tombruzzo
@tombruzzo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐦🔥 Sunday 13 July 2025 1 day ago:
I had that feeling not long ago. A good workplace will make you feel welcome almost straight away
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐦🔥 Sunday 13 July 2025 1 day ago:
Try to break up the ‘boring’ stuff from lessons with songs you’re interested in too. Spend a bit of time ‘eating your vegetables’ then you can work on songs you like.
Soon you’ll be able to put it all together and identify the scales, keys, and rhythm you’ve learnt from practice in songs you’ve been practising
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Friday 11 July 2025 3 days ago:
Had that work efficiency session at the start of the week and I think I figured something out about why AI has been such a top down push in the workplace.
A member of the global leadership team was in the sessions, and she’s all in on AI. She was telling us about all the work she was getting done with it, and it was just things like reports, presentations, communications plans, and risk strategies.
It’s all just typing up a bunch of stuff that gets turned into PDFs and sits on the company Sharepoint. She’s at a high enough level now she’s not working on any of the implementation, so you can use AI to just write everything for you.
Really, you could probably download templates for all these documents and change the details specific to your business. It would be much better for the environment, but these people wouldn’t feel like they’re doing anything meaningful if they’re just playing corporate madlibs.
I could use AI in a bit of my work, but I need to make Facebook ads, emails, and manage a website. AI can’t do any of that, it’s just an elaborate autocomplete.
And it’s telling the perspective on AI is ‘Look at all this amazing work I’m getting done with AI’ and not ‘The iPhone autocomplete can do my job faster than me, what’s the point of my job?’
One of my only applicable use cases was a business case document. Copilot just wrote the most boring version of an SEO friendly article on Viva Engage, and even then I felt I had to step in and write some things myself to both make it more interesting and specific to the business. And say this goes ahead, AI can’t put people into Viva Engage groups for me.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Friday 11 July 2025 3 days ago:
I remember when I looked into it I could salary sacrifice an extra $500 a month into super and only take home $250 less because of how PAYG tax works. You can sacrifice up to about $12,000 into super a year before you have to pay additional fees on it or anything.
It’s worth doing if you feel you can afford it, as you’re still getting that money, just further down the line.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 1 week ago:
You shouldn’t need gst for a small amount unless this place needs you to be GST registered. Use some free accounting software like Wave if it still exists and operate as a sole trader.
Talk to your accountant if you have one. They’ll give you this advice for free as they make their money from doing your books if you make it big
- Comment on Albanese's plan to 'unleash the private sector' 1 week ago:
Unleash the private sector
Childcare safety
Pick one, bruh
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 1 week ago:
It’s a PEP training session. We’ve just started but it’s been alright because it acknowledges we have to work in Office 365 and how to work in there.
The main thing this session is reminding me is how much I hate Microsoft and how poorly implemented all of their products are.
Workplaces should get everyone to do sessions like this so everyone knows how to use their software, and how to use it consistent with the organisation as well
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 1 week ago:
City sleepover for work. We’re doing a workshop on our project management software so I don’t know how much work will actually be done. I just hope the dinner is good
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Sunday 6 July 2025 1 week ago:
I haven’t been to pipeworks yet but good to know. Preston has enough mix of new and old to feel like both an establish and trendy new market
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Sunday 6 July 2025 1 week ago:
Took the boys on the train to the Preston Market. I’m impressed with the place. I’m surprised I’ve never been here before. I’ve lived around Preston but never near or in Preston before, so that’s probably why. But I should have checked it out sooner
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪗 Saturday 5 July 2025 1 week ago:
The ozbargain post I saw said the Oceania expansion improves the early game. I think it’s like video game dlc where the expansions never go on sale. I’ll get some expansions if we like it.
And Wyrmspan, for the same reason you got it
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪗 Saturday 5 July 2025 1 week ago:
That makes sense. Over priced cardboard that doesn’t get used much. Good to remember if we want to sell anything, but also for trying new games
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪗 Saturday 5 July 2025 1 week ago:
Has anyone played the board games Heat or Wingspan? I heard they were good and they were on sale at EB so I picked them up. I want to make sure they don’t sit on the shelf for ages and actually get played
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐣 Friday 4 July 2025 1 week ago:
Enjoy yourself after the hell of a week you’ve been through
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐣 Friday 4 July 2025 1 week ago:
I heard it’s good, but just wasn’t that well promoted. I think I’ll check this one out sooner rather than later
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐣 Friday 4 July 2025 1 week ago:
I ordered some retro handhelds for the boys to get on Christmas shopping early. I got the R36s because I found it cheap and I’m pretty impressed.
Buttons feel good, it uses Emudeck on the frontend so everything looks nice, and they even shipped with Stardew Valley on the SD card. It boots up, takes a while to load but it boots up. I know one of my boys in particular is going to love this once they get them
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐣 Friday 4 July 2025 1 week ago:
I waited two weeks for this lamp I ordered from Bunnings. Then they tell me it’s not made anymore and refunded me. Now I need to find a new lamp. I wanted that lamp
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐣 Friday 4 July 2025 1 week ago:
You’re an inspiration. I better not leave mine too long
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 1 week ago:
I’ll look into it and see if I can find a similar guide that lets me dive into the SD card more
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐣 Friday 4 July 2025 1 week ago:
It’s a great balance if being a rally game without being too technical. The boring driver still wins the race, but you don’t need to sit there tuning your car.
The cars are all original, but inspired by real rally cars fron history, so it’s fun looking at each one and figuring out the inspiration.
And the game just looks gorgeous. It’s simple, but everything works so well. Strong recommend on Art of Rally
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐣 Friday 4 July 2025 1 week ago:
Art Of Rally is such a beautiful game. My only criticism is I wish it was better optimised and could run better on lower spec hardware. It doesn’t look demanding, but I’m sure it’s got a bunch of shaders going on that eat up processing power.
Because it’s a game that deserves to be played at full settings, 4k60fps. I can do it on my big computer, but it would be great if others could experience full settings in this age of handhelds
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 1 week ago:
I’ll need to try that, thank you. But I’ll have to see how it goes if both computers won’t detect it
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 1 week ago:
You’ve really had a did run at the opsec lottery. If anything I’m just as lucky to have been on the other side of some of these
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 1 week ago:
I have, both through the file explorer and terminal. They’re the two computers that can’t detect it at all. One with an adapter and the other with a direct micro SD card slot
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Thursday 3 July 2025 1 week ago:
I found a 32gb SD card in a draw. I put it in my computer and it only reads 30mb of storage capacity and it needs to be formatted.
But it can’t be formatted because it’s write protected.
I plug it into some computers I have and it doesn’t get read at all. What’s on this SD card and why doesn’t it want me to know? What did I use this SD card for before?
I could probably write a haunted media story about it for reddit for 30 updoots
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 1 week ago:
That’s quite a room (I have not kept up with what you’re doing tonight at all).
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve tried Joplin and it has been a pretty good Evernote replacement. You use your own cloud storage, like onedrive, to store your notes, so you don’t have to worry about storage restrictions like what happened to Evernote
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 1 week ago:
I can see the rain outside and I’m glad I stayed home. The other woman in my team got sick from being in the cold and rain in this place just last week and everyone has gone back in similar conditions.
I’m using today as an open day to work on things I’ve been meaning to before other demands pulled me in other directions.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 2 July 2025 1 week ago:
That’s quite a start to the day. I hope things work out
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 1 week ago:
It was pink on the way out of work today, and the clouds caught the light well