The Renderfarm

X the fluffy 27 unicorn

02:22

Still miss IkLsR....

found that gif from ages ago

Amir

16:08

Hi all. Brecht wants to post a community ad here

He's wondering when he can do it for 2019?

The meta post for 2019 has not been posted yet

@David @gandalf3

someonewithpc

18:21

Hello people o/ Still mostly the same people around, that's nice to see :)

TARDIS Maker

18:55

@someonewithpc Hey, how are you doing?

someonewithpc

20:30

@TARDISMaker Eh, not too bad... About to start a week-full of exams. Not looking forward to it... You?

TARDIS Maker

20:40

@someonewithpc Sounds fun :P

@someonewithpc I'm doing pretty well

Just got a promotion at work (mcdonalds) so I'm a manager now

I won't say more than that just because this is the internet

But it will be interesting

My computer died, so I got a laptop and have to set that all up

And I got a mechanical keyboard and headphones

(christmas produced some good presents this year)

someonewithpc

21:00

Ooh, sounds nice :)

I need to get some sort of job, too...

Not sure if I mentioned, but I'm studying Computer science. Probably not too surprising :P

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Nope! :P

It sounds cool though

What type of programming and such interests you?

someonewithpc

Ooh, hard to say...

But recently learned prolog and it's quite interesting

Weird, but interesting. A cool thing is that to some extent you can run computations forwards and backwards

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Huh, that's interesting

It's mostly used for AI type stuff? (wikipedia)

someonewithpc

Ya, it's the main application

But we weren't doing any of that for now

We had an assignment where we had to make a calculator with polynomials and then a layer of natural language processing on top, to make it understand commands in English

TARDIS Maker

That sounds interesting

someonewithpc

21:13

@TARDISMaker Sorry if it's rude, but are you studying?

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc I'm still in high school

In my last year

someonewithpc

Ah, ok

Planning on going to college?

TARDIS Maker

Yes

The currently plan is to study percussion performance

someonewithpc

Oh, cool :) I think I remember you played keyboard, at least, right..?

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Piano you mean? I do a bit, but I'm not very good

I also play xylophone and such and I'm better at that :)

But my specialty is timpani

Timpani

Timpani (; Italian pronunciation: [ˈtimpani]) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. Most modern timpani are pedal timpani and can be tuned quickly and accurately to specific pitches by skilled players through the use of a movable foot-pedal. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet. Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical orchestra...

someonewithpc

21:22

@TARDISMaker I don't even know what that is .-.

@TARDISMaker Thanks :)

TARDIS Maker

(because most people have no idea what timpani are)

@someonewithpc :P

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Well, you're not wrong :P

@TARDISMaker Right, yes, sorry

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc That's fine, I just wanted to make sure we were talking piano and not mallet percussion

Mallet percussion

A mallet percussion instrument is a melodic percussion instrument played in a particular fashion, with mallets. Mallet percussion includes: xylophone glockenspiel (or bells) vibraphone marimba Metallophone crotales balafon aluphoneThe use of mallet percussion dates back at least 4,000 years to the first known xylophone. Mallet percussion was first used in a modern European orchestra in 1874, when Camille Saint-Saëns used a xylophone in his Dance Macabre.Modern mallet percussion instruments exist at many levels, from toy glockenspiels such as the Pixiphone popularly (and incorrectly) known as...

someonewithpc

Also useful... I'd call it a xylophone

But that's probably insulting :P

Sounds cool, though :)

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc That depends on if it's actually a xylophone or not :P

someonewithpc

21:25

Got anything you played I could listen to?

TARDIS Maker

But I'm used to people not knowing whats going on

@someonewithpc Nothing solo

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Right, generic term

TARDIS Maker

Do you want to hear some orchestra music?

someonewithpc

Sure :)

Though I probably won't appreciate it much...

TARDIS Maker

Star Wars Suite (Williams) performed by the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra

►

Thats from last year

someonewithpc

21:27

Not too keen on music, if I'm honest. Like, I appreciate it and there are some I like better and what not, but I normally don't listen to it by itself

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc I can get that

someonewithpc

Tend to mostly listen to podcasts while working, for instance

TARDIS Maker

Sure

I would probably find that distracting, but to each their own

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Yep, I get that. It's mostly just noisy, but it let's me focus on it if I want to take a small break and kind of flush my train of thought

@TARDISMaker Sounds good :)

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Thanks :) It was a lot of fun to play

someonewithpc

21:30

I'm guessing you don't want to say what you were playing there?

TARDIS Maker

That group is like 20 times better than I am

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker I bet :)

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Well keep it as anonymous as it can be :P

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Fair enough :)

@TARDISMaker Fan of the series, then?

Star Trek is better :P

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Not a ton actually

someonewithpc

21:31

I haven't watched basically any star wars

Still

TARDIS Maker

I enjoy it, but I didn't watch them until I was like 14 or 15

@someonewithpc I still haven't seen the prequels

someonewithpc

I think I just watched some animated thing, which I bet doesn't qualify as real

TARDIS Maker

Nice :P

someonewithpc

Played anything interesting recently?

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc In terms of music?

someonewithpc

21:34

@TARDISMaker No, sorry :P

Games

TARDIS Maker

Ah, okay

someonewithpc

I guess I should have clarified

TARDIS Maker

I'm stuck on Factorio

someonewithpc

Stuck how?

TARDIS Maker

As in its the only game I really play

It's really great

someonewithpc

21:34

I bought it, but didn't finish the tutorial...

Somehow got sidetracked and didn't get back to it

TARDIS Maker

I'm also playing some cities skylines and openttd

@someonewithpc Sure

I think you have to get out of the tutorial and into the free play to actually get into it

someonewithpc

The only game I've been kind of playing is Breath of The Wild

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc I actually haven't played that at all

someonewithpc

It's neat, but I'd say it's kind of overrated

TARDIS Maker

Sure

someonewithpc

21:37

Playing on cemu, btw, not going to buy a switch for that :P

TARDIS Maker

I wouldn't either

someonewithpc

Using Blender at all?

I actually managed to get a small gig in the summer where I used it, so that was a pleasant surprise

Planning on diving into the coding side of it, after my exams

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Not really

someonewithpc

The irony...

TARDIS Maker

I made some short films with it (editing) in the past couple years but that's it

@someonewithpc I know :P

I like the people here so I stay somewhat active :)

someonewithpc

21:40

I wish there was a proper way to get notifications on my phone, because this way, clearly, I don't check in often enough

TARDIS Maker

I even go on the main site every once in a while :P

someonewithpc

:o

:P

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc I can see that

Usually happens to me is I'm doing something unrelated (usually looking for something on stack overflow) and I see that I was pinged

Or that I got some rep for something from four years ago

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Yep, that's common

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Yeah, I haven't asked or answered a question on SE in a couple years now

someonewithpc

21:42

I got a comment saying that, actually, amd does have open source drivers. True, but my comment was from two years ago :P

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Exactly :)

Everything is completely different than it was a couple years ago

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker On no

TARDIS Maker

Linux support seems to be really great

someonewithpc

Scary

@TARDISMaker Yeah, probably, but I never used it...

BTW, still on the linux master race?

TARDIS Maker

I included debian instructions in that one gpu post forever ago and I'm pretty sure it's all completely outdated now

@someonewithpc Absolutely

someonewithpc

21:44

Heey, nice

Distro?

I finally jumped to arch

with i3. Wonder where I heard of that before...

TARDIS Maker

Arch

@someonewithpc with bspwm

@someonewithpc i3 is a great choice

someonewithpc

Yep, quite like it

TARDIS Maker

I ran that as my daily for at least six months or so

someonewithpc

But I don't get the i3-gaps nonsese

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Ha :)

@someonewithpc I wouldn't bother

It's built in for bspwm, so in that case it makes sense to play around with it, but I would never install that fork just for that

someonewithpc

21:46

But yeah, really neat so far. A bit of work, but it's stable

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Absolutely

someonewithpc

Somehow, for me, Debian kept breaking my graphics driver

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Huh...

someonewithpc

Happened twice with updates

Which is weird and probably my fault

TARDIS Maker

It's funny, because arch has always been more stable than any other distro for me

someonewithpc

21:47

But I just took the opportunity to jump to arch

TARDIS Maker

If something ever gets messed up, usually I think "this is going to mess this all up" before I do it

Then I spend 2 hours trying to fix the bug just to figure out that I just need to undo what I did earlier

@someonewithpc It's a good choice

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker uh?

TARDIS Maker

I really like the way they manage everything

someonewithpc

I would prefer some aspects of debian, but can't complain

TARDIS Maker

What particularly do you prefer?

someonewithpc

21:50

I really like how fast pacman is, but I'm not too big of a fan of how the AUR works, I guess

Using pikaur, but still

It's really useful, though

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Ah

I really like the AUR

someonewithpc

And I can't seem to get some DE-type-stuff to work correctly

TARDIS Maker

But I didn't pay enough attention when I install things

someonewithpc

But it's really minor

And the really updated stuff is really nice

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Are you trying to integrate i3 into a DE

@someonewithpc That was one of the original reasons why I switched

someonewithpc

21:51

For instance, emacs. On debian I was kind of stuck with 24 or something ridiculous, while 26.1 is out

TARDIS Maker

It's really nice knowing that if there are instructions saying "make sure this is up to date" that it already is

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Yes..? I don't know...

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Yeah, that's painful

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Like, the only way I got it to work was to use lightdm to launch i3

So I don't think so..? But I do have xfce and "some" kde stuff installed

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Thats what I used to do

Is it more just figuring out the taskbars and such?

someonewithpc

21:53

("some" because it just pulls in everything... I just wanted a screen shot tool, why do I need a full kde install :( )

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Yeah, that's annoying

Maybe look at scrot?

There are actually a lot of really nice lightweight graphical utilities you can use

Zathura for example is a great lightweight pdf viewer

Feh is great for viewing images

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker No, but, for instance, some steam games don't seem to work for me, while everyone says they do... Not really related, but stuff like that

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Huh...

All your drivers are installed correctly?

someonewithpc

And had a weird problem with the backlight changing somewhat randomly

But that's fixed

@TARDISMaker Everything else seems to work :P

TARDIS Maker

Wierd

someonewithpc

21:56

Basically, some small little things

Lack of polish

Which is fine, it's probably my fault

TARDIS Maker

Sure

@someonewithpc Some things like that happen to me

someonewithpc

But still, overall, for sure worth it

TARDIS Maker

On my last install I never setup wifi and swap correctly so every time I booted up I ran a shell script to do it

someonewithpc

Oof

TARDIS Maker

This time it just works out of the box because I actually knew what I was doing

someonewithpc

21:57

Yep, yep

TARDIS Maker

Also, I had to have pavucontrol startup on boot each time so that I could set the correct headphone settings

Otherwise it come through speakers (even though headphones were plugged in)

I think part of that was hardware though

someonewithpc

Yeah, I had some weird problem with audio, but it's fixed

Don't remember how, though...

TARDIS Maker

Audio was always the worst thing to setup

@someonewithpc Exactly

Happens to me every time

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker And, actually, getting it to work with optimus was kind of weird

So maybe it's not setup correctly

Dunno

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc I don't think I even bothered with that

I'm not sure if my computer has it or not

I'm going to have to do some research

someonewithpc

21:59

Yeah, I didn't want to

But I think I had to

TARDIS Maker

'Okay

someonewithpc

The main gpu passes through the other one, and I couldn't get it to work otherwise

TARDIS Maker

Optimus is basically sli between the integrated and dedicated bpu isn't it?

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker Uh, kind of

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Ah, okay

someonewithpc

22:01

They don't work at the smae time

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Okay

someonewithpc

Just multiplexed, kind of

TARDIS Maker

On windows, when I have a monitor connected, windows has the dedicated running monitor and the integrated running the other

someonewithpc

Allows you to switch between one and the other

TARDIS Maker

Okay

Anyway, I have to shower and make dinner

So I'll talk with you later

someonewithpc

22:02

Anyway, really nice chat

@TARDISMaker :P

I need to study, too

TARDIS Maker

@someonewithpc Yeah, I'm homeschooled so I can do that :P

someonewithpc

@TARDISMaker o/

@TARDISMaker Neat. It's not really a thing here, btw

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