tombruzzo
@tombruzzo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 6 hours ago:
It’s a cheap 2 bay Synology. I know people don’t like them at the moment but I decided to go with basic whilst I figure things out. Being able to setup the app to access it from anywhere without needing to fuck around with setting up my own VPN is nice, but I’ll figure all that out at some point too
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 11 hours ago:
We’d been wondering how to get the kids to clean up after themselves more and getting a robot vacuum cleaner has unexpectedly resolved that issue.
The kids are so excited about having a robot and they want to be it’s friend so they put things away so the robot can do its job. It’s been a double win
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 14 hours ago:
Finally ordered a NAS and it arrived today. I could probably do the same thing with the PC running OMV I have, but there’s so much more setup involved and I keep running into roadbocks with networking. I’ll use this and keep it simple whilst I learn to do things by myself
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 14 hours ago:
No solid list but libraries, community centres, supermarkets, some cafes, those are the places I can think of off the top of my head
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 20 hours ago:
I’ve got some meetings today it will be easier to attend but I might just take tomorrow off for the heck of it
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Sunday 21 June 2026 21 hours ago:
And I have to wait for the transactions to go through before they can be disputed. I got on that shit as soon as I saw the notification but I need to wait for the money to leave my account first. What if they say no because it was spent on fucking AI and there is no way to prove I spent thatoney myself since you have nothing to show for that kind of spend?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 22 hours ago:
WFH as I’ve caught The Thing Going Around from the kids
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Sunday 21 June 2026 1 day ago:
I’ve been thinking about how you need to jump through so many hoops to spend your own money; sign into this, authenticate, get the code. But someone who probably isn’t even in this country just spent a bunch of my money on fucking compute at an AI company. Like, how? What’s the point of all this shit if someone can backchannel it so easily?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Sunday 21 June 2026 1 day ago:
More transactions gone through, which means more time on the phone. Apparently they happened at the same time but didn’t hit the account until later. Makes it look like you’re still getting charged on a cancelled card, which doesn’t look good.
Now I need to wait for these pending transactions to go through so they can be disputed
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Sunday 21 June 2026 1 day ago:
Sudden $600 spent at Anthropic on the work card. Cancelled the card and dispited that shit immediately.
You can tell AI is a scam if it’s tje first thing these people spend your money on once they get your card details.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 20 June 2026 2 days ago:
I knew it was going to be bad because we eked up having so much, but it was a good night out.
It’s interesting how different alcohol hits, because I can have 2 litres of beer from the growler and be fine, but that’s fresh beer straight from a brewery, no added sugar and preservative free
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 20 June 2026 2 days ago:
It’s the right move and it happens. We always get a fraction of the expected turnout for the kids’ birthday parties for the same reason.
We were going to go to a birthday party a while ago until one of the kids decided to throw up on three separate occasions when we were getting changed at swimming lessons. He seemed fine after but we decided to not go
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 20 June 2026 2 days ago:
We’re very lucky it’s a slow day for everyone. Otherwise we would have been straight up to go to swimming this morning
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 20 June 2026 2 days ago:
It was great beer and wine last night but you still can’t escape the beer/wine hangover.
I have to thank the kids for getting sick at the same time so we can have a cosy day inside
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Friday 19 June 2026 3 days ago:
I foolishly thought we wouldn’t drink much at this 6 course event pairing wine and beer.
LA Sirene is so fucking good. Even if you’re not a big sour beer person you need to check this place out
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Friday 19 June 2026 3 days ago:
Kind of left the anniversary plans a bit late, but good thing there was one event I was interested in that wasn’t booked out.
I like to do something that’s just the two of us then something with the whole family. And finding the something for the family is proving tricky right now
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 18 June 2026 4 days ago:
We eat kangaroo so it might be possible to find some emu somewhere
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 18 June 2026 4 days ago:
The kids have now watched the first Jurassic Park. They’ve watched a Netflix Jurassic World series and the first World movie so I wasn’t concerned about them being scared of this one.
I think between Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 we have their favourite movies
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 18 June 2026 4 days ago:
Apparently that’s the El Nino for you
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 5 days ago:
It’s not you, finding a job absolutely sucks. Everyone thinks so backwards when it comes to hiring. You need to fit in a box, but not too much, having too few skills is bad, but having too diverse a skill set is confusing.
You’ll find something and it won’t completely suck soon
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 5 days ago:
I’ve found going for sheer volume and trying to find decent recruiters is the best way to get a job. It all absolutely sucks and I hope you find something soon
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 5 days ago:
Had a Portello Sour from Venom Brewing. It even has the pink bubbles like the real thing
- Comment on You rock up to Super Cheap to deck out your silver 2009 Toyota Yaris. Which aisle endcap you going with? 5 days ago:
A woman I went to highschool with was one of the first to get her licence because she had to be held back a year previously. She gout around in a similar grey Yaris, did 80 on a dirt road and flipped it, then got the exact same car
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 5 days ago:
Our conversations aren’t quite at that level yet. I have to be able to infer when one of my kids says, “Why’d he say, ‘ahhh’?” that they’re thinking about the part where the T-1000 kicks the helicopter pilot out whilst the helicopter is still in the air. I need to remember helicopters were mentioned in passing recently and extrapolate from there
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 5 days ago:
Out of nowhere one of them started talking about a part from the movie they hadn’t mentioned before. It’s been alsmost two weeks and it feels like they remember the whole thing
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 5 days ago:
Can’t believe I’m late to work today because I was talking about Terminator 2 with the kids
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
And another cash win tonight. Got pizza on the way home, came out to $20.90. So I was like, “Sorry, the best I can do is $30.” So they said $20’s fine, because of course it is. They may not have done it if I was like “is $20 okay?” but because I tried to accommodate them in the worst way possible they gave me almost 5% off
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
Nightmare stuff at trivia tonight. The venue had a complete AV overhaul since last week. My powerpoint and HDMI port are gone. They’re using a new wifi based system that requires downloading another program, but that required a reboot and windows as forcing an update on me so I wasn’t going to play the brick lottery right before trivia.
I managed to share a screen but couldn’t extend the display, so it required a lot of ALT+TABing. I think it’s sorted now after the reboot, but it would have been nice to know ahead of time
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
EOFY deals are really making the business feel like it’s paying off. I can buy things I’ve wanted with what feels like free money
