Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@hfrazey seems a bit pricey but using the bike you've got with you as one of the supports for a tent sounds like a good idea, one less thing to carry

@maple oh, also Coheed and Cambria who mostly do concept albums based on the comic books one of them writes, they're in the running

@maple oh yeah, Tolkien nerds are a whole other thing

@maple Amon Amarth are somewhere up there just for being named after the Sindarin for Mount Doom from Tolkien

@maple HELL YEAH!

we spent god knows how much rescuing matt damon, we can do a mission to bring opportunity back home

now this is an interesting thing

https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/13/sonys-smart-watch-strap-is-now-available-in-the-uk/

it's a "smart" watch strap, does all the phone alerts and activity tracking stuff of your average smartwatch but allows you to put a real watch on it

I'm bummed out about opportunity going out of contact

I mean, I know it's basically just a remote controlled car but still, good robot

We need to send a mission to retrieve them and bring them back home

@Jo are you looking for specifically CR17335? 'cause I believe CR123 batteries are equivalent

@hellojed@snouts.online the VengaPlane, on the other hand, is still airborne

Contact your local ATC for safety notifications of when the VengaPlane is in the area

@Jo I'd be more inclined to go for something like Grant Searle's 8/9 chip Z80 CPM machine on a breadboard

at least with that the schematic only takes up one page

http://searle.hostei.com/grant/cpm/index.html

@Jo yep, schematics like that are what they give you if you order stuff from the ikea in hell

@Jo I managed to find the schematics for it

https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/20781889094304/Schematics.pdf

So breadboarding with the cheapest chips you can find is a thing you could do if so inclined

@foks seiko make damn good watches for the money, wearing my SNK809 now as it happens

Those are some pretty neat dials there, I hadn't considered PCB fabrication methods as a way to make watch dials before, those look really well executed

@vantablack I'm just gonna define "their own spaces" as "under about 6-ish feet of soil, in a box"

@InspectorCaracal I was personally in favour of a) turning it into a fediverse commune or b) selling it to someone buying their first house at a very reasonable price but sadly wasn't my decision to make

My parents... rent out a house

They were going on about the new regulations coming into effect and about how it was "just making it harder and more complicated for people to rent out houses" and how "a lot of landlords might just not bother, sell their properties and then there would be no places available to rent"

I did point out that they're getting a cheque once a month for effectively fuck-all but apparently that's not the point

@scarly gives me an easy way to fade back into comfy obscurity if I get strangely relevant though, but I'm probably one of the very few who might consider that a feature

@maple same