#the-water-cooler
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To recycle
Also, I hate apple stuff, but I really believe used ipads make great tabs for ha wallmounting
People here have ridiculous expectations for used prices though
Like 80% current retail for 3-5 year old tablets
that pinetab actually kind of looks like shit
120 for a rpi3 with touch screen basically
and with more software issues lol
it's gonna be a lot cleaner than anything you can do with a pi for under $100
not by much
and you can run android on it iirc
you can run android on pi
i have one, it's decent for what it is
you can get a 10" touchscreen for the rpi of any flavor for like 50 bucks...
sure, and in this case for wall mounting that would probably work better since you don't need battery or camera
You have considered the option, so dues to the environment have been payed 🙂
Yeah I buy a lot used but it's getting harder and harder
Yeah, I have one where the audio jack is dead. would still make a good HA remote 🙂
I used to get almost all my clothes second hand but stopped years ago because fast fashion meant it was all garbage
at least it's not the GPU market
I could sell my 3 year old GPU for twice what it cost new
After you've gone to 10 opshops in a row and not found any tshirts worth buying you give up
Plus I'm a weird shape so levi 451 are the only jeans that fit me
Which would be 1 in a 1000+ to show up second hand in the right size
you are wearing one of those "i am with stupid ->" shirts aren't you?
No weird shapes, #body-positivity
Cargo shorts are great, any time I hear anyone mouthing off about them being uncool I pray for their souls, even though I don't pray
what's uncool is not having the useful thing you need because it wouldn't fit in your pockets
sign me up for a monthly subscription, yowsa
i know dickies makes some that would be acceptable in a business casual environment
I wear t-shirts to work
i don't work so I can't wear anything to work
unless you count sitting in my underwear trading stocks as work
whatever floats your stock
i need to hit up the nursery and get some carnivorous plants
i get a massive fly problem every summer in my house
they'd be living rich
i have to kill like 50+ a day
i have no idea where they come from
Maybe your rubbish room
nah
my house is kinda cluttered but clean
trash cans aren't near the house and they aren't coming from there anyway
They could be from the attic
I bought 2 x 24" ultrasharps a few years ago but now I hate them
Too small, too low DPI
So maybe mirrors would be a good option for them
Big or small flies? If they're small, probably fungus gnats, which is usually a sign you're overwatering your houseplants.
I bought a sundew to deal with ours (as well as not overwatering things). They're pretty for a carnivorous plant and I've already had it flower multiple times too.
I just place fly tape in the window in spring to catch the ones from my tomato seedlings
atx - how the eff do I stop AliExpress sending me promotions via Facebook Messenger? 😄
I used the 'sign in with FB' option and they won't stop spamming me now.
Might just cancel the frigging account and start a new one next time I want to order something...
Found an option to turn off email notifications. Will leave it a week or two and see if that also applies to Messenger.
Facebook! I have more respect for my privacy. Taps google pay on google OS with receipt emailed to Google inbox
Never really got into Facebook, handy for staying in touch with a handful of folks, or at least following their stream of updates about what they're eating/drinking/doing right now... 🤣
If everyone could just settle on a single, secure messaging app, there'd be no need. But with everyone split across so many, you end up needing them all 🤦♂️
Well, yeah, but that's why people keep creating new ones, in the hope it'll be the one true way 😄
😢
Most folks I know use WhatsApp, with a much smaller number using Telegram or Signal
There's still quite a few who haven't really moved off of SMS 🤣
Since I don't have Facebook, I couldn't give a damn

99% of messaging is with my wife or you cunts
So telegram / discord covers everything
Then I get 1-5 SMS per month
Even my 70yo parents mostly message me on Snapchat
My parents have only just recently got one smartphone, that they barely know how to use. They're used to proper old school Nokia phones...
My father in law is 82, he doesn't even use SMS 🤣
My mother in law does all his online banking
Does he still use carrier pigeons?
Sorry, 100% packet loss on that last one, looks like a falcon strike
I just realised that even as a child I had no patience for learning combos in SF2
In essence everything went downhill from there :o
If anyone needs me I'll be obsessing over the past in the shower
Street fighter 2 you say
Yes. It's a game that came out decades after your childhood.
Proof @clear ferry was conceived from a yak #the-water-cooler message
just found xbox kinect, anything fancy to hack out of it?
smart mirror is the first thing wich comes to my mind
and I think this thing also relied on a kinekt
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Thousands have told me that anyone can easily miss my first automatic basketball hoop by missing the hoop entirely. That is a really good point and something that I can't let stand. In thi...
Haha. Same guy that did the pool computer? He's awesome.
mhmm.. Wuhan-Snickers
But... the bat didn't explode 🤔
*baseball-bat
hmm smart mirror.. does it make me look smart or just awesome good looking?
Neither
Not sure smart mirrors are worth the hassle. They're a neat project but you're mostly just gonna end up ignoring them and walking right past.
If you're the type that's vain enough to stare at mirrors, you're probably not interested in the other data it'll show.
I can see some value, in things like before you leave the house you should know
Audio briefings from a smart speaker can handle that.
Agreed, it's why a smart mirror remains right down on the list of things to never get around to
And by the time you're heading out the door, knowing that your commute will be 30 minutes slower than usual isn't gonna help you.
well, i know for a fact i look like i've been stuck at home 24/7 for a year.. I really don't care how i look.. sorry ya all that need to see me at the grocery store..
It would be defentitly a neat side project...
ok, i'll just put it back to a box and visit topic next year, thanks for the comments
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/vulnerabilities/three-flaws-that-sat-in-linux-kernel-since-2006-could-deliver-root-privileges-to-attackers/ oh look! Another nail!
Could is at least nice, but not looking forward to upgrade these shared EOL machines -_-
not saying that i'm having troubles reconfiguring my network but... fuck me
I think I'll pass
strongly recommended
me
i'm so pissed off with this network shit i will now start building that smart mirror, just to annoy myself even more in the middle of these endless projects, i'll make it the most impolite to set the standards for each day.
"You're going to the 7-Eleven , dressed in that?"
i smell ubiquiti
PoE?
That seems safe
Etherkiller 
My dad's guitar pedal used the same plug for power as S-Video did. To this day I have no clue why the fuck they chose that connector, but it broke the graphics card
You're not supposed to connect the graphics card to the amp.
For online performances?
Høhöhå
Variax 300
Great fun
Practical to play bass with the turn of a knob at gigs
Or 12 string
Or banjo
Etc
That's pretty neat
It is
Stop talking about keyboards. I'm already trying to resist the urge to get a new mechanical KB.
(I already have a perfectly fine mechanical KB...)
I ordered a new one already
And not a mechanical ADHD keyboard
Saw this and thought of you @forest edge
Which one?
Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard (LXM-00001), Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y414QXJ/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_fabc_V9S38KF899VWK9652DGJ
🤢
Omg. I thought @clear ferry would have been a mechanical keyboard nerd
No, I just have a normal smaller than below average dick, I have huge thumbs to hammer that space bar though
What you lack in dick, you make up in thumbs? Sounds good
Could've gone for this: https://shop.keyboard.io/collections/keyboardio-atreus/products/keyboardio-atreus
Also way too much info. But we are good
What the heck
Or this... I kinda like it: https://ergodox-ez.com/
Ortholinear would take some getting used to, as would having punctuation in weird ass places.
ergodox is good shit
But ergo plus so many layers...
I looked at ergodox, but boy is that some expensive hipster shit
not if you DIY it
Haha. $350? I only just got to the price. 🤢
That is without extras though
you can build one under $100 if you play your cards right
lol
I also used an STM32 board instead of a teensy for mine
teensys are way overkill for driving a button matrix and I can't for the life of me figure out why mechanical keyboards like to use them so much
Teach me your ways, wise one.
3d print the case yourself, buy switches off aliexpress
use a cheaper MCU than the teensy
Oh... you can get the PCB yourself?
Just buy a printer and tune and upgrade it for a year @deft pewter
Such easy
I'll have a look but I'd rather get a kit or preassembled. But that's a task for after the movie 👋
Blue movie?
lol, it's probably more than $300 to DIY if you value your time at more than $0/hr
but if you want a fun electronics project, it fits the bill
signs point to no
i absolutely agree
it's pi day!
lmao you get banned on twitter for saying the name of my hometown
it's a "derogatory term"
Hey you live in the KC area, right? @forest edge
I lived briefly in Overland Park roughly 24 years ago. That's all, enjoy the rest of your day 🙂
24 years ago, I knew you were 73 too @cedar chasm
You have that inverted, I turn 37 in July :p
Notice me senpai
You from the UK? They have some fun place names
I know someone currently visiting Cockermouth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockermouth
Cockermouth is an ancient market town and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England, so named because it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent. The mid-2010 census estimates state that Cockermouth has a population of 8,204, increasing to 8,761 at the 2011 Census.Historically a part of Cu...
Mephis is such a bannable word
Scunthorpe?
my friend just tweeted "Memphis" and his account got locked instantly lol
"Ed Balls"
Pervaps soon @clear ferry
The anime that's from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouran_High_School_Host_Club
Ouran High School Host Club (Japanese: 桜蘭高校ホスト部, Hepburn: Ōran Kōkō Hosuto Kurabu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Bisco Hatori, and serialized in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine between the September 2002 and November 2010 issues. The series follows Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student at Ouran High School, and the other membe...
Will that even do 1 piece of paper?
Can do single use tissue 
Hey, you're the one posting gifs of highschool-age male escorts 🤷♀️
Peter Pan-itis
Seen the anime. It's alright. Lots of gender-bendy tropes
Maybe I should watch it
Any recommendations for multi CT whole house energy monitoring?
ew lol
Suburban bliss
just replace your panel with one of those smart ones
Before that.
@forest edge Careful which one... my solar company did that, and I still can't monitor it without some hacky shit
what do you mean before thaat
It's connected to my network and calls back to their website, where I can read all the stats... but there's no local or cloud API
8k will have to do with painting etc. So want something before paint is due. @forest edge
you can't monitor before a meter and the only thing after a meter is a panel lol
your panelm inset in a wall?
Yep
not sure what painting has anything to do with anything
In stucco.
that shouldn't effect replacing it
It does. Want one more sub panel in addition to solar sub panel so some breaking etc.
why do you people like to over complicate shit lol
Nothing over. Just panel is full as it is.
can somone help me with installing Home Asisstant? Is there maby somone dutch?
Not in this channel no 😉
See your chosen installation method channel
Sense got some magic I just don't like. Looking into emporio
do you have a cat line running near the panel?
Yes. Always 😆
see then a whole panel would have been idea lol
i think most the crap that monitors it from within is all wifi
It's in the channel topic 😉
I don't mind wifi. Just don't want to tinker with shit.
Set it and forget it is what I am looking for.
You were referring to span right?
https://www.span.io/smart-panel-product
no, all the main companies who been making breakers etc have all dived into making smart panel
like semmins etc
makes sense cause the breakers are more common and generally cheaper than some off brand
plus I think some of them monitor each breaker without the breaker needing to be anything special at all
Square D makes one ?
not sure but I would imagine
I saw SD rebranded sense but not panel
well shcneider shows a smart panel and they make square d sooo..
I seen a few in like big box stores but some of that will probably have to be ordered from a dist
I would trust that over anything else personally
Did Tinkerer have something to do with these tattoos? https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/m51sko/my_wife_tattooed_10_people_for_the_greatest_meme/
or maybe he was just merely a victim
I love it 😄
you gonna tattoo your Wife now?
Tattoo the planet 
Updating Octoprint for the first time in a year. Here we gooooo
I fully expect this to break. lol
Meh, I took a full disk image before attempting the upgrade
Aight, just found one more reason I dislike Python...
https://realpython.com/python-wheels/ vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_(computing)
"wheels" are now a thing in Python, which is super confusing if you've ever used a Unix-like operating system that utilizes the "wheel" concept.
My eyebrow shot pretty high up my forehead when I saw Python "building wheel for <package name>"
"Who the fuck gave YOU root?? The hell you doing?"
"now"
Yes, I'm aware wheels were added to Python in 2013
It's still a terrible name for what they are
wheel == root in a Unix context
I mean, depends on how far back you go. Wheel bit vs. Wheel group
But still, wheel tends to imply system privileges. Terrible name for a package format...
I agree. Wheely terribly.
I love when I install the "latest stable build" from the website, and am immediately offered an update to the "latest stable build" when it boots up for the first time -_-
Upgrade failed, btw. Had to do a clean install + restore config backup. Ah well
Seems to be the way things go with upgrades to debian-based systems. Its always been a crapshoot for me
Never had an issue with BSD or RHEL-based distros 🤷♀️
Of course, the development pipeline for the latter two makes them quasi-monolithic
Seems to help
here, take some chocolate
There are two types of MQTT topics. The ones you are subscribed to and
Finally installed my GreenEyeMonitor. I think it's been on the shelf for 3 years? The battery was quite dead 🙂
I believe most things are antennas for something, in the case.
Children for example.
Anger and grey hair generators.
some would say you are using them wrong michelle
wat?
drink some coffee before you type in here atx.. please
Y'all are illiterate monkeys 
Thankee-sai
https://open.spotify.com/track/511XWfaUgmaVcms4OhQ9oz?si=Dh9uoa1cQFqIAyjQHOt9ug&utm_source=copy-link
Antennas are specifically for radio waves
So outside visible light/IR
Although light bulbs do spew out some radiation in this spectrum, it's unintentional.
another day another network shit, choppy video meeting over packet loss
HOYLY MOYLY
The Fugaku supercomputer is quite impressive
no GPUs, but 158,976 × 48 A64FX @2.2 GHz
Besides the system software, the supercomputer has run many kinds of applications, including several benchmarks. Running the mainstream HPL benchmark, used by TOP500, Fugaku is at petascale and almost halfway to exascale. Additionally, Fugaku has set world records on at least three other benchmarks, including HPL-AI; at 2.0 exaflops, the system has exceeded the exascale threshold for the benchmark
you know whats best @clear ferry ?
have you looked up the architecture of this processor?
yaaaas
ARM is great for this application
just like AMD EPYC is great for HPC, but shitkids will still fap hard
it is great in every way for all the things
for raspberry pi, for raspberry and also for pie
What's your favourite server and why is it raspberry pi
🤢
I just found a employee list from the biggest norwegian computer company ever
Norsk Data
and boy those pictures
2 (36140): Norsk Data employees
And that is only the employees having names starting with B
This page was last updated 16. Jan. 2021
Now, that's a lie.
Looks more like a page from 1980 !!
looks like mugshots but with smiling people
you are browsing weird shit
I am weird shit
That is a lot of Bjorns
I wonder if that's what B stands for on atx's nick?-o
🅱️
65% packet loss, ok
You using BT for your comms or something 😛
I'm just about ready to spend hundreds of thousands to get a working internet.. by moving..
ohwell, i guess my workday is done then, connections keep dropping, no can do, same shit as before
what are you doing? what is happening here?
I can only hear f* networks from you 😂
sorry, this is the last time you'll hear about my sucky internet connection and if you don't here from me its due to i can't access the discord because f and s network 😄
now it seems to work again so i'll go click something smart, i lack blind motors (venetian blind?) and whole lot of other things
could resurrect one or few ancient pc's too to run random things, just not sure if i have anything decent around, been cleaning quite heavily and throwing lots of stuff out
oh ok, yes that's a valid excuse, bad internet gets everyone angry
i just switched to other provider over the weekend and it looked good, speeds we 5-6x faster and it already now failed... ok, still light so gonna go and swap the sim card for the failover bit.. wish i could have 3 of those, one might work then
its the shit they nowadays sell all around, MOBILE INTTTTERNET, its that or fiber and given the options.. no options
i know 😄 this is so ridiculous i am rolling on the floor and trying to figure out if i'm laughing or crying or both
Can get 1200/8
sure, that would work
do our chickens travel as hand luggage, would you happen to know?
I‘m so happy since I escaped the monopol of our biggest provider and have ftth
(hint: my country is in last place)
Time for vDSL lottery
VDSL, so 2009
now that is really ugly
bet it still works better than mine 🤣
anybody got recommendations for a laptop that'd be good for software development work?
may need to bring my own hardware
I remember ADSL, in 1999
i was on 256k dialup in '99
ISDN hasn't been offered here since... Probably early 00s
They stopped taking orders for landlines in 07 so
legacy systems, things like atms and pos's
i was at a corner store and the pos machine made the dialup sound
They are all on mobile broadband here afaik
Been for a decade
You even get POS that connect to your phone via Bluetooth
No need for a register
people need to hurry up and get on to this decade
I used to use it daily - for my coffee on the way to the office
the very second i get my starlink i'm canceling my landline/adsl
Satellite internet was pretty cool in Africa in the 90s, glad the US is catching up
sat internet is the future, in my opinion, don't think the network ops can keep up with demand
Last I checked 90% or so of households here could get FTTH, and that will be preferable over satellite any day
remind me where here is?
Norway
The numbers are probably similar for most of North Western Europe
FTTP is ramping up, but some parts of the UK (well, some parts of the bits that aren't England) will likely never get it
The expectation for chunks of Scotland is FTTC at best
issue is here, in my locality, we have an above average age so they either don't care or actively don't want it
quite
Instead, be like my colleague. Everywhere around him can get it, but there's an issue with the poles to his property (and the neighbours). So, they've been waiting 6 months to find out when OpenReach will come and survey them, so they can find out how much longer they'll have to wait
plus it's getting to the point where openreach iiss being so hostile and denying my network issues, i don't want topay them
Yeah... I know that game with BT. My faults were below their daily threshold, so I was told to pound sand
Once I could switch to a competent ISP the fault was investigated and fixed
@clear ferry how's the battery life on that?
Specs say, I seem to recall 11 hours or more
bat on what?
they're proud of this thing
i fancy a soft boiled egg
I'm waiting for my fury, the firefly wasn't available
Hi all, I'm a confident scripter (and programmer), fluent in a fair number of languages but can you believe I've not dabbled in Python yet. Any i've decided to bite the bullet, and I suspect it will come naturally. Can anyone advise of a recommended IDE that I should use to get me going? I'll typically end up writing directly in sublime text editor, but to start with a recommended IDE would be best. Any suggestions guys?
the new kids use vscode, maybe pcharm for python specifically.
I still sometimes use sublime/textmate
vim is my ide of choice
i usually go for vim for small stuff and pycharm for projects
vim is a text editor, as is sublime and nano. not a ide
I've taken a charm to vscode
you can compile from within vim though
if you're going to use vim as an ide start with neovim instead so you get non-blocking threads
i tend to become fluent enough at a language, so much that I no longer an IDE, and feel competent in a basic text editor.
my vim setup isan aquired taste
in the 90's i used to make websites using notepad. Coding in HTML, CSS and ASP
sorry to hear that
I've mostly got git gutter, code folding and linters in vim
but I'm also a sysadmin, not a real dev
i'll stick to breaking their work
mmhmm
I have a lot of experience with programming and scripting, so I'm not a noob on that front, but the Python language is new to me. However since it's just another object oriented language I expect I'll pick it up easier than if I was a total noob to coding in general. So, any pointers where I should go to get started with Python (i'm expecting that looking for "python for beginners" will be too basic) ?
😻 🦝 😻
Python for beginners... would seem a good place to start
No better way to learn than solving a problem
Best way to learn is to fail
He said after bringing down a Unix server that was tracking 3500 trucks
not quite as bad as a push to prod for a web channel that was $10K/min in revenue
Or bringing down a storage system that hosted the ticket system of one of the countries biggest airlines
So.... that was your fault was it 🤔
I did stop some oil and gas system that had 4 guys who was billing $20k per hour working on it

as if they were going to get resolved anyway
Is that a particular website?
it's a Google search
There's likely sites, and free courses
Coursera has bunch of courses by Google, happened to look through those not so long ago..
https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-it-automation
https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-crash-course
https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-operating-system
No personal experience thought
@willow oxide if you're familiar with other programming langs, you could probably just run through the official tutorial
python has an os?
must run also on raspi then 😄
ahh
🤢
Ah cool. Thanks
py is also pretty simple to work with without a proper IDE
in fact I'd rec starting without one
trying to figure out packaging and stuff will get in the way if you're a beginner
pip
pip install vi 🤔
The biggest problem with writing python in vi is getting the indentation right. Not as important in languages with brackets
Indent/unindenting blocks is tedious at best
In terms of the different Kodi-flavors for Pi (yes, 🤢 ), would anyone wave a dead cat at Xbian?
i've had good experiences with OSMC @cedar chasm
Thanks 🙂 my pi3B was a bit noisy running Xbian, which put me off the idea slightly, but next time I get the notion, I will have a look at OSMC
Ahh, interesting
yeah, UI is a lot snappier than on pi as well, although i imagine things have improved since the pi 3
I'd also recommend vero4k, I've got the non+, but it's great
Not sure if this is the right thread or not, but any ecobee SMEs out there? 😛
I mean that's how I feel after having an HVAC person come over to my house and give me a quote 3x more than what I was hoping for and I don't get what I want, so sums things up well 😄
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This isn't a question regarding home assistant though. More specific to just ecobee.
this channel does not care in the slightest about that ecobee thing you keep talking about 😄
I can't believe someone made a 3 hour long gif of a dancing bee.
Also, would just post to reddit, but it looks like reddit is down, so that sux too 😛
I'm on Reddit right now 🤷♂️
i'm still virgin with reddit.. 😮
Can you submit a new post? I just get this genericness: Please fix the above requirements Status response back from the call is a 500 Internal Server Error.
This also isn't very reassuring either: https://www.redditstatus.com/
Welcome to reddit's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
I don't post things. I just downvote other people's things.
Well I would make a post you could downvote, but it won't let me
you can post 💩 here
sounds like some kind of #hardware-archived 💩 or #integrations-archived 💩
reddit post issue confirmed
O365 was also broken. I blame DST
more like O363 then 
there, others are losing packets as well, its spreading
I'm losing my shit over a surface pro
M$ decided it was a good thing to auto adjust contrast (not brightness) on these things
now every time you browse a dark page it gets darker... and darker... until you cant read sh*
and every time you open a bright web page it gets bright as f*
you need to edit a registry key, there is no UI setting for that
what the heck
oh yeah, most updates revert that registry edit
😮
oh how nice, the registry edit doesn't even apply anymore with the recent update
rip my eyes
Would have been perfect if it was Nvidia.
Forgot to un @ you
i know this speech very well
ok so this surface's career started out with linux, i changed to win because of linux having no proper touch ui and standby/battery management for this device but now i will change back happily to linux because it kills my eyes
Is this separate from auto-brightness (which is configurable under Settings > System Display)?
Did you use the surface kernel
I ran surface on my SP4 it worked reasonably well with a custom kernel
as already stated, it is not the brightness setting - yes
nice hint, will try that
I think I used this @dusky plank
The previous statement was unclear and may have even been a misunderstanding on your part, so I asked for clarification. So sue me 😛
The screen "getting bright as f*" and blinding you sounds a lot more like brightness issue than a contrast issue.
Contrast can only do so much if the backlight is up too high
I can take a video but I'm too lazy, you can just google it if you don't trust me - lots of reddit posts about this wreck
better than a drive-by on-call ping that sets your phone to full volume
Yeah, I did, but the symptoms you described didn't sound like contrast, they sounded like backlight brightness...
🤷♀️
If you own a Surface Pro 7 or new Surface Laptop 3 13.5 you may have noticed the display shifts in contrast when jumping between black and white apps. Don't worry, adaptive contrast has been around for ages, but you can easily disable it. Learn what it is and how to control it with this simple guide.
surface. pro. 4
The directions in that Microsoft support article mirror this Windows Central article. It appears to be an Intel display driver setting, accessible from the Intel Graphics Command Center
surface. pro. 4. does not have that
You. don't. have. to. be. rude. about. it. sometimes. things. work. on. older. models. too. you. know...
it. does. not. TRUST ME
Btw, the old registry tweak for the Surface Pro 4 disables Intel DPST, which also controls the backlight brightness, not the display contrast...
Did they just never update the Intel Graphics Command Center on the Surface Pro 4 to expose the setting in the GUI?
why do you know everything better? /s
I just used google to determine what the old registry tweak actually did...
as I said: look it up - lots of reddit threads about that
I am, but I had to get off of the "contrast" train first
This is all about backlight control, which is a different thing to troubleshoot
It is annoying that the Surface seems to have two different systems both competing to set your backlight brightness, though. That was an odd choice on Microsoft / Intel's part
it is annoying. yes. and you cannot for the life of me turn it off
it especially makes no sense to make white pages brighter and dark pages dimmer
It's trying to mimic "dynamic contrast" like a lot of monitors/TVs have
it's doing nothing good at all
Which does exactly that. Turns down the backlight in dark scenes to make the blacks blacker
But yeah, it's a feature I usually turn off (or set to the minimum level of aggressiveness), because it tends to be a bit overkill
it's shit at that
So are most monitors / TVs 😛
It looks like this is an Intel video driver issue more than a Windows 10 issue, though Windows 10 does like to auto-update drivers
Rolling back to an older Intel video driver makes the registry tweak work again
I don't care, I want a friggin toggle to turn that off
Also, if you're going Linux, and using the official Intel driver... better hope they don't implement the same functionality. lol
M$ doesn't provide it so I'm off
It's Intel's driver doing it, not Microsoft. Why would Microsoft create a toggle for a proprietary Intel driver feature?
Yeah, driver issue. If you roll back to the last driver the regedit worked on, it'll do what you want
You're bitching at the wrong mega-corporation. Intel is who deserves your ire 😛
nah, I don't trust you anymore
Suit yourself 🤷♀️
M$ is 🤮
You say, using their hardware 😏
I'll take that Surface off your hands if you don't want anything to do with Microsoft anymore
I got it for free, maybe the previous owner was also pissed I can imagine
Free of charge, no disposal fee
pop os it is! 🥳
Watch Intel screw you over again by implementing the same thing in their Linux driver, lol
they do not, I had it running on popos for a long time.
I have Pop_OS on my laptop now. It's alright, but the video driver situation there is a dumpster fire for a whole other list of reasons
stop that misinformation
fedora 33 here
It's not misinformation, it's a hypothetical. If Intel were to implement DPST on their Linux driver, you'd have the same problem
been pretty happy with kernel 5.10.22-200.fc33.x86_64
yeah but at least i can turn it off there (if it was there in the first place, really big IF)
That's an assumption, we won't know if it can be turned off until they implement it 🤷♀️
I doubt it.
Brightness is brightness.
has been shit on windows surface with windows from then until now, now it's even worse
Except when it's not, because "Brightness" already means two different things throughout the OS
Display brightness vs. backlight brightness
I don't. care. I won't argue over why M$ is shit
I am specific about Microsoft. They sell the HW, they sell the Software. They can frick off
It's getting more and more irrelevant anyways, Windows desktop that is
You can do what you want, it's your Surface. Though, I still think it's silly to blame Microsoft for an Intel video driver 🤷♀️
windows is the best i hear?
yep, windows is the best
Hrm, just grabbed the latest version of Pop_OS on my laptop. Still no switchable graphics support 😭
Not quite. It's not the driver because the driver doesn't even exist
No driver exists for any Linux distro that works with AMD switchable graphics
However, Pop_OS advertises switchable/hybrid graphics support
Unfortunately, it appears to be limited to recent Intel+Nvidia systems
Strictly speaking, as far as Intel and AMD are concerned, it's actually the device OEM who is responsible for providing switchable graphics drivers when doing Intel integrated + AMD discreet.
So if anyone is to blame for the void in driver support, it's... actually HP
aren't thjose meant to be throw away pc's anyways
What, all HP laptops?
yeah, was not very stable for me
I think it is it's just the same rate is too high on it
the rm records every 2 seconds
the fastest 433 temp sensor I have in the house is every 12 seconds
so at 2 seconds, when like the heater or air conditioner kicks on it registers the temp changes as the air mixes
how you doinnnn
still breathing if thats what you mean lol
yep
Ain't bad for a 84 yo then @forest edge
looks very european
What the fuck are the chances
Someone has printed a label
And placed it on the wall of the gas station I parked at
I sent an application to be accepted to the Norwegian engineer union
I'm not an engineer, so I have to be vetted by the board
Working in an engineer position for 14 years and being a subject matter expert in several areas of technology on a European level should count for something
Only European? Not good enough.
my engineer union just wanted my money, didn't ask for education
at least i get their magazine, hope i get some money also should the sht hit the fan some day
These are cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVh_XfxQoU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37JF-LAJoQ
FPV one take fly through of Mann Theatre in Plymouth, MN. Shot on DJI Air Unit and Rotor Riot Cinewhoop.
One take FPV drone shot at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis, MN.
Pilot - Jay Christensen
Director - Anthony Jaska
Shot With - Rally Studios
Heh, nice and they even looped it at the end
Also, they had to record all of those voice lines and sound effects separately, because there's no way that was a mic on the drone. lol
Good use of face-masks, I guess. The lip-sync doesn't even need to match 😂
hehe
"Engineer" is a protected title in QC/Canada which you can't use unless you have an engineering degree and are a member in good standing of the engineering guild.
Much to the chagrin of companies that like to call people "Software Support Engineers" and such
for a while my job title according to work was "Systems Operations Engineer" but I would list it on Linkedin etc as "Systems Operations Administrator" since the engineering guild can take legal action against anyone falsely claiming to be an engineer.
Watched Eurotrip for the first time in 10+ years
That movie aged weirdly...
Like, it aged a lot better than other movies of the time period, but at the same time, wtf @ all of the German xenophobia??
There are still too many anti germany jokes still
At one point in the movie, they literally had a young child draw himself a Hitler mustache and go goose stepping (while Nazi-saluting) in the background, as a one-off sight gag
The whole film is laden with anti-German jokes. Was a bit weird...
Sounds like I need to watch it again
but Michelle Trachtenberg tho
Don't ask about the war.
Absolutely stunning
Hahahaha
wtf they make electric nose trimmers. jesus norway is so far behind
Or just don't grow nose hair to begin with 🤔
Like it's a choice 😂
I mean... there are drugs you could take that would potentially prevent it, and electrolysis to permanently remove it
or just get lucky on genetics 🤷♀️
No?
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There are multiple drugs that inhibit hair growth, and electrolysis is FDA approved for permanent hair removal
any suggedstions on mwahat channel to try for mqqt broker
no guy aaside from maybe some model needing it for a career would ever do any of that.
Apparently my 70 year old grandfather is a model, now...
apparently
Dude got his nose and ear hair nuked because he was tired of dealing with it
One 3 hour session, done
That's actually pretty tempting
dumbest thing ever
I'm not at yeti levels yet but it does get annoying.
Dumber than sticking a trimmer inside your face orifices every few days? lol
your nose hairs have their use. trimming is one thing, removing completely is just dumb
You weigh the pros and cons 🤷♀️
it takes less than 3 seconds
You don't remove all the hair, just the same hair you'd normally trim...
and a nose trimmer is perfectly safe
The stuff that sticks out and is visually unappealing
its always diffrent leapo.. hair grows..
removing hair from the first 1/2" of each nostril isn't gonna do any damage
Apparently some people think getting it fixed permanently is less dumb 🤷♀️
yea well bollywood is filled with alot of colorful people too
And as for the drugs, Propecia (the hair-loss drug) actually has reduced hair growth (for everywhere besides scalp hair) as a side effect
So if you're already taking that to prevent yourself from going bald... congrats...
taking any drug is not ideal regardless what it is or what it does.. hair is not a factor that outweighs what drugs do to your body imo
Not all drugs have awful side effects 🤷♂️
If they did, a lot wouldn't even get approved.
Yeah, they all do stuff. If they didn't, no-one would take them 😂
But as long as they're doing what they're intended to do and not a lot else, it's all good.
and when they get older and realize when it's too late it's up to them to live with it too
🥱
Drugs get a lot less scary when you look into how they actually work and are metabolized, honestly
vs drugs made back in like the 30's sure
drugs do shit to the body that doctors are not even aware of, hell they don't even include symptoms on lists unless they can be verified by multiple panels
yet those do exsist. steriods is a prime example lol
Again, depends on the drugs. Can't just make sweeping statements like "all drugs bad"
but all drugs are bad
you are outweighing one thing for another
even cough drops are bad lol
Incredibly untrue. lol
Well, anything is bad if you take too much of it
Heck, too much oxygen will kill you
it's not even that tink
what do i know, just got best friends with phd's and shit lol
So you have a PhD in medicine too?
sure do, don't breed would be my medical advise
A lot of people should take that advice.
see he understood it lol
No-one mentioned eugenics, ffs. The world's population is growing at an unsustainable rate. It's irresponsible for people to keep having large families.
Depends on the country. The US and Japan have the opposite problem at the moment
not even large families, the growth rate pushes the amount of children down to 0
wait what?
the US has plenty of pop
It's not just about total population, it's the age distribution.
It does, but not enough young people. The birth rate is down hardcore
You want a pyramid, so the younger can support the old.
We're going to have a population of geriatrics, with very few people to take care of them, at this rate

don't worry, think there is a drug for that
Irrelevant callback reference detected
sarcasm will always be relevant tyvm
That wasn't sarcasm, you didn't even hit the mark
that's what atx's wife said..
As a Brit (and therefore an expert in sarcasm), I'm with Leapo on this 😂
This is about people's perceptions of political and financial stability impacting their desire and/or ability to support children
here we go
We are all screwed
Don't forget environmental. The world's going to shit.
good thing we got drugs!
Time to go back to being wild raccoons
You must've noticed the sudden race to perfect vertical farming. There's a very real chance that we'll run out of agricultural land to support the world population.
I mean, yes, it's a good thing modern medicine exists, but that's beside the point right now
sure, some call it "medicine" I suppose..
Modern medicine brought us multiple COVID-19 vaccines and treatments... that worth nothing to you?
I think you're wasting your time here
don't get me started on that lol
Not a single evening without a heated discussion going on 😄
Yeah... and I can imagine this one going too far, so probably best to drop it.
for some countries that is very true, but there is still plenty of "land space" all around
Thank dog for cats
Eh, I'll take dogs over cats, but either over most sentient lifeforms
Except the dolphins, and the mice...
There are other sentient lifeforms?
Sure, the robots
what's the bar for sentient life?
A concept of object permanence?
I'd personally go with can recognise self in a mirror
So not many Discord users 😄
But I appreciate that skips over anything without sight
I can't see myself in the mirror cause there is this fat guy that's always in the way
Same fat guy that gets in the way of mine? 🤔
If we draw the line at can solve problems then that allows for crows, octopus, etc - and excludes most people I deal with at work
Did you see that thing about the cuttlefish passing the marshmallow test? Apparently even they are smarter than most people.
I didn't.... thanks 😄
guess i missed what or who was getting heated. stepped out for a sec
I'll keep waxing my nose hairs for now 🤣
Yeah, this was literally a conversation about nose hair removal technology. lol
That went... places
well it turned into two seperate conversations actually
@clear ferry and his countries archaic practices lol
Yes, Norway, the land where ISPs just stop installing fiber in the middle of a street, or where an ambulance ride will cost you $10k
I know it so well
That sounds like the US >_>
taxi
Nope...
that don't look like a taxi to you?
Nope... cabs here are black
typical

Cabs here come in all colours, but if they've got flashing lights on them they're usually giving you a lift to the nick
It’s 10:30 pm and I just got home. You’ll never guess what I’ve done!
I’ve hugged my parents!!!
Look at you all fancy and vaccinated...
No danger of any hugs in Norway, thank dog
Because people in some parts of the country enjoy sniffing eachothers asses while intoxicated in ski resorts for some reason
Tbh they should be deported
I've been living as an ascetic for a year, but a lot of people still have to live their best lives
be more inclined to believe you had 100% infection rate but they just kept counting the same people recatching it over and over to even get near an 80k mark
Eh, covid restrictions have been good to me, less interactions, more home office, more family time
lucky there's a family guy
what else is there to do in norway aside from work and spending time at home?
No idea, I couldn't be bothered to do anything else
not sure there is anything else
oh i guess you do have some tourist attractions
I didn't even think you had those.. just little towns with clock making shops lol
Apart from everything you can do anywhere else by way of the internet, there are mountains and forests and coastal areas where you do stuff. Your mileage will vary.
There are also airports, so you can leave for a while, during peace time, anyway 😛
Airports? That's how you get from one bit of the US to another bit of the US, right? No point leaving. What's the rest of the world got to offer?
who needs to go to China when you have Panda Express?
I do love Panda Express.
every country has a beautiful side
Parts are shockingly modern and parts are delightfully old world and parts are unsettlingly authoritarian. It's a melange
Are we talking about China or the US here?
there's a little China everywhere
that must be a reall old meme
You must be a really old mean.
You must be a really young bean
Depends on what type of Linux system you're trying to install the drivers on
Getting their ARMHF drivers to compile is a bitch...
Me fighting with Nvidia drivers on ARM
yea well that's noone's fault but your own
Was using a powered riser because the kernel was having issues initializing bus power in a timely manner, which would result in the card trying to init AFTER it was expected to
@forest edge Uh... no? Nvidia provides the drivers and instructions... which do not work on many platforms
So I got to submit a fun little bug report so that they can figure it out 
they provide the drivers and instructions for what they intend it for
and those drivers are a after thought some dev slapped together
Eh? They're the Tegra drivers...
Pretty cool stand
3D printed it 👀
But yeah, some variant of this driver is on the Nvidia Shield and the Nintendo Switch.
just saying, installing drivers on machines they specifically create them for is not hard by any means
I DID eventually get it to work, but only with a Quadro. BAR space was an issue, and GeForce cards don't let you adjust BAR space (unless you have a 30 series)
now they use to be a pain eons ago
Eeeeh, plenty of people report compiler issues even on Tegra platforms for Nvidia's ARM drivers
The issue is needing the EXACT right build environment, which you may or may not need to recompile your kernel to obtain
I got real good at recompiling kernels >_>
issue is cause it's linux and everyone and thier mother builds thier own shit lol
Trust me, I'd run FreeBSD on this board if I could, but FreeBSD on ARM is at a pretty early stage
grow your third arm yet quad?
I don't know man. Debating whether I need 2 or 4 more landscape speakers.
Oh yes got both.
I hope you have a mic hooked to all these outdoor speakers. can't wait for the day you accidently turn that on and your whole neighborhood hears you grunting on the toliet
I would consider them lucky
3rd arm sounds handy. Where does it grow from?
if my neighbor had speakers everywhere outside I would toss critter feed in thier yard every day, moles, squirrels and most of all loose dogs who love to chew on shit lol
I am rarely home. They can suffer a bit. Plus most of them are into blues just like me. No harm done.
Although I don't know whether they appreciate a little loud yoyo ma on Sunday mornings. Lol
if you are rarely home why the hell have all this crap? lol
you plan to retire in this house? thought you were moving to vegas lol
Hmm. This one is in the keep list. 😆 nopes no plans to move.
Even if I do will be to KC
i'm sure, seems like every other cali is
then you will be like all of them asking how do you drive in snow lol
Yeah right. Did you see a Dr to get meds for anti dark plates syndrome
they won't be keeping them for long. people already bitch around here at those who do that michgan or whatever bs where they use a loop hole to keep from paying property taxes on vehicles
Let me see what your plates looks like.
our plates are generic
till a law passes where you were forced to switch lol
I bet they get pulled over from time to time
I don't see how they wouldn't
whale tail?
lol
shouldn't that be like a dude dragging a mantis out of the water onto the coast?
man youtube videos are just getting worse and worse lol
I need to figure out a way to remind me to drink water that I won't just ignore
What I need is a faucet installed beside my chair
No excuses if I don't have to get up to get water
Dehydration -> headache
a beer faucet? Now we're talkin'
a few ways
whats the easiest?
lol
saying im half retarded would be giving me 60% more then i should
I would start by looking on the forums https://community.home-assistant.io There are ways to achieve it through a simple template and I think there might even be an integration that includes it out now
odd I thought the power checker did the temp, don't see it listed
I could give you a 2 second solution in the right channel but 🤷♂️
oh well
dont you channel nazi me, remember im dumb, i cant be expected to figure out these "channels" is that what you call them?
like
derp system moniter added
on the real tho, half the time i dont know which thing is asked in which channel and then if you ask in the wrong one and it's a 1 second answer people dont answer so it's like do you want me to post that question in each channel?
thats why the checker dosen't have it anymore heh
so then i get discouraged and stop trying
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yeah
completely my own fault im sure, but sometimes coming here seems more like calling an ISP's customer line
you get shuffled around and never really get a straight answer unless your "in the know"
lol well I did give an answer, a couple infact
you guessed it right first time 👏 don't be so boring @jade tartan
i was looking for system monitor anywhere in addon's but couldnt find anything, im going to try looking into intigrations? but the point being im not a wiz at HA so anything i end up wanting to do is me learning from scratch, oh well ive made it this far
padawans are just angry, i mean look at darth vadar
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