That feeling when I haven't logged onto my BBS in awhile and when I do I find that someone has killed the crap out of me in Legend of the Red Dragon
But, at least my copy of NETRUNNER (circa 1992) still runs from the doors menu
Seriously, NETRUNNER is a pretty cool game, if you can figure out what all the buttons do
I've been tempted a few times to try building my own web-based rip-off of this game
@tankgrrl oh yeah, it's been awhile but i loved duskers!
Took my garbage out, saw my neighbor doing the same. I waved. He said "fuck adulting" and I said "fuck adulting indeed". He saluted.
@brouhaha Yeah, alas, we just have cats and they refuse
@supersole Hah, yeah I have one running in a docker container and you can telnet to it! Also, there's a web UI. I neglect it for long periods of time, but it keeps running pretty well despite that
@chartier that's also a spot that takes so long to heal, you can't be doing that on a regular basis for blood rituals or proof you're not an alien or suchlike
@nelson Whoa, that place is gorgeous!
@lzg Weirdly, I too have done this? Had earbuds in, forgot, put a headset on for a meeting. Not sure anyone saw me though, so the clownery was only for me
After months of forgetting it exists, I'm suddenly interested in paying attention to my BBS again. I should upgrade the software, since it's been awhile.
And then I notice there's a new feature: MQTT integration.
I think that means I could hook that up to Home Assistant and, like, make lights blink and noises happen if a user wants to page the sysop.
Uh oh. I sense the edge of a rabbit hole yawning open before me
@darius It is Trouble
@simonbs Especially if you only ever have to do it just the once
@tim_lavoie Yeah, I've got one running in a tiny Docker container and it mostly just takes care of itself.
It's kind of ludicrously full featured, though, and I wish I had this software back when I was a sysop in the 90s working at a BBS with a real bank of modems.
@N33R i was with you right up until that last one, that's a bit of a stretch
@darius My favorite thing lately for work presos is to just throw a markdown file together with a few screenshots or funny pictures and present from Obsidian.
Maybe also show a few browser tabs. Also literal handwaving.
The Field Notes thing is great, though I've never been able to sketch very well
@darius If I want to get fancy, there's a plugin for Obsidian that renders bits between `---` as separate slides in a markdown file
@tim_lavoie Eh, not many users, and it's mostly a ghost town of neglect. But, the games usually work
@tim_lavoie Oh haha, I forget that every link posted to Mastodon invites the orbital death laser. The BBS doesn't have a super-robust web server
@dasha It's kind of old, but still works - I use "Advanced Slides"