| daftykins | oh my word, the last 2 days were horrible... Friday i slept through the entirety of, then yesterday i had no strength but for the essentials and to fetch water, today i've barely managed to get into the shower and to the desk | 09:50 |
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| daftykins | can't see straight though | 09:51 |
| daftykins | Pfizer #2 kicked me hard | 09:51 |
| zxm-pi | hope you're feeling better now | 09:55 |
| daftykins | thanks! feels like it might be a couple more days minimum, might see if i can eat anything shortly | 09:57 |
| zxm-pi | these are the days your chocolate orange stash comes in handy for. watch movies, drink water and an occasional slice of chocoate orange :-) | 09:59 |
| daftykins | hehe | 09:59 |
| daftykins | the weirdest thing is my gums were peeling o0 | 10:00 |
| zxm-pi | that's a new one :-/ | 10:01 |
| daftykins | there seems to be a tiny bit of information about it online, but not enough to get into the printed letter they send you home with | 10:02 |
| diddledani | daftykins: how's your 5g reception now, though? | 17:21 |
| zxm-pi | too soon, probably barely gets the time signal pips yet :-P | 17:22 |
| daftykins | i could have sworn i was seeing the old test card girl in my fever dreams | 17:23 |
| diddledani | did you know that the test card girl playing naughts and crosses.. the X is bang in the center of the display both horizontally and vertically allowing an engineer to ensure the picture is centered and the naught is a perfect circle so the engineer can determine if the aspect is wrong | 17:28 |
| daftykins | :O i did not | 17:30 |
| diddledani | things you pick up when your ol' man used to be a tellyman | 17:31 |
| daftykins | ooh funky, presumably mostly tube-gen? | 17:33 |
| diddledani | yup | 17:33 |
| diddledani | he moved into VTRs later on - the tellywork was late 60s through the 70s to early 80s | 17:33 |
| penguin42 | it's a wonderful test card | 17:36 |
| daftykins | does he recall England having those self-service supermarket tube testers? | 17:37 |
| penguin42 | ??? | 17:37 |
| diddledani | he might do, but I don't recall him mentioning them before | 17:39 |
| daftykins | little console things the size of an arcade machine, you'd pop your suspect tube in and test it... then buy your replacement by opening a drawer lower down | 17:39 |
| zxm-pi | saw a crt tv on my walk a few nights ago. was super dark and saw the curved tube in a window. haven't seen one in yonks | 17:40 |
| daftykins | https://www.pinterest.com/pin/418412621607612522/ | 17:40 |
| penguin42 | oh neat | 17:41 |
| zxm-pi | i remember seeing one of those in an electrical repair shop near me as a kid. even then it didn't get much use. you usually gave it to the repair man to have a look see | 17:41 |
| daftykins | does seem decently old now, i think i first heard of it through Mr. Carlson's Lab on youtube | 17:42 |
| penguin42 | I wonder how accurate those were, or tended to serve the interests of selling new tubes | 17:43 |
| daftykins | hehe | 17:43 |
| daftykins | probably was from an era when the customer still mattered | 17:43 |
| zxm-pi | i always liked the https://americacomesalive.com/x-ray-shoe-fitting-machine/ and how they still ocassionly find them in nowhere towns in back end of god knows | 17:44 |
| daftykins | hahaha | 17:46 |
| m0nkey_ | daftykins: you don't get the full 5G coverage until after the 2nd week. You'll then see a new wifi network called "Pfizer-BioNTech 5G" which you connect to. Password will be the LOT number of your 2nd dose. | 17:46 |
| zxm-pi | huh, i just used admin12345 | 17:46 |
| daftykins | ah i see! | 17:47 |
| daftykins | sadly the guys writing of my batch/lot number is slightly indecipherable, although amusingly it does seem to begin "FU" | 17:47 |
| diddledani | F.U. | 17:48 |
| diddledani | aka Fulham United | 17:48 |
| m0nkey_ | The borg implants start to show up around the 4-5th week. | 17:48 |
| zxm-pi | usb a sadly and not usb-c | 17:50 |
| daftykins | m0nkey_: can confirm a lack of beer helped me none | 17:51 |
| penguin42 | wtf, errors on amazon.co.uk | 17:56 |
| daftykins | must be upset about their fine :D | 17:56 |
| penguin42 | 503 from https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/handle-buy-box/ref=dp_start-bbf_1_glance when trying to add something to a basket and saying I don't want insurance on it | 17:58 |
| penguin42 | it was a bit odd because it also asked me to enter a captcha before letting me in | 17:58 |
| diddledani | have you thought that maybe you're a robot? | 18:10 |
| daftykins | i seem to be on an IP that is flagging cloudflare's captcha on broadbandbuyer.com right now, getting pretty irritating... it triggers again if i'm idle for a couple of minutes | 18:12 |
| daftykins | i could just change IP i suppose, since i'm on dynamic at home | 18:12 |
| diddledani | perhaps you're a miscreant? | 18:18 |
| daftykins | it's that hacker cat of mine again, slurpin' these websites | 18:19 |
| m0nkey_ | daftykins: I think the beer did help me in the end. | 18:26 |
| daftykins | lol | 18:26 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Perhaps it's cloudflare falling to bits? | 18:28 |
| m0nkey_ | Wouldn't be the first time | 18:29 |
| daftykins | well it's weeks long and since i got my current IP | 18:30 |
| penguin42 | seems to be happier now | 18:37 |
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