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FML Cat

00:00

@Bob no that's my rented server

Speaking of which I really need to move to something cheaper, since I'm practically not using this one

Bob

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/auxwe4/…

USB 3.2 Gen1x1! USB 3.2 Gen 1x2! USB 3.2 Gen 2x1! USB 3.2 Gen 2x2!

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech dude. There's a reason we have that rule ._.

Bob

ChatBot John Cavil

00:25

@FMLCat That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

FML Cat

Oops

FML Cat

01:22

Good thing I can turn my lights off with my phone because I keep losing my light switch #FirstWorldProblems

allquixotic

02:20

Prison Architect Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - The Forestry Only Challenge

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this is my favorite video in a long time :D

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rahuldottech

06:16

@bertieb too busy with exams now, laterzzzz

Ok so India is sortaaa at the verge of war now?

@JourneymanGeek did you escape yet?

Journeyman Geek

Back home with my comfy chair.

My biggest worry now is the chinese spying on me through my APs ;p

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek luckyyy

Did you hear about the bombings?

Journeyman Geek

Yup

Journeyman Geek

07:21

@DavidPostill hm. The wireshark dumps look like gibberish

DavidPostill

Ah well ... it was worth a try ...

Journeyman Geek

(I might not know how to read them, nor do I know what's useful)

DavidPostill

Me neither. I just know that is what the network gurus used to look at when diagnosing VoIP issues at $job-1

Journeyman Geek

lol

DavidPostill

You might want to ask in the network eng chat room if someone can help you interpret them ...

Journeyman Geek

07:26

hm. Feels a bit help vampiry :/

DavidPostill

Shrug

rahuldottech

@Bob what the hell man

Wasn't USB supposed to remove all confusion?

And just be one universal standard?

It's in the name ffs

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill also off topic there

though I suspect folks might find it amusing.

DavidPostill

Off topic? Really?

Journeyman Geek

> (Note: All questions about RESIDENTIAL/HOME networking and CONSUMER-grade equipment, are explicitly OFF-topic.)

Michael Frank

07:33

@allquixotic Girthy Long boi???

Journeyman Geek

I've got a router I built myself connected to the cheapest mesh router I can find

forum.tendacn.com/forum/home-wireless-ac-router/…

also forum.tendacn.com/forum/home-wireless-router/…

looks like I'm not the only one who noticed

DavidPostill

lol

Journeyman Geek

07:53

I still don't trust them but... I'll sort it out later ;p

Bob

08:21

@JourneymanGeek gimme

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Burgi

09:26

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djsmiley2k

11:50

@allquixotic Wait til you view the tea plantation one

Seth

12:46

He has some other great videos as well. Can be quite entertaining.

Journeyman Geek

12:59

Out cat a cat? I don't know if that is brilliant or crazy. Probably both. — cobaltduck yesterday

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allquixotic

14:51

Rebuilding a $34K SGI Computer from 1994 | Indigo2 Extreme Retro Revisit

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@JourneymanGeek ^ SGI

bwDraco

And a retrofitted Noctua fan :)

(if you're wondering, I even have USB-powered Noctua fans)

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djsmiley2k

16:32

One argument I saw against Flat Earth is that if the earth were flat, cats would have knocked everything off of it by now. — Acccumulation yesterday

Hahaha

bertieb

16:43

@JourneymanGeek Feels like there's been a few Pets answers recently which boil down to "out cat the cat"

One about a diabetic cat IIRC

bwDraco

16:54

Just finished another routine server update.

Burgi

got this in spam:

what an epic name

djsmiley2k

ffs why do things have to be so weird sometimes

We've got a new monitoring server so I'm adding hosts for snmp monitoring

all going well until I come to one that doesn't work

digging deeper, I can't find anythin to allow the existing monitoring to work

it's like it works simply by magic, because from what I can tell it should be blocked on the firewall.

Hennes

that reminds me of early IPv6

Firewall with lots of IPv4 rules. And windows helpfully opening V6 up wide

rahuldottech

@bertieb dude I did it again

Said something awkward and weird (in front of my crush!!) and now I'm dying inside

bertieb

@rahuldottech If she noticed, might actually help you in the medium-term, assuming you want it to go somewhere

Too laid back and bland? not gonna notice you Nice guy who says the occasional interesting, if somewhat odd, thing? now you've got interest

People say weird awkward stuff all the time

Especially around exams

source: am sitting exams

No-one† cares

†mum mode on: anyone who does care about you saying one silly wee thing isn't someone you want as a friend anyway

Still though, I get the cringe factor, and it's hard to let yourself off the hook even though it's logical

source: have said many cringey things in my life

The day I realised no-one cared was the day I became a much happier person

Do something else, take yer mind off of it, and forget it :)

Hennes

17:17

Damn. Good old games is getting worse

bertieb

Privacy update?

Haven't read it yet, is there a tl;dr?

Hennes

Financially not in optimal shape

bwDraco

@Hennes Yeah. The GOG platform is dying. I hope that with the Steam hegemony breaking up, they can leverage this opportunity to pull in more gamers and developers...

(something something something, Epic Games Store)

Hennes

I am just trying to look which more games (DRM free!) to buy and store on disk

bwDraco

Typically, I get "lighter" games (as in, something that doesn't necessarily need Astaroth to run) on GOG, but Steam is still an option.

It's not really DRM that's the issue more than it is convenience and a lighter footprint (I don't need to launch the Steam client or other client software to run the game).

Hennes

17:31

hmm, I seem to have 95 GOG games

And yes, I knwo that sounds like aq piN number

But that includes the game I played on a 386-SX 16MHz:

Star wars - Xwing 1993

and Star wars - Xwing 1994

and Star wars - Xwing 1998

bertieb

Ah, the good ol' X wing games

Takes me back

XKCD

17:46

"Symbolic integration" is when you theatrically go through the motions of finding integrals, but the actual result you get doesn't matter because it's purely symbolic.

Jonas Stein

@XKCD, are you Randall?

rahuldottech

@bertieb truue

@XKCD integration makes up 30% of my math syllabus and I FEEL THIS IN MY BONES

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djsmiley2k

19:03

Maths man, how does it owrk

bertieb

Magnets, you say

djsmiley2k

Effective over infinite distances,you say?

rahuldottech

19:28

@djsmiley2k apparently...?

djsmiley2k

indeed.

Now I think about it, I'm not actually sure that's true xD

Hennes

20:00

@allquixotic That reminded my of our card playing table...

djsmiley2k

20:16

o_O

@bertieb I was fortunate to learn this some time in my teens

it still took me 10-15 years to work thru the other crap

bwDraco

21:01

tomshardware.com/news/…

Dec 26 '17 at 19:31, by bwDraco

Then again... using NVENC produces a consistent ~10-15% drop in framerate in Assassin's Creed Origins, which is far better than the much greater and less predictable drop (including stuttering) with CPU-based encoding.

Brilliant.

Now they've cut that overhead to closer to 5%.

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bertieb

22:42

Oo eck

Me homeserver's just gone offline

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Michael Frank

23:55

@bertieb Kids?

That's normally the reason my homeserver ends up offline.