• Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    So I got the full story about the client today. A lot of history and some bad blood between the 2 organisations. Should be interesting once I meet them this week.

    Also:

    Cheese cat (excuse all the boxes, they’re hers lol)

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I figured out how to export a list of the music people I listen to from Spotify and into a spreadsheet and I am having wayyyyyy too much fun with this.

    I listen to 1,147 different people (on average that means each of them appear around 1.3 times in my liked songs playlist). Of those, 70 start with "The " (3 more start with “The” as part of their names, ie Thelma Houston)

    I don’t even know who like 70% of these people are, they just happen to appear on one random song I liked on May 7th, 2021, and now forever reside on my playlist.

    But there’s a JoJo, JoJi, Ruji, Bazanji, benee, war Paramore, Christian Wannerwall, 2 different doctors, 10 different dudes named John, and 3 little people (plus 6 lil people). One person is registered (®), one is incorporated, and there’s 2 people with $ in their names. And don’t forget Dan Andrews

    I don’t know why I’m doing this instead of sleeping, but I currently don’t regret my actions

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        our On some level I HATE this. “our” Chloe Covell sounds creepy as shit! But I do love how we embrace them. No matter the sport, you are a national hero whilst you compete.

            • Nath@aussie.zone
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              2 months ago

              I’ve heard it in reference to men, but as a collective. “Our Socceroos”, “Our boys” etc. I can’t think of any examples where it was used in reference to a single male athlete.

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Morning all. Hope you had a great weekend.

    I was in the mood for a horror movie set at camp and found a couple. I watched one made in 83 called Camp Sleepaway. It actually wasn’t too bad, has some out of date thinking around some issues (won’t say because it’s a spoiler) but the special effects are surprisingly really good, especially for the 80s.

    And how good was 80s fashion??

    Also I’ve noticed in the older movies, kids sound whiny as. Think how Luke Skywalker sounds at the start of a New Hope. That high pitched whine when he can’t go to Toshi Station.

    But the real star of the show was this guy. The total package and screen stealer. I laughed for a good five minutes at this part.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Dear duolingo:

    “The lessons start today at four” and “the lessons start at four today” are the exact same sentence communicatively. Don’t start getting fucking uppity and direct translation-y with a fucking romance language.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    2 months ago

    Can anyone fetch me a coffee? I’m pinned under a purring cat.

    edit: it’s more snoring cat than purring TBH

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    While I do spend a bit more on energy working from home, the fact is it’s still massively less than what I would have spent on public transport going to and from the office, to say nothing of incidentals that I might have gotten i.e. coffee etc.

    And speaking of which energy provider is trying to jack up the prices by 30%. Yeah how about fuck off and sayonara. I’m already spending more this year despite the fact I’m using less energy compared to last year thanks to the split system.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      not sure what network you are on but I just switched to OVO who were the cheapest on ausnet. I can send you a referral code if you want that gets us both I THINK 100 bucks credit?

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        2 months ago

        I just switched to them too. I’ll be interested to see how they organise their billing, they are taking out a set amount pre-paid at the start of each month which is a fair bit less than I expect my actual usage to be. It’s not clear whether I will have to pay the difference each month or if I will end up carrying the debt for a while. If they take out too much they give you 3% interest on the overpayment but I couldn’t find anything about how they deal with underpayment.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        OVO kinda have me side eyeing because I can’t see what’s different between The One Plan and The Basic Plan apart from wildly different pricing and a tiny contract.

            • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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              2 months ago

              the more expensive bill is off meter reads. The cheaper one was estimations averaged out over the month, so it was pre-paid. Found that all a bit zany tbh.

              • Taleya@aussie.zone
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                2 months ago

                hmm. see, I’m the sort of prick that has zero problems challenging every single estimate bill with an actual photo - especially with smart meters how tf do you “estimate” when you can literally pull the data immediately - but prepaid? Do you mean it averages out, or do you mean they literally want prepayment?

                • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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                  2 months ago

                  I believe they want pre-payment. I’ll be honest, I didnt look that far into it. I learnt enough to go “yeah nah not for me”

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Took the kids to Monsalvat in Eltham yesterday. The weather wasn’t ideal but it was still a great trip, it feels like you’ve gone back in time to somewhere in Europe.

    And I do like the idea of a self sufficient artist’s commune

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    2 months ago

    Biscuits!

    rack of biscuits, half dusted with icing sugar

    For some reason one of the trays had quite deep cracks in the biscuits, so I decided to dust those ones with icing sugar and will ice the others. Ths house smells beautifully spicy, it will be a challenge to make sure I don’t accidentally eat them all.

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Has anyone used Wix to make a website? I’m thinking of creating an author website but have zero experience in making them so if possible I’d love to use something idiot proof and hear Wix is good for that.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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          2 months ago

          I use Wordpress and it’s not that user friendly, but is achievable if you are willing to fiddle around with things. Different templates have different options, I spent a fair bit of time at the start just doing a rough sample and changing around various settings to figure out what they did. The biggest issues I had was using too many higher resolution photos at the start which slowed down loading times a lot, and at one point an upgrade broke a few things so I had to go through and re-link photos and I lost the side bar and shortcuts (which one day I will probably get around to recreating).

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been using Wordpress lately and there’s been a decent learning curve with that. I’ve persevered but it’s far from idiot proof. Have a look at Squarespace, that was the other option I was considering and is more beginner friendly. I think Wix is seen as cheap/tacky.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I had a client engage a web developer who in-turn used Wix to create a basic site. It was a pretty negative experience for us, but it was cheap to host. We had issues splitting off a dev/staging site in particular. It’s been about 6 years, my memory is foggy and the product may have improved.

      Wix might be ok for a sole trader and a quiet website though. I wouldn’t recommend it for any business that wanted to regularly maintain/update their site.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have pikag coming today, but it’s going to come right when I’m at the dentist. I can’t ask them to leave it because apparently the sender specifically told them they’re not allowed to. They don’t usually get parcels to the post office until after they close, and the post office is a PITA to get to by PT, so I probably won’t get pigak until Friday :(

    They’ve been promising me for the last week that it will come on either Tuesday or Thursday, and it was just sitting in sunshine west all weekend, but no, apparently at 8:30 they transferred it to Melbourne airport and gave it to a van man at 9:02. The one time I’m unhappy about them being efficient ☹️