• Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    11 days ago

    I wuz thinking, there are about 60,000 people living my area and there is one little electronic waste disposal service at the library.

    Where are people really dumping their unwanted phones and other electronic goods?

    • Pilk@aussie.zone
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      11 days ago

      Mobile Muster has drop off points at lots of phone shops, you can also get a free shipping label from AusPost. They take phones, phone accessories, modems, smart watches etc. but do not accept every type of ewaste.

      IKEA will take light bulbs and batteries. Officeworks will take ink cartridges and storage media (CDs, hard drives).

      Sounds like you’ve already checked out your local council’s service. City of Melbourne will accept larger ewaste at a few locations. If you live in an apartment building you might be able to book an ewaste wheelie bin.

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        I will accept a good CRT display, or a Commodore 64 (working or non), for free… please? 😆

        Hey can’t blame a retro gaming fan for trying 🙄

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
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      11 days ago

      Supermarkets near me have battery bins. Otherwise the post label ybing already mentioned.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      11 days ago

      If my electrical goods are genuinely beyond repair they go out to the hard rubbish and strangely disappear before the collection day. Old phones which have a still usable camera get set up with the Alfred app and become a security camera. Any non usable ones go to the box at the front of my local Woolies along with my dead batteries. Some repair places take old laptops etc as part of a trade (like Renewd) and presumably use them for parts.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        11 days ago

        strangely disappear before the collection day.

        That’d be my Opa; he’ll take your broken appliances and electrical goods and repair it in his shed so he can learn how it works. 😂

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      11 days ago

      I looked up the council web site and they include toasters, vacuums, printers, irons, etc etc as ewaste . I don’t see any of that stuff at the ewaste centre.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Phones, they usually keep in the junk drawer or a box at home.

      Other electronic goods…recycling bin or regular rubbish.

      Most people don’t care to be honest.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Today’s little “hobby from a distance” is looking at vinyls and high end hi-fi equipment I can’t afford

    A Baku can dream

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    Training is draining. Today is day 8 of training in new job and I’m tired. Still another week and a half at least of just training. Feels like my cup is full but they just keep on pouring, and now that stuff theyre pouring is spilling out of the cup onto the table, dribbling off the table onto my pants so it looks like I’ve peed myself. Peed myself with excess knowledge.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      12 days ago

      No train, no gain, Force! cracks whip You shall imbibe of The Knowledge until it flows out of all your orifices like a jacuzzi!

      No but srsly that first firehose/info dump is hectic especially if you have superiors whose brains maybe work differently and just go at full speed in bursts and expect everyone else’s to. Hopefully it all gets less overwhelming after the first month

    • bacon@aussie.zone
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      12 days ago

      be grateful it is water not curry

      i was there three thousand years months ago and now i can confidently answer the new trainees’ questions

      making my own notes also helped a lot if they allow you to bring it home to study

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    Forecast changed to sunny today, best time to be wfh. Washing machine running overtime after having taken a break for 10 days. The air is bitingly cold though, not sure how dry my clothes will get

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        Yeah it turns out my clothes are getting turbo dried by the wind even though the air is a bit cold and the sun is not constant. Towels never dried this fast outside of summer!

        On my fourth load now… two more to go that should dry faster. I believe in you laundry. Let’s do it.

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    It’s so nice how little my work have for my regard they schedule some randoms to have a meeting in my ‘office’ and not tell me.

    So work from home today.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    11 days ago

    When I was a teenager I was learning German and saving money to go. Disability put a stop to that, it’s not a realistic option now, but I wonder what life would have been like if I had been able to emigrate.

    I’m aware that the living costs are also high in Europe. You don’t necessarily get an aged pension as an expat. Jobs could be competitive and social norms difficult. Nowhere is a utopia and it’s likely that wouldn’t have worked out for me.

    But you know. Longer term leases and tenants rights. Building standards. Dental. Less of an overt meth problem. You wonder.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I know a bit of German in the hope that I would one day emigrate. Though my reasons for not doing so are different (stupid fat money-sucking ex lol), I still enjoy reading and writing German, and learning. I feel closer to my ancestry by doing so, and it sparked my obsessive fascination with linguists, etymology, and language in general (my current research is Proto-Finnish and other Uralic languages, specifically it’s a bit more recent in that I am learning why they chose a Latin alphabet despite Finnish being entirely unrelated to any PIE language).

      What I’m trying to say, sorry, is that we can still pursue the things we enjoy, even if the method of doing so is a bit different due to L I F E.

      But yes, one can dream of long term leases and better renter rights, though I heard the AfD has been elected in some states, so I guess no where is safe from the stupid Far/Alt Right

      • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        Love this.

        Funny, Finnish came up in dinner convo this evening because someone didn’t care for the sound, but I dig it. And the fact I survived a month on Hei and Kiitos is like a highlight. Hehe.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        Finland isn’t doing too badly either. Their energy costs went below zero due to so much renewable.

        …Damn it. I missed the opportunity to apply for the $250 energy rebate. I set a reminder but put it for August not June. /facepalm

        Edit: or did I? It said 2023-2024 so was there another one or did it just close this late? I’m going to set a reminder for May or June next year to remind myself to check

    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I have thoughts like this sometimes, but from a different angle. I try not to dwell on them, otherwise I’d become wistful for a dream. There’s nothing wrong with that really, but for me, it hurts.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    I’m reading the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson after watching Alien: Romulus. It’s great to see Newt and Hicks get proper character moments in a follow up story. And from what I understand, the story does things with the Aliens we haven’t seen on screen yet.

    Also, it sucks that they killed off Newt at the start of Alien 3, but something had to be done about her. At the end of Aliens she went into the sleep pod, so she would look a lot like she did once she came out.

    The movie languished in development hell for years. As a teenaged girl she’d look very different in Alien 3 to how she did in Aliens. With all the production problems behind Alien 3, it seems like the easiest option than come up with an in universe reason why she’s aged. If they went with Gibson’s script and got Alien 3 out 2 years or so after Aliens they could have covered it up a lot more.

        • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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          11 days ago

          Thank you for this! I saw Romulus on the weekend, and actually re-watched Aliens just last night!

          Will definitely be checking this out :)

          • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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            11 days ago

            There’s also an Aliens: Engineers screenplay floating around which eventually became Prometheus. It’s not perfect but I prefer it to Prometheus. The lore is similar and it helps lock in details since things are explained on the page in a way that may not fully translate on screen.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Surprisingly easier to disconnect from work thoughts with this job.

    It only matters when I’m sitting in front of the laptop, and then, it’s over.

    Kinda nice for a change.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    11 days ago

    I have been well fed.

    Nothing beats a simple beef sausage and bread with tomato sauce with some coleslaw.

    I’m now kicking back on the coach trying not to fall into a coma now.