Oh boy I sure do love my Nest thermostat which decided I was "away" and so turned the temperature down to 54F.

I'm considering showing it my appreciation with the 3lb sledge hammer I keep in the garage

Mind you, I've been walking past the thing every hour or two all day and have "Home/Away Assist" turned on in the app. Nevertheless, I am apparently elsewhere

@wolfger Well, I have read that if the home/away assist isn't working, there's a motion sensor in the device itself that notes activity in front of it

But yeah, my phone's been on my home network all day

Clearly this is in my future if I keep up with this BBS tinkering nonsense.

(or, I guess if I want to put on a really weird BDSM scene)

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-PCI-Express-Serial-Card/dp/B06XSKGB64/ref=sr_1_9

@brion XML Parsing Error: no root element found

I did at one point work at a BBS / ISP, so I do have vague nostalgia for shelves full of USRobotics 56k modems

@thomasfuchs They have a picture of it on the product page, but it does look a bit fragile for horseplay

@montag This is what happens when kids don't learn the classics like having an AOL account

@aredridel@kolektiva.social @thomasfuchs Yeah, I wonder whether this is a bespoke connector or something off the shelf tortured into this purpose

@benbrown Heh, spoken like someone who has never arranged for 20 unexpected pizzas to be delivered to someone's house

@GedgeHead This looks like a computer with important story details in a Fallout level

@benbrown Folks direct weird crap at streamers and randos on forums

@mdhughes @benbrown Well, lists of stolen credit cards are obtainable too. I have not done this (seriously) but have heard possibly apocryphal tales

@drazisil Never played LoGD but got LoRD going right now :)

@drazisil Oh yeah, some BBSes even run tournaments for LORD https://serionbbs.com/

@drazisil Yeah, I can see that. I know back in the day, the turns were there to give other folks a chance to play between calls. But it's kind of a weird feature now

Ooh, Soul Hackers 2 is out on Game Pass

@charliejane I can't wait until the downtempo folk remake of "I Want Candy" in a CW show montage

@cplberry Fully off-topic, but this looks like the cover art for a great new progressive rock album

@Gingerpup I see this and with my internet-addled brain I hear, "Macaroni... with the chicken strips?!"

@danhon turns out we all just have the wrong tuning parameters set for properly scaling the job queues, easy fix

@mathowie samesame

A part of me just wants, like, a vaccine subscription box. You know, like they have for razors and coffee. I'll shoot myself up, just send me the juice. Maybe include some chicken soup for the afternoon where I feel the tingle that tells me it's working.

@mathowie See, cross-promotion. Genius!

Kinda sleepy today and I remembered that I was woken at 4am by one of our cats arriving and forcefully flopping onto me in bed. Slightly frustrating (because it always takes me 20-30 minutes to get to sleep) but also adorable as heck