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[17:00:22] & elcasey PapaFrog: we're going soon to eat, choice of ham or prime rib also

[17:00:46] & elcasey I'm going for ham, I don't always trust prime rib. some places do it right, other places, idk, it doesn't blow me away sometimes

[17:01:00] & elcasey oh nice

[17:04:17] & elcasey Boris the spider ~

[17:04:41] & elcasey Happy Easter, Milambar!

[17:04:55] & elcasey maybe I will go give the pup a treat and tell her it's from you :)

[17:07:13] & elcasey Milambar: lol that's funny

[17:07:17] & elcasey Milambar: and Cheyenne said ta very much

[17:07:35] & elcasey who is this author?

[17:07:47] & elcasey sounds familiar

[17:08:20] & elcasey hmm fair, he does look a bit like me

[17:08:39] & elcasey Milambar: which one should I start with?

[17:08:59] & elcasey but there's a lot

[17:09:01] & elcasey ok

[17:09:22] & elcasey Magickian Apperntice

[17:09:58] & elcasey we can't read gud

[17:10:10] & elcasey ok off to the shower zone for the Easter meal, back in a while \o

[20:03:33] & elcasey cashews are nice

[20:42:03] & elcasey Easter meal was *well* nice, I got lamb and it was right on the money

[20:42:24] & elcasey Boliver: that sucks, bruv, I can't imagine life without onions :(

[20:45:05] & elcasey Boliver: damn dude, for real, my sympathies. And I wasn't being like "What sort of dick doesn't like onions?", I saw you said you became allergic D:

[20:46:39] & elcasey my parents are also onion-rejectors (raw onions on sub sandwiches anyway) but they can't tolerate anything with the remotest amount of heat. They hardly even use black pepper haha

[20:48:11] & elcasey they're not quite *that* bad, but for real they are close

[20:49:06] & elcasey my mom used to be the queen of salt on EVERYTHING but after she went through chemo, now she thinks everything is super salty. Can't really make fun of her for that (but still do occasionally ;P)

[20:49:54] & elcasey dang

[20:52:18] & elcasey my dad literally wants either meat and potatoes or bologna sandwiches (he does like pizza at least)

[20:52:53] & elcasey xD

[20:53:11] & elcasey I am like the total opposite, I will try pretty much anything once

[20:53:22] & elcasey if it's not literally rotten or has actual shit in it, I will try it

[20:53:50] & elcasey insects and stuff gross me out but I have eaten crickets (not going to again)

[20:53:59] & elcasey ^

[20:54:01] & elcasey got eem

[20:55:38] & elcasey Naemuti: weirdly, their best friends, the woman was an accounting professor most of her career and spent a lot of time in China. Her husband is *the* pickiest eater I have ever seen. He loved the food in China. "I never got heartburn once," is his thing haha

[21:22:33] & elcasey oh freebsd is well nice

[21:22:46] & elcasey oh you talmbout windows kek

[21:23:17] & elcasey I only use BSD for my firewall, which is PfSense, but I have used it for servers and I did a lot of FreeNAS when it was still BSD

[21:24:20] & elcasey I'm plenty happy with Fedora Linux for now, I don't run any personal Windows machines at all anymore. Proton is great for gaming. I haven't got a single game I play where I'm like "Gee, wish I had a Windows box for that." Don't need it anymore.

[21:24:51] & elcasey even on my work Win11 laptop, which I am forced to use, I do all my work from AlmaLinux 10 inside WSL :P

[21:25:22] & elcasey KDE Plasma fixed a lot of things for me, like usability and aesthetically. GNOME has gotten ... idk wtf they're trying to do

[21:25:54] & elcasey I run a "Red Hat" distro (Fedora 43) with KDE

[21:25:58] & elcasey not like it's not available

[21:26:24] & elcasey Naemuti: IBM has fucked up Red Hat real bad and the employees are not happy about it, i.e. the actual engineers

[21:27:05] & elcasey but because I use RHEL so much at work, it made sense for me to use Fedora. I used Ubuntu for a long, long time (like almost 20yrs) but it was never the full 100% "I don't need Windows anymore", even a year ago

[21:27:33] & elcasey ButtrdBread: you don't need Wine, it's a native install on Linux

[21:27:53] & elcasey ButtrdBread: mmm gotcha

[21:28:20] & elcasey url: just saying, 100% my own personal opinion, but I am *really* since I switched to Fedora

[21:28:25] & elcasey really happy*

[21:28:56] & elcasey and it's rolling release, I got Plasma 6.6 without a new FC (Fedora Core) release

[21:29:07] & elcasey Plasma is just really fucking nice

[21:29:33] & elcasey I *love* the fact that MS has shit all over itself with Win11 and Copilot everywhere

[21:29:39] & elcasey people finally had to SNAP OUT OF IT

[21:30:08] & elcasey url: and I really really liked Win2K, hated XP, was like mmm 7 is OK, and then the whole Win8 thing :P

[21:30:26] & elcasey so not a born Windows-hater from the 80s on up

[21:30:49] & elcasey ehhhh

[21:30:59] & elcasey snap is *nasty*

[21:31:03] & elcasey and NOT open source btw

[21:31:17] & elcasey the snap backend which Canonical owns is not FOSS

[21:31:38] & elcasey if it was like "oh only these awesome tools are available on snap" ok fine

[21:31:48] & elcasey even flatpaks annoy me, I want packages in my repos

[21:32:08] & elcasey I am not shitting on Canonical to be an edgelord, I used Ubuntu from 2006-2025

[21:32:40] & elcasey Naemuti: but it's also not like you couldn't just open a shell and use apt (which is what I always did anyway)

[21:33:17] & elcasey yep, I get the criticisms, just saying for ME, I tend to everything in shell anyway (where practical)

[21:33:22] & elcasey Dolphin

[21:33:29] & elcasey which is the KDE/Plasma one

[21:33:34] & elcasey Dolphin is a bit ... shit

[21:33:39] & elcasey but very usable

[21:33:50] & elcasey Naemuti: it's all minor stuff to me

[21:34:09] & elcasey also it will lock up if you have NFS shares in your fstab which are unavailable UNLESS you use ALL the right options

[21:34:25] & elcasey that last bit I mentioned about NFS is something I recently struggled with until today :P

[21:34:43] & elcasey ^

[21:34:50] & elcasey or space to preview a la MacOS

[21:35:08] & elcasey i wanna single-click a video or an image, press space, and see what it actually is

[21:35:18] & elcasey Naemuti: NFS is so much nicer than CIFS

[21:35:52] & elcasey and God help you if you mount a NTFS share in Linux and want decent speed :P

[21:36:30] & elcasey Linux ain't gonna get Mac users though. They're happy with MacOS.

[21:36:45] & elcasey I was plenty happy with MacOS for many years (although Finder is unimaginably shit)

[21:37:18] & elcasey again, I had a real shell, and a package manager (homebrew) so I can function very well on Mac (much better than Windows, for sure)

[21:37:53] & elcasey I feel like I need to learn Midnight Commander now to stay in shell :P

[21:38:04] & elcasey dnf is great imo

[21:38:27] & elcasey it's hard for me to say WHY but I just sort of intuitively like it MORE than apot

[21:38:30] & elcasey apt*

[21:38:44] & elcasey maybe back in the day, that was a long time ago. I probably did.

[21:39:00] & elcasey Naemuti: oh for real?

[21:39:42] & elcasey I have used Claude to help me troubleshoot some things and it heavily used transaction history, like "Oh there was an SELinux update two days ago, lemme go look at that"

[21:43:57] & elcasey I just guess I assumed it was always there and never used it!

[21:44:29] & elcasey yes, had to use that recently for helm!

[21:45:03] & elcasey woke up, logged in, updated my system ... helm deploys are broken

[21:45:09] & elcasey wuh oh :P

[21:45:35] & elcasey but it was because of plugins like S3 and secrets, not helm itself. They hadn't been updated yet. But quick rollback, done. Back to work.

[21:53:57] & elcasey hello

[22:00:47] & elcasey aloo_shu: oh nice, the radio rips

[22:01:49] & elcasey I got some stuff on satellite radio I wanna rip but thankfully it is also on streaming

[22:01:52] & elcasey that made it easier

[22:02:06] & elcasey I put together a little thing which will rip the audio from chrome

[22:03:00] & elcasey :D

[22:03:02] & elcasey nice

[22:03:19] & elcasey my mom looooooooves sangria

[22:05:16] & elcasey i need to sort out an mpd setup

[22:05:32] & elcasey but everything is so frigging transitory for me right now

[22:05:54] & elcasey this Techy quote pretending to be AI shit is annoying af

[22:07:37] & elcasey what is?

[22:08:34] & elcasey that's a type of irc bot?

[22:08:43] & elcasey not my area

[22:27:07] & elcasey ahhhh ok that markov, i knew it sounded familiar

[22:27:17] & elcasey I'm just a corp stooge, I use the finished products ;P

[22:27:52] & elcasey url: man FUCK the price of storage and RAM now

[22:28:05] & elcasey url: I wanted to do a new build, I was balking when it was gonna cost me $3500

[22:28:08] & elcasey probably 5K now

[22:28:30] & elcasey but you ain't a storage wildman like me and url

[22:28:56] & elcasey End3r makes an excellent point

[22:29:02] & elcasey my toast don't even need 512MB DDR

[22:30:53] & elcasey but I don't need 250GB HDDs :P

[22:30:58] & elcasey I need 25TB ones

[22:31:54] & elcasey where the shit am I gonna put FIFTY HDDs?

[22:32:15] & elcasey also tbf I don't *need* 25TB drives. my NAS right now is 4x12TB

[22:32:21] & elcasey ButtrdBread: I have two :(

[22:32:25] & elcasey shit is $$$$

[22:32:33] & elcasey yes, if it's me

[22:32:48] & elcasey 512GB SSD is fine IF you got a big-ass NAS!

[22:33:12] & elcasey ButtrdBread: jokes aside, I archive a shitload of old TV shows and stuff. Maybe it's hoarding but it's what I do :P

[22:33:35] & elcasey not like literally everything. but everything I LIKE takes a LOT of space!

[22:34:56] & elcasey Milambar: I have a 24TB usable NAS (4x12TB cos it's RAID10, soon to be converted to zRAID-1 so 36TB), a 15-odd TB NAS (5x6TB zRAID-2) and about 25TB in just external storage via USB-C

[22:35:13] & elcasey which is enough!

[22:35:44] & elcasey Milambar: bro I'm arching YOUR country's comedy output

[22:35:47] & elcasey archiving*

[22:36:10] & elcasey plus pretty much every movie I would ever wanna watch, mostly 80s stuff

[22:36:18] & elcasey dude that is well respectable

[22:36:29] & elcasey not everyone needs to be a sick freak

[22:37:22] & elcasey Milambar: I just finished properly organizing (and reencoding in some cases) the entirety of classic Doctor Who, S1-S26 (i.e. 1963-1989)

[22:37:45] & elcasey that gives me a lot of pleasure

[22:38:19] & elcasey I replaced a ton of local stuff I had from 15+ years ago with rips from the Classic Doctor Who YT channel from BBC, which is a great channel

[22:38:29] & elcasey url: used my buddy Claude to write a LOT of scripts :D

[22:39:03] & elcasey literally wrote a script/app to give it a list of YT playlists of that channel, rip them with yt-dlp, rename appropriately to match TheTVDB, and stick them on the NAS

[22:39:31] & elcasey url: I don't touch that shit, seems way too easy for it to run buck wild on your shit

[22:40:00] & elcasey Milambar: I didn't mind Eccleston but I really did NOT like the Tennant stuff+

[22:40:33] & elcasey url: I also don't want AI trying to predict what I want. I want to tell it explicitly (sometimes VERY explicitly when it annoys me)

[22:40:45] & elcasey to each his own :)

[22:41:11] & elcasey I was always one of these 'Oh Tom Baker was the best one' wankers until I actually WATCHED ALL OF IT

[22:41:18] & elcasey truth is that it's just ALL VERY GOOD

[22:41:37] & elcasey I even really like the Sylvester McCoy stuff

[22:42:02] & elcasey hmmm 2013 ... no then

[22:42:08] & elcasey but I may have just downloaded it this weekend!

[22:42:17] & elcasey Rukia_Kuchiki: see I haven't seen those! So I reserve judgement

[22:42:30] & elcasey but I didn't care for Tennant as the Doc (too young IMO)

[22:42:52] & elcasey not saying he didn't value the franchise or anything, just wasn't my cup of tea

[22:43:20] & elcasey and the whole "oh the Doctor should be black and also a woman" thing is ... silly. Make a spinoff.

[22:43:24] & elcasey again IMO

[22:44:12] & elcasey ok I will watch it, gotta do my Plex scan, just had Claude sort out a bunch of stuff I got this weekend

[22:45:00] & elcasey Naemuti: oh I sure would

[22:45:27] & elcasey pls don't ;P

[22:45:51] & elcasey YES, now DW Specials contains 17 episodes instead of 1, so looks like it worked properly

[22:46:57] & elcasey Milambar: Patrick Troughton is the one surprising me the most. The more I watch 2nd Doc, the more I really like those!

[22:47:23] & elcasey shame so many were wiped, same for Hartnell

[22:47:34] & elcasey lmao

[22:48:47] & elcasey and I also realized I'm busting for a piss brb

[22:51:12] & elcasey ^

[22:51:29] & elcasey yes, I looked that up

[22:51:59] & elcasey Peter Davison was a great Doc

[22:52:20] & elcasey Colin Baker too me some getting used to but then I enjoyed that too

[22:52:30] & elcasey +k

[22:53:01] & elcasey Colin Baker?

[22:53:10] & elcasey yeah the over the top technicolor coat one

[22:53:23] & elcasey Peter Davison wore the cricket jumper

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