| lkcl | pffh, dust? you're worried about *dust*?? clearly you are a new car-owner :) | 00:00 |
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| lkcl | oh, can i recommend you get a NOCO-BOOST GB20? | 00:01 |
| lkcl | https://www.halfords.com/motoring/battery-maintenance/jump-starters/noco-gb20-500a-jump-starter-721880.html | 00:02 |
| lkcl | they're great as a USB battery, also a torch, and can kick out 500A @ 12V (!!) | 00:02 |
| lkcl | if you got a diesel i'd recommend the GB40 instead | 00:03 |
| lkcl | the battery on my mum's little 25-year-old toyota goes flat in about 6 weeks, and i just don't use it enough | 00:05 |
| lkcl | oh btw if it snows, go find yourself an empty car-park (train station car park late at night usually does it) and go try some handbrake turns at 5mph :) | 00:07 |
| lkcl | also, what's really *really* illustrative is: get up to 5mph, lock up the brakes, turn the steering wheel and *then* let off the brakes | 00:07 |
| lkcl | make sure there are no hidden sleepers under the snow, or any other cars around! you *will* end up going in a straight line until you let off the brakes! | 00:08 |
| lkcl | exactly the same thing happens when it's wet (aquaplaning) but in snow it's slower and safer to experiment | 00:09 |
| lkcl | if you do the same thing with the handbrake the back-end *will* swing round | 00:09 |
| lkcl | all of these things you should try and experiment with, to feel what they're like, so you're not caught out "eek wtf the car's not going how i expect whatdoidowhatdoido splat" | 00:10 |
| lkcl | okaaay the MMU looks like it is behaving, as best can be determined so far | 12:32 |
| lkcl | now i need to add LR/SC - stdcx - load/store reservations | 12:33 |
| lkcl | in theory this should be a matter of connecting up to existing dcache code, but LDSTCompUnit was never designed for Rc=1 so that's going to be interesting/hairy | 12:53 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Hey guys :) | 17:28 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Interview for a government job tomorrow, wish me luck! | 17:28 |
| octavius | Hello! | 17:28 |
| octavius | Good luck | 17:29 |
| sadoon_albader[m | It's good pay and very light work afaict, so hopefully I'll have a lot of time to work on side projects | 17:29 |
| octavius | Is that job gonna be alright with you working on open-source? | 17:29 |
| sadoon_albader[m | And debian bullseye is running amazingly well on my ppc and ppc64 machines, the repo is up | 17:29 |
| sadoon_albader[m | octavius: Of course, they don't care | 17:29 |
| sadoon_albader[m | It's a data entry / IT stuff for a public college down here | 17:30 |
| octavius | Ah ok | 17:30 |
| sadoon_albader[m | They need employees for the office badly and they offered to give me an engineer title which comes with extra pay | 17:31 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Basically I wanna get into teaching but they require 2 years of experience for that so it's all good with me | 17:32 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Anyways if all goes well I'll be much more active here God willing | 17:32 |
| octavius | Sounds like a nice stable income ;) | 17:33 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Yup! | 18:09 |
| sadoon_albader[m | That's the plan | 18:09 |
| lkcl | hii sadoon_albader[m good luck | 19:13 |
| lkcl | sadoon_albader[m, you saw i've just started running microwatt buildroot linux-5.7? | 19:23 |
| lkcl | MMU looks good, am currently adding atomic load/store | 19:23 |
| lkcl | which is needed for spinlocks | 19:23 |
| lkcl | all data structures turn to mush without that :) | 19:27 |
| sadoon_albader[m | <lkcl> "hii sadoon_albader good luck" <- Thanks! | 19:29 |
| sadoon_albader[m | <lkcl> "sadoon_albader, you saw i've..." <- Been too busy and there's a lot of backlog, awesome to hear! | 19:29 |
| lkcl | i used to work at sainsbury's for 14 hours a week when at uni. | 19:30 |
| * sadoon_albader[m searches sainsbury | 19:30 | |
| lkcl | stopped only for my 3rd year exams and was only GBP 1000 in debt when i left, and paid that off within a year on my first job | 19:30 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Ah nice | 19:30 |
| lkcl | sainsbury's cromwell road, in london - sold TEN PERCENT of the UK's bottled water (!!) | 19:30 |
| lkcl | just that one store | 19:31 |
| sadoon_albader[m | I worked as a student worker at uni for about 14 hours a week too, 6 hours in labs and 8 in tutoring | 19:32 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Made good money back then, used it to travel quite a bit until 2020 came | 19:32 |
| lkcl | can it be done over video link now? | 19:32 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Obviously traveling on a tight budget but if you book things 2-3 months early you get really good deals | 19:32 |
| lkcl | nice | 19:33 |
| sadoon_albader[m | lkcl: When I was a student they offered us tutoring again over the internet but there was a big minus | 19:33 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Back at uni we were paid for shifts, even if students don't come | 19:33 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Was more pay and more stable | 19:33 |
| sadoon_albader[m | After 2020 they only paid us for each session which was mad, I'd free up 6 hours a week to get paid for 1 or sometimes 0, until midterms week came | 19:34 |
| sadoon_albader[m | I did private tutoring for a while, much more money in that, let me tell you | 19:34 |
| lkcl | oh btw do join #debian-ports and #debianppc on oftc.net, let people know about the ppc64be port! | 19:34 |
| lkcl | where to get it, test it, etc. | 19:34 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Of course, I haven't forgotten, just got really busy with this job thing | 19:35 |
| lkcl | :) | 19:35 |
| lkcl | yyeah priorities | 19:35 |
| * lkcl still thinking of things for you that can justify giving you some $ :) | 19:36 | |
| sadoon_albader[m | So far it's all good except the packages need to be signed which I'll do later, then communicate with the debian guys | 19:36 |
| sadoon_albader[m | That's generous :) | 19:37 |
| sadoon_albader[m | But I need to see where I land and how much free time I exactly have during and after work to commit | 19:37 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Like I said, probably a lot | 19:37 |
| lkcl | signing them's not an issue. you need to be part of the debian-archive-keyring for people to "trust" your key. | 19:37 |
| lkcl | it's the only truly inviolate project with proper distributed independence, quite fascinating | 19:38 |
| lkcl | yehyeh | 19:38 |
| lkcl | when i was doing samba nmbd reverse-engineering, i used to wake up at around 6:40am, cycle in to work by 7am/7:15 | 19:39 |
| lkcl | swap out the hard drive (i'd bought an identical machine from Evesham Micros just so i could do this...) | 19:39 |
| lkcl | sniff the work network and do nmbd until around 9:30 | 19:40 |
| lkcl | swap the work hard drive back in and do a full day's work for the company... | 19:40 |
| lkcl | then around 5/5:30 swap the drive back and carry on until around 10/10:30pm, cycle home 25 mins in the dark | 19:40 |
| lkcl | then do the same thing again the next day | 19:41 |
| lkcl | i was doing almost as many hours on samba as i was for the company i was working for. more if you count weekends :) | 19:41 |
| sadoon_albader[m | Sounds like a lot of caffeine was involved | 19:41 |
| lkcl | surprisingly not. i was however only around 63-65kg (at 190cm that's really, really low) | 19:43 |
| *** rsc_ is now known as rsc | 21:05 | |
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