[09:50] <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
[09:51] <daftykins> can't see straight though
[09:51] <daftykins> Pfizer #2 kicked me hard
[09:55] <zxm-pi> hope you're feeling better now
[09:57] <daftykins> thanks! feels like it might be a couple more days minimum, might see if i can eat anything shortly
[09:59] <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
[10:00] <daftykins> the weirdest thing is my gums were peeling o0
[10:01] <zxm-pi> that's a new one :-/
[10:02] <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
[17:21] <diddledani> daftykins: how's your 5g reception now, though?
[17:22] <zxm-pi> too soon, probably barely gets the time signal pips yet :-P
[17:23] <daftykins> i could have sworn i was seeing the old test card girl in my fever dreams
[17:28] <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
[17:30] <daftykins> :O i did not
[17:31] <diddledani> things you pick up when your ol' man used to be a tellyman
[17:33] <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
[17:36] <penguin42> it's a wonderful test card
[17:37] <daftykins> does he recall England having those self-service supermarket tube testers?
[17:37] <penguin42> ???
[17:39] <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
[17:40] <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/
[17:41] <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
[17:42] <daftykins> does seem decently old now, i think i first heard of it through Mr. Carlson's Lab on youtube
[17:43] <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
[17:44] <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
[17:46] <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
[17:47] <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"
[17:48] <diddledani> F.U.
[17:48] <diddledani> aka Fulham United
[17:48] <m0nkey_> The borg implants start to show up around the 4-5th week.
[17:50] <zxm-pi> usb a sadly and not usb-c
[17:51] <daftykins> m0nkey_: can confirm a lack of beer helped me none
[17:56] <penguin42> wtf, errors on amazon.co.uk
[17:56] <daftykins> must be upset about their fine :D
[17:58] <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
[18:10] <diddledani> have you thought that maybe you're a robot?
[18:12] <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
[18:18] <diddledani> perhaps you're a miscreant?
[18:19] <daftykins> it's that hacker cat of mine again, slurpin' these websites
[18:26] <m0nkey_> daftykins: I think the beer did help me in the end. 
[18:26] <daftykins> lol
[18:28] <penguin42> daftykins: Perhaps it's cloudflare falling to bits?
[18:29] <m0nkey_> Wouldn't be the first time
[18:30] <daftykins> well it's weeks long and since i got my current IP
[18:37] <penguin42> seems to be happier now