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14:00
Ordered my new motorbike chain
Which will take longer to arrive than allq's laptop, no doubt
Despite coming from much closer
@rahuldottech what's up?
Bob
Bob
@Burgi "FedEx Express" => "FedExEx"
FedExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExExE‌​xExEx
@Bob yeah that so weird
@bertieb exams tomorrow
Exams in plural
Stormy Daniels was arrested. Is anyone surprised?
on what grounds?
he doesn't look happy at being in the UK
> Mr Trump, who will also spend time with the Queen during his two-day working visit, added: "I think they like me a lot in the UK; I think they agree with me on immigration...
@Burgi she let a man touch her in a non-sexual manner while pole dancing.
Apparently that's illegal (?)
shrug
14:29
> How to access Dark Web: Get yourself a VPN
Needless to say, while accessing the Dark Web, it is imperative to maintain anonymity over the web.
> Disconnect the camera or physically block your system's camera to avoid getting hacked.
THere's no such thing as a dark web
Which noob wrote this.
You... Don't need a VPN. You just need TOR.
And disconnecting your camera won't stop you from getting hacked
it'll stop your nudes from being shared
14:57
Who here knows German?
nods It's a language
(couldn't resist)
i learnt all my german from ww2 films
Google Translate was choking on the word "Untotendasein", returning "undead existence". The phrase in question is "der das Untotendasein willentlich als eine Form der Unsterblichkeit wählt", in de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untoter.
Well, not quite choking, but the right word to use here is "undeath" since AIUI "Untotendasein" should be understood as "the state of being undead".
"who voluntarily chooses undeath as a form of immortality" is how I'm reading this.
Wolfenstein has made me oddly fascinated with the German language.
bye
15:11
lel
15:22
@bwDraco i'm playing the old blood now
i don't like it as much as the first game
nazi zombies are so cliched
ugh
i've locked my machine up deleting node modules
It's meant for those who simply want more Wolfenstein action, and is a callback to the classic games.
15:47
Welp, the supplier shipped the chain+sprocket kit for my motorbike with FedEx
crosses fingers for 30 hours or less
@bertieb Gordon Brown, Trump and the Maybot?
@djsmiley2k Hah, well played
Terrifying
But well played
@bertieb its good news you are able to do this
@Burgi Yup :D
(I have sworn to my mum that I won't work on my bike alone)
Nails seem to be regrowing nicely too
Getting back to normal
16:09
I'm dumb but I need help to be not dumb
@JourneymanGeek yes there is. It's my localhost.
FedExEx, you say
Old laptop had Windows 10 Home installed on it from OEM (Dell). I moved its SSD over to my new laptop, but before doing so I upgraded Windows 10 Home using Windows Store on my new laptop, to Windows 10 Pro. Now when I activate Windows on the new laptop with the old laptop's Win10 installation, it says Win10 Home with a digital license
I don't have any license keys. How do I get my Win10 Pro purchase to apply to this box?
@Bob Strictly for hand jobs only?
Grrrrrr. I could really do with some drugs right now.
16:13
This Bloomberg stream has been going on since 31 Aug 2016. Is that a world record?
1.5 hours of faffing around in a bank to transfer money from one card to another, and I've not even had breakfast yet. So forgive me for being cranky as hell.
!! Caaaaaaaaat
!! Taytaytay
16:14
well that seems dead.
!! Kittens
@djsmiley2k oh, i'd forgotten about that. the black pitch. wonder when it'll dry up.
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic are you willing try something that might fail? do you have backups?
the record should be updated.
Bob
Bob
16:25
@allquixotic going to sleep soon but vaguely... try slmgr with a kms client key to do the edition upgrade, then delete the key and use the activation troubleshooter. did you link your previous activation? idk if the kms key is permanent so make sure you have a backup
@Bob I don't care if I lose data
inconvenient but not a dealbreaker
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic problem is I'm not sure if the method I'm thinking of might permanently break your os's activation
safer option might be contacting ms support and trying to get a key from them
@allquixotic slmgr /upk should in theory remove the key
but idk how to trigger a digital entitlement activation apart from the troubleshooter
slmgr /upk worked fine but when it reactivated it grabbed homne
s/homne/home
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic nono, the idea is you first use a Pro key to perform the edition upgrade, then delete the key, then hope it grabs the Pro digital licence
> Windows 10 Professional W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX
Hopefully that's enough to get the edition upgrade, though it obviously won't activate
After that you remove the key and let it activate with the hardware entitlement
hopefully. because I can't exactly test this in a VM
ohhhhhh
16:54
@Bob are we expecting it to grab from a Microsoft account or the "hardware key"?
@Bob I've kinda done that myself on many pieces of hardware.
@allquixotic what are you actually trying to do?
Bob
Bob
@RegularGDPR either/or
@RegularGDPR jsyk, he did the upgrade with a msdn key, deleted the key and digital licence activation works
17:18
> Hardware acceleration is a nice setting to fasten your browser speed but many times it causes bugs and defects especially when components like CPU, GPU and other are not so powerful. So it a good idea to disable the feature when you encounter ERR_SSL_VERSION_INTERFERENCE in Google Chrome.
wtf
17:56
Hey @allquixotic I noticed you have Hacknet in your Steam wish list, it's free until Sunday
@rahuldottech CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
!!xkcd 231
@rahuldottech Hello kitty =^_^=
18:11
ITS RAINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dances happily
You lucky bastards
@Burgi it was really cloudy here today
which was good because sports day in 30C heat isn't gonna be nice
however about 12ish it got really hot (to around 26C)
the downside is i think we are getting the last 6 weeks of rain all in one go
fortunately at that point we were all just having a picnic onm the school grounds.
yup sounds right
cue flashflooding
19:08
LOL
> really hot (to around 26C)
19:35
@ThatBrazilianGuy 'really cold' 17C LOL :P
So, about that.
Today my legs were freezing so much they were hurting.
I wore two socks and warm pants and checked the weather. 22C
And the other day it was 17C and I felt definitely much less cold.
And in the same previous day it was still 17C and it felt much more cold than previously 17C
IT MAKES NO SENSE!
Humidity
@Bob cool. I've had to push and pull licenses from Microsoft accounts (and then delete said Microsoft account from the machine, which is a pain) but never really tried with hardware licenses. Never quite figured out how it worked.
Urgh now I want it to be dry and sunny, its not.
Bob
Bob
@rahuldottech ...what.
20:07
/mme wibbles
no rain here ytet
we kinda need some tho
Pretty sure a bird littereally fell outta a tree today in teh garden
:O
@rahuldottech There's so many wrong things in this sentence. There's not a single correct thing in this sentence. (There's one semi-correct thing).
holy crap. new Macbook Pros just landed
not that I need one. and they're ridiculously expensive for what they provide, as usual
@allquixotic Did they make the keyboard smaller?
Or perhaps the trackpad is just comically large.
Razer Blade 15 with upgrades: $2400 + $389 (32 GB RAM) + $800 (Samsung 970 EVO 2 TB) - (resale value of 2 x 8 GB DDR4-SODIMM) - (resale value of 256 GB NVMe SSD) for: GTX 1070 Max-Q, 32 GB DDR4, 6-core Coffee Lake CPU, Microsoft Precision touchpad, 2 TB NVMe SSD, 144 Hz 1080p gaming-focused display
15" MBP: $6700 for: 4 TB NVMe SSD (!), 6-core Coffee Lake CPU, best touchpad in the world, 60 Hz "Retina" display (4:3), Radeon Pro 560"X" 4 GB
MBP wins on: fingerprint reader, CPU Hz, storage (though, wait for 4 TB SSDs to hit the market and I'll upgrade my Razer)
Razer wins on: GPU is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better, refresh rate, and price.
admittedly the MBP screen probably looks better color-wise, but I can't tell any problems with this 1080p screen /shrug
that Radeon Pro 560X is about half the GPU that a 1070 Max-Q is. and the unit isn't appreciably thinner or lighter
also, tbh I prefer Windows now, because Windows can do work and gaming, whereas MacOS can't game without dual booting which sucks
20:26
I want to get my wife a better laptop, she's been using her last one almost 10 years... it currently has a hole in the screen, a sticky keyboard, and requires a USB mouse because the trackpad doesn't work at all. I admire her thriftiness, but it's way past time to fix the situation.
@AaronHall O_O
I'm selling an Alienware 13 R3 with a 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM :P probably overkill unless she plays games though, as it's got a GTX 1060
Sounds like it needs a bit of percussive persuasion to put it out of it's misery...
The laptop, not your wife.
if you just want a web browsing machine, get an LG Gram, or if you want durability get a Thinkpad X series
every time I suggest getting her a new one she objects... poor violinist...
I have a couple mint condition Thinkpad X31s at home...
20:27
@allquixotic what did you want for it?
I want to upgrade her on the cheap so she doesn't feel bad about it.
Clippy is hilarious.
@AaronHall probably around the same as I would sell it on eBay for... to a friend / trusted colleague of sorts like yourself I'd probably throw in a hefty discount and/or free shipping, but right now similar models sell on eBay for $1100 and up... probably could get $1300 for it
i have a old thinkpad with gentoo on it
tho i don't use it
would probably go for $1100 to a friend who I know will be reasonable and not get the box and intentionally destroy it and be like "He sent me a broken computer!!!" and get their money back and then I'm left with no laptop or money
eBay scammers suck
it's not a super heavy laptop but the chassis is impressively sturdy; the only thing a Thinkpad has on it in terms of sturdiness, is that thinkpads are somewhat spill-proof because they have holes in the entire system that drain small amounts of spilled liquid right through the system harmlessly
I also have a Thinkpad T530 but it's not for sale; my dad is using it as his main system right now because we both are too lazy to fix his desktop
20:32
I'm trying to get by with ballpark $400
heh, $400 is what I would sell the T530 for because it's so old, but I can't part with it ... unless I could convince my dad to use the Alienware as his main system
in terms of new or manufacturer refurb laptops in that range, it's hard to go wrong with a base model Dell XPS, imo
or the new Surface Go :P
I spent ~$700 on my current laptop from Lenovo's outlet. I've mostly stuck to buying from dell outlets before that.
the Dell refurb outlet wants $560 for an XPS 13 9360, which has a Kaby Lake i3, 4 GB of RAM, and a 128 GB SSD
if your needs are super modest that's fine (Facebook, email, music and youtube)
She thinks mauve has the most RAM. Just kidding - but she really wants a red laptop...
yeah and racing stripes make your laptop faster too /s
20:41
check it out - it says it's red: outlet.us.dell.com/ArbOnlineSales/Online/…
21:22
SSH's into pfSense presents me a menu instead of a prompt. So I can't scp from it.
The "easy" way of copying a file is "Diagnostics –> Command Prompt --> Download File"
Command Prompt? Really, pfSense?
Meanwhile, there is a "Edit file" directly under "Diagnostics", just because.
I had to google it after looking for a few minutes and not finding it. Despite having used it a couple days ago!
I modified the proposed theme we were giving in the great redesign thread of 2018!
My answer is here, I'd appreciate any feedback:
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A: Rollout of new network site themes

Michael FrankSuperuser I think brand colouring and identity is important. I have slightly tweaked the proposed Superuser theme to use the on-brand colour from the colourised Superuser logo: The right-hand side logo mosaic, doesn't really represent the Superuser logo that I am familiar with, the logos are ...

Hey @allquixotic did you see my ping about Nethack being free?
@ThatBrazilianGuy Angband is better tho.
I know neither game, I just got a notification from a Telegram channel I follow and noticed Allq's got this game on his wish list.
I have a whole load of games on my backlog that's enough to last me years.
Specially on my current pace of "Steam? What's Steam? Last login date: 2 months ago".
@ThatBrazilianGuy I want to play Angband again, but I have to resist the temptation to grind on low-level stuff because, time-wise, it's really not worth it, even though it feels like safe-leveling.
21:30
I don't like games where you have to mindlessly grind for leveling up. Or games with loot boxes.
I like games with a sense of progressing in a plot
Even if not necessarily in a cinematic way
@ThatBrazilianGuy If I could tweak Angband just a little, I'd make boots of speed a little more common.
@ThatBrazilianGuy yeah thanks
didn't atually want it though
22:12
I need system usage statistics including application usage time, lag time, net usage stats etc. How do I fetch that?
Lag time? Wtf is that?
@djsmiley2k How long application not responding.
22:29
and I also realized the i3 processor is a quadcore. Not sure what to do with that info.
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