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adlai|textonly: how exactly did I end up as one goalpost of this musing on nomenclature?
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-04-26 13:59:18 verisimilitude: I thought to myself, ``Would the former offend adlai, and would the latter offend asciilifeform?''.
adlai|textonly: ... and in case there's no wetter paint than the semiotics of offense: arbitrary jokes about various acts of genocide typically don't offend people who tend to not take things personally.
adlai|textonly: I'd be much more offended if you directly attacked me, for being descended from one or another clade, than if you named your program after some textbook example of wholesale human failure (and triumph, although folks tend to focus on the sad stories instead of the rebellions)
adlai|textonly: one of my long-dead relatives from the generation that fled Europe made a terrible face and cut off conversation after being told that I was going to Germany for vacation; that kinda made me take a skeptical view of offense on behalf of stereotypes and racism, before I could spell either of those words in any language myself.
vex: hey cdd, how's it going mate?
crtdaydreams: vex man, not too bad, how about you?
crtdaydreams: I expect you've been on a little voyage past few weeks?
vex: yeah good. yer blog's looking good
vex: yeah put down the whiskey for a bit
crtdaydreams: thanks, I have a few ideas in the works
crtdaydreams: that's great mate, feeling better overall?
vex: yes, it's different
crtdaydreams: you back on mainland?
vex: I actually just went for a roadtrip
crtdaydreams: ah, righto
crtdaydreams: where to?
vex: Just swaggin around, got a motel in Longreach one night
vex: looking at the stars and riding straight past every pub
crtdaydreams: riding? you go on a 2-wheeler?
vex: yeah
crtdaydreams: can't imagine taking a car, now I think about it. too expensive to run.
crtdaydreams: where else did you go?
vex: I camped by a river one night, pretty fucking speccy, didn't look at the map much
vex: You'd just chuck a few drums of farm diesel on the back, wouldn't you? You'd get to Perth
crtdaydreams: yeah, actually the ute got cooked.
crtdaydreams: radiator hose blew out at the bottom
vex: didn't notice?
crtdaydreams: not until the engine light came on
vex: is it fucked?
crtdaydreams: nah, took her out wandoan way for a couple weeks helping a relly, no problems
crtdaydreams: then took her all the back to ippy for easter with some other rellys
crtdaydreams: I was driving home and it was misfiring
vex: yeah nice.
crtdaydreams: so got her towed back home, might be loosing water, can't really tell
crtdaydreams: s/loosing/losing/
vex: just drive it into a hole and tell the boss you need a new cruiser
crtdaydreams: haha, nah we'll do some work on it
crtdaydreams: it's worth fixing
vex: yeah, there's somthin g to be said for a familiar machine
crtdaydreams: besides, I wouldn't want to touch any of this new crap anyway
crtdaydreams: pain in the behind to service, and everything's designed to break, be it electronic or wear.
vex: I was dreaming about a 40 series, then I looked at the prices
crtdaydreams: could easily get half a mil on the clock for some of these old engines, but you'd be lucky to get a quarter nowadays
crtdaydreams: yeah, the 40 series just keep going, but you do get injector pump troubles on 'em
crtdaydreams: I'd still be inclined to get one and do it up
vex: Any old rusty pile is worth coin
crtdaydreams: "One mans trash is anothers treasure"
crtdaydreams: Yeah, when you see what some of these ancient car resto guys pull off and work from.
vex: have you driven the recent v8 toyota? fuck they're nice when they're not in the shop
crtdaydreams: nah, I don't get to play with new stuff often
crtdaydreams: what's the trouble with 'em?
vex: just too complicated I think. don't know much about them
crtdaydreams: I imagine they also chew through fuel
vex: yeah, but they haul arse
crtdaydreams: 430Nm torque @ 1,200
crtdaydreams: bloody hell
vex: what's a silverado?
crtdaydreams: chevy?
vex: it'd get wedged between the first two trees it saw tho
crtdaydreams: Bwahahahaha
crtdaydreams: I know a guy who got one of the new 2021 rangers, pretty flash, I don't think he's had much trouble with it _yet_
vex: they look pretty nice
crtdaydreams: A beaut to ride in, I didn't get a chance to drive her.
vex: getting pretty popular, they must be okay
crtdaydreams: I don't like the tub though.
vex: why not?
crtdaydreams: It's too deep (which might be a boon for some) but it makes getting anything up the back hell.
crtdaydreams: It wouldn't be a problem if it was lower
verisimilitude: ``if it were lower''
crtdaydreams: But it's really designed for >=5'9" guys
vex: chuck a tufftray on it, they make an integrated ramp
crtdaydreams: It also comes with default support bars going up to the cab which just add to the nightmare. You can't reach anything.
crtdaydreams: Sides also don't come down, so don't count on storing your tools on the back.
crtdaydreams: Yep. But some of those trays go in the order of >$8000 bucks starting
vex: the truck ain't cheap to begin with
crtdaydreams: Yeah, but it's not like you can sell the default tub back to em.
vex: they don't sell em without?
crtdaydreams: mebbe, not sure.
crtdaydreams: I still wouldn't touch em. In the contract you're not allowed to sell it for ~3 years?
vex: dafuq?
vex: I heard toyota were trying something like that actually
crtdaydreams: supposed to stop scalpers
crtdaydreams: which is a pretty BS excuse imo
vex: I think I read that the contracts were more guidelines than actual rules
crtdaydreams: all fun and games until you're taken to court for selling your 2025 edition 2 years into your 5 year contract
crtdaydreams: might be more applicable to denizens of the USG though. not sure how well it'll fare over here
vex: toyota australia siad they won't sell you another cruiser if you onsell
crtdaydreams: that's a far more reasonable approach
vex: you're prolly gonna hodl it for 3 yrs anyway, but if you come with another 100k, I'm guessing you're good
vex: hey, you've got a fab shop, you should do trays
crtdaydreams: eh, you'd be surprised. I know people who use cars for a year or so, sell it while it's above exponential depreciation point and buy another
crtdaydreams: Steel's pretty hard going right now.
vex: 8k sounds like a good deal
crtdaydreams: Yeah, I guess. Gotta be that market though. I know a few places around here that've filled it.
vex: what about styleside conversions? use all those wasted tubs
crtdaydreams: mind if I DM?
vex: dogbox for the poodle etc
crtdaydreams: I've seen some cool mods where the taillights are mounted on rollers and you've got your toolset in behind the taillight
vex: lol, you're right mate, no worries
vex: logs don't wanna hear 10 pages of ute talk
crtdaydreams: might be surprised
vex: phf will be creaming his jocks
crtdaydreams: bwahahaha
crtdaydreams: err how to segue into #a
vex: I'm thinging about fitting out a case with some new hardware
crtdaydreams: vex: what's your existing case form factor?
vex: its a mini itx I suppose but it'll fit a proper motherboard i think
vex: it can go in the bin
crtdaydreams: you got an acc with umart?
vex: are they good?
vex: i'm familiar with mwave, scorptech and msy
crtdaydreams: from my experience, yep. though compared to other places might be a little more expensive
vex: I like msy. for the soup nazi experience
crtdaydreams: never heard of msy til now
vex: they don't ship, you line up
crtdaydreams: well, what's your price range?
crtdaydreams: bwahahaha
vex: nothings ever in stock, so you need a 9 dimensional backup plan
vex: Ideally I don't wanna spend more than 500 aud
vex: you should experience msy
vex: they won't tell you whats compatible, and the overworked man at the counter has a `no refunds' face
vex: talk fast and know your shit, they'll start finding parts
crtdaydreams: sorry was soldering
crtdaydreams: the one time I went to umart in brisbane, I rocked up at the place looking to buy an SSD
vex: is umart chinesey?
crtdaydreams: (the same nvme drive which I have not used since I brought it, awaiting a working gentoo build)
crtdaydreams: nah, its just fast
crtdaydreams: but I went to there place, and lo and behold, there's nothing
crtdaydreams: the store is an empty shell
crtdaydreams: apparently they no longer have a "store" as such, it's all online
crtdaydreams: the building is just a warehouse/dropoff point
vex: msy has shit on the shelves, gotta make friends with the checkout chang, or he won't look
crtdaydreams: bet they got loads of ASRock stock
vex: nothing rong with some asrock
vex: cat fur, salt spray, that shit is built tuff
crtdaydreams: got DOA board once
crtdaydreams: 11th gen i7
crtdaydreams: tiger lake or sumthin
crtdaydreams: mobo bios was bricked
crtdaydreams: new board of the same, and would freeze up windows
crtdaydreams: bios update fixed it
crtdaydreams: apparently run smooth eva since
vex: I haven't got one recently
crtdaydreams: not my pc btw, just one I put together for a folk
crtdaydreams: vex: what'd ya say yer case was?
vex: lemme look
vex: nope it's dusty as fuck, it going in the bin
crtdaydreams: not gonna grab out the compressor?
crtdaydreams: it's probably 1/5th of ya budget for a new case
vex: ok, it's a half height, I dunno how to describe
crtdaydreams: midget case, ok ok
crtdaydreams: well, er. depends if ya wanna upgrade in the near future
vex: probably, I don't wanna change everything everytime
crtdaydreams: aight, so worth splurging a little on the case
vex: i did see teenage engineering has a flatpack orange thing
vex: their motto is bend once
vex: the case doesn't matter, i'll bolt it to a bit of plywood if I need to
crtdaydreams: mebbe "fuck it" and throw it in a fishtank of mineral oil. no coolers, nothin'
vex: I do like quiet
crtdaydreams: does heat up over time, so rec to buy radiator and just circulate oil
crtdaydreams: bwahahaha, if you made your own board stack it'd be possible
crtdaydreams: stick a block in the middle and bolt two boards with a bus together for m-atx form
crtdaydreams: vex: white or black
vex: black obvo, if orange isn' an oftion
vex: option
vex: I think we're gonna need more coin
vex: i think i've got a ryzen 5 and 64 gigs, just need a mobo
crtdaydreams: oh lol, why'd ya not say sooner
crtdaydreams: need to know specs for ryzen 5 && ram
vex: i pulled the stickers off and it won't boot. i forget
vex: ok, say money is no object and spec me out at machine
vex: how much memory can i run on an i7 for instance?
crtdaydreams: vex: that specsheet i mentioned is nomore
crtdaydreams: lost to bitrot
vex: perhaps I should bin the ram. if i recall its 2666
crtdaydreams: woulda sent you that specsheet, I don't really have any more time to throw at it
vex: nevermind, i'll throw some cycles at it
crtdaydreams: righto, lemme know how it goes will ya
crtdaydreams: gotta head o/
vex: will do
vex: verisimilitude, have you ever lined up at the chinese computer shop for a battle of wits?
vex: buy online?
verisimilitude: I do, rarely.
vex: do you smoke weed verisimilitude ?
vex: me niether
vex: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-05-01#1099442 can you imagine getting corralled liek this. you'd need uncle vex
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-05-01 19:26:11 thimbronion: https://twitter.com/BosozokuTerKen/status/1520896928149491714 not actually spandrell but lol
vex: or uncle adlai; he's been to the drunk tank once or twice
verisimilitude: I prefer sobriety at all times, lest I do something foolish.
vex: a nobel endeavour in my book
vex: you'll never fight 4 cops
vex: you might get locked in a nuthouse forever tho; consider measured violence
vex: don't listen to me
vex: do get a speedball tho
vex: it's good work
vex: and the muscle moemory will bang a guy onn the nose so you can escape
vex: life is hard, dont be a victim
vex: MAYBE YOU'VE GOT A 45 IN YOUR POCKET
vex: accidental caps
vex: BingoBoingo, proof of life pls
vex: it's been too long.
vex: the sadness when you're getting off the bottle
vex: i hope he's not hanging from the rafters
vex: check the topic BingoBoingo
asciilifeform tuned in but still hands full atm
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-04-29 10:52:26 asciilifeform: up to neck in commercial liquishit, will surface in day or 2
vex: soz alfie
verisimilitude: Explain ``soz''.
vex: new speak for sorry
vex: sorry not sorry
vex: tv here is playing the fifth element 5 times on the fifth of may
vex: 5 times in a row from midday
vex: I'm hoping BingoBoingo is spooked by the war, still alive
vex: I'm spooked too
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