indians are prone to abuse their Net connections, so that may be a sticking point. (But I ramble.)

What's the current bandwidth norm in the US? 50 megabits/sec? More?

@FaheemMitha What do you mean by "abuse their net connections"?

@Hakase or you can be like North Korea and make your own www.

@ThatBrazilianGuy Download lots of stuff, like torrents. Maybe porn. I don't know.

1:07 PM

@FaheemMitha pfffft i doubt it.

@djsmiley2k korea wide web

I suppose it's not that serious a problem, really.

@FaheemMitha last I checked, you paid for bandwidth and speed. So why not use it?

@djsmiley2k Sure. But they don't think like that in India.

This is a fun little browser game: andyslife.org/games/parameters.swf

1:08 PM

It's not exactly a customer service type place. It's a place of crazy.

needs flash

@FaheemMitha "Downloading lots of stuff" is what an internet connection is literally made to. Torrents, if not illegal, aren't even an issue. And neither is porn if all parties are 18+.

@ThatBrazilianGuy I'm sure the torrents are (mostly) illegal. But I think the usage is the potential issue. Anyway, things might change in India, they've already changed a lot.

broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/…

fcc.gov/reports-research/maps

@Burgi flash tho.

1:09 PM

But no matter how much the internet situation improves, it still won't be an earthly paradise.

!!why tho

yeah i know

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@djsmiley2k Because. Now shutup.

@djsmiley2k So that's a no, then?

@ChatBotJohnCavil :o that's not very nice or welcoming :p

1:10 PM

;D

You're 30-something right? Did they have MSX on the UK?
Alhtough maybe @DavidPostill might be more apt to answer that.

Some Eastern places have pretty good networks. How is Singapore? And Hong Kong?

@ThatBrazilianGuy is it a TV show?

webmsx.org

@Burgi An 80's computer.

1:11 PM

howmuch.net/articles/cost-of-broadband-internet

@ThatBrazilianGuy no

we had the spectrum, amigas and acorns in the 80s

acorns?

like nuts?

!!wiki acorn computers

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Acorn Computers

Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s. It is more known for its BBC Micro model B computer than for its other products. Though the company was broken up into several independent operations in 1998, its legacy includes the development of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) personal computers. One of its operating...

walnuts :I

Acorn Computers sounds like a very off-brand imitation of Apple Computers

1:20 PM

thats why they chose the name

@FaheemMitha Mostly pretty good in singapore

TML Cat

@Burgi They're called finger cots

batch file experts of the world.

come to me now!

/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LOGWOT8/LOGWOT8.STATE

needs to become /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ $x86$/LOGWOT8/LOGWOT8.STATE

1:36 PM

...annnnnnnd?

you should just quote it

'/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LOGWOT8/LOGWOT8.STATE'

easy done

(I'm completely guessing cause I have no context :P)

@JourneymanGeek 50 megabits/sec?

hah

Fixed line? 200 is 'slow'

gigabit is about 50-60sgd a month

@JourneymanGeek 200 megabits/sec is slow? What do you have?

200 megabits/sec ;p

Should do gigabit actually but my home network infra is a bit knackered

@JourneymanGeek ok

1:45 PM

@Bob hehe

yeha, it's built from %ProgramFiles(x86)%

but i give up on that program, too buggy

back to my original question

Anyone good at rotating files on windows? :D

rotating in what way

180 degrees, 90 or 270

or are you looking for arbitrary angles? coz that's a whole layer of added complexity

mirroring left-to-right and upside-down is another matter entirely :p

theverge.com/2018/4/18/17252312/…

wanted to ask what's new in 2019 for onenote but apparently NOTHING

technically

Less than nothing.

-everything

> The existing desktop app, OneNote 2016, will no longer get new features but Microsoft will keep updating it to fix any security issues or bugs until its end of life in October 2020.

:I

I hope that new app will be just as good and fully-capable

and that I'll be able to arrange multiple windows in a compact manner on a screen like now

otherwise I'll have to make myself a note taking app >:I

> Can I continue using OneNote 2016?

Yes — OneNote 2016 isn’t going anywhere. You can continue using it for as long as you want, even if you upgrade to Office 2019. However, after the conclusion of the Office 2016 support lifecycle (October 13, 2020 for mainstream support and October 14, 2025 for extended support) we will no longer provide support, security updates, or fixes for OneNote 2016.

well thanks

> Microsoft recommends using OneNote for Windows 10, but OneNote 2016 is still optionally available for anyone who needs it — especially if you have locally stored notebooks or

> Maybe your work or school relies on a feature that isn’t yet supported on Windows 10, or you don’t want to store your notebooks in the cloud. If so, you’re more than welcome to continue using OneNote 2016, but please note that it is no longer being updated with new features.

>:c

I moved my notes to local notebooks because switching between them is instant

if it's on onedrive, there's an insanity-indicing slight delay for almost every action

an infuriating delay

I can't remember when the last time I used the online notebooks of any considerable size was, but I remember exactly how it felt

but yea thanks for not killing the 2016 app

also I'm not sure anyone else in the world is using it to the extent I do :p

it's hard to gauge interest coz subreddits and ms forums are almost empty

2:12 PM

@Hakase New in OneNote 2019: reduced disk usage by 100%

that IS the gauge

:D

yea well... if it's cloud only then I guess it can safely ignore using the disk altogether

afaik surface studio despite being wacom but better didn't sell really well

and the surface tablets aren't getting good reviews for their manufacturing quality and heating

it was weird how they put a mobile base under that screen

it's basically a wacom replacement but they didn't use a 10xx card for some reason

they could have totally put a 1060m in there at least instead of 965m

> i5 Intel 8GB: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 965M 2GB GDDR5 memory
i7 Intel 16GB: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 965M 2GB GDDR5 memory
i7 Intel 32GB: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980M 4GB GDDR5 memory

they took the best screen and designed a great stand but put a budget mobile platform inside

@Hakase 980M isn't budget. It's the highest-end one of that generation.

I think a second version might appear when the new gpus release but it'll also have 10xx gpus instead of 20xx

@Bob but 10xx was live by then

The Surface Studio was released Dec 2016. That would've meant many months/years of design, testing and validation.

2:19 PM

yea guess it's not tested enough to risk it

The 10xx series (for desktop, not even the mobile ones) was released mid-2016.

Most (all?) laptop-y products released 2016 would've had the 9xx gen.

@Hakase The desktop ones, yes. The laptop ones took a while longer.

Those were only Aug 2016.

By Aug 2016 they would've already started manufacturing. Far too late for any design change.

I'm assuming there was no shortage of mobile gpu versions coz you can't just buy them off the shelves but idk how that fits into my other guesses :p

With these boards they either use MXM cards or directly solder it on the board. I'd bet the Surface Studio GPUs are not MXM.

maybe they'll release that screen separately from the computer part so it can be a new wacom replacement

You can't just swap out the GPU chip.

2:22 PM

you can probably solder up some connectors for the screen/touch/pen parts tho

Would've pushed the release back by probably 1-2 years ... by which time 11xx would be out.

something tells me 2080 reads cooler than 1180 and they'll go with that naming convention instead :p

(we'll find out)

from stackoverflow.blog/2018/05/16/helping-teams-get-started/?cb=1

2:38 PM

@Hakase that shuttle has exhaust coming from the outside of the rocket nozzles

mm yeaa..

and I'm not sure shuttles are supposed to launch themselves from the ground without a booster platform

3:09 PM

Good morning.

other than the very largest companies, i'm not even sure how something like se would help

ENNA MIKE?

sollu Mike, epdi iruka

@djsmiley2k oh man.

@jokerdino poorthu ;p

Where do Corporate IT questions go? :/

@JourneymanGeek ?

3:11 PM

@djsmiley2k I think the idea is its SO/SE for places too small to be able to pay for a full instance.

Server Fault

@djsmiley2k it's back to Stack Exchange v1.0

@djsmiley2k there's an utter lack of any form of documentation where I work and its scary

I'd love an SE instance where I could go "What's an error foo?" and have a write up by an L2

@JourneymanGeek welcome to my world

rather than searching on whatsapp

so burgi could go "Ok, I can throw in a 20 a month and get a channels instance" and basically have internal stuff there.

actually

stackoverflow.com/teams

a tenner?

3:13 PM

how does whatsapp work as a tech support channel?

@Burgi pretty terribly

it's awful

we use OS ticket

@Burgi it makes me hate my life

I literally will uninstall whatsapp from my phone when I quit this job.

nice name

... oh

that's how much i hate it

3:17 PM

:/

and we use like

6-7 different rooms

bertieb

Hosting internal data with SE might raise a few eyebrows?

Though $10/mo seems pretty cheap

will they not migrate to a more monolithic solution like OS ticket or spiceworks?

@bertieb per user?

omg I am getting ads in AU

oh, I was logged out o.O

who did tis?

bertieb

@jokerdino $10 per first 10 users it seems

3:33 PM

@JourneymanGeek is that every job now? are you cursed? :P