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  • @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

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    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

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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. :lol:

    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 :lol:

    Aneel?

    It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

    So, that's not a common name? Or just uncommon and happens to have a famous guy with the same name?

  • @ralf said:

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    @DeusVult said:

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    @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. :lol:
    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!

    You can always convert your physical prize's value to credits, so, $20 can be easily converted to RN credits worth $20. Of, if you are lucky, maybe convert to merch that's priced the same or lesser. Not sure if it's been tried before though. I guess, stocks of the same also matter.

  • @BasToTheMax said:

    @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? :D

    It's got support for other OSes as well. try em all.

  • @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

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    @ralf said:

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    @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. :lol:
    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.

    yeah, that probably won't work for me. It took me a week to figure out that gleam was some kind of competition. I've still not entered it though because you seem to have to give loads of personal details away to some other company.

  • @ralf said:

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    @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. :lol:

    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 :lol:

    Aneel?

    It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

    So, that's not a common name? Or just uncommon and happens to have a famous guy with the same name?

    It's just the way many Westerners pronounce it, that makes it derogatory. For example, Anil has a specific pronunciation that many Westerners just don't get, for some reason.

  • @noob404 said:

    @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. :lol:

    It's hard to enumerat all the meanings of the word.

  • @ralf said:

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    @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. :lol:
    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.

    yeah, that probably won't work for me. It took me a week to figure out that gleam was some kind of competition. I've still not entered it though because you seem to have to give loads of personal details away to some other company.

    I see. How about this. If there's a sweater GA, I can DM you, if I do see it. Or else, there are more active members here who would be okay with DMing you incase a GA does happen.

  • @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @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. :lol:

    It's hard to enumerat all the meanings of the word.

    Hope, you decide to use another better term, after you wina giveaway here then.

  • @noob404 said:

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    @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. :lol:
    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!

    You can always convert your physical prize's value to credits, so, $20 can be easily converted to RN credits worth $20. Of, if you are lucky, maybe convert to merch that's priced the same or lesser. Not sure if it's been tried before though. I guess, stocks of the same also matter.

    Oh, so he's going to go out and buy the prizes afterwards? I just assumed he'd already got the things.

    Mind you, I'm not sure what one would do with $1000 of ratnerd credit, that'd probably keep my servers active for longer than the CPUs will keep working for!

  • @ralf said:

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    @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. :lol:
    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!

    You can always convert your physical prize's value to credits, so, $20 can be easily converted to RN credits worth $20. Of, if you are lucky, maybe convert to merch that's priced the same or lesser. Not sure if it's been tried before though. I guess, stocks of the same also matter.

    Oh, so he's going to go out and buy the prizes afterwards? I just assumed he'd already got the things.

    Mind you, I'm not sure what one would do with $1000 of ratnerd credit, that'd probably keep my servers active for longer than the CPUs will keep working for!

    He usually orders them off Amazon once the winners are finalised.

    Take my case. I won an $850 worth gaming PC on the BF thread. I converted it into $850 RN credits. My friends came to know of it, and I will prolly run out of it pretty soon. If it was only for my purposes, those creds would have lasted me atleast a decade or so.

  • @noob404 said:

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    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

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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. :lol:

    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 :lol:

    Aneel?

    It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

    So, that's not a common name? Or just uncommon and happens to have a famous guy with the same name?

    It's just the way many Westerners pronounce it, that makes it derogatory. For example, Anil has a specific pronunciation that many Westerners just don't get, for some reason.

    Maybe just Americans not Westerners.

    With the "i", I'd pronounce "Anil" like my grandparents might have said "an hill" as "an 'ill".
    Or maybe like "anneal" (the way you join metals together).

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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. :lol:

    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 :lol:

    Aneel?

    It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

    So, that's not a common name? Or just uncommon and happens to have a famous guy with the same name?

    It's just the way many Westerners pronounce it, that makes it derogatory. For example, Anil has a specific pronunciation that many Westerners just don't get, for some reason.

    Maybe just Americans not Westerners.

    With the "i", I'd pronounce "Anil" like my grandparents might have said "an hill" as "an 'ill".
    Or maybe like "anneal" (the way you join metals together).

    That's where the issue is, it's to be pronounced Uh-nil.

  • @noob404 said:

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    @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. :lol:
    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.

    yeah, that probably won't work for me. It took me a week to figure out that gleam was some kind of competition. I've still not entered it though because you seem to have to give loads of personal details away to some other company.

    I see. How about this. If there's a sweater GA, I can DM you, if I do see it. Or else, there are more active members here who would be okay with DMing you incase a GA does happen.

    That sounds like cheating. If the purple deity doesn't want to spread his love among his true believers (us few right here, right now) then so be it. It needs to be offered with love, not prised from his clutches. "God loves a cheerful giver" and all that nonsense.

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  • @noob404 said:

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    @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. :lol:

    It's hard to enumerat all the meanings of the word.

    Hope, you decide to use another better term, after you wina giveaway here then.

    I'm beginning to doubt that I know what word you're talking about now

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    @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. :lol:
    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.

    yeah, that probably won't work for me. It took me a week to figure out that gleam was some kind of competition. I've still not entered it though because you seem to have to give loads of personal details away to some other company.

    I see. How about this. If there's a sweater GA, I can DM you, if I do see it. Or else, there are more active members here who would be okay with DMing you incase a GA does happen.

    That sounds like cheating. If the purple deity doesn't want to spread his love among his true believers (us few right here, right now) then so be it. It needs to be offered with love, not prised from his clutches. "God loves a cheerful giver" and all that nonsense.

    I guess you don't wanna be helped at all then. You do know the, "God helps those who help themselves" and all that nonsense, right? :lol:

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    @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. :lol:
    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!

    You can always convert your physical prize's value to credits, so, $20 can be easily converted to RN credits worth $20. Of, if you are lucky, maybe convert to merch that's priced the same or lesser. Not sure if it's been tried before though. I guess, stocks of the same also matter.

    Oh, so he's going to go out and buy the prizes afterwards? I just assumed he'd already got the things.

    Mind you, I'm not sure what one would do with $1000 of ratnerd credit, that'd probably keep my servers active for longer than the CPUs will keep working for!

    He usually orders them off Amazon once the winners are finalised.

    Take my case. I won an $850 worth gaming PC on the BF thread. I converted it into $850 RN credits. My friends came to know of it, and I will prolly run out of it pretty soon. If it was only for my purposes, those creds would have lasted me atleast a decade or so.

    I hope those friends paid you in other ways. Next time tell them you got $10 in store credits.

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  • @ralf said:

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    @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. :lol:

    It's hard to enumerat all the meanings of the word.

    Hope, you decide to use another better term, after you wina giveaway here then.

    I'm beginning to doubt that I know what word you're talking about now

    RackNerd nerd, The Hype Gang, RackNerd enthusiast or something along the lines, instead of the term you prefer.

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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. :lol:

    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 :lol:

    Aneel?

    It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

    So, that's not a common name? Or just uncommon and happens to have a famous guy with the same name?

    It's just the way many Westerners pronounce it, that makes it derogatory. For example, Anil has a specific pronunciation that many Westerners just don't get, for some reason.

    Maybe just Americans not Westerners.

    With the "i", I'd pronounce "Anil" like my grandparents might have said "an hill" as "an 'ill".
    Or maybe like "anneal" (the way you join metals together).

    That's where the issue is, it's to be pronounced Uh-nil.

    Huh, OK. Don't think I've ever even heard anyone say it like that before!

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    @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. :lol:
    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!

    You can always convert your physical prize's value to credits, so, $20 can be easily converted to RN credits worth $20. Of, if you are lucky, maybe convert to merch that's priced the same or lesser. Not sure if it's been tried before though. I guess, stocks of the same also matter.

    Oh, so he's going to go out and buy the prizes afterwards? I just assumed he'd already got the things.

    Mind you, I'm not sure what one would do with $1000 of ratnerd credit, that'd probably keep my servers active for longer than the CPUs will keep working for!

    He usually orders them off Amazon once the winners are finalised.

    Take my case. I won an $850 worth gaming PC on the BF thread. I converted it into $850 RN credits. My friends came to know of it, and I will prolly run out of it pretty soon. If it was only for my purposes, those creds would have lasted me atleast a decade or so.

    I hope those friends paid you in other ways. Next time tell them you got $10 in store credits.

    Ofcourse, I do have to give them discounts, but, atleast they do pay me a little to keep me afloat irl.

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    @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. :lol:
    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.

    yeah, that probably won't work for me. It took me a week to figure out that gleam was some kind of competition. I've still not entered it though because you seem to have to give loads of personal details away to some other company.

    I see. How about this. If there's a sweater GA, I can DM you, if I do see it. Or else, there are more active members here who would be okay with DMing you incase a GA does happen.

    That sounds like cheating. If the purple deity doesn't want to spread his love among his true believers (us few right here, right now) then so be it. It needs to be offered with love, not prised from his clutches. "God loves a cheerful giver" and all that nonsense.

    I guess you don't wanna be helped at all then. You do know the, "God helps those who help themselves" and all that nonsense, right? :lol:

    If it means you miss out on your prizes, I wouldn't want that. I want Purple D to want to give me the sweater.

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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. :lol:

    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 :lol:

    Aneel?

    It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

    So, that's not a common name? Or just uncommon and happens to have a famous guy with the same name?

    It's just the way many Westerners pronounce it, that makes it derogatory. For example, Anil has a specific pronunciation that many Westerners just don't get, for some reason.

    Maybe just Americans not Westerners.

    With the "i", I'd pronounce "Anil" like my grandparents might have said "an hill" as "an 'ill".
    Or maybe like "anneal" (the way you join metals together).

    That's where the issue is, it's to be pronounced Uh-nil.

    Huh, OK. Don't think I've ever even heard anyone say it like that before!

    Yah, cause, everyone around you has the wrong idea. Don't worry, it's a trend everywhere. We Indians do make fun of English names and terms from other languages that are cuss words in the 540+ languages and dialects that exist here.

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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.

    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. :lol:

    It's hard to enumerat all the meanings of the word.

    Hope, you decide to use another better term, after you wina giveaway here then.

    I'm beginning to doubt that I know what word you're talking about now

    RackNerd nerd, The Hype Gang, RackNerd enthusiast or something along the lines, instead of the term you prefer.

    You mean purple d? He is the purple daddy. He knows all the old gang call him that.

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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. :lol:
    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.

    yeah, that probably won't work for me. It took me a week to figure out that gleam was some kind of competition. I've still not entered it though because you seem to have to give loads of personal details away to some other company.

    I see. How about this. If there's a sweater GA, I can DM you, if I do see it. Or else, there are more active members here who would be okay with DMing you incase a GA does happen.

    That sounds like cheating. If the purple deity doesn't want to spread his love among his true believers (us few right here, right now) then so be it. It needs to be offered with love, not prised from his clutches. "God loves a cheerful giver" and all that nonsense.

    I guess you don't wanna be helped at all then. You do know the, "God helps those who help themselves" and all that nonsense, right? :lol:

    If it means you miss out on your prizes, I wouldn't want that. I want Purple D to want to give me the sweater.

    If that's the case, you will have to work really hard. My offer stands though. If I win an RN sweater, it's yours.

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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. :lol:
    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!

    You can always convert your physical prize's value to credits, so, $20 can be easily converted to RN credits worth $20. Of, if you are lucky, maybe convert to merch that's priced the same or lesser. Not sure if it's been tried before though. I guess, stocks of the same also matter.

    Oh, so he's going to go out and buy the prizes afterwards? I just assumed he'd already got the things.

    Mind you, I'm not sure what one would do with $1000 of ratnerd credit, that'd probably keep my servers active for longer than the CPUs will keep working for!

    He usually orders them off Amazon once the winners are finalised.

    Take my case. I won an $850 worth gaming PC on the BF thread. I converted it into $850 RN credits. My friends came to know of it, and I will prolly run out of it pretty soon. If it was only for my purposes, those creds would have lasted me atleast a decade or so.

    I hope those friends paid you in other ways. Next time tell them you got $10 in store credits.

    Ofcourse, I do have to give them discounts, but, atleast they do pay me a little to keep me afloat irl.

    Good to hear it. Friends that are only friends only when there's free stuff going around aren't worth having. If they were there before or after, then it's OK.

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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.

    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. :lol:

    It's hard to enumerat all the meanings of the word.

    Hope, you decide to use another better term, after you wina giveaway here then.

    I'm beginning to doubt that I know what word you're talking about now

    RackNerd nerd, The Hype Gang, RackNerd enthusiast or something along the lines, instead of the term you prefer.

    You mean purple d? He is the purple daddy. He knows all the old gang call him that.

    I was talking of us, the active participants on RN threads.

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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. :lol:
    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!

    You can always convert your physical prize's value to credits, so, $20 can be easily converted to RN credits worth $20. Of, if you are lucky, maybe convert to merch that's priced the same or lesser. Not sure if it's been tried before though. I guess, stocks of the same also matter.

    Oh, so he's going to go out and buy the prizes afterwards? I just assumed he'd already got the things.

    Mind you, I'm not sure what one would do with $1000 of ratnerd credit, that'd probably keep my servers active for longer than the CPUs will keep working for!

    He usually orders them off Amazon once the winners are finalised.

    Take my case. I won an $850 worth gaming PC on the BF thread. I converted it into $850 RN credits. My friends came to know of it, and I will prolly run out of it pretty soon. If it was only for my purposes, those creds would have lasted me atleast a decade or so.

    I hope those friends paid you in other ways. Next time tell them you got $10 in store credits.

    Ofcourse, I do have to give them discounts, but, atleast they do pay me a little to keep me afloat irl.

    Good to hear it. Friends that are only friends only when there's free stuff going around aren't worth having. If they were there before or after, then it's OK.

    I agree. As you get older, you become wiser, thanks to the bad friends.

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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. :lol:

    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 :lol:

    Aneel?

    It's Anil, as in Anil Kapoor:-

    So, that's not a common name? Or just uncommon and happens to have a famous guy with the same name?

    It's just the way many Westerners pronounce it, that makes it derogatory. For example, Anil has a specific pronunciation that many Westerners just don't get, for some reason.

    Maybe just Americans not Westerners.

    With the "i", I'd pronounce "Anil" like my grandparents might have said "an hill" as "an 'ill".
    Or maybe like "anneal" (the way you join metals together).

    That's where the issue is, it's to be pronounced Uh-nil.

    Huh, OK. Don't think I've ever even heard anyone say it like that before!

    Yah, cause, everyone around you has the wrong idea. Don't worry, it's a trend everywhere. We Indians do make fun of English names and terms from other languages that are cuss words in the 540+ languages and dialects that exist here.

    Hehe fair enough. Hopefully you also make fun of each other.

    We had some Indians over once working for our country, and they were all from different regions in India and only had English as their common language even though it wasn't any of their first language. Was kind of strange seeing that.

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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. :lol:
    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.

    yeah, that probably won't work for me. It took me a week to figure out that gleam was some kind of competition. I've still not entered it though because you seem to have to give loads of personal details away to some other company.

    I see. How about this. If there's a sweater GA, I can DM you, if I do see it. Or else, there are more active members here who would be okay with DMing you incase a GA does happen.

    That sounds like cheating. If the purple deity doesn't want to spread his love among his true believers (us few right here, right now) then so be it. It needs to be offered with love, not prised from his clutches. "God loves a cheerful giver" and all that nonsense.

    I guess you don't wanna be helped at all then. You do know the, "God helps those who help themselves" and all that nonsense, right? :lol:

    If it means you miss out on your prizes, I wouldn't want that. I want Purple D to want to give me the sweater.

    If that's the case, you will have to work really hard. My offer stands though. If I win an RN sweater, it's yours.

    Thanks again. But I think if you actually won the sweater you should keep it, because it'd be something very special.

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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.

    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. :lol:

    It's hard to enumerat all the meanings of the word.

    Hope, you decide to use another better term, after you wina giveaway here then.

    I'm beginning to doubt that I know what word you're talking about now

    RackNerd nerd, The Hype Gang, RackNerd enthusiast or something along the lines, instead of the term you prefer.

    You mean purple d? He is the purple daddy. He knows all the old gang call him that.

    I was talking of us, the active participants on RN threads.

    Oh, I see.

    No, I wasn't referring to YOU GUYS as "anything with words in". I just meant that to increase my shitpost count to win stuff, I was replying to everything.

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