WaterWaiver
@WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It’s not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.
Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍨 Monday 8 December 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve had some other friends mention only a tiny increase. Surprising.
- Comment on Keeping the energy rating sticker on the fridge 1 week ago:
Arrest this man
- Comment on Keeping the energy rating sticker on the fridge 1 week ago:
Forgot about that. Stainless steel fridges get left with a shadow if you leave them on too long xD
- Comment on Keeping the energy rating sticker on the fridge 1 week ago:
Well what if I have to sell it?
Energy rating stickers appreciate after an appliance is bought, because the energy star standards get stricter over time but your sticker does not go down.
- Comment on These platforms are currently exempt from the under-16s social media ban. But that could all change 2 weeks ago:
Non-amp link: www.9news.com.au/…/fc75d5a7-2cc7-43a6-b7ee-074a47…
(Yes deleting the UUID breaks the URL. Which means everything in the URL except that is probably useless)
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪤 Tuesday 4 November 2025 1 month ago:
Love the new image on the main page sidebar. Looks to be from 2017?
- Comment on It turns out there is a Lemmy alternative with categories - anyone got stories about it? 3 months ago:
I don’t understand. Blorp looks like another backend you host as a website. But you call it a “client”. What exactly does it do and not do compared to compare to lemmy and piefed?
- Comment on It turns out there is a Lemmy alternative with categories - anyone got stories about it? 3 months ago:
Huh, it looks like the groups (of communities) are instance-specific. piefed.social has lots, piefed.au doesn’t. Then there are “feeds” which… look like the same thing as groups? Of which piefed.au has Australian-specific ones (including a lot of auzzie.zone communities). I’ll have to find out if any of these are portable across instances or not, or if I’m stuck using multiple sites to access the fediverse >:|
- Submitted 3 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 17 August 2025 3 months ago:
:( Take care of yourself tom.
What’s the conf? Anything exciting, or work required?
- Comment on AZ issues 16/8/25 3 months ago:
Ty Lodion. May I ask if it was malicious generic traffic or malicious lemmy-api-targeted traffic?
- ABC Mediawatch: possible link between new social media online age requirements and appeasing the gambling industrywww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on a gram of that good stuff 5 months ago:
+/-1 least significant digit at a minimum.
“I’m sorry frog, but you might actually weigh 0”. Little buddy noooo
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 5 months ago:
$BILLIONS
I mentally read this in the same voice I read $VARIABLE.
exec *>/dev/null
- Comment on Found paper 7 months ago:
Sounds like they’re slowly recovering from an injury and see returning to office as an accomplishment. Take it easy friend, little steps are stronger than big steps.
- Comment on Woman arrested with python down her pants at Melbourne train station 9 months ago:
Stand back, I’m carrying a budgie smuggler.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Welcome to security theatre :(
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 9 months ago:
Thankyou, you have made my mum’s day :)
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 9 months ago:
Question from my mum: “Does he do the sump pump drain before he does his nasal cavity?”
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 9 months ago:
Ooh, what type?
- Comment on Found a small cave under my house 9 months ago:
Mixture, but in this spot loose sandy fill. Sandstone area.
- Submitted 9 months ago to pics@aussie.zone | 16 comments
- Comment on I think they're putting us in the matrix 9 months ago:
Damn. My goal is the exact opposite. Make a building that a landlord can’t ruin :D
I was mainly thinking copper pipes (water, gas) and drains (PVC) which are all outdoor rated and could be designed for cheaper/easier servicing on the outside if done right (eg with skeleton stairs access).
Aircon I’m not so sure. The ducting is often steel (rusts) and the insulation can go bad if rain gets in it, requiring lots of replacement of big, heavy ducts. For this I might instead build-in some air channels into the building’s structure and contemplate condensationproof methods of lining them. Dunno. Either that or force everyone to use split systems >:D so they can get it fixed themselves when something goes wrong.
The glasshouse bit I mentioned sounds grand, but the install costs would be immense and the ongoing cleaning costs yet another disaster. Giant mesh shade sails might be a wiser option.
- Comment on I think they're putting us in the matrix 9 months ago:
This is beautiful, thankyou. I now have to draw some house plans.
I’ve always thought that a few-story set of apartments could have a greenhoused vertical section out back full of plumbing, services and extra exit stairs, but I worried about the potential for trapped smells and gases. Now I realise I could put the services on the outside of this and split things further.
- Comment on Know your woomba levels 10 months ago:
Doh. Got it now.
- Comment on Know your woomba levels 10 months ago:
You had me excited that there was another 'gong I hadn’t heard about, but I can’t find Cottongong on a map. I am getting wooshed?
- Comment on Know your woomba levels 10 months ago:
gets off train after long trip “Oh no, I’m in the Wrong Gong!”
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 10 months ago:
It looks identical to me. Same size before clicking, same size after right clicking -> Open image in new tab.
- Comment on A couple of community requests 11 months ago:
Chux Baku, I didn’t think I was doing much :)
AusTransport sounds nice. But what happens to the old communities, to avoid people using those? I don’t know if it’s possible to lock them and leave a notice, or unlist them somehow?
- Comment on Tree in a chimney 11 months ago:
Not a creeping fig, I sleep.
I love seeing trees in commercial rooves. All the joy and less guilt at not telling someone about it >:D