Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@cypnk Seiko movements might be the easiest option for DIY projects, availability is good, different dials/handsets/etc. are easy to find, and they're relatively inexpensive

The NH35A movement for example is pretty damn good and you can get it for under $40

If you want to go upscale though you can find Sellita and ETA movements without too much trouble

@cypnk So far CSACs have been a bit on the large side for watches, someone did make one though; https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/introducing-the-bathys-cesium-133-atomic-clock-watch

And yeah, making your own movement has some seriously daunting precision requirements for a hobbyist

If you want to play about though you could order all the parts and assemble it yourself

@noelle huh, a rare portal to the nice, decent universe

@KitRedgrave@glitch.social I'd probably be burned at the stake for being a witch

@Elizafox could you have set it up as a church instead?

@cypnk looks good, prefer ISO personally but that should do the job nicely

@shekkiesqueaks two radios, one connects to the hotel wifi, the other puts anything it receives through the vpn

Quick and dirty DIY is usually just a raspi zero or something with two radios plugged into it

@cypnk Ctrl key on the home row WHERE IT'S MEANT TO BE DAMNIT

I'll give you the Esc key placement though

@shekkiesqueaks also *pets*

@shekkiesqueaks basic idea is that your travel router connects to the hotel wifi, then you connect your stuff to the travel router

travel router has a vpn client on it that connects via the hotel wifi to your vpn server out in the internet somewhere

all the traffic it receives from your stuff it shoves through the vpn connection to the vpn server so all the hotel network sees is encrypted traffic

@Jo what they'd like people to think: "YOU CAN CLEAN A HAIRDRYER?! Why would anyone do that?"

@Jo no excuse, they just find it more profitable to have people buy new things when they break

@Jo I can get behind this, more things need to be easily repairable

My cat, Fizziwig, had to have a few stitches on a wound today so he's got to wear one of those collars so he won't do any damage cleaning himself

He's really not happy about it the poor sod

Coolest thing at Baselworld this year, the Urwerk AMC

It's a mechanical watch that is set, regulated, and wound by an actual honest to god atomic clock

It is hella cool

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-urwerk-amc-video