• Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’ve been getting to sleep super early (around 8/9pm) for over a week, and it’s been going well, it’s nice to be awake for sunrise. But tonight it just wasn’t working. Tossed and turned from 8 until 10, finally got to sleep sometime around 10:30 or maybe 11, then had a bad dream and scared myself awake by 4. Can’t get back to sleep, so I guess my day starts now

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      I had a haunted dream, dreamt of a big building with haunted medieval face carvings that moved, then a big relief carving of an elf came to life and tried to kill us.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I don’t even remember what was in my dreams last night, but I do remember it wasn’t fun

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    sigh Misplaced my wallet earlier this week and I really needed it today.

    Hopefully when I get home I’ll be able to find it, highly unusual that it wasn’t in my bag today as I thought I put it back in there earlier in the week.

    Stressing about it.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Many years ago when I was living with my ex and his parents (I think I was 20), I came home from work in a foul mood and flung my wallet. Couldn’t find it, had to cancel and get cards reissued, whole big kerfuffle.

      A year or so later, I found it in the back of the closet 😑

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        What a pain that must have been for you to have all your cards reissued. Well hopefully I’ve just left it on the recliner or my desk at home and all will be good.

        I remember having to go to the bank on Monday so that’s why my wallet was taken out of my bag and I drove home with it in my pocket but blanks all round about what I did with it after I got home.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      doesn’t help you right now but for when you find it again: sticking an airtag in mine has been one of the better decisions of my life!

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      6 months 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.

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        My license, bank cards, racv membership,and cash that I urgently needed to return to a friend of mine at work this week.

        I don’t have enough money for my friend if I can’t find my wallet.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Ughh… I was just thinking how nice it was that there was an unscented soap I like at Coles, so I could just pop it in with the rest of my basics. Go to buy another box …and it’s gone 😭 Guess I’m doing this weeks shop at Woolies and getting a few boxes from there in case it’s discontinued.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    They have changed the shape of Strepsils. I don’t recall having given permission for this.

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        Don’t remember that. I loath individual packets but guess they’d otherwise get mixed up with Granny’s tin of acid drops

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Yes. I still have some of the tins around as they are the perfect size for storing button sets, small screws, tacks and the like. You opened the tin with a 5c piece, twisting up the lid at the corner. The lozenge wrappers were tinfoil, and once the tin was opened the lozenge would get sticky and the foil would stick to it like glue. I can’t recall how many times I could only half unwrap a strepsil and resorted to dissolving it out of its tinfoil in my mouth.

            • Catfish@aussie.zone
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              6 months ago

              Kind flat ovals, like those “wine” gums. But the logo is still round. This makes no marketing sense to me.

              • AJ Sadauskas@aus.social
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                6 months ago

                @Catfish @CEOofmyhouse56 I can just imagine how that meeting went down…

                Faceless manager: “To meet our KPIs, I worked out that we need to make our product 7% smaller. But how do we make them smaller without anyone noticing?”

                Sally from operations: “We’re part of a big multinational conglomerate that made millions of dollars in profit last year. We can afford to keep them the same size and keep prices where they are!”

                Greg from accounting: “Not on my watch!”

                Faceless manager: “And I won’t meet our KPIs!”

                Sally from operations: “We could just be upfront with our customers and say that we’re raising our prices a little in line with inflation?”

                Faceless manager: “Yeah, but then they’ll notice!”

                Colin the Consultant: “Let’s make them a bit thinner, and make them an oval shape! That way, they’re the same length, but a smaller width!”

                Faceless manager: “Thank you Colin! That’s why we pay you the big dollars!”

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Eric Bana could have been a huge Hollywood top shelf A lister and had a huge cinematic career but chose a work/life balance and be happy.

    Damn him.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    6 months ago

    I expected the concreters over the road to lay a fairly standard driveway for the new townhouses, but they have instead set up some quite complicated formwork to create a series of irregular charcoal coloured blocks which I assume will have a lighter coloured infil for the gaps. Should look pretty good. They needed to use a huge amount of timber to set up the formwork though, including a bunch they were happily scavenging from a neighbour’s hard rubbish pile. I guess that makes it a community endeavour.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    So I found an iCloud account I setup half a decade ago with a phone number I no longer have. But I had SMS 2FA setup 😬

    I still have access to the email bound to it, and know the password, and through old emails I was able to figure out which phone number was associated with it. I also still have the MacBook I registered the account with, although I think I just setup a new account rather than going through all the motions, and it has been reset a few times, so it’s not recorded as a trusted device anymore.

    Bet time: what do we reckon the likelihood of apple removing the 2FA is? My guess is probably a 35% chance they do, assuming nobody has my old number yet (if they do and they called apple and were like “yo what do? I didn’t make no iCloud request dawg” then that probably goes down to like a 15% chance, unless the apple people asked for more info and confirmed that at the very least they aren’t me, and can use that in their investigations, in which case it probably goes up to 75%)

    spoiler

    Tbh I don’t really care that much, I only used it so that they’d stop hassling me about linking an iCloud account, so there’s nothing on there I care about. But it is registered with my main email address, and I’d rather use that than trying to remember what other email I used for the new one

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      6 months 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.

        • Nath@aussie.zone
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          6 months 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.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I initiated the request from my MacBook so hopefully. But if they ask for actual proof of ownership I’d be screwed. I don’t generally keep receipts for 6 years, but I wasn’t the one who bought it anyways

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    wooooo. Today we had

    • plumber to put in pressure reducer and new lever ceramic swishy tapware
    • Cerycat to vet for checkup
    • shitload of servers to complete and ship to nz

    last now done, hubs at vet with cat, tapware completed, I’m having a bloody cuppa

  • Nath@aussie.zone
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    6 months 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!

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    jayyysus stuck my nose in a google search for the first time in a long time and the fucking thing is unusable now

    • Cendana@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      More and more species of human made services are falling victim to this mysterious illness many call enshittification. There’s no known cure, but is spreading rapidly among impacted populations.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        6 months ago

        I’m pretty sure AI speeds up the enshittification process. I used to think all the sci-fi AI taking over the world stories were unrealistic dystopias, but it seems like the people in charge thought they were something to aim for. Things like robo-debt should have made us take a step back and think a bit about how we want to use AI but we still seem to be going full steam ahead with a plan of deliberately putting AI algorithms in charge of everything.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          6 months ago

          It’s especially ironic because what we currently have isn’t truly AI, it’s basically a glorified algorithm capable of paraphrasing

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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            6 months ago

            Pretty much, but the scary thing is that it is learning what people want to hear and in the process often amplifies human bias. It picks up on things like racism and uses that in its decisions. Then those decisions go into the records that AI systems are being trained on, entrenching the biases more and more over time. Because the processes are pretty much invisible it is hard to do anything to stop that from happening. Then we have this weird idea that computers are somehow impartial and should be trusted over human decision makers, and we are using AI to make decisions on things like who to shortlist for employment, who to flag for closer scrutiny in immigration, what level of aged care someone receives - all major life changing things!

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      yup, I use duck and that uses google , so 🤷‍♀️ Is Bing usable ? How can bing be worse is the question.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      I would keep wondering whether I’d stumbled on some scam/phishing site given how assaulted I felt by the disgusting presentation. One of my work laptops is locked down tight so nothing I can do there, but I’m going to be looking for addons to deshittify goog when I have time. Absolute trash

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I think I’m going to do it. I’m going to betray my barber and find another one.

    I can’t do these places that only accept walk-ins. I want to book a time and get it over and done with.

    I don’t want to sit in a barber’s for an hour watching a Ministry of Sound playlist waiting to get my hair cut

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      I can’t do these places that only accept walk-ins. I want to book a time and get it over and done with.

      RIGHT?! 5-10 years ago this was amazing! These days having to wait friggin sucks!

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        I think no bookings and cash only is meant to evade the taxman but it’s not convenient enough for me to want to help the barber out