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 Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 3 weeks ago:
It’s a gorgeous game experience. Not to mention they put so many other gamedevs to shame with their technical accomplishments (especially in the expansion – flooding waves in a ringworld!).
Don’t look up spoilers. Get yourself a copy and play it. Find somewhere to land :)
- Comment on Timeout errors in last few days 4 weeks ago:
Ditto three. Pages hanging too.
Lots of gastro cases in NSW the last few weeks, maybe server has it too. Make sure to take plenty of fluids.
- Comment on A Queensland student loses case alleging school's uniform policy was discriminatory against females 5 weeks ago:
Girls can’t wear pants… is this the 1950’s? Absolutely awful
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 5 weeks ago:
Atomic wafers made by the techo-church-state? Or have I got this back to front and this is how the non-technical society irradiates its children?
- Comment on Father diagnosed with dementia 1 month ago:
All dementia is different and difficult in different ways.
Both my grandmothers have been in full time care of my parents until recently. One with strong dementia and depression, the other mild dementia but argumentative. It was very stressful for my folks, particularly with one being a nightly wanderer and fall risk.
Government support packages were hard to navigate but they did get some at home assistance. We had a really nice carer come in a few days per week to help with showers and a little bit of cleaning, but the company behind them was awful to deal with and would try to reschedule or cancel all of the time. Definitely still worth it though.
Getting carers allowance (money/week) took a lot of paperwork. It was not much money, but it was something.
Now my parents only care for one of my grandmothers and only for half of the week (family is now taking her for the rest). This is still difficult but much more manageable.
My other grandmother is now in a nursing home. This was really hard for everyone, both emotionally (family saw nursing homes as places you go to die) and practically (first nursing home run by the Salvation Army was neglectful; hospitalised after 4 days). It’s working out much better now, my grandmother seems to be going OK (on average, the dementia and depression are intermittent) and the family is coping better with just occasional visits rather than 24/7 care. x
If your loved one lives alone: get a doctor’s advice and get them assessed. There are support services for them that can come in and help them occasionally.
If you are taking care of them full time: the government offers a few weeks of “respite” every year. This is essentially temporary nursing home stays, fully paid for. The idea is that you are a better carer if you take breaks; and this also lets you see how they respond to a nursing home without committing.
For nursing homes: visit them and try them out first with respite. They vary a LOT in terms of what they can cope with and what their staff are like.
- Comment on Media companies need [the revenue from] gaming ads, government minister argues 3 months ago:
Are these companies worth the suffering of vulnerable gamblers?
- Comment on Anon feels good 3 months ago:
Oof, that sounds horrible. Hope you’re doing better now.
(Serves you right for rubbing your glands on other peoples glands! No more neck hugs allowed.)
- Comment on Family rave day. 4 months ago:
Thankyou, didn’t have a clue.
- Comment on Family rave day. 4 months ago:
No idea, but it gives me this energy:
- Comment on The UK's second-biggest city is so broke they can no longer keep the lights on 5 months ago:
No no no, that just reflects the nature of the difficult market of problems that Oracle is trying to solve. Just because they choose to solve difficult problems for people shouldn’t mean they get punished. 🪂
- Comment on The UK's second-biggest city is so broke they can no longer keep the lights on 5 months ago:
This council also got suckered in by Oracle
computerweekly.com/…/Birmingham-City-Councils-Ora…
Do not EVER engage Oracle with a business deal. They are the epitome of “it will cost a lot more than you budget for”, that’s their speciality. You can try and blame customisation scope or wrong support people, but even if you got those right they’d find some other way of milking you.
- Comment on Lemmy 0.19.4 5 months ago:
I have some uploaded image problems.
(1) The Lost Powers of Childhood is missing an inline image upload on the first post (“Bonus: in this…”). I think this might have occurred before the upgrade, I recall having to look for it a week ago, but I’m not sure.
(2) The new Profile -> Uploads page has lots of odd gaps:
It’s not showing some images I’ve uploaded, eg this MSY catalog screenshot isn’t listed there.
- Comment on AZ Maintenance 5 months ago:
Home made biccies > timtams anyday
- Comment on AZ Maintenance 5 months ago:
This is an inexcusable breach of the SLA. Lodion must be offered free Timtams as recompense.
- Comment on The best computer from 2014 5 months ago:
And they claim cheap SMRs don’t exist yet xD
- Comment on The best computer from 2014 5 months ago:
You have nothing on the Tri-Fan 1200W …com.au/online-ritmo-force-1200-tri-fan-gaming-po…
- Comment on TaitSet: A video where I talk about the Upfield line for 38 minutes! 6 months ago:
I love the little gatekeepers huts everywhere with their chimneys. Can’t have the employees freezing :) Woodpiles or coal?
- Comment on TaitSet: A video where I talk about the Upfield line for 38 minutes! 6 months ago:
Really interesting. Photos are well staged too. Thankyou :)
- Comment on Nerd Update 20/4/24 6 months ago:
$ swapon /
- Comment on Nerd Update 20/4/24 6 months ago:
I’m a bit confused by the upside-down negative swap graph. Does it say that the server is eating up to 5GB of swap, but restarting lemmy each night only returns that to about 2.5GB of swap? What’s the swap monster?
- Comment on gimmie 7 months ago:
Brilliant book.
I like the bit about how proud the author was to develop a purple liquid rocket fuel, but then discover it wasn’t useful :(
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 7 months ago:
Poor AutoTL;DR bot has no chance distinguishing the human-written and bot-written parts of the article
- Comment on Plans for Parliament Station to become much more fun! 7 months ago:
Clarification: the pilot was the one with bare feet.
- Comment on Plans for Parliament Station to become much more fun! 7 months ago:
I’m imagining some poor person that’s just flown in from a more conservative and traditional location. They’ve spotted a few things that seem a bit off (bare feet at the airport?) but things are mostly OK. Then they get to Parliament Station.
Centre frame: petrified person wearing clothes for winter climate clutching baggage at top of slide. Camera zooms out suddenly. Normal trainstation noises continue in background.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:🐰 Sun 31 Mar 2024 7 months ago:
Skippy Easter vs Greaster: which side of the family will have better food? Might make some pancakes this morning.
- Comment on Greens Support Digital ID Bill if Amendments Passed 7 months ago:
The myGovID app is compatible with most smart devices and is only available from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
Does it work without Google play services?
If not… I’m rather disgusted with the idea of being a serfdom of Google and Apple. Literally can’t access your own government ID without their permission and blessing. I lost access to my Microsoft account recently and they demanded I provide them with personal contact info.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:🦊 Tues 26 Mar 2024 7 months ago:
Judging by the lyrics of most dashcam videos: don’t try classical.
- Comment on NRA chief announces resignation days before trial 10 months ago:
[…] including more than $US500,000 ($745,000) on eight trips to the Bahamas over a three-year span. […] Mr LaPierre has defended himself, saying in previous testimony that cruising the Bahamas on a yacht was a “security retreat” because he was facing threats after mass shootings.
Wow. Having your life threatened is horrible, but can you use such a thing to justify this? Surely there are more appropriate options?
- Submitted 10 months ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 1 year ago:
80MBit/s audio? How?
For reference: 2x channels of 16-bit 48KHz raw uncompressed PCM audio (ie “perfect except maybe the noise floor under very very specific circumstances”) is about 1.5MBit/s. Even if you go 96KHz 6 channels (5.1 setup) 24bit uncompressed PCM then it’s only 14MBit + overheads.
