Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Ma'am should pretty much never be used these days, especially if you're trying to be polite to someone you don't know with a full beard.

The utility shutoff scam is making the rounds again. If you get a call from someone claiming to be your power company saying they're going to disconnect your gas/electric for lack of payment, that's probably not real. If they want you to buy gift cards to make the payment that you don't owe, that's definitely not real.

@psolkaiyn Yes, she's a very good cat.

cat: what you're doing is cool, but wouldn't you rather be petting the cat?

My mother stopped by the house this morning. A few days ago she searched for something and got an error and since each time she opened the browser it displayed the same message she assumed the whole web wouldn't work. I showed her the refresh button which fixed it.

@yomimono Looks that way.

Will I believe what happened next?

@whiskeysailor I'd much rather do Shark Week (have swam with sharks, would totally do that again) than Shark Tank.

PIC programmer arrived today. I have a device with header pins for that from a company that put out new firmware (open sourced even so I can further mess with that if I want) that turns the device into something way better than what they sold it as. Their advice was to get the cheapest clone I could find so it took a while for that to ship from China.

New computer for the coffee roasters arrived. I'm going to take it home and finish the setup there. My sister expected it to be larger (it's VESA mount sized).

There's a utility truck in the alley. It has a cute little miniature traffic cone decoration attached to the front of it.

A prompt, "I don't know," would have accomplished the same (no)thing but that experience would have been much better.

My sister made the mistake of trying to get tech support by chat. The person on the other end did not reply in any way that could be interpreted as being on topic or even remotely related to trying to clarify what the issue was, tried to trick her into thinking that she had left the chat, and after a considerable amount of time spent not replying to anything, the support person left the chat. Not impressed.

What is it with long lost ancient sci-fi civilizations building their time portals and such in small otherwise natural seeming caves? This is clearly unsafe and probably has a lot to do with why the builders aren't around any more.

Tubs of whipped cream cheese have gotten smaller. It used to be that one tub of whipped cream cheese provided exactly enough cheese for 2 packs of bagels. Now they only provide enough for 1.5 packs of bagels, meaning that I'd need to buy 2 tubs of cheese and 3 packs of bagels to use those up evenly, but I don't want to eat that many bagels.

It's a cat.

It's been a while since I worked an opening shift. I get to hear orders like, "a hot iced tea".

New computer for the coffee roasters shipped. It'll be running Pop!_OS but that hardly matters because the machine only needs to run software that I wrote and some build tools to compile that.