[2025-09-28T03:17:34Z] <midfavila> think i'm going to cut my losses with my old PC
[2025-09-28T03:17:47Z] <sad_plan> why?
[2025-09-28T03:17:50Z] <midfavila> i've been waiting for like five months for the guy i left it with to ship it to me 
[2025-09-28T03:18:14Z] <sad_plan> ah, right. cant you get someone else to actually ship it? like a company
[2025-09-28T03:18:20Z] <midfavila> gave him 100$ upfront plus another 500$ later on to cover shipping costs and as a gratuity, and he's since just stopped responding
[2025-09-28T03:18:23Z] <midfavila> nah
[2025-09-28T03:18:25Z] <midfavila> he's ghosting me
[2025-09-28T03:18:38Z] <midfavila> idk if shit is going on or what but i've been bugging him literally every day for two weeks now 
[2025-09-28T03:18:40Z] <sad_plan> sounds like a real decent bloke
[2025-09-28T03:18:52Z] <midfavila> yeah idk i used to work with him and he seemed nice eonugh 
[2025-09-28T03:19:15Z] <midfavila> i'm less broken up about the PC and more broken up about my bolt-modded first-gen M122 and my three EIZO monitors
[2025-09-28T03:19:25Z] <midfavila> 1536x2048 displays are expensive, man...
[2025-09-28T03:19:44Z] <sad_plan> hm. why cant you get a company to ship it for you?
[2025-09-28T03:19:56Z] <midfavila> because assuming he still has it all it's sitting in his closet
[2025-09-28T03:19:58Z] <midfavila> lol
[2025-09-28T03:20:02Z] <midfavila> on the other side of the continent
[2025-09-28T03:20:54Z] <sad_plan> why did you leave it there to begin with though?
[2025-09-28T03:21:02Z] <midfavila> because i couldn't afford to bring it with me
[2025-09-28T03:21:08Z] <sad_plan> right
[2025-09-28T03:21:24Z] <midfavila> the idea was to bring as little as possible, set things up, and then get it shipped out
[2025-09-28T03:21:29Z] <midfavila> not doing that again
[2025-09-28T03:21:30Z] <midfavila> :|
[2025-09-28T03:22:52Z] <sad_plan> seeing as you trusted a real 1st class friend here, you kinda got burned. is there no other options though? I assume traveling there is too much to ask? :p taking the dinstance into account I mean
[2025-09-28T03:24:56Z] <midfavila> it would be almost a grand to fly there xwx
[2025-09-28T03:25:24Z] <midfavila> i'm just going to say fuck it
[2025-09-28T03:25:48Z] <sad_plan> damn. whats the pc worth to you though? a fraction? :p
[2025-09-28T03:26:21Z] <midfavila> the PC? nothing really. i didn't pay for it and i was going to replace it anyway. it's old and parts are getting expensive 
[2025-09-28T03:26:22Z] <sad_plan> I get that. it hurts to trust people, only to get burned. can you get your hands on similar hardware though? assuming youd want that obviously
[2025-09-28T03:26:36Z] <midfavila> i could, yeah, but it's not worth it to build a replica
[2025-09-28T03:26:40Z] <sad_plan> ah, so its more a matter of principle, than actual worth then?
[2025-09-28T03:26:43Z] <midfavila> i'm going to build a KCMA-D8 up 
[2025-09-28T03:26:44Z] <midfavila> yeah
[2025-09-28T03:26:51Z] <midfavila> i mean the peripherals are the real shame like i said
[2025-09-28T03:27:23Z] <midfavila> the monitors usually retail for USD1,200 each on the aftermarket and i got three for 600 because of a medical clinic in england going under or something and needing to liquidate all their stuff
[2025-09-28T03:28:23Z] <sad_plan> I see. its a shame nevertheless, but we live and we learn I suppose
[2025-09-28T03:28:27Z] <midfavila> yeah 
[2025-09-28T03:30:06Z] <midfavila> lol the d8 is old enough to have a page on the "retro web" wiki
[2025-09-28T03:30:17Z] <midfavila> that's hilarious
[2025-09-28T03:30:34Z] <sad_plan> lol
[2025-09-28T03:35:43Z] <midfavila> sad_plan: do you have any experience working with older ATI cards?
[2025-09-28T03:35:58Z] <midfavila> just for kicks i want to see if i can get a fully-free setup going
[2025-09-28T03:36:04Z] <midfavila> GPUs are the sticking point usually
[2025-09-28T03:36:08Z] <sad_plan> not at all, no
[2025-09-28T03:36:18Z] <sad_plan> yeah I get that. 
[2025-09-28T03:36:31Z] <midfavila> rip
[2025-09-28T03:36:50Z] <midfavila> i'm looking at potentially a nouveau card but every time i've used nouveau i've had serious issues in even regular desktop use
[2025-09-28T03:36:58Z] <sad_plan> maybe dilyn would be kind and send you his? he did offer to give it away for free earlier when I broke my new gpu
[2025-09-28T03:37:16Z] <sad_plan> hm, ive not had any issues with my nvidia card really
[2025-09-28T03:37:19Z] <midfavila> everyone knows dilyn works for the CIA
[2025-09-28T03:37:43Z] <midfavila> isn't nouveau hit or miss depending on the chipset?
[2025-09-28T03:38:20Z] <sad_plan> only *issue* ive had has been whenever cachyos shuts off the screen, and now I cant launch games for some reason. only gets black screen, and doesnt render anything really
[2025-09-28T03:38:37Z] <sad_plan> some people complain the hell out of it, some say it decent enough
[2025-09-28T03:39:01Z] <midfavila> yeah that's what i've heard
[2025-09-28T03:39:14Z] <midfavila> i might just end up ordering a couple cheapo cards to try
[2025-09-28T03:39:19Z] <sad_plan> sewn keeps complaining about it. ive not had much issues at all really. I do however use the properitary drivers instead atm, but was using the foss ones earlier without issues
[2025-09-28T03:39:21Z] <midfavila> i found some REALLY nice older nvidia cards
[2025-09-28T03:39:25Z] <midfavila> that go for like 20
[2025-09-28T03:39:28Z] <midfavila> CAD, to be clear
[2025-09-28T03:39:39Z] <sad_plan> mostly I only wanted to check if there were any noticable performance difference, which ive not seen tbqh
[2025-09-28T03:39:45Z] <sad_plan> nice
[2025-09-28T03:39:53Z] <midfavila> single-slot, passively-cooled or simple blower, under 75W max load, and four DP ports 
[2025-09-28T03:40:08Z] <midfavila> only like 2-4gb of memory but idc lmao
[2025-09-28T03:40:15Z] <midfavila> the craziest games i play are like
[2025-09-28T03:40:18Z] <midfavila> tome4
[2025-09-28T03:40:27Z] <midfavila> or this one 2d shooter with literal stick figures for graphics
[2025-09-28T03:41:04Z] <sad_plan> in other words, thats more than sufficient for your needs :p
[2025-09-28T03:41:07Z] <midfavila> ye
[2025-09-28T03:46:18Z] <midfavila> k i'm going to the pub
[2025-09-28T03:46:20Z] <midfavila> i want fish and chips
[2025-09-28T03:46:23Z] <midfavila> bbl
[2025-09-28T03:50:46Z] <sad_plan> have a good time
[2025-09-28T03:53:25Z] <midfavila> THEY'RE OUT OF BUSINESS
[2025-09-28T03:53:27Z] <midfavila> WHAT
[2025-09-28T03:53:44Z] <midfavila> the place is just down the road from my place and apparently they're just gone now!!!
[2025-09-28T03:54:39Z] <midfavila> just going to order a pizza instead ugh
[2025-09-28T03:55:20Z] <sad_plan> pizza is better imo. I dont even like fishy stuff lol
[2025-09-28T03:56:00Z] <midfavila> fish and chips done proper is amazing
[2025-09-28T03:56:09Z] <midfavila> i used to have it every friday 
[2025-09-28T03:56:19Z] <midfavila> as a little celebration for getting through the week
[2025-09-28T03:56:26Z] <midfavila> esp with some nice malt vinegar...
[2025-09-28T03:56:30Z] * midfavila drools
[2025-09-28T03:56:46Z] <midfavila> the problem is that my current city despite having a million restaurants has very few that are actually *good*
[2025-09-28T03:56:55Z] <midfavila> this entire province is all about quantity over quality
[2025-09-28T03:56:59Z] <midfavila> i miss new brunswick :c
[2025-09-28T03:56:59Z] <sad_plan> sounds awefull. oh well. we all have different tasted fortunatly
[2025-09-28T03:57:26Z] <midfavila> :gun:
[2025-09-28T03:57:38Z] * sad_plan takes gun away
[2025-09-28T03:58:10Z] <midfavila> rude
[2025-09-28T03:58:24Z] * sad_plan shrugs
[2025-09-28T03:59:22Z] <midfavila> everyone is always STEALING FROM ME
[2025-09-28T03:59:22Z] <midfavila> qwq
[2025-09-28T03:59:42Z] <sad_plan> all your base belongs to us
[2025-09-28T03:59:50Z] <midfavila> jfc 2002 called
[2025-09-28T03:59:51Z] <midfavila> old man
[2025-09-28T04:00:05Z] <sad_plan> is that where its from? I didnt even know
[2025-09-28T04:00:17Z] <midfavila> it's from, like, zero wing or whatever
[2025-09-28T04:00:20Z] <midfavila> the NA release
[2025-09-28T04:00:26Z] <midfavila> but yeah it's prehistoric lol
[2025-09-28T04:01:26Z] <sad_plan> yeah, I looked it up, and correct. its from zero wing game. from 89 appearantly. 
[2025-09-28T04:01:39Z] <sad_plan> I recall now, not the game itself, but the image on wikipedia
[2025-09-28T04:02:13Z] <sad_plan> its actually based upon the japanese's poor translation. so its basically just a meme born from someone who could not translate properly lol
[2025-09-28T04:03:46Z] <midfavila> yeye
[2025-09-28T04:09:17Z] <midfavila> man i really need to start buying some frozen meals instead of going to the pub or getting pizza
[2025-09-28T04:09:27Z] <midfavila> the shop sells these little personal pizzas that are frozen and about 5$ each
[2025-09-28T04:18:40Z] <midfavila> ughhh the pizzas in this city suck too
[2025-09-28T04:18:54Z] <midfavila> maybe i should just go to burber kurger and acquire borgir
[2025-09-28T05:06:38Z] <midfavila> https://eblaztr.com/product/
[2025-09-28T05:06:41Z] <midfavila> check this thing out
[2025-09-28T05:06:51Z] <midfavila> AIO chassis 
[2025-09-28T05:15:29Z] <midfavila> https://quietpc.ca/nh-p1
[2025-09-28T05:15:31Z] <midfavila> found these, too
[2025-09-28T05:15:41Z] <midfavila> close to universal passive coolers for modern desktops
[2025-09-28T05:15:47Z] <midfavila> pricey tho
[2025-09-28T05:17:29Z] <midfavila> nooo they're 2cm too tall for the flp01 qwq
[2025-09-28T05:42:33Z] <midfavila> https://n3rdware.com/cases/yocto
[2025-09-28T05:42:35Z] <midfavila> another neat chassis
[2025-09-28T05:42:42Z] <midfavila> guy apparently makes them on demand
[2025-09-28T07:23:45Z] <midfavila> ooh, actually, you know what would be insanely cool? building a PICMG machine
[2025-09-28T07:40:50Z] <midfavila> https://portwell.com/products/detail.php?CUSTCHAR1=ROBO-8122VG2R
[2025-09-28T07:41:21Z] <midfavila> yo...
[2025-09-28T10:39:20Z] <midfavila> finally got a framebuffer terminal up on the uconsole
[2025-09-28T10:39:33Z] <midfavila> much more usable with a cursor :v
[2025-09-28T15:19:41Z] <sad_plan> you could also look into whre I got my case. its all custom made, and can be made to specs. its by an ukrainian guy called custom_mod
[2025-09-28T15:20:07Z] <sad_plan> might not be your type of aestetics though
[2025-09-28T19:20:43Z] <midfavila> the problem is that i build using SSI boards, not ATX or ITX
[2025-09-28T19:20:58Z] <midfavila> idk if people are willing to fab an SSI chassis
[2025-09-28T19:23:38Z] <midfavila> also gm :3
[2025-09-28T19:24:21Z] <midfavila> HOW am I supposed to play rimworld with my SIX HUNDRED MODS if i can't install 1.5tb of memory
[2025-09-28T19:26:47Z] <midfavila> i was also looking at building a semi-custom desk
[2025-09-28T19:27:07Z] <midfavila> there's a shop in toronto that sells these really nice 2" thick walnut tabletops for a good price 
[2025-09-28T19:27:10Z] <midfavila> free shipping too
[2025-09-28T19:27:19Z] <midfavila> assuming canada post still exists in a few months >.>
[2025-09-28T19:27:39Z] <midfavila> they just went on strike in response to the PM trying to cut basic services and the public is so fucking braindead
[2025-09-28T19:28:05Z] <midfavila> "uh durrr if i don't go to work i get fired, why are they rejecting a 10% raise from the company, don't they already make enough money?!?!?!"
[2025-09-28T19:28:25Z] <midfavila> they are *literally* trying to save you from not having a fucking post office in your district, dumbass
[2025-09-28T19:28:56Z] <midfavila> meanwhile in italy unions can shut down the country and people are like "YEAAAAAHHHHHHH LET'S GOOOOOOOO"
[2025-09-28T19:29:08Z] <midfavila> i saw this crazy footage from rome the other day
[2025-09-28T19:29:57Z] <midfavila> looked like france with people chucking entire bins at the cops lmao
[2025-09-28T22:00:15Z] <dery> midfavila: I think that's related to the recent mass-awakening towards the hell that's happening at gaza
[2025-09-28T22:00:56Z] <dery> I genuinely didn't expect for it to go this well, especially after all the recent "safety" (read: anti-protest) laws
[2025-09-28T22:01:06Z] <dery> I'm young, naive and dumb so maybe this has always been like this
[2025-09-28T22:01:40Z] <dery> (especially dumb, I always say that I should read shit but I'm the slowest thing on earth)
[2025-09-28T22:02:25Z] <dery> also update: my stomach thing is almost definitely stress related. I went at a local conference, ate the world and didn't have a single instance of reflux or stuff
[2025-09-28T22:14:29Z] <dery> I mean I say that the union stuff went well but I'm not certain about that either. I can tell that everyone did it thorought all italy and that fucking rocks
[2025-09-28T22:32:31Z] <sad_plan> holy fuck. if I order from mnt to sweden, instead of germany. I can evade tax, and save.. something in the line of $300. assuming its from germany that is, not through crowdsupply. simply because germany and sweden is under EU, thus no import taxes. 
[2025-09-28T22:34:03Z] <sad_plan> wait, I meant to sweden, instead of norway
[2025-09-28T22:35:05Z] <sad_plan> also, midfavila france is dope that way. if goverment does something stupid, the whole country goes to a grinding halt. its amazing