--- Log opened Wed Dec 01 00:00:58 2021
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07:01 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
07:02 <@Dolemite> oops
07:02 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0 h0 h0ez!
07:02 <@Dolemite> Now that it's December and all
07:04 < Evilpig> Gonna put lights up in the front window today
07:05 <@Dolemite> We've had our dragon in the front yard since September.   It's both a Hallowe'en and Christmas decoration.
07:12  * aestetix hugs Dolemite 
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08:10 <@Dolemite> Finally admitted that I only use my desktop to browse the web and watch media, so last night I formatted over Windows and installed the latest Ubuntu desktop...   Now it's using the NVidia GPU for transcoding the firehose of ATSC 1.0 OTA broadcasts and keeping the system load at 0.35 and barely taxing the GPU (5-10%)
08:10 <@Dolemite> And that's with running a GUI since I installed Ubuntu Desktop
08:17 < oddball> Well, I've said for years that I still have Windows machines at home because 1. I like playing video games, and 2. I need to keep up with Windows for job purposes.
08:18 <@Dolemite> Yeah, I bought a laptop with a decent GPU in it two years ago and have been using it for gaming
08:18 <@Dolemite> If I hadn't done that, I'd still have Windows on the desktop
08:19 < Evilpig> I use the windows desktop for the occasional transcoding job, since handbrake is easy there.  but it mostly sits there.  The latest steam client lets me stream games from it to the laptop though, which is kinda neat
08:19 <@Dolemite> Handbrake on Linux is the same app, though
08:19 < Evilpig> it's the gui
08:20 <@Dolemite> Yeah, I use the Handbrake GUI on Linux
08:20 < oddball> I have heard that gaming on Linux has greatly improved in the past couple years.
08:20 < Evilpig> i've never been able to get the gui on linux to work right for me
08:20 <@Dolemite> oddball: Yeah one of my coworkers that plays newer games has switched to all Linux and says it's good
08:21 <@Dolemite> There's a distro called Manjaro that's supposedly tailored towards gaming
08:21 < aestetix> Dolemite: it's an "easier" version of arch
08:21 < aestetix> Ubuntu is absolute shit.
08:22 <@Dolemite> aestetix: Shut your whore mouf
08:22 < aestetix> Ubuntu sucks balls. It really does.
08:22 < oddball> I've been told that Manjaro is the new hotness.  I'm still the dweeb using Mint.
08:23 < aestetix> I haven't used mint
08:23 <@Dolemite> Perhaps it's just you that sucks balls at working within Ubuntu, aestetix 
08:23 < aestetix> But honestly.... been using arch a while.... my only complaint is systemd
08:23 < aestetix> Ubuntu is what happens when linux tries to be like apple
08:23 < oddball> Actually, the large majority of the time that I'm touching Linux these days it's Raspbian.... but that's because I'm the crazy man that decided to use Pis in production at work.
08:24 < Evilpig> that does make you a crazy person, confirmed.
08:24 <@Dolemite> oddball: What are they, media/information screens?
08:25 < oddball> I've actually considered transitioning the Pis to Manjaro, since Raspbian has decided to go the route of "no, we won't give you an easy upgrade path to the new release."
08:25 < aestetix> Btw
08:25 < aestetix> what is funny is that arch has much better wine/proton/steam support, even though it's not officially supported, whereas Ubuntu is
08:26 < oddball> Dolemite: It started with digital displays, but now we're using them in the kitchens for order boards, timeclock stations, COVID screening checkpoints, and... anywhere else that we need a "dumb little computer."
08:27 < oddball> Hell, I think we still have one running as a file server at one center (we needed somewhere to store scanned documents, and those files get deleted after 5 days)
08:28 <@Dolemite> Other than using it as a NAS, sounds like perfect uses for them
08:28 <@Dolemite> Not that the NAS use is horrible
08:29 <@Dolemite> It's damn hard to beat the value proposition of a Pi running a digital display
08:29 < oddball> Oh, Ben and I cracked up for about 5 minutes when we decided "we could throw a Pi at it"
08:30 < oddball> Oh, god yes.  The setup that the company was using before we went with the Pis was costing us $40 per month *per screen*.
08:31 < oddball> But the Raspbian's decision of "you really should just do a clean install" works great when it's one or two devices that you can lay hands on.  When it's 300 spread across the country?
08:40 < oddball> And Manjero is advertising that their Pi release is a rolling release.  I think that the only issue is wrapping my head around pacman.
08:49 < oddball> Of course, Dagmar's twitchy about switching to anything Arch based... I know! I'll go with Gentoo! I'm sure he'll be cool with that!
09:50 <@Mirage_> Could someone please verify this works externally?  https://thehippo.net/smokeping/
09:50 < PigBot> SmokePing Latency Page for Network Latency Grapher (at thehippo.net) 
09:51  * Mirage_ thanks PigBot
09:51 <@Mirage_> =)
09:54 < Evilpig> lol
09:59 <@Mirage_> Ok, trailing '/' should be fixed now too for https://thehippo.net/smokeping
09:59 < PigBot> SmokePing Latency Page for Network Latency Grapher (at thehippo.net) https://tinyurl.com/y56829vt
10:48 <@Mirage_> Hrm, WoW Classic released TBC.  I might have to play that. I actually liked TBC, minus those fucking Reavers.   Sneaky bastards
11:23 < Evilpig> Sneaky?  they shook the entire screen as they walked around
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11:59 <@Mirage_> Spectrum finally sent a line tech out vs a residential tech and he was able to see am intermittent signal issue coming from upstream, so now they're finally listeneing to me that the issue is somewhere upstream.
12:03 <@Mirage_> Evilpig: so you never had one come up from behind you, get too close to be able to escape, and kill you?
12:16 < Evilpig> I'm not saying I didn't get stomped by one more than once, just saying they didn't really sneak anywhere
12:16 < Evilpig> and they're listening to the line tech not you.  heh
12:17 <@Mirage_> I realize that, but at least my original suspicion has finally been confirmed by someone after having a chat with the Supervisor this morning.
12:48 < Evilpig> rofl
12:48 < Evilpig> Good morning all. 
12:48 < Evilpig> With our first month of having new gate equipment behind us, we are still experiencing employees who are knocking off the gate arms with their vehicles as they enter/ exit the garage. At this point, everyone should be well aware that they must stop, swipe their access card, and then wait until the LED illuminated gate arm turns green before proceeding. In addition to the damage done to the equipment, when a gate arm is knocked off after business hours, our On-Call Technician is called out to replace it, which results in overtime costs. 
12:48 < Evilpig> Therefore, effective immediately, employees responsible for damaging the gate arms are subject to punitive fees and/or revocation of their parking privileges at 3401 West End. 
12:48 < Evilpig> Please disseminate to your
12:49 < Evilpig> i'm glad we don't go into the office anymore.  haha
13:02 <@Dolemite> I have to swipe my card on campus once per month
13:02 <@Dolemite> You know, because we're in a 'hybrid work from home' scenario
13:02 <@Dolemite> Since we don't allow 100% work from home
13:05 < brimstone> huh
13:06 < brimstone> were you there at midnight last night to swipe for November, wait 10 minutes, then swipe for december?
13:06 <@Dolemite> No, I'd thought about that, but went in during "normal hours" last week
13:07 <@Dolemite> I'll go in between Crimmus/NYE for December, then I have my 1 on 1 with my group leader in January that is an in person meeting
13:07 <@Dolemite> You know, so he can tell me how much they appreciate all of my hard work but has no details on how small my raise will be yet
13:09 < brimstone> _this could have been an email_
13:20 <@Dolemite> Yep, but it's all part of their argument against allowing antivaxers to make the claim that they can work 100% remotely and not be a danger to others
16:09 <@earlrogers> i was hybrid before covid and now i'm full remote, everyone else has to go in once a week
16:11 <@earlrogers> granted my commute is like 4 hours and i had already started skipping every other month
16:37 < Evilpig> NotLarry said vandy is wanting them to come back into the office again.
16:44 < Evilpig> learned a new thing today.  sometime back the spigot developers added a flag for --forceUpgrade to make it run through all the chunks in a saved world and make sure they properly update to the latest version
19:32 < Evilpig> Dagmar: tplink switches here and went into homeassistant just fine.  your life is spared
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