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[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had to stake down the strays paper plates with wooden skewers because of the wind.

Felt like McGyver lol

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

it's so gusty here too

[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Is it too late to tart part in operation UNKAOS? I just bought a new vacuum and it's actually working vs my old one which struggled with... everything.

*Take not tart ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Donโ€™t we allโ€ฆ

[โ€“] Eagle@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Who's calling who a tart?

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

UnKAOS is going well. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Iโ€™ve tweaked my hamstring ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry your hamster squeaked but they just do that sometimes

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[โ€“] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Miniest is on school camp and I've never been separated from her overnight before. I feel a bit lost tbh so I'm stretching and folding sourdough bread dough to keep me occupied. It'll be good for her to have this time to develop as a person, but I miss her so much. She's one of these little people that seem to fill up life. ๐Ÿž๐Ÿž๐Ÿž

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you CEO for the recommendation of Gumption cleaning product.

It removed all the hair dye I got everywhere ...lol

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

off my face ...lol

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nobody gives me HDs anymore, Wah! No I'm not insomniac and reading old papers for endorphins or some such shite. It didn't work, but revisiting dot matrix fonts is enlightening

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that's another 3 bags of books to take to the opshop ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Based on your reviews, I bet thereโ€™ll be some interesting finds for op shop book lovers!

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[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

I just saw a bird flying sideways. This could be the basis for a new wind strength scale..

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Picked up the laybuy for the kids' birthdays and christmas today. On the way out I went through the self serve and the camera picked up the laybuy in my trolley. So it's good to know that tracking stuff is in use already, if I kept my trolley out of view it wouldn't have seen the stuff still in there.

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[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

So far it has been slightly moist. Might do some laundry.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gentle hugs ๐Ÿซ‚ It must be very frustrating for you.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thanks for the hug

i end up feeling guilty I have to rest :(

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

I get it. Shit piles up then you end up doing stuff only to feel worse.

You know the drill. Look after you and the boys and everything else has to wait.

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[โ€“] tone212_@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Waiting for the crazy weather - Iโ€™m getting more wind now but the sunโ€™s out, itโ€™s not too bad outside.

[โ€“] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's one of those things everyone seems on edge waiting for it to happen, so it feels like it'll just fizzle out.

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[โ€“] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Mmmmm, fruit toast

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had some fermentation flies take up residence in my compost bucket and kitchen, so I made a trap for them which has worked very well. I have a jar of drowned flies and haven't seen any flying around the kitchen today. The trap is a funnel on top of a glass jar, and the bait is vinegar, sugar and yeast mixed with water.

I think youโ€™ve just solved the mystery of what flies are in my house! Always thought they were thrips, although they didnโ€™t exactly match. Iโ€™ve found a glass with vinegar and a few drops of dishwashing liquid to work pretty well as a trap, too

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Trying to sort computer shit out quick and dirty just to get unstuck.

spoilerWindows 11 machine is completely full so using a Mac to download the classic Linux Mint and waiting a hundred years for the iso to download so I can sha the damn thing and make a bootable usb drive. The old desktop has been backed up a few weeks ago.

Tried to drag a bunch of files onto a 32gb usb off Windows machine to free space and keep them safe but thereโ€™s seriously not enough room for all of it so I might get an external drive just for that to have on top of backups. Otherwise if I can get the desktop sorted soon I can just ferry the most important stuff over.

Then I have to download everything off Flickr and Dropbox and make sure the last gmails get changed over on any platforms theyโ€™re still connected to (or emails theyโ€™re recoveries for).

Today is going to be very busy so that may have to wait

Yay the string of numbers matches one of the approved ones :)

Apparently Iโ€™m ok to skip the authentication of the .txt file so Iโ€™m using balenaEtcher to flash the iso and hopefully all goes well.

[โ€“] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yay. Welcome (back?) to the Tux team! I realised how many old photos I still have stored on Facebook the other day. I think un-cloud-ifying is going to be one of my long term projects too. So I look forward to hearing how you go.

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[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

When pushing hard means winning, peace and quiet feel like losing. Itโ€™s been on my mind lately.

Goodnight all โค๏ธ

[โ€“] SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Iโ€™ve always felt the opposite. Peace and quiet is winning. Constantly fighting means loosing.

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[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

this is true

Have you read Sun Tzu? Yep, the Art of War bloke from yonks ago China. Very good at making a clear distinction between what constituted winning and losing. And the distinction is often not what you think.

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard a rumble of thunder.

[โ€“] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mustโ€™ve been that bean I ateโ€ฆ

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Nothing like a good fart in the morning.

[โ€“] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I blame the weather for how ratty this office is today.

Though I've also noticed that I'm also reporting how ratty the office is, so maybe it's just a ratty office. I'm the self appointed cheerleader though.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Happy Wombat Day everyone.

[โ€“] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Why are the new Myki readers so awful? I'd argue them to be worse than even the first-generation readers with a bad read.

The entire device basically gets locked out on a bad read for about a minute. If your Myki doesn't read properly, or your phone is acting up, a few retries could lock out a big chunk of the station gates.

[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The whole myki contract from the first machines has been a clusterfuck awarded to the lowest bidder.

I worked for a place ages ago that had put in a bid for a decent system but the government wanted to save cash.

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[โ€“] rock@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, it is slowing me down massively each time. I use a card through google wallet and it used to be so smooth. I am hoping when they enable credit cards I can just let it use my main card and leave it at that.

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[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well there goes my trip into the city.

Borderlands 2 and music it is!

Edit: gym done. Shopping done. Let the nap with rain sounds begin.

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅญ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿฅฆ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿซ›๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿฅ’๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿซš๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿง…๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿงˆ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–๐Ÿซ“๐Ÿ•๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿฅ™๐Ÿง†๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฏ๐Ÿฅ—๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿฅฎ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿง๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿง๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฅœ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฅ›โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿต๐Ÿบ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿง‹๐Ÿงƒ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿท๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿน๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿ”‹

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[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

the rain is lovely

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So windy today an orchid plant was blown out of it's pot!

I saw a pelican fly backward and then give up, turning around and then landing.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

goodnight everyone, sweet dreams

[โ€“] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was so windy! Great day to be in the city :)

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[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

The break room at work smells strongly of garlic, so now I'm craving garlic bread.

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