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cainyxues · January 2025

I was too busy these days so what happening fellas

cainyxues · January 2025

what you all doing?

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

interesting, can you send me a link to a similar product or such, might be interesting to read the driver part for myself.

This is a good example - https://www.zeepee.in/sony-blu-ray-dvd-drive-kem-450daa-complete-replacement-for-ps3-slim-cech-25xx-cech-30xx-consoles/?srsltid=AfmBOoqxZ5anhYvILa0ee4QS-k7SIVsEiK5i8Kos6ZfC6Rebplctmucm_D0

BTW, another thing about them is they are married to the motherboard, so, a replacement usually requires NOR/NAND chip rewrite.

That looks like a replacement drive to put into an old PS3 not something to let you use a PS3 drive in a PC.

noob404 · January 2025

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@noob404 said:

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@ralf said:

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@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:
In the end, that is

Expect the unexpected when we near Jan 31.

It's coming near!!

Yup, 19 days left. We have already been on the thread for almost 19 days now, ig.

Yes, wow :O

Can't remember, were you active on the BF thread?

Only the rats were truly active in that cess pit of deals and giveaways.

Guess, new year = new rats then

2025 is the extra year of rat. Was supposed to be year of snake, but they got some bad press, so it was changed to another rat year.

Ahh, I see. I do see the rat population doubling since new year. Good for them.

Yah, soon, it's gonna be Hunger Games over here.

That or Sweater Games.

Sure. Whatever suffers from a want in the districts.

District 14 is distinctly cold right now.

Never read the novels or watched the movie. How many districts are there?

We have extra subterranean districts where rats hang out. We only venture to the upper side for food.

Ahh, gets tougher in winters. Now, I understand the intense demand for sweaters.

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: Do you use any applications that actually might have some erroneous T&C that's gonna bite in the back in the future? BTW, always wondered, how these T&Cs work on Linux package manager based installations. Are they implicitly agreed to according to the license of the app?

some apps but most of the times they are either companies and services i use and they like to keep updating the TnC every month or so... example paypal

Oh, I thought you were talking about software on Windows installation. And yes, reading payment aggregators and wallets' T&C is always a good idea.

Don't trust any of them. That's a better idea.

But, can't refrain from using them. Prolly the only legit way to be paid easily in India (intl payments)

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

I remember some EULA once had small print near the bottom saying something like "if you've read this far e-mail ....... and I'll send you $1000" and apparently only 1 or 2 people ever contacted him out of 10s of thousands of people who agreed to the terms.

Now, that's a good inspiration to actually go through the T&C. That would also actually work as a campaign promoting perusal of T&C.

Sadly, most of them don't give you $1000 for reading them, just maybe a headache that needs $1000 of drugs to make go away.

Makes sense. But, if someone were to run a campaign, even $10 would do great things.

I'm not sure $10 is enough for me to read a complete EULA!

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

I usually gloss it over if it too much to read, i guess i should start using siri or gemini to summarize them moving forward, it's always a dart in arrow if something goes wrong and TnC says otherwise...

Do you use any applications that actually might have some erroneous T&C that's gonna bite in the back in the future? BTW, always wondered, how these T&Cs work on Linux package manager based installations. Are they implicitly agreed to according to the license of the app?

There is a legal defense if you never actually read the terms that you can't be bound by them. Sure it's possible to win both sides of that case though, so probably not worth trying out in court.

Yah, heard people say they could always claim in a court that it was never them that agreed to the T&C.

Yeah, I guess that's possible too. A lot of shop bought PCs in the past had Windows installed beyond where you agreed to the T&Cs, so that would have been plausible.

Not sure if it still works. Read a long time ago on Reddit.

noob404 · January 2025

@cainyxues said:
I was too busy these days so what happening fellas

Rat takeover/

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

interesting, can you send me a link to a similar product or such, might be interesting to read the driver part for myself.

This is a good example - https://www.zeepee.in/sony-blu-ray-dvd-drive-kem-450daa-complete-replacement-for-ps3-slim-cech-25xx-cech-30xx-consoles/?srsltid=AfmBOoqxZ5anhYvILa0ee4QS-k7SIVsEiK5i8Kos6ZfC6Rebplctmucm_D0

BTW, another thing about them is they are married to the motherboard, so, a replacement usually requires NOR/NAND chip rewrite.

That looks like a replacement drive to put into an old PS3 not something to let you use a PS3 drive in a PC.

Yah, he wanted to see what the drive looked like. There are converters that I saw a few years ago, but, unless someone figures out the mobo-lock and the driver part, it's paperweight

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

I remember some EULA once had small print near the bottom saying something like "if you've read this far e-mail ....... and I'll send you $1000" and apparently only 1 or 2 people ever contacted him out of 10s of thousands of people who agreed to the terms.

Now, that's a good inspiration to actually go through the T&C. That would also actually work as a campaign promoting perusal of T&C.

Sadly, most of them don't give you $1000 for reading them, just maybe a headache that needs $1000 of drugs to make go away.

Makes sense. But, if someone were to run a campaign, even $10 would do great things.

I'm not sure $10 is enough for me to read a complete EULA!

I'd be more than happy with the $10.

noob404 · January 2025

@cainyxues said:
what you all doing?

What's up? How are you doing?

cainyxues · January 2025

btw many things seems to be happening here at let 🫠

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

noob404 · January 2025

@cainyxues said:
btw many things seems to be happening here at let 🫠

Pardon me, bro. Haven't had the time to look into the other threads a lot.

ralf · January 2025

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@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:
I am slowly loving AI content generation - video and images. Might be time to invest in a good home server for it. The Android box just isn't gonna cut it

not even my rig, LLM consumes resources like crazy..... although i haven't tried any(yet) i believe it will completely mess up my thermal charts off the grid.

It will. When I said, AI meant using APIs. Oh God no, I won't ever dare run them locally.

I hope your "AI" isn't code for rats in a maze? You humans can be very cruel to a species with superior intellect, but just afflicted by overly small paws that make it difficult to fight back.

But JUST YOU WAIT. If I find out you're holding rats captive, we will get revenge. Nibble your network cable or worse. And THEN you'll be sorry.

No rats will be harmed in the making of my home server. Infact, I am ready for a compromise. I will make a rathouse just alongisde my server with unlimited cheese supply and Tom & Jerry 24/7 on a 5 inch screen such that they don't touch my server.

I'm glad to hear that you plan to make a home for rats, but... Tom and Jerry? TOM? That well known serial killer? Forcing rats to watch that violence perpetrated against our mousey brethren is almost torture. Maybe you could consider screening Stuart Little or The Great Mouse Detective instead?

Nah, we had a vote with the rats in my neghbourhood. They are T&J fans, they love how Jerry wins every time over Tom./

Yeah, the stories resolve well, but you do have to take the "warning: contains mild peril" at the the start a LOT more seriously than "mild" would suggest.

You get those warnings in the UK?

Mild Peril is not something to be taken lightly. It's only one step away from Severe Peril and only a bit further still to Rat Tourture.

Ah, For us, the shows began with no warnings.

I hope all your young rats survived the mental trauma.

Mental trauma? That was and is a stigma here and pretty much everywhere. Even if we have/had that, no way for us to know. Ignorance is bliss.

I meant the trauma of suddenly seeing rat violence without any prior warning.

cainyxues · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@cainyxues said:
what you all doing?

What's up? How are you doing?

nothing was busy with work at home not homework but actual home work 🤣

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

Hmm i believe BD-roms are usable with the proper reader(usually cost around 100-150 USD), they are costly but viable.

No, they do come with the readers. It's just that the protocol isn't exactly SATA and the drivers aren't available, cause S-O-n-Y

IIRC the drives are coded by serial number to only work on the PS3 they came from. Although that was probably figured out alreayd by now.

Yah, as I mentioned to TrK, they are married to the motherboard. But, you can re-marry with the proper tools.

Fair enough, I knew there was some interesting stuff, but I don't think I've turned on any of my PS3s for at least a decade now, so I would have lost interest in following what was going on with that scene.

Man, 3 PS3s lying there alone without the company of a power and HDMI cable. Guess rats don't have any sympathy for their tech.

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

I may or may not have 4 PS3s.

What are you, USAF?

No, they had at least 5 PS3s.

Ah, you stopped at 3 to not piss em off. Smart move.

Ssssh. 4. But yeah. I only have 4 paws, so any more PS3s than that is just greedy, as I can't use them all at once.

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:
I am slowly loving AI content generation - video and images. Might be time to invest in a good home server for it. The Android box just isn't gonna cut it

not even my rig, LLM consumes resources like crazy..... although i haven't tried any(yet) i believe it will completely mess up my thermal charts off the grid.

It will. When I said, AI meant using APIs. Oh God no, I won't ever dare run them locally.

I hope your "AI" isn't code for rats in a maze? You humans can be very cruel to a species with superior intellect, but just afflicted by overly small paws that make it difficult to fight back.

But JUST YOU WAIT. If I find out you're holding rats captive, we will get revenge. Nibble your network cable or worse. And THEN you'll be sorry.

No rats will be harmed in the making of my home server. Infact, I am ready for a compromise. I will make a rathouse just alongisde my server with unlimited cheese supply and Tom & Jerry 24/7 on a 5 inch screen such that they don't touch my server.

I'm glad to hear that you plan to make a home for rats, but... Tom and Jerry? TOM? That well known serial killer? Forcing rats to watch that violence perpetrated against our mousey brethren is almost torture. Maybe you could consider screening Stuart Little or The Great Mouse Detective instead?

Nah, we had a vote with the rats in my neghbourhood. They are T&J fans, they love how Jerry wins every time over Tom./

Yeah, the stories resolve well, but you do have to take the "warning: contains mild peril" at the the start a LOT more seriously than "mild" would suggest.

You get those warnings in the UK?

Mild Peril is not something to be taken lightly. It's only one step away from Severe Peril and only a bit further still to Rat Tourture.

Ah, For us, the shows began with no warnings.

I hope all your young rats survived the mental trauma.

Mental trauma? That was and is a stigma here and pretty much everywhere. Even if we have/had that, no way for us to know. Ignorance is bliss.

I meant the trauma of suddenly seeing rat violence without any prior warning.

Yah, I understood, I was talking in general, about how any mental trauma is taken in current society. You see, I got serious for a moment there, even though you were just joking

ralf · January 2025

@cainyxues said:
I was too busy these days so what happening fellas

Nothing to see here. Stay where you are on the leaderboard, and don't worry yourself about it...

noob404 · January 2025

@cainyxues said:

@noob404 said:

@cainyxues said:
what you all doing?

What's up? How are you doing?

nothing was busy with work at home not homework but actual home work 🤣

Oh yah, I love that from time to time, as well. A good break from the computers.

BasToTheMax · January 2025

When page 850?

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:
In the end, that is

Expect the unexpected when we near Jan 31.

It's coming near!!

Yup, 19 days left. We have already been on the thread for almost 19 days now, ig.

Yes, wow :O

Can't remember, were you active on the BF thread?

Only the rats were truly active in that cess pit of deals and giveaways.

Guess, new year = new rats then

2025 is the extra year of rat. Was supposed to be year of snake, but they got some bad press, so it was changed to another rat year.

Ahh, I see. I do see the rat population doubling since new year. Good for them.

Yah, soon, it's gonna be Hunger Games over here.

That or Sweater Games.

Sure. Whatever suffers from a want in the districts.

District 14 is distinctly cold right now.

Never read the novels or watched the movie. How many districts are there?

We have extra subterranean districts where rats hang out. We only venture to the upper side for food.

Ahh, gets tougher in winters. Now, I understand the intense demand for sweaters.

Yeah, it's not like your sunny climates where it barely dips below 20 in winter. It's cold as here.

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

I usually gloss it over if it too much to read, i guess i should start using siri or gemini to summarize them moving forward, it's always a dart in arrow if something goes wrong and TnC says otherwise...

Do you use any applications that actually might have some erroneous T&C that's gonna bite in the back in the future? BTW, always wondered, how these T&Cs work on Linux package manager based installations. Are they implicitly agreed to according to the license of the app?

There is a legal defense if you never actually read the terms that you can't be bound by them. Sure it's possible to win both sides of that case though, so probably not worth trying out in court.

Yah, heard people say they could always claim in a court that it was never them that agreed to the T&C.

Yeah, I guess that's possible too. A lot of shop bought PCs in the past had Windows installed beyond where you agreed to the T&Cs, so that would have been plausible.

Not sure if it still works. Read a long time ago on Reddit.

If it was on Reddit, it is definitely true.

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: Time to employ this tactic. I have been spending too much time trying to find stuff and buying them at full price.

that's the standard route everyone prefers, i am more into fixing something instead of dumping it. I still have some of my old CPUs with me and some were lost over time, and i guess every cpu will start working if i pair them with the corresponding mobo and ram without any issue.

I hoard as well. I still have my PS3. I am waiting for the day when someone finds a way to use the BD-ROM drive on a PC.

I may or may not have 4 PS3s.

What are you, USAF?

No, they had at least 5 PS3s.

Ah, you stopped at 3 to not piss em off. Smart move.

Ssssh. 4. But yeah. I only have 4 paws, so any more PS3s than that is just greedy, as I can't use them all at once.

Oh, that's understandable. You won't make much selling them as well. Guess it's a better idea to store them for now.

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@cainyxues said:
I was too busy these days so what happening fellas

Rat takeover/

Woah there. Participation. We'd never dream of taking over. And if we did, we would be so obvious about it.

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:
In the end, that is

Expect the unexpected when we near Jan 31.

It's coming near!!

Yup, 19 days left. We have already been on the thread for almost 19 days now, ig.

Yes, wow :O

Can't remember, were you active on the BF thread?

Only the rats were truly active in that cess pit of deals and giveaways.

Guess, new year = new rats then

2025 is the extra year of rat. Was supposed to be year of snake, but they got some bad press, so it was changed to another rat year.

Ahh, I see. I do see the rat population doubling since new year. Good for them.

Yah, soon, it's gonna be Hunger Games over here.

That or Sweater Games.

Sure. Whatever suffers from a want in the districts.

District 14 is distinctly cold right now.

Never read the novels or watched the movie. How many districts are there?

We have extra subterranean districts where rats hang out. We only venture to the upper side for food.

Ahh, gets tougher in winters. Now, I understand the intense demand for sweaters.

Yeah, it's not like your sunny climates where it barely dips below 20 in winter. It's cold as here.

We have temperatures around 8 C around December to Jan here as well.

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said: My friend was once pissed off at his dad, made him read the T&C during installation, scared him of legal implications if he didn't. That's prolly the crueles prank played on parents, atleast in my friend's circle.

wait what? really? but it's really good to read them before you get in...

Yah, but, this was back in the XP era, where almost all the T&Cs were pretty similar. So, he was doing repeats of the same T&C. Funny thing is, uncle was calling his lawyer friends everytime he hit a snag in the T&C. Unfortunately for him, his lawyer friends were as computer-illiterate as him.

I remember some EULA once had small print near the bottom saying something like "if you've read this far e-mail ....... and I'll send you $1000" and apparently only 1 or 2 people ever contacted him out of 10s of thousands of people who agreed to the terms.

Now, that's a good inspiration to actually go through the T&C. That would also actually work as a campaign promoting perusal of T&C.

Sadly, most of them don't give you $1000 for reading them, just maybe a headache that needs $1000 of drugs to make go away.

Makes sense. But, if someone were to run a campaign, even $10 would do great things.

I'm not sure $10 is enough for me to read a complete EULA!

I'd be more than happy with the $10.

Barely worth getting out of bed for.
Getting out of bed AND reading a EULA?
Nooooooooooo thank you!

noob404 · January 2025

@BasToTheMax said:
When page 850?

With you and a few others, maybe in the next hour.

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