prob am gonna do the guide thing, prolly do like., reuse the console for building lists, but instead of exporting it normally have a separate guide export(so can add/remove, reposition order and such) then have it only display 4~5 of the next segments from each of the lists for that one like ./mcli -guide or something, then formatted output, current list:, then rest following, also maybe make a command where it can reference the order of that list, to do like flipping thru channels, as goup, godown, or just list# or something if know the exact number
took apart my 2010 mbp and put in a ssd/hdd caddy for when i eventually buy another SSD, and redid the thermal paste and the thermal paste was bad lol. now, under 1080p youtube playback and also multitasking max temp of 70-74C instead of possibly hitting the temp limit of 85 (or hard shutdown at 90 on CPU core, lol). and other than the fact that EVERY set of screws for each area is different, it was actually easier than most laptops to do.
also, sold the thinkpad 600E pentium II based laptop for $125 at work today which I was surprised by. then again, everything works on it.
Well, today was fun so far. One of the previous employees after he was let go was pissed or something about getting let go, had a copy of his key made and last night at some point came in and stole around $4k of turquoise and silver, on top of that took the entire cash register and the dvr system. What was supposed to be a normal day now has been a long annoying one. Talked to all the pawnshop owners in the area though and they’ll notify the police if that stuff shows up. And unfortunately not a lot of places around have security cameras other than a bank but they need a subpoena to get the records from.
On the plus side, none of the eBay store related things were taken so there’s that. And there was almost no cash in the register.
Also had the lock rekeyed on the door so there’s not a chance of the same thing happening.
Figures, was a chill job up until now lol. Still, not really much I could’ve done to stop it as they knew the store and when people would be there etc
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that sucks
ye that’s fucked up, curious though that they went to all the trouble of steal the DVR so theirs no footage of them while completely negating the fact that their the prime fucking suspect. I don’t give them long and hopefully they’ll get caught soon enough.
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they needed a dvr system so they know when the cops are comin lol
currently going through all the local online sales places, will try some of the less common ones but so far FB marketplace, and craigslist aren’t showing anything. i guess i’ll have to wait for the police for the most part since the local businesses didn’t have any cameras (at least none facing out to the street, after talking with most of the ones within a block of the shop) so it’s not like there’s easy evidence to find. meh. mostly just irritated at the whole thing, but they have insurance that will cover the losses and with the new keys on the door the only way to try to rob the store now is to actually break in forcibly now lol.
and they only took hard to trace things, most of the ebay listings and such are (relatively) easy to find if they got taken because we track S/N and such (though we usually delete those after sale).
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lockpicking lawyer has entered the chat
well yes and it’s fairly easy to pick that lock but the amount of time required to do it and it being in the middle of downtown (well, it’s not really much of a downtown, but still) means it’s fairly unlikely to have someone do that. Not impossible though.
ye dunno, least have prolly fairly accurate list of previous employees/info etc
yeah pretty much 90% sure who it is but theres a small chance it could be the other guy that could’ve done it. but either way gave the police the info on both. one of the reasons why is the person rifled through some of the files in one of the desks and now the 90% guys stuff is gone so what a genius it’s almost like to be on payroll you need to have your stuff in that system too lol. so yeah.
and with it being a felony-charge level of stealing the police are probably going to go after whoever it ends up being pretty hardcore, though if that happens I’ll probably have to be in court at least at some point. because i was the one that found everything the way it was.
might who knows lol
well, through basically luck i might be getting a 2016 15" macbook pro i7 2.9/512gb ssd (sadly, the touchbar one, but meh) for $300 because one of the businesses here is doing the semi-annual clear-out of old computers, so that is nice. and the same place my work might buy a whole bunch of x79 and newer desktops and 4th gen and newer laptops. Neat.
Also shipped out some Core 2 duo based thinkpads to Germany, so that was interesting doing customs. But since they were so cheap didn’t really cost a lot extra.
Other than that no news yet on the above stuff, which is whatever.
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started on server shiz so far pretty easy to input it into the console part just gotta add the part where it finishes the list(probably just another command to exit back to the earlier loop, since i put in checks for the multiply/dupe rename etc commands so you cant use them while editing guide, just gonna be a list of the registered lists, in order of appearance in the guide output, prob just add it as an alias to the back command if you are in guide
is the displaying the list gonna be the pain, have to account for the indexing and stuff, if it hits end of list to go back to beginning(also accounting for indexing)
then decide on formatting, thinking like:
ch1 list name
segment 1
segment 2
segment 3
segment 4
segment 5
ch2 list name
segments
so on
just cause never know how people name their shit, even with putting in something to only output the final part of the string after the last \ or / w.e. could be ~255characters long for the file name filesystem depending, as well as the list name, could be really high number of registered channels(like upto 15 digits) would be like ~1600 characters or something like that for the higher limits per line if did the segments on same line as the list name
but can always edit formatting fairly easily
sup?
edit2:
ended up adding a sub command to the guide, where if you specify one of the channels(based on the channel numbers) then it would show 25 segments for only that one
but still testing/getting it goin when interrupted by the keyboard battery goin low and mouse not working and stuff so charging that currently
edit3: mostly done testing the guide functions but not done the change channel ones yet, also might redo it slightly so you can do by channel number or listname idk, decisions i guess
Picked up a bunch of MITX systems today, some second but mainly 6th gen i5. And got myself a terminal model M for $5
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lol cool
Got the newish MacBook Pro, now will be living the dongle life lol. But it’s still the nicest laptop I’ve yet owned and the onboard GPU is roughly equivalent to a desktop RX 460 so it’s not too bad for 1080p gaming at least. Cpu is pretty nice though as it’s a top spec model, with the i7 7920hq CPU.
Will see how it goes. I don’t know how I feel yet about the touchpad as trying to right click is confusing, but it’s otherwise quite decent as far as keyboard. Not great and certainly nothing like the previous MBP keyboards which are really nice but meh.
The touch bar is… fine? Once I get everything set up on it I’ll see if it’s more than just a gimmick but for standard uses it seems somewhat like a downgrade from having physical keyboard buttons. As you have sliders and things for the volume so instead of just hitting up or down volume/brightness etc you have to look at the little screen to make sure it’s where you want to setting to be.
It does have Touch ID on it though so that’s really nice for logging in and such.
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also, the speakers on this laptop are insanely good.
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idk man desktop 460 is devastating still faster then a steamdeck like 5years later
So aparently its Cybersecurity Awareness Month and in the spirit of improving secruity for everyone did you know the forum supports two-factor authentification? To enable it go to your account preferences, click on secruity and select Manage Two-Factor Authentification and from there you can choose your authentification mehtod
It supports any TOTP based authenticator including Google Authenticator, open souce alternatives like andOTP, Bitwarden, and even physical Secruity Key’s like the Yubikey. Device based 2FA using app authenticators or physcial secruity keys is one of the best measures you can take to make your account more secure from unauthorized access.
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ok now I’ve at least figured out how right clicking works, you use one finger to left and two fingers while clicking to do a right click. For normal use and for RTS games this is fine but it makes gaming on anything that needs both clicks more or less impossible. Also the touchpad gestures are neat. Switching windows for example is easy.
Some features of the touchbar that are actually quite useful are for one, built in spell checker. And since it is near my line of sight while typing it actually makes sense.
Also, media controls are neat.
if i cared enough to i could connect my phone to the laptop and use messaging and then have the assortment of emojis on the touchbar, but meh? i don’t use them enough to ever do that.
Tested out some games, at the highest settings Civ V at the native 2880x1800 runs at 40-60 FPS. Tried the 2013 Tomb Raider and it runs at 45-60FPS, usually sitting at 55-60 but the occasional dips lower than that at High settings 1920x1200 except with only 2x not 8x MSAA.
Will try some more that have native Mac OS support, and then bootcamp to compare the performance.
Amusingly, Empire: Total War runs much faster on this MBP than it does on my 1800X/1650 Super rig, but I think thats more down to optimization and fixes applied when porting it to Mac OS than anything. As the Windows version still has a lot of issues for me when taking turns and such especially late game, which doesn’t seem to be an issue on the ported version.