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guy07:12:46

Morning folks 👋

jasonbell11:12:10

Good morning friends.

maleghast11:12:10

Morning 🙂

maleghast11:12:18

How's everyone feeling today?

thomas11:12:20

last afternoon before I am off... so I am quite happy!!!

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bananadance 8
jasonbell11:12:23

@maleghast good ta, yourself?

yogidevbear11:12:00

I'm taking today off and working my last day for the year tomorrow

otfrom11:12:43

recovering a bit from feeling unwell the last two days, but feeling better today

Conor11:12:34

Handed in my notice today, thereby swapping one set of problems for a different set 🙂

otfrom12:12:13

@conor.p.farrell congrats and enjoy the honeymoon at the new place before you discover all the problems. 😄

otfrom12:12:19

where are you going to?

Conor12:12:10

Going to work with the National Crime Agency (who hopefully don't do any crimes themselves)

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yogidevbear12:12:30

@conor.p.farrell are they using Clojure?

Conor12:12:04

I am a dirty contractor and sadly Clojure contracts are thin on the ground

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maleghast12:12:14

@jasonbell - I am well, I trust that you are too 🙂

jasonbell12:12:30

Yeah I’m good. Busy but it’s all very good

danm14:12:28

@conor.p.farrell You still working via EE, or is that entirely separate? Are they Mancs based?

3Jane14:12:33

hey, do I remember right that we had some people from BBC here?

danm14:12:09

Also @conor.p.farrell used to work for us, but ran away

danm14:12:38

There might be a few more of us idling in the channel, I'm just the main gobby one

Conor15:12:20

I'm still with EE at the moment @carr0t, will finish with them late Jan

Conor15:12:08

They have offices in Manchester/London/Berlin/Portugal/South Africa/Australia/New York AFAIK

folcon15:12:49

Morning :)…

jasonbell15:12:19

<<They have offices in Manchester/London/Berlin/Portugal/South Africa/Australia/New York AFAIK>> Looks like a list of airports to divert to from Gatwick…. glad I’m not flying today, feel sorry for anyone that is.

alexlynham16:12:00

inspired by @jr0cket I think I might get this and attempt a linux dev environment over Christmas https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202543404141 rather than caving and purchasing a new mac right off the bat

alexlynham16:12:29

the deed is done

alexlynham16:12:38

right.... linux distro suggestions?

alexlynham16:12:49

arcolinux looks like a nice curated arch setup

maleghast16:12:04

(I am on Arch RIGHT NOW and it's aces)

alexlynham16:12:10

oh that's cool

maleghast16:12:16

But if you want a friendly version then Manjaro

alexlynham16:12:21

does the slack screenhero thing work okay?

alexlynham16:12:28

that's hella useful...

maleghast16:12:41

I am using the Slack client, if that's what you mean..?

maleghast16:12:55

Have to self-install it with AUR, but it's not a big problem...

alexlynham16:12:43

yeah, you can do video calls and pair etc, have found it useful when I've been pairing on a bug ticket etc

maleghast16:12:03

Yeah, that does work on Arch 🙂

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alexlynham16:12:15

chef_kissing_fingers.gif

maleghast16:12:49

Interestingly that GIF is not rendering in the client, however

otfrom16:12:31

I'm not sure screenhero works on linux (if it does I'd be over the moon)

maleghast16:12:53

Oh, so it's something MORE than the client..?

maleghast17:12:10

I am clearly missing out on something that I could be benfitting from on my Mac..?

maleghast17:12:37

I thought that @alex.lynham was simply referring to the Slack Client

alexlynham17:12:34

Oh no there's a screenhero integration

maleghast17:12:04

Hold on it looks as though Slack are sunset-ing the ScreenHero thing...

seancorfield19:12:19

Link for that? They only acquired and integrated that in the last year or two...

dominicm17:12:07

If you're happy to go somewhere less trodden, voidlinux has a lovely contribution process.

yogidevbear15:12:37

Haha I went to https://voidlinux.org/ and thought I had some critters crawling around inside my laptop screen

dominicm17:12:34

I've been running it on my personal server, and I'm looking to get it setup on my desktop when I can be bothered.

maleghast17:12:26

Ooooh, new distro envy...

maleghast17:12:29

That looks really interesting @dominicm - I am considering building a Desktop machine next year and I would be very interested in using that.

dominicm17:12:52

It is like arch but: - different package manager - built with bsd philosophy (simple!) - no systemd

practicalli-johnny19:12:42

@alex.lynham I use Ubuntu Linux as it just works, 15 mins unatended install and you are good to go. Boots in a couple of seconds. A high quality set of packages shared between dozens of distributions means things get fixed fast and there is lots of choice of software. Having tested against Arch, there is no different in resources used. Biggest impact on resources is the amount of tabs you have open on your browser. If you need to minimise memory use, then simply switch to the i3 window manager and avoid Gnome and KDE packages (I run this setup on an Intel Atom processor with 4Gb ram to play full HD video). If you need absolute control over you Linux install or want to invest time learning Linux, then a good distribution of Arch will minimise the work needed to set up. Or just use Ubuntu and get coding.

seancorfield19:12:19

Link for that? They only acquired and integrated that in the last year or two...

practicalli-johnny20:12:46

@seancorfield it's the original ScreenHero app that is being sunset, now that the service has been added to Slack (paid plans)

seancorfield20:12:24

@jr0cket Yeah, that's what I thought. That's why I was surprised at @maleghast’s comment.

alexlynham22:12:13

That makes sense