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ralf · January 2025

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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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

Well, yeah I read the first post. But it also says there are 5x sweaters for engagement, so I'm being engaged.

ralf · January 2025

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@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!

Well, we got different standards for online free money, I guess.

Free money = not working. Reading an EULA = working.

Right. But, it's not like they would have a questionnaire after the T&C to check if we actually went through it, if you catch my drift.

"Are you asleep? (Y/N)"

It's a trick question though, you have to let it time out.

Why not just choose N?

If you've chosen "not asleep", it means you didn't read the EULA.

Oh, joking again? Didn't get it the first time. Man, that's clever though.

yeah, that's what makes it a trick question.

DeusVult · January 2025

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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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

Well, yeah I read the first post. But it also says there are 5x sweaters for engagement, so I'm being engaged.

Greatttt. Let's go. Are u from USA, btw? Lol

ralf · January 2025

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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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

He's just trolling

I'm not trolling. I believe the technical term is shitposting.

noob404 · January 2025

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@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.

I need to dig out my Hong Kong one actually as I bought a region locked blu-ray from there recently. Wonder where it is...

PS3s were region locked as well?

Games weren't but blu-rays and DVDs were still.

Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

In that case, yes, games are unlocked across every region. Although not all digital titles were available in every region on the play store.

Back in the PS3 era, I was big into physical media. Even now, I'd prefer them given the new policies these game studios keep coming up with.

Yeah, me to. I've got a massive pile of games on disc, and I think I've only bought 2 games digitally. Most of the digital games I got from the play store plus thing. Then I realised I was still playing for it but hadn't turned a PS3 on for over a year, so I cancelled it and presumably I've lost them all now. Oh, and I have steam games on the PC, but they feel a bit more real.

Yah, Steam still is sticking to their original policy. But, game studios are increasingly moving to the new policy that digital games aren't actually owned by the buyer, but, instead kinda like rented indefinitely??!! Whatever that means

noob404 · January 2025

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@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!

Well, we got different standards for online free money, I guess.

Free money = not working. Reading an EULA = working.

Right. But, it's not like they would have a questionnaire after the T&C to check if we actually went through it, if you catch my drift.

"Are you asleep? (Y/N)"

It's a trick question though, you have to let it time out.

Why not just choose N?

If you've chosen "not asleep", it means you didn't read the EULA.

Oh, joking again? Didn't get it the first time. Man, that's clever though.

Lol

Did you get the joke there?

ralf · January 2025

And it's worked. I've shitposted more now than Puple D has doubled bandwidth. If that's not engaged, I don't know what is.

noob404 · January 2025

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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.

Man, that's so warm. It did get above freezing yesterday. I think it's 1 degree today.

That definitely is freezing cold. Got snow there?

We did last week, but this week it's not been wet enough for that, so we just had permanent frost instead.

Oh, permanent frost is another weather phenomenon I keep forgetting about.

You are in the land of permanent sun.

Actually, I've never been to India. It seems like it'd be very interesting. Lots of cool stuff to see, but also so many people, I imagine it's hard not to feel a bit claustrophobic.

Depends on where you are. In a metro city, yes, you are never actually alone. But, in the countrysides, you have fresh air (mostly), great environment, awesome people.

Oh really? I just imagined that even rural towns would be pretty busy too. But I guess actual countryside would be nice.

Not anything against the cities. Do a tour of both. You might like the cities more. Who knows. India is very very diverse.

noob404 · January 2025

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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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

He's just trolling

I am aware. But, if he does need help, we can always.

noob404 · January 2025

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@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.

I need to dig out my Hong Kong one actually as I bought a region locked blu-ray from there recently. Wonder where it is...

PS3s were region locked as well?

Games weren't but blu-rays and DVDs were still.

Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

In that case, yes, games are unlocked across every region. Although not all digital titles were available in every region on the play store.

Back in the PS3 era, I was big into physical media. Even now, I'd prefer them given the new policies these game studios keep coming up with.

Digital games suck, honestly..

In the current decade and beyond, theya re gonna suck.

ralf · January 2025

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@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.

I need to dig out my Hong Kong one actually as I bought a region locked blu-ray from there recently. Wonder where it is...

PS3s were region locked as well?

Games weren't but blu-rays and DVDs were still.

Oh OK. Forgot about the media.

In that case, yes, games are unlocked across every region. Although not all digital titles were available in every region on the play store.

Back in the PS3 era, I was big into physical media. Even now, I'd prefer them given the new policies these game studios keep coming up with.

Digital games suck, honestly..

Yeah, although there's a good reason why they're pushed so hard. Many disc games get resold on and on, and the shitty games stores that buy them for 30% of what they sell them for again make much more money from that than they do selling the original copies, which is why they push it so aggressively. But the developers get nothing from it.

That's why lots of games used to come with a one time code that unlocked loads of the game, and if you didn't have the code you could buy it for about 10% of the retail price. At least the developers got something then.

noob404 · January 2025

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@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.

I guess, it was on a legal advice sub iirc.

All those guys start everything with "I ANAL". I guess they're proud of their deviances.

Ah, clever wordplay on "NAL" I guess.

What's a NAL?

Not sure if you are joking with the "a" before NAL. Anyways, on the Indian legal advice sub, they use "NAL" - Not a lawyer.

Hehe, yeah it was a little bit of a joke.

So, it actually means the same as the original that I turned into a joke. "IANAL" is "I am not a lawyer".

Yah, Indians love to shorten abbreviations, I guess. Glad that they decided to take the A at the beginning off as well.

Haha yeah. Although I also heard there are plenty of Indian names that sound like Anal, so there's still plenty of opportunity for jokes I guess.

Pretty uncommon. Guess, that's another stereotype about us that you Westerners have

ralf · January 2025

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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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

Well, yeah I read the first post. But it also says there are 5x sweaters for engagement, so I'm being engaged.

Greatttt. Let's go. Are u from USA, btw? Lol

No, I'm from the UK. We celebrate independence day for a different reason...

noob404 · January 2025

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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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

Well, yeah I read the first post. But it also says there are 5x sweaters for engagement, so I'm being engaged.

Yah, hoping you are not trolling, they are not based on your comment numbers. They are random. For example, check Dustin's first comment on the thread, where he has given away VPS to first 10 people who commented with a specific keyword. Sweaters will be given away in that fashion. Atleast, that's how it has been on these threads. But, it's the RackNerd thread, anything can happen. Will pay to stay active.

noob404 · January 2025

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And it's worked. I've shitposted more now than Puple D has doubled bandwidth. If that's not engaged, I don't know what is.

Read my comment explaining how it works. Just because you have posted doesn't make you eligible for the stuff on the thread's front page.

BasToTheMax · January 2025

idk what to talk about

noob404 · January 2025

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idk what to talk about

You decide. You could either join in on an existing convo or start with your own topic. Anything flies here.

ralf · January 2025

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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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

He's just trolling

I am aware. But, if he does need help, we can always.

Actually, I would like clarification on why the order of prizes seems wrong. The laptop seems cheaper than both the PS3 and the TV, but it's first prize. Not sure which is more expensive TV or PS5, depends on the specific TV, but I think that's probably the most expensive. The 6th place prize seems to be less valuable that the 16-25th prizes according to amazon, as that sound bar seems to be discounted a lot everywhere. The backpack seems cooler than the mug+hat+ratpad but cheaper than that package, etc.

It all sounds a bit like "these are the xmas presents purple D received and doesn't want, plus what's left in the store cupboard".

The jumper is genuinely cool, but not in the main list of prizes.

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

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@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.

I guess, it was on a legal advice sub iirc.

All those guys start everything with "I ANAL". I guess they're proud of their deviances.

Ah, clever wordplay on "NAL" I guess.

What's a NAL?

Not sure if you are joking with the "a" before NAL. Anyways, on the Indian legal advice sub, they use "NAL" - Not a lawyer.

Hehe, yeah it was a little bit of a joke.

So, it actually means the same as the original that I turned into a joke. "IANAL" is "I am not a lawyer".

Yah, Indians love to shorten abbreviations, I guess. Glad that they decided to take the A at the beginning off as well.

Haha yeah. Although I also heard there are plenty of Indian names that sound like Anal, so there's still plenty of opportunity for jokes I guess.

Pretty uncommon. Guess, that's another stereotype about us that you Westerners have

Aneel?

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

He's just trolling

I am aware. But, if he does need help, we can always.

Actually, I would like clarification on why the order of prizes seems wrong. The laptop seems cheaper than both the PS3 and the TV, but it's first prize. Not sure which is more expensive TV or PS5, depends on the specific TV, but I think that's probably the most expensive. The 6th place prize seems to be less valuable that the 16-25th prizes according to amazon, as that sound bar seems to be discounted a lot everywhere. The backpack seems cooler than the mug+hat+ratpad but cheaper than that package, etc.

It all sounds a bit like "these are the xmas presents purple D received and doesn't want, plus what's left in the store cupboard".

The jumper is genuinely cool, but not in the main list of prizes.

That's probably because you are looking at the prices on amazon.co.uk. Switch to amazon.com and change your zipcode to a US zipcode. Now, try searching for the items in prize pool.

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:

@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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

Well, yeah I read the first post. But it also says there are 5x sweaters for engagement, so I'm being engaged.

Yah, hoping you are not trolling, they are not based on your comment numbers. They are random. For example, check Dustin's first comment on the thread, where he has given away VPS to first 10 people who commented with a specific keyword. Sweaters will be given away in that fashion. Atleast, that's how it has been on these threads. But, it's the RackNerd thread, anything can happen. Will pay to stay active.

Oh what? Man that sucks. Actually, I didn't know that. Surely the bots will always win then.

The Chinese scalpers have bots that just alert them whenever purple d posts something.

BasToTheMax · January 2025

So my RN Alpine vps still has like 15 days left. What should I do with 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:

@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.

I guess, it was on a legal advice sub iirc.

All those guys start everything with "I ANAL". I guess they're proud of their deviances.

Ah, clever wordplay on "NAL" I guess.

What's a NAL?

Not sure if you are joking with the "a" before NAL. Anyways, on the Indian legal advice sub, they use "NAL" - Not a lawyer.

Hehe, yeah it was a little bit of a joke.

So, it actually means the same as the original that I turned into a joke. "IANAL" is "I am not a lawyer".

Yah, Indians love to shorten abbreviations, I guess. Glad that they decided to take the A at the beginning off as well.

Haha yeah. Although I also heard there are plenty of Indian names that sound like Anal, so there's still plenty of opportunity for jokes I guess.

Pretty uncommon. Guess, that's another stereotype about us that you Westerners have

Aneel?

It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@BasToTheMax said:
idk what to talk about

You decide. You could either join in on an existing convo or start with your own topic. Anything flies here.

I'm just replying to anything with words in it tbh. What can I say, I'm a friendly rat...

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:

@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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

Well, yeah I read the first post. But it also says there are 5x sweaters for engagement, so I'm being engaged.

Yah, hoping you are not trolling, they are not based on your comment numbers. They are random. For example, check Dustin's first comment on the thread, where he has given away VPS to first 10 people who commented with a specific keyword. Sweaters will be given away in that fashion. Atleast, that's how it has been on these threads. But, it's the RackNerd thread, anything can happen. Will pay to stay active.

Oh what? Man that sucks. Actually, I didn't know that. Surely the bots will always win then.

The Chinese scalpers have bots that just alert them whenever purple d posts something.

Dustin has been coming up with new ways to beat them actually when it comes to these giveaways. He might randomly just ask you to go to racknerd's youtube channel and get the link to the latest video posted or maybe copy past the racknerd logo from the official website. He mixes it up from time to time to let the real humans (and from now on, rats) have better chances.

ralf · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@DeusVult said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@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.

Feel free to, btw.

Even for the TV?

For anything. As I have said earlier and will say again, we, like any other human being love good activity on the thread, regardless of the prize pool intentions. BTW, even if you do get the TV, how you gonna get it to UK? Customs duties not so high there?

Probably hide it in my rucksack and hope customs don't notice the big bulge. A sweater would be much more convenient, ngl.

BTW, you do understand that the sweater is not a part of the main engagement-based prize pool, right?

It should be because it's the best prize. Although the backpacks also look nice, but less good for keeping warm with.

No, seriously, you do know that right? I am asking you cause I believe youa re new to the thread. I mgiht be wrong. Don't wanna explain everything to you, cause then you are gonna accuse me of psy-op and maybe patronising.
But, seriously, if you have any genuine doubts about the giveaways here, any one of us would be happy to clear it.

He's just trolling

I am aware. But, if he does need help, we can always.

Actually, I would like clarification on why the order of prizes seems wrong. The laptop seems cheaper than both the PS3 and the TV, but it's first prize. Not sure which is more expensive TV or PS5, depends on the specific TV, but I think that's probably the most expensive. The 6th place prize seems to be less valuable that the 16-25th prizes according to amazon, as that sound bar seems to be discounted a lot everywhere. The backpack seems cooler than the mug+hat+ratpad but cheaper than that package, etc.

It all sounds a bit like "these are the xmas presents purple D received and doesn't want, plus what's left in the store cupboard".

The jumper is genuinely cool, but not in the main list of prizes.

That's probably because you are looking at the prices on amazon.co.uk. Switch to amazon.com and change your zipcode to a US zipcode. Now, try searching for the items in prize pool.

Yeah, but those soundbars were really cheap here. Like under $20 cheap. But listed as one of the main prizes. If I got that as a top prize, I'd be begging to be downgraded to the $15 credit because at least that's useful!

noob404 · January 2025

@BasToTheMax said:
So my RN Alpine vps still has like 15 days left. What should I do with it?

Try the one-click installation script.

ralf · January 2025

@BasToTheMax said:
So my RN Alpine vps still has like 15 days left. What should I do with it?

YABS of course.

noob404 · January 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:

@BasToTheMax said:
idk what to talk about

You decide. You could either join in on an existing convo or start with your own topic. Anything flies here.

I'm just replying to anything with words in it tbh. What can I say, I'm a friendly rat...

Is that the technical term? You decided to give it another, iirc.

BasToTheMax · January 2025

@noob404 said:

@BasToTheMax said:
So my RN Alpine vps still has like 15 days left. What should I do with it?

Try the one-click installation script.

To install alpine on my alpine vps?

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