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?
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.
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 🙄
I’m good for a handful of micro USB cables, that’s about it.
Supermarkets near me have battery bins. Otherwise the post label ybing already mentioned.
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.
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. 😂
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.
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.
Most people don’t care to be honest.
It must be this.
Phones, they usually keep in the junk drawer or a box at home
I use the specific bins at the transfer station (tip).
Officeworks accept them too dont they? Maybe other stores too? But I hazard a guess they go into drawers or the bin.
aldi has battery disposal 👍
Officeworks have stopped accepting batteries and general ewaste, at least the ones in the city.
Ahh did not know that.
There’s one at most tips.
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
sigh
when it comes to sound systems the sky is the limit
I hear you. Just picked up the Pro-ject Debut Evo and the S2 Tube Pre-amp. Vinyls are also holding their value, so I’m curious how rebuilding a collection will be.
I really want to get into the vinyls, but most of them seem to be between 70-170 bucks a record. And then there’s the whole player + preamp/amp, and speaker situation 😭
I’ll have to stick to being gobsmacked at a distance
For me it’s travel and dining out in various places whilst I’m doing it sighs
When I win the lottery I’m getting these;
https://awave.com.au/shop/uncategorized/barefoot-mm12-active-monitor-each/
Daaaaamn.
Found this on yt. Nellie-specific info starts after 8.30 mins. Good if simplistic overview of marsupials in the early bit. numbats
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.
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
be grateful it is water not curry
i was there three
thousand yearsmonths ago and now i can confidently answer the new trainees’ questionsmaking my own notes also helped a lot if they allow you to bring it home to study
I’ve been training myself pretty much. Using the company “Ai”.
Peed myself with excess knowledge.
Don’t know why, but this is just hilarious to me.
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
Also on the major washing choo choo. I like the odds.
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.
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.
so how many items did they steal from your office?
They stole my cubicle walls a few weeks back. Which means no one can see my ‘sometimes I feel like a t-wreck’ with a picture of a sad looking T-rex on there picture. And also my garfield ‘I hate mondays’ picture.
Jesus christ Milton
But you still have your stapler?
I would just sit in there and carry on working. Perfect time to slurp coffee or tea as loudly as possible.
Lol. Sadly I do not have your shit-stirring abilities.
They do take a while to develop, for real. All the best in dealing with your situation.
And have loud conversations on speaker phone…
with a recruiter!
thats pretty poor!
Par for the course for this place.
is the net slow as dogshit for anyone else?
Yes! Its been driving me nuts all morning
150/150 no problems here
yeah speed tests don’t count, that’s prioritised traffic.
Hmm I can show you my UDP info to my Sydney hosted Cloud PC?
Is it Aussie traffic or OS traffic you’re seeing slowness with? Just trying to think of what else I can test
All meetings cancelled. Party time 🎉
All meetings finished 💥
Government House. I think the photo didn’t load. Here for a friend’s OAM.
Beep Beep 🚚
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Lovely.
um, some vegie spring rolls, chilli sauce and a cup of jasmine tea please 🙂
🥬🫔🫔🌶️🍯🍵
Thank you chef. 😚
Burger with the lot please!
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Thank you Chef!
Blue Heaven spider and coconut macaroons please.
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+1 on the spider!
Um, bahn mi and a bubble tea plz chef
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Ta muchly
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.
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
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.
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
I don’t think there is another State Govt. rebate like the last ones, but there should be a Federal rebate issued through your power bills - $300, split into four $75 dollar rebates applied quarterly to your power bill.
https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/households/help-paying-your-energy-bills/energy-bill-relief-fund
Oh good, that looks like it should be automatic. Thanks. I’ve been having trouble staying on top of stuff like this but it adds up
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.
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.
William Gibson of Neuromancer fame? 😲
The very same. There are a few unproduced Alien 3 scripts around but Gibson’s is considered the best we could have got.
Unfortunately I haven’t found a PDF but this is the best web version I’ve found. I saved it to Pocket and I’m reading it on my Kobo
Thank you for this! I saw Romulus on the weekend, and actually re-watched Aliens just last night!
Will definitely be checking this out :)
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.
I had no idea this existed. Thank you!
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.
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.
wtf, it’s going to be 15 next thursday
