Also seemed to work over ICMP ping, with "+++ATH0M0DT112", they did not return to the channel.

I think it was some buggy Rockwell modem chips that did not require the delay between +++ and switching to command mode, but it has been some decades.

It did indeed, though people used to hide their IP addresses through various means, and so CTCP was usually a sure fire winner.

Most cheap modems seemed to ignore the required 1 second (IIRC) delay. Well-heeled users who could afford U.S. Robotics et al were safe, winmodem users were not.

No keyboard, enormous bulbous camera. (Was just dreaming after unihertz said it doesn't deliver to my EU country (after taking my money), guess i'll stick to my featurephone for now).

G-klasse W465 is shorter than the equivalent medium sized sedan (E-klasse W214, and even shorter than my W212), and the hood is nowhere near as high as those overseas pickup trucks.

The monstrously large (5.8 meters) G63 6x6 is considerably rarer (i have never seen one in person).

> The monstrously large (5.8 meters) G63 6x6 is considerably rarer (i have never seen one in person).

Those kinds of exotic variants are for the Dubais of the world, for rich Arabs to power up and down sand dunes, not for the Autobahn and narrow medieval streets. I’ve only seen it at a motorshow.

Ran synapse for a few months, figured out all the tui clients are either abandonware or broken (originally thought i could use bitlbee, and did the install before realizing it was unusable).

Looked at current tui offerings now some years later, situation seems to be unchanged, the only client that ran back then was gomuks, and that has received a rewrite that hasn't reached feature parity yet.

I am probably the type of person referred to in the last part of xkcd 1782.

iamb is pretty good and not abandonware, fwiw: https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb

Nuvie, the Ultima VI engine recreation (also runs SE and MD afaik) is what scummvm absorbed.

I also remember churning enough butter to fill backpacks in Ultima VI. (don't recall offhand whether bread was doable)

Not sure about VI, but I definitely spent an afternoon baking bread in Britannia in Ultima VII

Did you make make your own starter from flour and water? Inquiring bakers want to know!

Mos def. Well it’s more like: place flour on surface, place water on flour, instant dough! Place dough in oven until it turns to bread.

Strap rail seems to be often found in older abandoned mines in North America (source: watching hours of TVR Exploring and Mine Explorers -videos on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/@TVRExploring/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxhNU-gNyPq2lXA7JhLB90Q/vid... )).

Search works fine, nordics.

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My meatbound pattern recognition suggested Golem XIV (Stanisław Lem) as the factor (naturally with incomplete information on the actual reasons) before even opening the link.