Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 21 February 2025 6 hours ago:
wow. I had no idea it was still going!
It is alive and for sale. I was an avid Ingress player in it’s infancy days.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 21 February 2025 6 hours ago:
I sorta do and don’t. I didn’t know the event was on and this news doesn’t change my day in any way.
But if I were asked who I’d prefer to win in a(ny) sporting contest between Canada and USA, I’m picking Canada!
- Comment on ASIO boss reveals multiple nations plotted to murder critics in Australia 1 day ago:
Not that I’m remotely qualified to do this guy’s job, but $600,000 is not enough. He gets paid more than the prime minister, but I think he has the harder job.
Imagine having to protect Australians from foreign and domestic threats like that. Thwarting attacks, and it rarely raises an eyebrow from anyone. But let one through to the keeper…
- Comment on Perth obstetrician denied bail over fatal crash that killed young woman 1 day ago:
I had to Google the case you’re talking about. There are two massive differences in the cases: 1. The cop didn’t kill one person / cause grievous bodily harm to another and 2. The cop didn’t provide hours of dashcam footage showing erratic driving, speeding and driving dangerously.
Still that cop case is pretty bad. He left the scene and managed not to be breathalysed. So, there is even less evidence in his case. A drink-driving conviction, fine and community service is pretty much what everyone else gets for a first offense under the influence.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday 19th February 2025 2 days ago:
Don’t take me too seriously, I sure don’t!
(I like to hope that I’m not - but that was just be being cheeky/silly)
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- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday 19th February 2025 2 days ago:
I’ve never worried whether I’m a narcissist. Does that mean I’m a narcissist?
Oh wait, now I’m worrying whether I’m a narcissist! But does that mean I am or not?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday 19th February 2025 2 days ago:
Civics quiz this time!. It turns out, I’m smarter than a 6th grader - 100% for me. 😃
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday 18 February 2025 ☕️ 3 days ago:
Agreed. If you can’t load it without setting scope, then scope should be a mandatory parameter.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday 18 February 2025 ☕️ 3 days ago:
Answering this conundrum is probably the plot to a kids’ book with twists and turns and set-backs etc. 😂
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday 18 February 2025 ☕️ 3 days ago:
Don’t get any ideas. We don’t have any money to pay for people’s shitposts here. 😆
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday 18 February 2025 ☕️ 3 days ago:
Shout-out to my phone cover!
It’s a bulky thing, and a boring colour. But boy has it saved my phone. I usually drop my phone about once a month because I’m clumsy or whatever. But this morning was the second time in the past week and both drops have been hard ones that would definitely have cracked the screen.
The screen is still good as new. This cover has been protecting my phone for over two years now. I heartily endorse it for anyone who can put up with a cover that makes the phone fatter than it already is.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday 18 February 2025 ☕️ 3 days ago:
issues importing the graph module
Something about the module having >4096 cmdlets and and being too big to load? I hit this last week, it was most infuriating. - Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday 18 February 2025 ☕️ 3 days ago:
I’ve shared this one before. 😃
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, 17 February 2025 4 days ago:
A Toscano Gluten Free Pizza Base. $7.
I went to 2x Woolies and 2x Coles on the weekend in a futile search for the bloody thing. Can’t have family pizza night without it. - Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, 17 February 2025 4 days ago:
Exactly the same here. Even down to the amount I was off by on that one we got wrong.
Twinsies! - Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌤️ Saturday, 15 February 2025 5 days ago:
Dawnguard gives you crossbows! Though I prefer travelling light and using bound weapons, personally.
I also love to go wood elf archer. 😃
I tried going full Nord warrior so I’d pick the Stormcloak path. But I just hate the Stormcloaks and Ulfric. Even on my Nord build, I always go Empire.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌤️ Saturday, 15 February 2025 5 days ago:
Sitting here in the air on being totally unable to relate. I do remember wearing hoodies in summer, though.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 14 February 2025 6 days ago:
Headphones I can wear all day at work. Noise blocking is fine (it isn’t that noisy in the office). I need to take video calls a couple of times a day, so the mic quality is crucial. I don’t want to be raising my voice to be heard by other parties as that’ll annoy people in my area.
I love my Jabra in-ear headphones for running, but they’re not awesome for calls and they’ll go flat after about 4-5 hours of constant use. In fairness, they’re probably ok for wearing all day with a couple of charges in their case but the mic quality isn’t good enough.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 14 February 2025 1 week ago:
Headphones! My work headphones for about six years have been a pair of Google Pixel earbuds that have been fine. No complaints, nothing to rave about. I’ve ogled a pair of Sony XM5’s for the longest time, but have never been able to justify buying a pair while I have a perfectly working pair.
The Pixels are starting to wear out. I’ll be getting replacement headphones this year.
Here the thing: If I wait a couple of months, I’ll have enough points for a free pair of Apple Airpods Max. Only, at work the only Apple device I have is the iPad. I have a Macbook at home, but these will be for work. The biggest strength of Airpods is their ability to seamlessly work with all your Apple devices. They’ll do regular Bluetooth, but they aren’t special for that.
The Airpods are stupidly priced at $900. Even getting them for free that pricetag is the biggest thing I have against them. I don’t really want to look like the sort of moron who would waste that much money on a pair of headphones. I thought of getting them, selling them and then buying a pair of Sonys. Only, Ebay seems to have Airpods going at around the price of the XM5’s anyway. So, that pathway looks like a hassle for no real gain.
Options:
- Buy a pair of XM5’s and claim them on tax like a normal person.
- Get the Airpods and cope.
- Get Airpods, sell them and get XM5’s. Put the remainder towards something I actually want.
- Get a free pair of cheaper Beats headphones and look like even more of an idiot who pays too much for headphones.
What to do? I don’t suppose anyone has had any experience with both XM5’s and the Airpods Max, do they?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 14 February 2025 1 week ago:
Hmm… I should get my wife some flowers. Not today - any day but today.
But, it’s been too long since I bought her any. - Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 13 February 2025 1 week ago:
The coffee machine at my regular cafe was broken this morning. So I had to do the unthinkable and go to another cafe.
The coffee was better and 40c cheaper. Furthermore, the lass serving at the alternate place used to work at my regular one. It’s been surreal.
… I may need to shift my cafe allegiance.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 13 February 2025 1 week ago:
They sure did - but this video is sublime. I’m very happy with this little time capsule of weirdness.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 12 February 2025 1 week ago:
I have another! On my first visit to Las Vegas, I was walking through the New York, New York casino - headed for the roller-coaster. I needed to pass by a room full of slot machines (pokies). I figured I’m in Vegas, I need to gamble something. So, I dropped a quarter into a slot machine. It paid out $27 or so. I cashed out immediately, It was enough to pay for dinner and a couple of rides on the roller coaster.
Great casino! Some visitors win every time!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 12 February 2025 1 week ago:
So, Freddy just came on today and caught me in a pensive moment.
This song hits sooooooo hard looking back on it. It was a dud at the time, his solo efforts were a complete failure. The lyrics of this cover though: I’ve been thinking about what was going on in his life at this time. Hiding his sexuality. Hiding the fact that he has Aids. Looking closely at his made-up face, you can see he is already starting his decline even here. But, he’s pretending.
We lost one of the good ones. ☹️
- Comment on Colesworth exit gates 1 week ago:
I’ve seen them in the city Coles, but my suburban Coles doesn’t have them. I assume they install them as a deterrent for shoplifting. Which I guess says that not enough people in my area are shoplifting to justify these things.
I hate cameras watching my face and the overhead one that can’t handle me doing something unexpected like trying to scan 4 milk cartons at once a lot more than these gates. I’ve also never seen them actually close though. My attitude might change if they closed on me.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 7 February 2025 2 weeks ago:
I sometimes resent a little the disparity between what the clients pay for my services vs. my salary. Without exaggeration, I take home a little under 50% of what the client pays.
But at least I spent 0% of my time wondering about this. Plus I get paid leave (sick/holiday etc). I know my employer is still making a hefty profit, but I’m not sure I’d want to go the pure consulting route. Stories like this put me off. I would hurt my family if I had to routinely deal with chasing up the money.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 6 February 2025 2 weeks ago:
I can’t understand that industry at all. It costs parents a fortune (I think it was something like $135/day per kid 10 years ago?) but apparently the whole industry runs on a shoestring. Revenue of $16k/week per room of kids, and apparently that amount is barely scraping by.
I know the front-line workers are seriously underpaid, but someone is making money here.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 6 February 2025 2 weeks ago:
Ew.
Wait - IT has a stigma? Of what? Moving too fast and working too many hours? - Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 5 February 2025 2 weeks ago:
How is it different to the $6 version on Steam?
I spent my youth pirating every game under the sun, so I can’t really judge you for using a pirated game - but I just pay the $6 these days. Which is how I’ve ended up with hundreds of games I’ve never played. No regrets though - the kids will discover that library soon, and I feel like I need to make it up to game developers a bit for that misspent youth I just mentioned. 😀
