Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on TikTok goes dark in the US as Trump says he's likely to give ban 'reprieve' 1 day ago:
In solidarity with our US friends, I shall not install that app on my phone.
- Comment on One in 10 homes could become uninsurable by 2035, analyst warns 1 day ago:
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 3 days ago:
You may me a touch too old?
The switch is wildly popular among 9-12 year olds. Then they upgrade to other consoles/PC. Pokemon, Zelda, Mario are massive in that age range. 90’s kids are probably going in for the nostalgia. Nintendo Online gives them back their old Gameboy games.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 3 days ago:
It isn’t a slight against you/us. It’s a slight against Americans.
ATMs in the EU used to have a bunch of flags for the assorted languages, with the Union Jack representing English. US tourists would complain and kick up a fuss that English wasn’t an option among the flags, because they are looking for the stars and stripes.
- Comment on One in 10 homes could become uninsurable by 2035, analyst warns 5 days ago:
If only there was a government Insurance option? We could call it the “Government Insurance Office” or perhaps even “State Government Insurance Office”.
- Comment on PM refuses to bite as Dutton seeks fight on Australia Day events 6 days ago:
Hey look - we’re up that that two weeks of the year where this is a thing, again. Yay us!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 14 January, 2025 6 days ago:
Ha! I had to fly Melbourne to Canberra to do work at CSIRO occasionally. I only needed to do it like 4-5 times, mostly I worked remotely. But that was a commute.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌖🌕🌘 Monday, 13 January, 2025 1 week ago:
IT People: not really big on small-talk. 😀
- Comment on Satellite images reveal devastating scale of LA fires 1 week ago:
I guess if I had to send a fire at a house, I’d pick the house at the person/family who is unlikely to be financially destitute and potentially homeless for years after the fact.
The problem is that fire doesn’t discriminate. The rich and famous homeowners are making the news, but there will be far more regular people who aren’t particularly rich who are losing their homes also. West Hollywood is nowhere near as glamorous an address as it sounds to Australians. It’s not a rich area by any means.
Normally, we’d be sending a plane load or two of our own fireys over to help, but I don’t think we can do that in the middle of our summer. The US usually gets these wildfires in our winter.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Nope. I bet this entirely kills sales of those products. I predict it’ll be more profitable to just have regular shelves. Even with a percentage of loss through shoplifting.
Let’s see if I’m right and this doesn’t get rolled out to all the other stores. 😃
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚏 Thursday, 9 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I’d love to have a channel to Dav Pilkey. I’m sure he’s doing fantastic and doesn’t need any sort of reinforcement. My kids are sitting on the couch re-reading Dog Man books, and giggling their heads off.
The neat thing about Dog Man is it is full of puns and pop culture references. When they first read them, they get a tiny fraction of those. My oldest is now 13 and has picked up on loads of word play and cultural references that he’s never understood previously. He’s probably older than the target demographic, but is loving them all the same.
I’m sure seeing his work bring all this joy to a couple of kids on the other side of the planet would make him beam with happiness. At least it would for me, even if I were a multi millionaire.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Do they not always have eggs? I’ve clearly missed something Melbourne based, here.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 👨🔬 8 January, 2025 1 week ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed Lemmy do this before, but:
** Happy Cake Day!**
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 Tuesday, 7 January, 2025 1 week ago:
Obligatory:
ImageShared not to be smug, but to reinforce what is possible if a state government spends money on infrastructure. This line is new, it was completed two years ago. It tunnels a few kilometers under the river and established suburbs.
Melbourne can have this, too. The technology is easy enough. Yes, it is expensive.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 Tuesday, 7 January, 2025 1 week ago:
We saw a rock instead. Had lunch there.
Not that we’d go there, but there were no maccas anywhere on the route until Perth. We were going to drop into Yummylicious 30 minutes into the journey, but it turned out they didn’t open until 10 and we weren’t going to wait around an hour for that.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 Tuesday, 7 January, 2025 2 weeks ago:
Will spend today driving home. The holiday has been great, but we’re about ready to sleep in our own bed.
Facing a 6 hour drive in the morning - better get some sleep!
- Comment on Annual General Thread 2 weeks ago:
I’ll pay the imgur thing. It happened during school holidays and we went away for the (WA) long weekend in there as well.
I did have a shot at looking into it, but didn’t try very hard. I didn’t really prioritise it, because it only seemed to affect thumbnails and even then, it wasn’t consistent. I didn’t see it as that big of an issue.
The lemmy.world lag drama was more nuanced. It’s not a time issue, rather the precedent that one would require. We would have needed to spin up a new server somewhere close to lemmy.world in Finland, batch their feed and send it home. All for an issue with one remote instance that the Lemmy devs said was about to be fixed.
We didn’t want to eat into the finances for a temporary problem. Had we known in May that it would take until November to resolve, we may have made a different call. But the point is that one wasn’t a time problem.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 2 weeks ago:
I think the much larger immediate/medium term issue is the lack of time Nath and Lodion have had in recent months
Has this actually been an issue?
I like to think we’re pretty quick on the moderation stuff, our main problem is time zone related. People making reports or signing up early in the morning don’t usually get seen until after 7am WA time (9am for half the country).
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ✳️✴️❇️⭐ Monday, 30 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
The “Holiday” part of the Holiday starts today. Starting with a 5-hour drive to the south coast, where we will be for the next week or so. Denmark to maybe as far as Esperence.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍋🟩 Sunday, 29 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
We have all been there. These days, I usually screw up timing. I always under/overestimate how long something will take and end up with part of the meal ready and getting cold while the other part is 15 minutes away.
This is the time to make these mistakes. While nobody else is waiting for you or having to eat what you make. You’re getting a huge head start on your peers, half of whom won’t actually cook for themselves until they move out of their parents’ in their mid 20’s.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍋🟩 Sunday, 29 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
Is it just me, or were boxing Day sales cancelled this year? Went to the shops today for the regular weekly groceries, and it was pretty normal. No extra crowds, stores had regular looking signage and patrons.
I know it was Boxing Day +2, but still it would have been busy still on previous years.
I haven’t seen any amazing deals go past my feeds online either.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread : Saturday 28th December 2024 This is an emoji free zone - for today at least. 3 weeks ago:
I might have 18tb total storage capacity in the house (5 phones, 3 tablets, 5 laptops, one desktop and external storage). I sure as hell don’t have 43 tb. What the hell are you transferring?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread : Saturday 28th December 2024 This is an emoji free zone - for today at least. 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad I don’t need to watch the amount downloaded on the home Internet any longer. Between my kid downloading most of his Nintendo Switch library to his shiny new SD card on Christmas night and me downloading 100 GB or so off Steam tonight, it would have blown away whatever limits my account had.
To think, I took a screenshot of an especially heavy download session one time in the 90’s, where I managed to stay online for almost 24 hours and downloaded 139 MB! One session!
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 3 weeks ago:
He gets double time (2x $0/hr) on public holidays.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛔🚫🛑 Friday, 27 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
I saw a Japan v. Australia World Cup qualifier match at the MCG and I don’t remember even that crowd being so one-sided as a BBL game.
I wonder whether this is something the league can work on? Maybe have better crowd coordination of the “away” supporters sitting together?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛔🚫🛑 Friday, 27 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
Big W supposedly have Lego 60423 on clearance, but every Perth store has sold out. If you could grab one (or actually just let me know if you spot it in stock), I have a kid who will be very grateful.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ⛔🚫🛑 Friday, 27 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong. The first innings of the cricket last night while Perth was batting was lively and boisterous. The second half of the was utter silence except for wickets. 41,200 people all with nothing much to say can be eerie.
There’s nothing like it. An AFL crowd always has a decent portion of opposition supporters. The Rugby State of Origin is almost 50/50. While I’m certain it wasn’t, BBL felt like it was 100% home crowd.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread 🥊☀️🔥Thursday, 26 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
It was a fun game. We have family visiting from Brisbane and Canberra. Twelve of us all went together. Great family bonding.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread 🥊☀️🔥Thursday, 26 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
I’m literally sitting in Optus Stadium, waiting for the BBL Scorchers v. Heat game to start. It’s definitely a spectator game.
It feels like the final hours of a One Day match where you are chasing a run rate of 6-8 per over. All game. Games only go for about 3 hours total. A little longer than an AFL game.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread 🥊☀️🔥Thursday, 26 December, 2024 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had decent luck with hams going cheap. Christmas stuff like those fruit puddings etc also gets very cheap.
