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I can get like 700 AUD for my KOT I reckon so thatโs a nice boost to finance
Aight
Cya
A piano
Well a 88 key midi piano
Need to figure out a good synth solution for it
good morning gentlemen ๐ I am looking at a decent option for measuring temperatures in my house, what would you suggest?
a thermometer
I considered making the same statement
@coarse beacon i use ble xiaomi sensors with a esp32 running esphome
I have been using the Honeywell Evohome system in our house for multi-zone underfloor heating since it's we've moved in. I've also been having issues with this system since that time and it's cost me a lot of work to get it to do what it should do and I'm really fed up with i...
Two parts
Xiaomi also has #zigbee-archived sensors that are good and you can do #diy-archived for a few โฌ too
Amstradam
@hushed basalt @ocean mirage i started out in keys with daw and midi, but I wanted a physical synth too, so bought a used Triton for $200
Yeah, the Triton needs some work, the buttons are used up
But it is fun to play with
And it has a recorder
And some classic korg sounds
The concept that Roland has is pretty cool
You can rent or buy old synths as vsts
As long as you have a subscription you have access
When I listened to them as a child they were a doom metal band
But i like their newer stuff more
Why buys smart home stuff at the airport 
im not sure where else you might go
If you're not making smart devices you're going to be left behind
I've always wanted a smart coffee table, or a smart sink,
Smart smart smart,
smart couch is where its at dude
Worst thing I ever saw was an ostrich iPad cover, only $450
wtf does an ostrich even need an ipad for
so it can run in slowmo with a nice tune, without it it's just a stupid ostrich runnig slow
Juiceroo

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The possibilities are endless ๐ Lights flash if you close the bathroom door and there's no paper haha
With some BT tracking you could finally prove it wasn't you who took the last roll too!
This could ruin sooo many marriages
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...though to be fair, so could HA in general.
Pro tip: TRร DFRI bulbs default to max light after a power outage. Don't put them in the bedroom if your power is iffy around 3:45 in the morning.
That's typical for most Zigbee bulbs AFAIK
Hue only recently gave an option to change that behaviour
It's so that folks can treat them like dumb devices and flip the light switch (or if you listen to Philips, it's a safety feature)
Yeah. It's a great feature, really.
But try explaining that when the kid's been up eight times during the night.
I didn't know hue had the option to change that.. I've not gotten around to changing the switches yet. So when someone hits the switch and the bulb loses power, it loses it's scene and brightness when it comes back on ๐ฆ
So annoying.
I think that's the setting actually. TRร DFRI keeps brightness and hue, but turns on. HUE turns on to max by default.
It's even better when there's a power outage
You have to go around and turn the switches off so it doesn't slam you
@low harness aye, my tradfri keep the settings after a power outage
And you can enable it on the hue in the bridge
Not sure if that carries over to zigbee2mqtt, I will see when I move them
Usually our power outages are during the night
So it was very nice for hue to stay off if they were off
Bbl 10h, I suspect this flight has no WiFi ๐
yaaayyy another try installing openstack ๐คฎ
OpenStack ๐ค That looks interesting
it is - but it bites ๐
when you want to try it on a cent vm rename enpx.. to eth0 (didnt worked otherwise on baremetal ๐คทโโ๏ธ ) disable firewalld, NetworkManager and selinux. enable network and run ```
$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo yum install -y centos-release-openstack-stein
$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo yum install -y openstack-packstack
$ sudo su
$ packstack --allinone --provision-demo=n --os-neutron-ovs-bridge-mappings=extnet:br-ex --os-neutron-ml2-type-drivers=vxlan,flat
that will get you to a nice testing ground
CentOS... has RPM hell improved over the years?
I remember fighting RPM version dependency years ago. Switched to Debian based and never looked back ๐
ist prittey much usable - but stick to 7 for now - 8 depriciated yum
I actually even enjoy fedora
sudo ๐ install
dnf - do not fix?
dnf install whatever.rpm works grate
but you only use cent for the server anyway
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-10/
debian got you coverd ๐
Woo wifi

Debian 4 lyfe
But I find tumbleweed bearable too
Might switch my docker environment to Debian, but I did tumbleweed because I am suse certified, so it was supposed to be a maintaining of skill 
I guess I can't totally checkmark Debian because I only really have experience with Raspbian but it is based on Debian at least
In the end most stuff is either a derivative of Debian, or red hat
Like Ubuntu!
And then there are a few oddballs
Your favorite!
Good morning , new to hassio. Happy to be here and loving hassio so far
Leila, got me on my knees Leila, got me begging please ๐ต
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Welcome to an amazing trip of buying a lot of stuff you can't figure out how to use, and buying everything five times to get it right 
awwww yeah I am already getting there. For now my configuration is very basic. Have added few tplink switches , one zwave power reciptical and configured my eero wifi
@strange vapor flying over your head in 10 minutes
@clear ferry so what was on the menu?
Peanuts and flat pop
Oh wow
Close enough
Better than I expected after flying Norwegian or sas before ๐
No kidding though, that looks like a solid menu
Indeed. Excluding the goat cheese pizza
Goat cheese can be good, I should send you some classic Norwegian brown cheese @tidal bronze
You'll love it
Please be sure to report the condition of carbonation with the pop
Do like goat cheese but not on my pizza ๐คฃ
That's what she said ?
I love most cheeses, not the super smelly french ones or the Sardinian maggot cheese
I liked a Croatian one unexpectedly, it had sausage inside

@scenic radish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu?wprov=sfla1
Lufthansa ?
Delta
Linuxdiscord peeps say debian should never be used
Let that @clear ferry enjoy his meal in peace
Rest in pizza
@hushed basalt don't listen to neckbeards ๐
I got kicked from that group
Or I got myself kicked
There was the lead neckbeard who was on there all the time
Like you could tell he was the type with no job and stayed on discord 20 hours a day
Something about ubuntu being superior in every way and no reason to use debian
Do you have a neck beard
At least you have a job
I have a goatee
Let it grow

Any recommendations for surface pro wall mounts?
.......?
I use a magnet for my tablet
That is strong as heck
NOK 80.64 51%OFF | Wall Mount Tablet Magnetic Stand Magnet Adsorption Principle Convenience to pick-and-place Support All Tablets for iPad Pro Air
https://a.aliexpress.com/_slGppr
9โฌ on ali - that must be like 40โฌ on amazon ๐คฃ
What does it do?
It's like circleci
For free on public repositories
I used it to generate an ebook from a public repo
so about that login prompt i saw for my security system...turns out it has an open telnet port too. telnet 10.0.0.45 55023 gives me abode login:
oh fun!
time to use hydra or ncrack
or google the crap out of it for defaults?
unfortunately the defaults i've tried haven't worked. abode uses hardware from Climax, and that default doesn't work at least
i appreciate the obscurity using port 55023 instead of the default 23 for telnet lol
what does nmap say the device is?
like is there a default for that device type?
like a type of firmware, or base image
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.6.X
OS CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6
OS details: Linux 2.6.9 - 2.6.30
not helpful at all. bleh
yeah lol
serial port?
good question, i'll have to check the FCC docs
if so, look fora boot message
like MonkeyOS 5.2 or whatever, might help?
also try various accounts with serial # as password
ah i didn't think to try the serial number, thx
i don't have a serial adapter or experience with that but it'll be something to look into
Starting Ncrack 0.6 ( http://ncrack.org ) at 2020-01-18 16:01 GMT
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this is gonna blow some e-fuse and void my warranty or something
serial number, model #, anything like that you can think of with accounts like abode, root, admin, support..
Or.. just blank?
tried that too
how hilarious would that be
i haven't seen anything other than a single reddit post about the open telnet port so i'm guessing no one has really tried much
or if they have they certainly haven't said anything online
@steel urchin camera still going after day 2 lol
What do you guys think of Paul Hibbert?
same lol
Be glad
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are you paul hibbert and fishing for compliments?
I am most certainly not
He's a youtuber. If you have a good day and want to ruin it, go watch some of his videos.
Tediore enjoys misery, he's already watching it
ok.. 46 punchdowns to go... should be fun!
The world has come pretty far when you can sit on a transatlantic flight, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, connect to VPN on your phone and restart some docker containers
And share it with your friends 
ha
which terminal app is that?
not a bad terminal. you could play nethack with that.
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it is I've used it before
hrmm..how come Celcius vs Farenheit isn't considered religion?
~c2f -46
-46 degrees celsius = -50.8 degrees fahrenheit!
sudo dockee
It is The Year of our Lord 2020 and we still have to deal with Latency
browsers
I remember eons ago having to use telnet over a satellite link to AUS. It was pure misery.
the link was ultra fast but the latency was an abomination
Aye , I fixed a storage system in Antarctica via three rdps, one of them over satellite
That was interesting
downloads are SUPER QUICK... if you want 5 minutes for it to start first.
Sounds like internet in days of yore anyway ๐
Oof we soon hit north America
Happy valley goose bay sounds like a password cipher
Hopefully not actually hit ๐

Dying for a toasted jalapeno cream cheese๐
that's more random that the video atx posted
Forgot the ๐ฅฏ part
I've keep thinking...
I have a sliding glass back door, and I could put like a glass break sensor in case someone breaks it to come in when our alarm is on but I could also just leave the back door unlocked and use an open-close sensor.
This way a burglar trips the alarm but doesn't break our glass.
I think locking your door is better, prevents lazy theft.
I guess what I'm wondering is how often people will check your back door and then just least if it's locked.
@tidal bronze so you are want cream that is hot?
Sounds about right
The other thing is an alarm would sound
hmmm .....i could go alot of ways with that
@hexed magnet adding PIR before they get to the door would be best. If they break the glass then it's too late
big ass magnets defeat door open sensors. then your door is just unlocked.
the glass would at least break and trip the gb sensor?
@dull chasm I see where you are going with this. Had too many beers already?
Well we have cats that walk around and I feel like theyd set it off if you mean put it on the inside.
There are glass break sensors
Wife just this for her to keep hot cream away lol
@tidal bronze not yet but working on it
how often does your house get broken into that justifies glass expense as a consideration?
I guess at the end of the day it's not going to happen that often so the cost of replacing the glass really doesn't matter
Yeah lol
if it's alot, then move. ๐
Yeah true
well only happens once with that
I don't think I know anyone who has ever had their house broken into in Norway
I don't know anyone who's had their house broken into either, but if you look at police reports it does happen here at least
mine has never been broken into ....but i a have a police unit outside plus around 20 guns
What?
When?
I've heard guns, or at least advertising you have guns can actually attract burglars because there's always a market for stolen guns
I've had an attempted break-in
By a deer?
@hexed magnet not true ....they are afraid of being shot
@dull chasm that reminds me gotta renew my CCW
The hardest thing to get in LA
Just because I'm coming to the states, you guys are overreacting 
Yep
really ....not hard for me with where i work but otherwise just a class and background check here
You can't get it in LA anymore
damn snowflakes huh
What did you just call me? ๐
not you the la'ers
lol I do consider myself one of those but I do like to have my CCW
well you are not what i am refering to and you know that
I am messing with you man. I know what you meant.
well i did feel sad for a moment
i am peacefully listening to Rinaldo and get harressed
Here's a bit more for you ๐ https://www.latimes.com/projects/new-california-2020-laws/
Going to miss my morning scrubs ๐ฆ
damn i stopped reading really quick
Check out environment and wildlife
i am for anything that protects animals ....we do our best to screw there world up and they only try to surive and ones that are pets will love you till the end
i wished we where as simple as the thoughts and love of a pet ... my puupy is laying by me and will continue to she or me die's
No more 1099 for uber as well.
that, or insurance fraud ๐ค
ffs... Why has my discord stopped scrolling down
...I hate this
most of the time when I say something stupid, it's at least relevant to the topic, but lately it's been irrelevant and stupid...
I do that all the time
I'll say a thing and then go "Aw fuck I responded to 3 hours in the pasta"
and then everyone laffs
Lots of good stuff there @tidal bronze
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@clear ferry yes indeed
HAAAA ๐
See Mister K. now you can feel better -hides tears-
you triggered my empathy and now I feel even worse
Oh dang
atx flexing that nitro
I have no nitro

and I must MEME
nitro classic for $5/month or nabu casa cloud for $5/month: ๐ค
death by snu snu subscription
I actually patron to a video game
Since nobody made dead space 4, I patroned to negative atmosphere
Oh snap
I've been lazily following that
I hope that it allows me to stomp on monsters while screaming a blue streak
I loved the dead space series
I loved the dead space series
Probably some of the best games I ever played
I some how managed to nearly beat DS2 and yet when I go back to DS1 I'm terrified
okay zoomer
I think it's all the cramped single file corridors
I some how managed to nearly beat DS2 and yet when I go back to DS1 I'm terrified
that's MISTER ZOOMER to you
SIR

You in the past again?
I love outer space going tits up
Discord is acting up a bit it seems
Like the movie Event horizon
I should watch that again. I remember it being pretty good but that doesn't seem to be the consensus on it
lol, the Doom movie ๐
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Doom has had two awful movies now
Yeah I haven't seen the second try
it's probably one of my lowest rated movies I've ever watched
I have it on Plex
Can't I do both?
lol, actually Doom is the worst rated movie I have in my IMDB history at 2/10
I can never go into voice chat on discord after hearing @junior forge sexy barritone voice on the podcast 
TMI
Is any movie with Karl Urban good though @orchid rose @valid halo ?
Except star trek
I've only seen a couple, but looking at that list - no
All action movies he appear in have been shite
like Dredd is in my bottom-3 as well in IMDB which is rather impressive for one actor
@dull chasm texting my insecurities? I know
Huh. I heard Dredd was alright
You heard wrong.
I saw the Nostalgia Critic tear about the one with Stalone.
We're all old compared to lady bugs
ikr, I get that too
Passing Montreal in half an hour I guess
@clear ferry you state side yet?
ah time to alert customs of drugs in your bum then i suppose lol
@dull chasm get the Gators ready, @clear ferry is close
Hello
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I have many more
I'd swear he has a server just for those
Lol
F O R B I D D E N
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Reminds me, I should finish at the mountains of madness some day
|| what's that? ||
Roll for san loss
Do I though?

Nothing wrong with a few deep ones
Or father dagon and mother hydra
There should be invested more money into the Lovecraft franchise in regards to TV shows imo
Wasn't someone making a "From the Mountains of Madness Movie?"
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn @scenic radish
@valid halo I know there has been shitty movies loosely based on atleast
atxbyea I respect you. You're a friend but please don't talk with paper towels stuffed into your cheeks

Pffft
what's poppin?
I want that too. Thinking it's easier to shortcircuit the power on than to actually press the button tho.
What's poppin? This new Eminem rap, amirite
My coffee maker remembers if the button is pressed even if it doesn't have power
So smart plug ,presto coffee
@orchid rose actually I heard it's worse than relapse
Lol I'm being picked up by a Maserati
My coffee maker is 10.00 and the switch stays on and smart plug ๐
Only heard one song so far @scenic radish and it seemed pretty good... I'm a stan though, so forgive me
Only heard one song so far @scenic radish and it seemed pretty good... I'm a stan though, so forgive me
@clear ferry a real Maserati or a Ghibli?
Ghibli
booo
it's a Mazda 6 with a bodykit
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stan in case it was a genuine question. One can never be sure ๐ค
Feels more spacious than a Mazda
Can't be worse than the alfa semi automatic gearbox
I think the Ghibli is like 80 grand
Just requires service every 10k miles
70 grand
waaaay too much for what it is IMO
that's RS4 territory and I'd much rather the Audi
that's RS4 territory and I'd much rather the Audi
Triggers me a bit, but it's outside the the channel topic...
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installing a dns blocklist made the adblock-doesnt-work-anymore thing way less annoying.
@clear ferry oh whatever
what's the name of the place you getting this burger and fries at @clear ferry ?
"burgers" he said
Went to burgerfi across the street @forest edge
never heard of it
might be a georgia local thing
Yeah never heard of it either
They even have it in your area @scenic radish
I think
The burger was ok, but the fries were to die for
lol
and it was like a million of them
fries with a side of burger
and I chose the regular size fries
there were two bumps up
do you havve red robins in norway?
lol
you gotta try the red robin campfire sauce with fries
Oh there's one on the northside ๐คข @clear ferry
restaurant is ok
don't care about anything else at red robin cept the steak fries with campfire sauce lol
steak fries ๐คค
I fried some burgers today... Not nearly as hipster as what atx linked though ๐ฆ
is anything hipster in finland ?
rude
you almost sound like a swede dissing us like that
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Atleast I have been to finland multiple times
the swedes don't dare to do that
First in Kouvola, then in Lappeenranta
You've seen peak Finnish
Yes, #1 was finnish military ho-ha, #2 was "look I can throw rocks to russia, hahah, let's drink vodka"
Sounds about right
oh, I've been to whatever place up north where norwegians go shopping in finland is
a few times to buy cigarettes
Kilipsjรคrvi
there's something cheaper here than elsewhere? Usually everything is more expensive
usually they drove there to buy cigarettes, vodka, meat
atleast in the 80\90s
watch it, robbie is online, he might not notice us if we stay totally still
he can only see movement
or whiskerz when he pings mรธdz
We don't even do proper Vodka most of the time here. It's Koskenkorva which is basically crappy vodka with sugar added to it to make it palatable...
yes, that is what norwegians love
@scenic radish did you upgrade to FORBIDDEN_TOPIC.2?
did you measure it?

so what is the appropriate amount of water for the toilet? lol
and what are you seeing?
cause if it's full that means it's clogged lol
typical atx comes here, clogs up the toilet then complains about it lol fucking foreigners hahaha
This is what I have seen in all toilets since getting to Georgia
Like, 2-3 inches more
too much water
yea thats pretty standard
our bowls are shaped diffrently too
you have to account for that lol
I hear your public toilet cubicles are horrible too
gaps galore
why didnt anyone teach america how to toilet
can't help ya there if you have a peeping tom issue lol
you'd feel more comfortable in California
pretending to see no difference eh
can't say our public restroom gaps have ever raised an issue
a bit, at least. Lots of toilets in Georgia are still 3+gallons/flush, while CA toilets go down to like 1.2g
@scenic radish just curious, not reading much about .2
southrens like thier shit to be flushed hard
O I C
I would probably have full contact here if I'd do a dump like that one time Wii fit though i was a new player after going to the bathroom then

Welcome player 3
No wait
It's me, player 1
you sure did pick an alright state to find some old instruments tho atx, not a good state for "visiting" from afar but decent for musical stuff
did you drink an american beer and get drunk already? lol
No, I'm just a normal human like you ๐ค
eh, depends on the american beer. the standard pisswater is stil on the lower abv scale
but you can also get 9%+ too if you look for it
mm that would do it
I'm sure it's been asked a few times, the amcrest video doorbell on HA.. i know RTSP stream is fine but is the button or other features of the hardware supported?
guess this would be more a support question, sorry. ๐
I'd suggest asking that in #330944238910963714 or #cameras-archived
10-4
G-luck
no luck required, haven't bought anything yet ๐
shorts weather
If things pan out with this company I could become one of those developer consultants you all hate
Coming into your company and making your internal teams look bad :p
if your not supporting the cloud and it's growth we don't care lol
welp enjoy your internal damnation burning into the depths of hell for having anything to do with the *cloud
Sounds Y U G E
And then that government went "we want all of this running in our country only"
And that country didn't have any aws, gcp, etc
that statement is kind of ironical
you can get a VPS "in the cloud" and "the cloud" is likely hosted at a colo ๐
I think if you're trying to use aws etc like a colo/vps you're not really getting the main benefit of it
are you a developer?
In training
welcome to the club
i can see this being true from a developers perspective because of things like lambda and microsoft has a lot of neat offerings for devs as well
that's where the real power is
but if you just want someone else to host your iron, rackspace and the like are cheaper
yeah, the needs just vary too much to say cloud is always best or visa versa
yeah, i have a small MSP business in Las Vegas and almost all of my SMB customers have a small server at their office
i have some customers that are colo and others that leverage the cloud for nearly everything
do you guys have much experience with azure?
also, you guys mentioned being devs in training, is there a specific language you are focused on?
Python and javascript/typescript
You can go a long long way with those two
It's extremely city dependant though
I've been so deep in infrastructure stuff lately though. i do need to get back into fundamental programming stuff
im not a dev but i have been programming in python over the last 2-3 years
i did one thing in js on node and decided that i like programming in python more and i don't have the time to dedicate to very many languages at this point
the way things are going with things like docker, infrastructure is somewhat code.
does noone ever like to just fish anymore lol
depends, what are we fishing for ? ๐
fish..
djins
damnit, what kind of fish
easy s/f/ph/g
phuck
phishing is easy with code ๐
true, just ask my customers... oh wait, don't.... they have no clue wtf that means
heh
lol i watched a thing my girl had to watch for work about phishing, it was like a dumb down version to explain what it is to people who don't use computers much and they spent like 5 mins dedicated to how it sounds like fishing and kind of is like fishing, but isn't fishing lol
every other day, office 365 e-mail scam
yeah, they do KnowB4 at my work
they send out fake scam emails all the time
really easy to spot
they are getting good, these e-mails have almost no content for a filter to grab and they will use microsoft resources to put up these pages to phish o365 emails and passwords
once they get in, they will consume the information and determine the best way to try and monetize on it
apparently the hit rate is kinda high with certain departments
they are bold too, they login to the accounts and send out official looking emails to customers, vendors, etc to try and redirect payments and all kinds of bad shit
i finally just sent out an email to all my customers telling them i cant do shit about it but educate you so here it is
though the engineering team started talking about the tests on slack before they told us they were doing it
since then, very few problems
checking the email headers, doing whois lookups on the url all sorts of fun stuff
had it figured out that it was a test within seconds
what, a filtering algorithm?
nah, just some simple sluthing
it only works for the knowb4 tests though
and apparently there's a trick to blacklist those
never heard of it
i just resell other peoples shit, mostly solarwinds and hope it's good enough
they're a training company for security stuff
hah, i work for a competitor for that product
ninjarmm?
nah
probably a good business to be in
i pay SW almost 2k/mo right now and im small beans
totally worth it imo
24k AAV, yeah, that's small ๐
hmm i think most of us are hiding the names of our employers here ๐
i suppose there are quite a few people in here....
im just curious from a professional perspective as I rushed into my decision to use SW
i'm not vary familiar with their product
they have many of course
My work uses knowbe4 too phnx
A stupid number of people apparently click on the linx
And this is why I only accept correspondence in the form of carrier pidgeon
yeah, its bad, i was joking with our security guy and he said that the hit rates are not good
i pretty aggressively un-sub from shit that comes to my work email so most things stand out
i told my customers, if you're not sure just forward it to me or send me a screenshot
you need a redundant pigeon
They only work one way
So I have to keep a pidgeon for everyone I want to message
Plus the frame size is a bit small
i suppose your acknowledgement would be the bird returning without the message, but how do you know it was delivered to the correct recipient?
unless your recipient is wise in the way of pigeon carrier and sent a message back
there's a protocol for it
yup, look at the post date
lol nice
updated by rfc2549 for QoS and rfc6214 for ipv6
that is funny
perhaps you can automate this with one of those robot sign girls
not sure if anyone else has seen those.....
they are an exploit of man's natural instincts
homing pigeons are kind of neat to see in person
they use to still use them down south for various things up to almost 2000
infact i wouldn't be suprised if some still don't for more of a gag and just for the love of the birds and how it all works
birds sound cool and all but for a slightly more archaic form of communications i prefer ham radio on my motorola radios ๐
i wonder how challenging it is to make an integration.. it would be cool to add some allstar functionality to HA !
lol my uncle use to do that old time ham radio shit in his basment years and years ago
was one fo those tube radios, thing was huge
haha yah
had this big ass 30ft antenna attaached to the back of his house lol
a lot of people still do that, im part of the new age of connecting radios over the internet
allstar is a good example of this, a module for asterisks that allows you to connect your radios over VoIP
thats kind of cheating isn't it?
a few of the local active hams moved, setup their own allstar nodes and permanently link them back to some vegas nodes so they can talk to the same guys
nah, there is plenty of interest in HF, it's just not for me
part of the whole ham radio experince was always finding ways to improve your range lol
it really just grows the hobby and captures more peoples attention, i don't think it's a bad thing or cheating even
it's just different
in HF the conditions aren't always right for a good QSO so having alternatives is good too
I prefer correspondence by Hogwarts Owl.
hogwarts owl? sounds like some kind of fantasy thing i wouldn't understand
can the hogwart owl teleport?
I dunno, they are magic. ๐
It's good when volunteer emergency radio operators can operate from home
if you get a ham license in Virginia, US apparently you can get a special license plate for your car that gives you first responder rights
@wet pilot same here in vegas, not sure about other states
i don't have one though... if i cut off the wrong guy in traffic that is smart enough to look up the call he could obtain my information and seek revenge ๐
i don't think it grants first response rights but honestly, hams are as useless as tits on a bull when it comes to emergency situations
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can only speak on my experience, i noticed that the guys involved in all the emergency stuff are basically clueless about the radios, typically appliance operators and some preppers too
then there is a group of the techno nerds that can build radios and they do zero emergency comms
public safety comms are honestly way more reliable and better placed than most ham stuff, especially in populated cities
true
What is first responder rights
i actually don't use any ham radio gear at all, i use 2nd or 3rd hand commercial radios
i have old ass laptops for programming some of the radios, such a nightmare
you can run lights and get parking privs
i almost blew myself up soldering a new cmos battery on a 15 or so year old thinkpad
lol
just to program a commercial radio
phnx, hams have permission to that type of stuff in VA?
if you get the plate
weird
oh ok, so they mean nothing to anyone then
pretty much
weird looking lights on a construction truck that looks like a porcupine up top
yeah that is normal, or they have to be covered up
old company had some retired ambulances as service vehicles and on a few they were covered
VA is also kinda fun where cops are the only ones that can run blue
EMS/Fire run red/white
seems like NC follows something similar
i never notice, it's just an unmistakable object that i have to get away from
i know NY went the other way and everything runs red/white under the thinking that "you should behave the same for all of them"
yah out here it's all the same
but people are stupid, they still fail to yield or get in direct way of emergency vehicle
all blue?
yep
im glad i haven't had to notice
have not been to VA but have been to MD a number of times
glad i didn't get pulled over because traffic there sucks
md laws aren't as bad
don't go over 80mph in va
instant reckless driving -> .misdemeanor
for going > 80?
yup
that is ridiculous
its awful
i did 105 today
especially considering they have 70mph limits
is that just on city freeways or highways as well?
highways in SW are generally 75mph
you get one of those?
thankfully no
i have
nice
can't always get around here that fast unless it's a weekend and not on the major freeway
city/state paid an estimated 1 billion to have a major section of the freeway redone and it's still terrible traffic every day so i think a car with max speed of 35mph will get you around pretty good ๐
hah yah i hear it's the worst, I would go into MD through AP in baltimore and drive south... south east? anyway, over this massive bridge and all through there was traffic nightmare
bay bridge?
yeah, that i hear can be a hot mess too
i traveled out there to setup 3 sites for a company in the fishing business
completely different world heh
i can imagine
pretty late for you then, almost 3?
sleep.. what is that?
i like to stay up late but my customers start early and they are needy mfers
wfh?
yah, not bad, wake up at 8:30, grab some cofee and get to the office in pajamas
or snooze until 8:50 and make coffee during the call since my wireless headphones reach my kitchen XD
even better
that extra 20 minutes could make you more productive
i don't have an office yet and only have 1 employee so wfh it is
nice
i have to get out a lot unfortunately... some days i never leave my house but others im all over the valley
actually not too bad getting out, feels more productive sometimes
i hate my company's office XD
XD?
copy
i'm old enough to remember time before emoji ๐
i am too, i came from IRC days
this reminds me of IRC a lot
im new to discord obviously, came here for HA
my daughter talks about it, she is inside playing CoD modern warfare right now
I remember a time when girls thought video games were dumb lol
i suppose this is an instance where the platform is being used not exclusively for it's intended purpose but is great
sonoma, yah she is pretty big into it, loves fortnite and very active on audio chat and there aren't any other girls on there
these days it's gotta be pretty close to 50/50 even if we don't notice it
console games was one thing, but pc shooter type games ect.. not a chance
funny how things change
haha true
except my parents had no idea what i was doing
i control every aspect of my network
the threats are real
there are things about discord that i like better than slack
for me, slack isn't naturally a public platform like discord
sure there are public slacks but it's not the same
it can be but its less typical
more useful if its a bunch of developers only though'
but discord's formatting is a lot more powerful
they're not fucking around with trying to hide the markdown
Damn murica
what now
what not?
I fell asleep 11pm and woke up now at 4am ๐
This is why I flew over early
So I have a few days to adjusr
Just think of all the work you'll get done while others are still sleeping ๐
But... That just sounds like my life the last 13 years anyway ๐
I was just going to say, wtf are you doing awake
Then I remembered, I'm the one who is in the middle of the night
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I've been up for over an hour now ๐
(and catching up on the confusion and crazy that's been posted since last night)
The usual mixed bag
Including somebody using H*.io for the first time, wielding Docker commands at it
That's not gonna end well
Just like me every time I try to remember how the syntax of old Compaq products is ๐
Just flip the verb in front
No wait, the object first
Wtf were you thinking
Somebody was drunk at Compaq that is for sure
Compaq... that's the kit that should be put in a smelter
The syntax still lives on in for example the Smart Array config tool
I used to support Compaq kit, it was the worst of all the hardware I dealt with
During planned power outages, we could be sure that about 5% of the systems would have some form of hardware failure
The hardware is solid, which is why hp bought it, because jeeeez the hp netservers where shite wrapped in sheered towels
It was also a Compaq "hot swap" power supply that put the "hot" in "hot swap". Plugged the thing in and flames (and smoke) literally shot out the back of it - took all the hair off my hand and part way up my arm.
Never did have to support HP though, only ever used it as an end user ๐คท
Yeah, I'm guessing it got broken before shipping, since the box it was in was fine
I once replaced a psu where the fan was stopped, thought that was bad enough, it was like 60c to the touch
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poser
Oh that is cool
I just got tasker to connect to my VPN automatically when I connect to a WiFi access point
@clear ferry can't sleep in a different country? our air not cold enough for you? the yaks not yakking enough for you?
so that's where all the snow has gone...
figures, Canada hogging all the powder
@forest edge Or the timezones are too licketysplitty ๐คฃ
oh no, I just installed iTunes in English (Australian)
now it's going to be all in Koala
And Barbies
What was the first smart home device you all had
Mine was a lifx bulb, internet polling, controlled with google assistant ๐คข
At least it wasn't IFTTT
Nexa dimmer with a Tellstick, controlled by EventGhost in Windows. I still use it
broadcom RM Mini or whatever
Wink hub with some GE Zigbee lights, and a kwik set lock
Are the lifx bulbs any good @hushed basalt ? They are as pricey or more than hue in Norway
I had lifx mini
Hard to tell since the fixtures were hot garbage
Glass dome with painted interior
Stopped a big portion of the light and colour cast the rest
Plus they were warm white which is the enemy
My first smart home stuff was Philips hue regular white bulbs. At least it had local control lol
I'll check with the hotel later @scenic radish if you can ship there, if not probably can to my office ๐
I was just at the FedEx across the street to ship something for my neighbor
mine was onewire
Hmm. Lemme get back to you on that, I'm going to the store later
and are we talking junk food lol.
I'm in Georgia @rain swift
Norway 
nice
snacks I dunno haha, everyone is into something different, and I dunno what they eat in norway
I'm a fat bastard, that loves ๐
@scenic radish already bought me a bunch of cherry stuff ๐
yeah, cherry pie, definately
one of my favs
if you never ate BBQ, find a good place for that
I did indeed lol
I have eaten BBQ in 6 different countries, including the US before but I understand nothing is like Texas anyway ๐
Need to find cheerwine I guess 
huckleberry something if you can find it. Especially pie
it's not common in major cities tho, it's kinda a thing in more remote areas.
supposedly it cannot be cultivated? apparently? I'm confused by that, but it's a cool rarity
Attempts to cultivate huckleberry plants from seeds have failed, with plants devoid of fruits. This may be due to inability for the plants to fully root and to replicate the native soil chemistry of wild plants
Aka, nobody has put enough effort into it yet or it's horribly expensive for the return
it's strange. you think they'd have conquered that by now
Return vs reward, and if the market is small enough may not be seen as worth it
well huckleberry pie is crazy good, so they should get on it. ๐
I'll remember that if I ever end up in Texas
it's not just in texas.. I had it in utah once, I think CA too.. might be a southwest, but its from more wooded areas.
bears like them apparently
Mmmmm bears
most national park gift shops sell non-fresh ones, like dried or chocolate covered ones
We should eat those
people do. it's supposedly not awesome.
I think it's supposed to be very tough. apparently predators tend to not be tasty as well.
I guess that's why cows are grass fed instead of chicken fed. ๐
I find it very strange they sell so much Pepsi here in Georgia 
I think it's more popular there
georgia bbq is quite good though, so get some of that.
Since they have the coke plant here ๐
Oh wow, gas is 2.39 now, it was less than 2 the last time I was here
are you there on vacation?
So, some evenings ๐
what are you doing? some IT stuff?
I suspect he's making people feel more dumb than usual ๐
ooooooooooooh
Aye, I'm a potato, networking, servers, Unix, virtualization, you name it ๐คฏ
JOAT
fancy
And I'm here for training with level 3 support, so cases where usually we have to make a new firmware or driver or something
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