How do I speed up the dial in Digital: A Love Story?

If you're interested in bulletin board systems–and who wouldn't be, you'll be happy to know that Digital: A Love Story is to video games interactive fiction what BBS The Documentary is to documentaries: pure BBS nerd bait. Unfortunately, although dialing to boards is merely tedious in the first playthrough, it becomes unbearable on subsequent playthroughs. Fortunately, patching the game is easy and well within the spirit of the game.

workbench.rpy.patch:

--- /home/drew/Downloads/workbench.rpy	2023-08-16 22:23:16.220305403 -0400
+++ workbench.rpy	2023-08-16 22:23:49.220469042 -0400
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
	     if to_dial in bbs:
		 global open_bbs, logged_in
		 renpy.music.play("dial.wav", channel="sound")
-                renpy.pause(10.0)
+                renpy.pause(1.0)
		 renpy.music.stop(channel="sound")
		 bbs_theme(to_dial)
		 open_bbs = to_dial
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
		 set_open("bbs")
	     else:
		 renpy.music.play("dialdead.wav", channel="sound")
-                renpy.pause(4.0)
+                renpy.pause(1.0)
		 renpy.music.stop(channel="sound")
		 system_message("Unable to connect. Are you sure you dialed a listening modem?")
	 def dial_input(long_distance=False):

patch Digital-linux-x86/game/workbench.rpy workbench.rpy.patch

You're welcome.