Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🎆 Saturday, May 11, 2024 14 hours ago:
24 hours:
7 hours sleep.
1 hour preparing for work.
8 hours working.
4 hours commuting.
2 hours preparing and eating food.That leaves 2 hours for everything else. I could not do this.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🦖 Friday, May 10, 2024 1 day ago:
Hahahah you’ve reminded me of the GI Joe movie. I saw a review that was ostensibly negative - it basically said ‘it’s like they gave a bunch of GI Joe toys to a ten-year-old, and then made a movie out of what ensued.’
I thought the image was so hilarious that I watched the movie. 🤣
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 day ago:
I stuck with BaconReader until it stopped working on July 1. Then I just detoxed for a bit.
After a couple of days, I looked into this whole Lemmy thing and then laughed out loud when I saw an old friend was running the Australian instance. - Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 day ago:
Well, in this context someone not @lodion. I added the quotes, because there were a couple of signups on June 16th before Rhino who never posted/commented anything. Rhino has continued to be a regular Lemmy user for the past 11 months.
- Comment on aussie zone's anniverssary date? 1 day ago:
ICANN lookup is another source. According to them, aussie.zone was registered on 2023-06-08 05:26:09 UTC.
So, yes. 8th of June would be a date I’d endorse. It’s also @lodion’s signup date. The oldest “regular” user is @BadlyDrawnRhino, who signed up on June 16th. You could argue that was the day we opened to the public and is more appropriate.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🦖 Friday, May 10, 2024 1 day ago:
PiHole / bit of content filtering for the kids.
I’m very light touch here: I’d rather know they were going to PornHub and then know it’s time to have “that” conversation than try to stop them going to PornHub. - Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🦖 Friday, May 10, 2024 1 day ago:
Not sure whether you can, but forget the encounter. The other party has most likely forgotten you entirely.
Perhaps instead direct the dark thoughts to what you might do differently should a similar thing happen again?
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: Thursday, May 9, 2024 2 days ago:
If someone new has the phone number now and they have registered an iCloud to that number, Apple should be able to see there are two accounts on the number.
If you are able to tell them that one of them is no longer you, that helps them know who they need to call.
If someone from Apple called me up and said “Hi, it’s Apple here, are you Nath from somestreet in Perth?” I’d be a lot more cooperative. I wouldn’t volunteer anything, but if they knew that I was the account holder and knew I registered it after you no longer used it, and then asked me whether I had another iCloud account, I’d freely volunteer that I did not.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: Thursday, May 9, 2024 2 days ago:
I realise this isn’t exactly helpful, but I’m curious: What is in your wallet?
Mine has a credit card, public/private health cards (these cover the whole family), a drivers license and a Public Transport card. Literally nothing else. I never have cash.The Credit card never actually gets used because my phone handles payments. I don’t use the health cards all that often. I rarely need my drivers license. That leaves the smartrider. It’s honestly the only thing I ever really need in my wallet. Once the phone can do public transport trips in Perth, I could honestly go weeks without my wallet.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: Thursday, May 9, 2024 2 days ago:
If someone claiming to be Apple called me and started asking me to confirm any of my personal details, I’d tell them politely to go away.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: Thursday, May 9, 2024 2 days ago:
I accidentally left my teaspoon in the office kitchen when I washed my dishes the other night. I didn’t realise until I went to eat my lunch just now. Went to the kitchen, and it was still there! Three days later!
I don’t know what the odds of a teaspoon vanishing in an office kitchen are on any single day, but they must be over 50% across three days. I was lucky!
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🐔 Wednesday, May 8, 2024 3 days ago:
Showing my age: LifeBeInIt
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🐔 Wednesday, May 8, 2024 3 days ago:
Easily done. What do you want to call it?
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🛡️ Sunday, May 5, 2024 6 days ago:
Quite reminiscent of Flight Control. An early mobile game from Australia. From back when games cost $1.19 and had no ads or stupid psychological tricks to keep you playing daily. You played them because daily they were fun!
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🛡️ Sunday, May 5, 2024 6 days ago:
Are you counting from January 2000 or 2001? I remember there being debate at the time over when the century starts. Either way, I have a bit to go.
- Comment on What's the retention period on Inbox messages? 1 week ago:
I’ll be real with you: I’ve had a look at the database schema and tables exactly once. It’s a bowl of spaghetti in there. We just sort of view it as a single entity and don’t really separate it out in any granular view.
What I can tell you is that the bulk of the storage is federated content. When a user subscribes to a community on another instance, the aussie.zone database caches content from it here for them. So, lemmy.world for example uses a lot more storage than the user messages. Or aussie.zone content if I’m being honest. We really aren’t that big an instance. We are pretty engaged though. Our user base is small but active.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🏹 Saturday, May 4, 2024 1 week ago:
I’m wearing my “visit Tatooine” T-shirt. 😁
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🏹 Saturday, May 4, 2024 1 week ago:
I was toying with powering up the VCR on here a couple of weeks ago. Today could be a good day to demonstrate to the kids that Han Shoots first. In fact, I hate that expression. Han is the only one who shoots.
- Comment on What's the retention period on Inbox messages? 1 week ago:
There isn’t a setting for it. So, the retention is as long as the database has space.
I’ve seen a feature request for this, some instance claims it’d make a difference for their storage management. I doubt inbox storage would be a big factor here though.
- Comment on Bonza staff queue at Centrelink for emergency payments as airline administrators confirm April wages will not be paid 1 week ago:
I’ve never really thought before about how much money it takes to have an airline before other than “loads”. Bonza has/had 6x Boeing 737s. Assuming a discount purchase price of about $80 million each, you can get an airline off the ground for under a billion dollars. I think that’s less than I would have assumed.
I wonder now what it really costs per seat to operate? Let’s simplify economy airline tickets to $100 per hour of flight time. Let’s also assume that a plane spends a quarter of the time on the ground. So, 18 hours in the air at $100 per hour times 200 seats means a plane is generating $360k revenue per day.
I have no idea what running costs are - flight crew of 10? Lets double that to 20 for maintenance/customer service etc. Fuel? Maintenance? Airport fees? No idea what these add up to, but if you have over $2 Million dollars coming in per day as revenue, I have to assume I’m missing stuff here. Because I would not have thought an airline this small would have running costs that high. There’s probably a good reason why I’m not running an airline!
I’d love to see what these numbers actually are.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: ⚔️ Friday, May 3, 2024 1 week ago:
Coming into the last two months of this project. Watching the “go-live” dates of different components getting nudged back and back. Six months ago, we were going to be in Production for everything by May 31 and have June for documentation etc.
We’re now at the point where the last Prod deployment is June 21, and we get the last week of June for documentation. I half expect the go-live to be June 27, with one day for documentation at this point. Either that, or I’m going to be working the weekend of June 29/30.
Something about the whooshing sound of deadlines rushing by.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: ⚔️ Friday, May 3, 2024 1 week ago:
That’s not on him. That’s on the owner/agent. If the job request doesn’t mention the laundry extinguisher, how is he meant to know it’s there?
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: ⚔️ Friday, May 3, 2024 1 week ago:
Oh, you think the tradie didn’t notice the drawer issue? That’s cute. Of course he noticed. But by ‘accidentally’ doing precisely what the job sheet asked for (replacing the extinguisher and nothing more), he gets called back a second time. $$$
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: ⚔️ Friday, May 3, 2024 1 week ago:
I still haven’t used Windows 11. Given that I’m an IT nerd with 25+ years in the industry, and essentially live and breathe this stuff, it’s a little remarkable. My computer’s hardware doesn’t officially support it, and while I’ve gone through the checks I need to disable in order to upgrade, I haven’t seen what Windows 11 offers that makes me want to upgrade.
Other than turning the Start Bar into something more like the MacOS/Gnome dock, I haven’t really seen anything the new version brings to the consumer. It’s more of the same, but give us money please.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🐮 Wednesday, May 1, 2024 1 week ago:
Ours died last year. I wouldn’t have it. I took them apart, cracked out the soldering iron and repaired them. I broke the slow/fast switch and the blitz button in the process, but the work again.
Food thing, as they have mixing bowl attachment and it’d be so wasteful to throw the whole thing away over an internal switch wearing out.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🐮 Wednesday, May 1, 2024 1 week ago:
I happened to be in the kitchen washing my dishes at 5 pm just now. The cleaner came in and emptied the organic waste bin into the general waste bin.
I’m scandalised. If the organic waste bin weren’t there, I wouldn’t think much of it. But to have it be there and be a total lie isn’t cool. 🤬
- Comment on Map of the different climates in Australia 1 week ago:
No. Not even a little bit. This whole map is silly.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🚀 Saturday, April 27, 2024 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you mostly work from home anyway? You can do that from Mildura and still wander into the office once or twice a month, couldn’t you?
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🌶️ Friday, April 26, 2024 2 weeks ago:
You’ve been away from Melbourne too long. Though, I’m now imagining @TinyBreak in a pretty pink frock and he is kinda cute. 😂
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🌶️ Friday, April 26, 2024 2 weeks ago:
Ahh well, it was always a long shot after all this time. 😞