• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I hope everyone has a great night ❤️

    My headache wasn’t too bad today, and I got to Wfh which helped heaps.

    Work is going OK, responsibilites are amping up, but I like that. Get along OK with most people which is a plus.

    Thank you everyone who put up with my drama over the last 6 months. You guys all made such a huge positive impact on my life. I don’t know if I would have gotten through it without you ❤️

    Bonus cat

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I’m so glad you kept at it and persisted even though it was hard.

      One of my friends tried to switch careers and had a ton of IT tech experience and he couldn’t for the life of him find a job many years back.

      In the end he went back to his former company as they were happy to take him back if things didn’t pan out.

      Don’t forget to treat yourself to something special every now and again!

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    3 months ago

    The clearing out of stuff and the tidying and the fixing up furniture is working out really well. I am starting to see results. :)

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    looking at industrial labellers, angry at AI. I should be able to tell it to give me a comparison of PT-E300VP vs PT-E550WVP, tweaking for cost and availability of consumables but nooo instead it’s putting milk tits on musk

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Tech companies using the term ‘AI’ is like Porsche continuing to use the word ‘Turbo’ on their electric cars. Meaningless marketing bullshit. There’s no ‘intelligence’. It’s just the marketing buzzword of the year.

      I have a high-horse on this subject and by god there’s no way I’m getting down from it.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        oh zero argument here I’m just still megapissed because I’m old enough to remember the net before SEO and corporations jammed their dick unsolicited up its arse and yea, for a bright shining moment I used to be able to actually tell it “Give me a breakdown between A and B” and it would

        • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Oh I hear ya. I’m an old fart who started on Gopher, first browsed the ‘World Wide Web’ in Lynx in a Unix session and thought visiting AltaVista in Mosaic was the shit.

          The way the net (and tech in general) has been in a downward spiral for so long, when originally there was so much promise, infuriates me.

          Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go feed my horse.

          • Taleya@aussie.zone
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            3 months ago

            Two words my friebd: Fred Mail.

            In related news I just found out that google has decided to start ignoring the site:.au command

            So what little use i had for it on a commercial front is now utterly gone.

          • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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            3 months ago

            NNTP and IRC are still there. We could go back. We’ll probably go back. Like kids discovering HAM radio.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Fucking dead internet, It took me ages (via google) to find an actual formal hire shop that I could visit and not some online service that wanted me to dance through my own fitting then mail me a suit.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      i am having to generate my own comparison spreadsheets this is unacceptable for the 21st century

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Right after buying from Amazon my payment method got declined from Coles and my accounts weren’t showing on the app.

    Apparently there are issues with online banking that arose 30 minutes ago, but the timing… way to give me a heart attack.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago
    family whinge

    Niece seems to have zero interest in hanging out with me and makes the thinnest of excuses to do so while spending almost every weekend with my cousin 2 hours away by train. Also sucks that cousin who used to be in touch more has glommed onto having her over and I’m basically invisible to them… stings a bit but I’m kind of okay with it since I don’t super enjoy either of their company tbh, and I certainly hated obligatory aunty visits when I was that age. I’ve made it clear to my brother that I’ve tried but if his daughter’s not interested I’m not going to push it, she’s old enough to decide. Just wish she’d be more honest.

    The thing that gets me hackles up is that I suspect very, very toxic ex sister in law is increasingly involved and brainwashing said cousin (who is of the gullible type). She’s all about secrets and drama and thinks nothing of creating division to get attention she cover her numerous lies (including in court - she is utterly shameless). Years of being hated on by her - and in the past, my brother as well - make me ultra sensitive to some BS being spread about me…

    … But fuck it. If cousin is going to believe that officially duplicitous bitch over knowing me from childhood then I’m not going to waste any more mental energy on the lot of them. Focus on the people who believe in and care about me

    In other news, what a ripper day outside! Got back my blood test results and my vit D is the best it’s been in winter, the supplements definitely helped but so has being out on nice days like this.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      3 months ago

      So many hugs. It’s so hard when we have people like that in our lives.

      I went NC with my family of origin, it was sad but the no drama was worth it.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    3 months ago

    You know how you put banana’s into the freezer to make banana cake and eventually end up just throwing out a hoard of old bananas before starting the cycle again? I pulled out my bananas and made a cake.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Work colleague suggested I should fly Jetstar to Thailand. Lol I’m sorry but no, I’m a full service airline girl for international journeys.

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Sees this comment after news update on TV about man being arrested on Jetstar flight for opening emergency door while plane was taxing.

      By the time you add luggage and food (not going to eat for 9+ hours??) it ends up not being much cheaper if at all.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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        3 months ago

        In the long run it’s the same cost and much more reliable to buy business class tickets. Delays cost money , having to rebook costs money, extra baggage costs money, food, lounges now cost money, having to recover from long flights with too many layovers all subtract from quality and value and cost money.

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I’m doing one of the longest DOMESTIC trips there is in a few weeks and am flying a full-service airline.

      I do this trip usually a couple of times a year and have been burned by Jetstar one too many times, pre-Covid I made the decision to just pay the extra and be done with it. Never regretted it.

      Some of my family still insist on Jetstar even though they can easily afford the alternatives, and it’s a never ending tale of delays, cancellations, lost luggage (on DIRECT flights?!?!), broken seats and misery and tears.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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        3 months ago

        qantas/BA/AA/Singapore economy used to be the same quality as business on other airlines. I haven’t flown in a decade so it’s probably changed

        • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Best long-haul flight of my life was an Economy Qantas flight 8 years ago, from Sydney to LA in the little ‘secret’ Economy section on the top deck of an A380. Stalked those seats online and changed ours when they came free a week or so before we left.

          It was like Business-lite for an Economy fare. A little section of really only a few rows. Quick boarding, heaps of room, friendly, attentive staff, two-abreast seating so it was just my wife and I with no random third wheel. Made the trip SO much more comfortable.

          The return trip downstairs was like being wedged into a cattle truck in comparison.

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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            3 months ago

            I love flying top deck

            I also love flying in small 30 seat embrears

            or five seater props that you have to climb in

            I just love flying so much . :)

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      man I wont even travel domestically on Jetstar these days. Not when Virgin is just 10 bucks more and you get luggage.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I’ve done it to Hawaii, there was no other direct flight option from Melbourne. It was ok enough, but food options are rubbish, so I reckon buy your own at the airport and take it on the plane.

      • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        By the time you add food, luggage and entertainment allowances it’s almost the same cost as full service anyway. In any case Thai airways is way better.

    • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I’ve actually had nothing but good experiences internationally with Jetstar. Have done Japan and Hawaii with them. Internationally they seem to have their shit together, I think maybe because airport costs are higher for delays where the airline is at fault…? Domestically, a different story - would always spend more to avoid.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    3 months ago

    I decided to look at the 7-Eleven app as it keeps getting recommended. There does not seem to be any option to actual create an account. The closest I can find is to sign up for their rewards program, which starts with requiring a phone number and tells me that my phone number is invalid. Also looking at the fine print they now limit the amount you can save by locking the fuel price to 25c, which considering it often jumps 40c or more when it goes up these days is not quite the “price lock” I imagined.

    Edit: solved the issue with signing up - some weird glitch on the tablet that if the app is in landscape mode it doesn’t show the option to register. It is there on the phone and when I resize the window on the tablet it magically appeared there too!

    2nd Edit: solved except it is supposed to send a code to my email address and it has not come through.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, I use that and it’s really good. It also shows you a graph of average prices, it’s interesting to look at the different patterns in different capital cities.

        I have found there are a few places that seem to go up first, then the rest follow over a week or so. So far there have not been any going up again, so I should be good for at least a few days.

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          If you’re clever enough to fake your gps and careful with making sure your app is closed before setting up the gps you can put yourself close to a cheaper 7-11, lock in the price, close the 7-11 app then reset your gps and don’t open the app again for awhile so they don’t detect you zooming around unrealistically.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago
    Cat rambles

    I’ve ordered some d-mannose from Amazon in desperation. I don’t know what the safe dose is for cats, it’s only been used for humans and it’s only really effective for E. coli…

    But the cranberry extract probiotic for cats I bought smells foul. It has to be mixed in water and syringed into Melbcat’s mouth (otherwise it’s refused) and it stains her white fur and everything surrounding us red/purple when she spits it out.

    I haven’t been remembering to give her the lactose free yogurt with the specific good bacteria either but I’ll see if I can get another tub and coax her to eat a spoonful a day.

    In combination with antibiotic treatment of course.

    I’m getting really worried. Melbcat is going well aside from this but is almost 17 now and she just can’t seem to shake this infection.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I hope she can pull through, she sounds so tough! And you’re doing amazing caring for her, you’re doing your best and it is more than enough! Sending you and Melbcat all my love

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    75% of my team is sick and WFH…I mean so am I, but still.

    There’s definitely some funky office bug circling.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      apparently there is a week long gastro thing doing the rounds too. You gotta love it. My boss was off with covid the other week.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Oh damn I hope not gastro. That stuff wrecks me. I’ve got a bit of a wonky stomach today, but I have been eating bean and cabbage soup for a few days (delicious).

        • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Yeah same! My stomach was off last week too. I didnt throw up but just felt weird all week. Wasnt sure if I ate something bad or if it was crook.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I have decided to treat myself.

    I bought 6kg of chicken drumsticks.

    I will be well fed!

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Better day today than yesterday. Not sure if it was a better night sleep or not but I was able to calm things down a lot more today.