August Chat Thread: Nowhere to go but up.

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Galler: Jan 28, 2008

I leave my oven mitt/glove/pot holder on top of whatever is hot as a reminder that I need it so I don't don't grab the hot thing again.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 02:00

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# ? May 31, 2024 09:26

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Ether Frenzy posted:

The US: "We're the stupidest place on the planet"
The UK: "Hold my gin & tonic"

I feel like all the English speaking countries are trying to one up each other.
It may seem like canada isn't playing, but that's a long con as we reanimate rob ford.
If that fails, there's always doug.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 03:12

MrChips: Jun 10, 2005; FLIGHT SAFETY TIP: Fatties out first

nm posted:

I feel like all the English speaking countries are trying to one up each other.
It may seem like canada isn't playing, but that's a long con as we reanimate rob ford.
If that fails, there's always doug.

Canada is playing, we're just 5 years behind momma England and daddy America. I mean, we have Dog Whistle Andy running the federal cons these days, Dougie in Ontario, and the illegitimate fat boy Jason actually speaking of western separation in anything other than dismissive terms.

poo poo is hosed man.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 03:35

briefcasefullof: Sep 25, 2004; [This Space for Rent]

nm posted:

I feel like all the English speaking countries are trying to one up each other.
It may seem like canada isn't playing, but that's a long con as we reanimate rob ford.
If that fails, there's always doug.

I had no idea Rob Ford died. That makes me sad.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 03:55

Somewhat Heroic: Oct 11, 2007; (Insert Mad Max related text)

Darchangel posted:

Give us until the next election.

You�ll need to clarify because Britain, Australia and the US are all gunning for the lead.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 04:39

Ether Frenzy: Dec 22, 2006; Nap Ghost

At least Boris Johnson is only playing at being a dimwitted fucktard, he's an Oxford man and you don't get into Oxford because your daddy gave you $500 million.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 05:09

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

MrChips posted:

Canada is playing, we're just 5 years behind momma England and daddy America. I mean, we have Dog Whistle Andy running the federal cons these days, Dougie in Ontario, and the illegitimate fat boy Jason actually speaking of western separation in anything other than dismissive terms.

poo poo is hosed man.

Oh, absolutely, but no one who isn't Canadian knows anything beyond Trudeau being good looking and not Trump.

Ether Frenzy posted:

At least Boris Johnson is only playing at being a dimwitted fucktard, he's an Oxford man and you don't get into Oxford because your daddy gave you $500 million.

No, but you absolutely get into Oxford when you went to Eton and your dad is an MEP (which makes his brexit poo poo hilarious). I agree that he's playing at being that dumb, but going to Oxford when you're from a notable family doesn't mean poo poo. Also, he may not be an idiot, but he's certainly willing to light the UK on fire to try to salvage a career built on lies and bad choices.

nm fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Aug 28, 2019

# ? Aug 28, 2019 05:17

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

QuarkMartial posted:

I had no idea Rob Ford died. That makes me sad.

He's got all the pussy he can eat in heaven now :unsmith:

Fortunately, his idiot brother is also a real winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2399gt69c

He got booed so hard he reversed the retroactive funding cuts to the city that he is trying to kill because they wouldn't make him mayor.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 05:28

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

Darchangel posted:

Hang on. FreeNAS can read HFS+? That might make moving the files a bit easier. I'd prefer to use ZFS for "production", but if I can move from one drive array to another on the same machine, that would be smoother. Though, I guess if it's too much trouble I'll find another way.

There is a way to get freebsd to read HFS+, yes. I don't think it's supported out of the box on freenas, but i dont see why you cant make it work.

Darchangel posted:

Holy poo poo, even I won't go there, even Mac ~~idiot~~ aficionado that I am.
Now, my Mac SE running System 7, or my LCIII running OS9? Heck, yeah - real retro-gaming! I've got *so many* floppies and CDs of '90s Mac games and software.
What? Of course they are perfectly legal _backups.

Hold up, what did you do to that poor LCIII to get it to run OS9?

And don't talk too much poo poo about PPCs, I'm posting this from a G4 Powerbook. It's one of, uh, many.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 06:39

CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Somewhat Heroic posted:

You�ll need to clarify because Britain, Australia and the US are all gunning for the lead.

Britain and the USA are so goddamn far in the lead we'd have to resurrect Tony Abbott's dead political career, clone him 50 times and make the entire cabinet the clones to even be in within screaming distance.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 07:35

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

HandlingByJebus posted:

I see what you did there

We normally wouldn�t travel with so much $ in electronics but my wife was working on her grad school, I was using music-making to help decompress, and we brought our good camera gear to shoot our friend�s wedding. Perfect storm for getting really taken to the cleaners. Thankfully everything we need on the notebooks is stored in Dropbox / backed up at home, and I�d already pulled the photos so they�re in iCloud. It�s literally just money. It could have been 1,000,000x worse. Neither of us were hurt, had our passports with us, gently caress it. I hope whoever took the poo poo really needed the gear itself or the cash. Make some beautiful art with it or something. We�ll survive. Thanks for the kind words though, thread.

Wait so why did you put 14k on the visa then

# ? Aug 28, 2019 08:26

LloydDobler: Oct 15, 2005; You shared it with a dick.

MrChips posted:

I did that last year; I was making steak and ale pie and I had just pulled the dutch oven out of the oven and I set it on the stovetop for a moment while I finished preparing the pastry. I went back and grabbed the dutch oven without my oven mitts on, like, full-on grabbed the handles and held on tight for about a fraction of a second before I dropped it back to the stovetop. At least it didn't spill or do damage to the glass cooktop when I dropped it.

For me it was last thursday at work, I had a trim piece for a machine that was just a hair too long so I sanded it down on a disc sander and got it pretty hot. Took it back to the machine to check the fit and it slipped out of my hand, of course I caught it by the hot end, burned my hand, and dropped it again.

Got some work done on my convertible in the cool late night air so now I'm just winding down before climbing in to bed. :feelsgood:

# ? Aug 28, 2019 08:58

fridge corn: Apr 2, 2003; NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN

HandlingByJebus posted:

I see what you did there

We normally wouldn’t travel with so much $ in electronics but my wife was working on her grad school, I was using music-making to help decompress, and we brought our good camera gear to shoot our friend’s wedding. Perfect storm for getting really taken to the cleaners. Thankfully everything we need on the notebooks is stored in Dropbox / backed up at home, and I’d already pulled the photos so they’re in iCloud. It’s literally just money. It could have been 1,000,000x worse. Neither of us were hurt, had our passports with us, gently caress it. I hope whoever took the poo poo really needed the gear itself or the cash. Make some beautiful art with it or something. We’ll survive. Thanks for the kind words though, thread.

I would be leaving such a negative review on Airbnb :mad:

# ? Aug 28, 2019 10:22

Siochain: May 24, 2005; "can they get rid of any humans who are fans of shitheads like Kanye West, 50 Cent, or any other piece of crap "artist" who thinks they're all that?

And also get rid of anyone who has posted retarded shit on the internet."

MrChips posted:

Canada is playing, we're just 5 years behind momma England and daddy America. I mean, we have Dog Whistle Andy running the federal cons these days, Dougie in Ontario, and the illegitimate fat boy Jason actually speaking of western separation in anything other than dismissive terms.

poo poo is hosed man.

Also Pallister in Manitoba blaming Bell's cuts to rural internet on the CRTC's ruling. After he pushed through the Bell/MTS merger, loving Manitobans for all time. And gave Bell a shitload of contracts.

Goddamn the cons gently caress things up, and everyone eats up their poo poo.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 12:19

meatpimp: May 15, 2004; Psst -- Wanna buy

EVERYWHERE
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

Boris just asked the Queen to shut down Parliament. :munch:

meatpimp fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Aug 28, 2019

# ? Aug 28, 2019 12:54

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

But don't worry! We've got a petition going! That'll sort it!

So loving anxious right now.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 13:05

T-Square: May 14, 2009

MrChips posted:

I did that last year; I was making steak and ale pie and I had just pulled the dutch oven out of the oven and I set it on the stovetop for a moment while I finished preparing the pastry. I went back and grabbed the dutch oven without my oven mitts on, like, full-on grabbed the handles and held on tight for about a fraction of a second before I dropped it back to the stovetop. At least it didn't spill or do damage to the glass cooktop when I dropped it.

Yup, that's pretty much exactly what I did. Pulled the pan out, pulled off the chicken breasts, and turned away for two seconds to grab my pre-organized ingredients for my pan sauce and grabbed the handle real good to start making the sauce. Still finished the meal though, but I got to watch the girlfriend eat a fat crispy chicken breast with a delicious pan sauce while I ran tap water over my hand.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 14:01

Coredump: Dec 1, 2002

Is there any truth I�ve heard to the rumblings that Straya is considering moving away from national healthcare? Or is that the UK. I feel like if you have something as valuable as that and you get rid of it that will get you in the lead over the US of A.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 14:11

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Coredump posted:

Is there any truth I�ve heard to the rumblings that Straya is considering moving away from national healthcare? Or is that the UK. I feel like if you have something as valuable as that and you get rid of it that will get you in the lead over the US of A.

As a Strayan the talk is the Private Health Insurance industry is in trouble because the youth of today are being more proactive on health and not bothering to prop up the olds who are actually making claims. They are short sighted on this as no doubt very soon the millennials will come ~~running~~hobbling for cover after too many crossfit competitions blow out their joints.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 14:19

Coredump: Dec 1, 2002

I saw an AMC Spirit on fb marketplace and I was reminded of the two my pops had that my mom destroyed. It would be cool to get a rwd hatch from the 80�s and fix up the suspension and put modern power in one.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 14:32

HandlingByJebus: Jun 21, 2009; All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing I could do:
was ding a ding dang, my dang a long racecar.

It's a love affair. Mainly jebus, and my racecar.

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Wait so why did you put 14k on the visa then

Because they stole two computers, the camera, headphones... �it�s just money� because the data was all backed up. $14k was to replace everything.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 15:38

HandlingByJebus: Jun 21, 2009; All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing I could do:
was ding a ding dang, my dang a long racecar.

It's a love affair. Mainly jebus, and my racecar.

fridge corn posted:

I would be leaving such a negative review on Airbnb

We did. We also reported the unit as a safety concern since there was no sign of forced entry - clearly not secured well enough despite the toity neighbourhood.

ninja: I think HyperDrive is loving awesome and I am super addicted to it

# ? Aug 28, 2019 15:41

devmd01: Mar 7, 2006; Elektronik
Supersonik

https://jalopnik.com/fastest-woman-on-four-wheels-jessi-combs-killed-in-jet-1837654356

She was a relative on my dad�s side of the family, official press release is coming later today. This sucks, she was a really awesome person.

She was on the final run for the day and the afterburners didn�t shut off.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 15:55

Coredump: Dec 1, 2002

That majorly sucks. I feel like I saw Jessi pop up everywhere, xtreme 4x4, mythbusters, all girls garage. drat.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 16:11

The Royal Nonesuch: Nov 1, 2005

drat, that's awful. Sorry about losing your badass relative man

What is everyone using to search for used cars these days? I'm on the market and haven't bought in years; feel like I'm probably missing out by only using craigslist and autotrader.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 16:40

Grakkus: Sep 4, 2011

GG to the UK. Glad I have dual nationalities and am mostly based in the EU.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 16:52

piss boner: May 17, 2003

The Royal Nonesuch posted:

drat, that's awful. Sorry about losing your badass relative man

What is everyone using to search for used cars these days? I'm on the market and haven't bought in years; feel like I'm probably missing out by only using craigslist and autotrader.

CarGurus, shows time on the lot.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 16:55

Modus Man: Jun 8, 2004; Soiled Meat

The Royal Nonesuch posted:

drat, that's awful. Sorry about losing your badass relative man

What is everyone using to search for used cars these days? I'm on the market and haven't bought in years; feel like I'm probably missing out by only using craigslist and autotrader.

I have had the cars.com app on my phone and it lets me live out my car shopping fantasies. It seems to have pretty solid search function and you can save cars to your favorites and it will notify you of price decreases. They need to expand that feature though to include price history because some shady sellers will bump the price and then decrease it back to the old price or even a little higher to game the notification system.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 17:19

Somewhat Heroic: Oct 11, 2007; (Insert Mad Max related text)

HandlingByJebus posted:

ninja: I think HyperDrive is loving awesome and I am super addicted to it

I posted as much a week ago. It took two days to watch the entire thing. The pacing gets better, the commentary gets better. The field of competitors was pretty great, as someone else mentioned there was a good representation for both male and female drivers. The spread of different cars was also very cool. Shredders Silvia was awesome, the RX-7 was sick. The german ladies Mercedes was a monster in spite of it getting crushed by seven tons of water. I was surprised how often they appeared to be evenly matched.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 17:20

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

Somewhat Heroic posted:

You�ll need to clarify because Britain, Australia and the US are all gunning for the lead.

Fair enough. Ich bin Amerikaner.

Raluek posted:

There is a way to get freebsd to read HFS+, yes. I don't think it's supported out of the box on freenas, but i dont see why you cant make it work.

Hold up, what did you do to that poor LCIII to get it to run OS9?

Whoops, memory playing hell with me. 7.6.1 on the LCIII. I haven't booted it up in years, if I'm honest, since I have a classic Mac emulator on my MBP.

quote:

And don't talk too much poo poo about PPCs, I'm posting this from a G4 Powerbook. It's one of, uh, many.

I actually do still have my beige G3 desktop sitting around somewhere - I *think* it has a Sonnet G4 upgrade in it. Got rid of the Blue-and-white G3 minitower years ago. Ditto on the G5. I do still have a 21" Core2 Duo iMac. Oh, and a 6100/66 AV, and a 6100 DOS Compatible (486 System-on-a-board in the expansion slot, for those that don't know)!
I never actually had a Mac laptop until I got a 2010 MBP, though I used and fixed them at work.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 18:23

opengl: Sep 16, 2010

HandlingByJebus posted:

ninja: I think HyperDrive is loving awesome and I am super addicted to it

I have been binging it big time. Only two left, will finish tonight. Can't say enough good things about it. They just need to keep Rut and get a couple more commentators who actually know a single thing about cars and it'll be even better.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 18:49

GnarlyCharlie4u: Sep 23, 2007; I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

Raluek posted:

There is a way to get freebsd to read HFS+, yes. I don't think it's supported out of the box on freenas, but i dont see why you cant make it work.

Hold up, what did you do to that poor LCIII to get it to run OS9?

And don't talk too much poo poo about PPCs, I'm posting this from a G4 Powerbook. It's one of, uh, many.

Darchangel posted:

Thanks, will have to research. Minis use laptop RAM, and not sure if they support ECC.
Might just punt and grab a cheap-ish HP or Lenovo SFF desktop to use. I would grab an USFF (or "micro PC") but my Lacie drives have USB (2.0), FireWire 400/800, and eSATA, so I'd really like to get a FireWire or eSATA card to use in the PC, if possible.
Ugh, this is getting complex.

Hang on. FreeNAS can read HFS+? That might make moving the files a bit easier. I'd prefer to use ZFS for "production", but if I can move from one drive array to another on the same machine, that would be smoother. Though, I guess if it's too much trouble I'll find another way.

I did the same thing to my MBP 2012 when the optical drive poo poo itself. And I realized that I didn't notice for, like months. That SSD boot drive really woke it up.

Mine Pro is a 5,1, if I recall correctly. I have no issue with it other than they are power pigs, and I leave mine on all the time.

Holy poo poo, even I won't go there, even Mac ~~idiot~~ aficionado that I am.
Now, my Mac SE running System 7, or my LCIII running OS9? Heck, yeah - real retro-gaming! I've got *so many* floppies and CDs of '90s Mac games and software.
What? Of course they are perfectly legal _backups.

poo poo I had to check and make sure I wasn't in SCHC for a second there.
Speaking of which, is there an NT password reset program for Server 2012? Or am I boned and just have to go find the install media?

# ? Aug 28, 2019 19:38

devmd01: Mar 7, 2006; Elektronik
Supersonik

https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

Works on every version.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 19:43

GnarlyCharlie4u: Sep 23, 2007; I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

devmd01 posted:

https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

Works on every version.

ok good to know! I hadn't tried it on win 8 / 2012 so I wasn't sure.
Thanks.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 20:12

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 11 years!)

GF is out of town.
GF left her car (Toyota Matrix - a wagon with plenty of room)
GF is a borderline hoarder. I'm the only one who really cleans around here, and it took months to get my car in the garage because she might need the stuff out there "any day".
We have a 10x10 storage unit that's only about half full.

I'm about to load up half of the garage into her car and haul everything a couple of miles to storage. My only concern is getting pulled over, since I'll have to drive with the hatch slightly open (it'll be tied shut, but the cops in my suburb are known for pulling you over for having a car that doesn't look new [personal experience].. much less a 15 year old Toyota with peeling paint and a hatch held closed with a bungee). After that trip, I'll make a few more trips, but there's an armoire in the garage that's a few inches too tall to allow the hatch to close. That's going first. Followed by the loving refrigerator in the garage (I keep trying to get her to sell it while it still works, it's having issues starting and pops the breaker now and then.... but noooo, apparently a 15 year old $600 fridge is priceless).

:sever:

# ? Aug 28, 2019 20:25

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Push everything into the street and set it on fire.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 20:34

GnarlyCharlie4u: Sep 23, 2007; I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

pack the car as full as you can, put the rest in the fridge and tie it to the top of the car.

roll it into the storage unit and shut it.

change the locks on your house and then go on a vacation.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 20:36

Applebees Appetizer: Jan 23, 2006

First hurricane of the year yay!

# ? Aug 28, 2019 20:51

meatpimp: May 15, 2004; Psst -- Wanna buy

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STR posted:

Godspeed, good goon.

# ? Aug 28, 2019 21:15

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# ? May 31, 2024 09:26

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 11 years!)

Her car hates me.

Got stuff into it fine (this is while unloading, but whatever, it shows what I squeezed into it)

Heading to the storage unit:

When I was leaving, I had a bitch of a time getting the hatch to open (the key I have is the one she used for 13 years... it's very worn - she switched to using her spare about 2 years ago). The car is manual everything, no remote release, and I always lock the hatch out of habit after closing it (it locks fine with this key, it's just sometimes a bitch to unlock). It took about 5 minutes of loving with it to finally get it to unlock to haul a couple of things back home.

Heading home:

Thanks to the hatch being open, it was pretty obvious this thing never gets wound out. I had to gun it to merge with traffic, took it up to redline, and oh god the rotten egg fumes. :barf:

I'm not used to a cat that can actually still make those kinds of smells when it has more than a few years on it.

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 28, 2019

# ? Aug 28, 2019 21:35

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