Oh the excited dancing when I walk in the door with a fresh sack of cat biscuits! Sorry boys, it’s not dinner time yet.
Oh give them a little bit ya meanie.
Vet says Nooooo
rawr
RAWR 🦕
OMG it’s Friday. Why am I still up?
Do you think it might have anything to do with those cups of coffee I had today, even though I knew I was overdoing it after having abstained from caffeine entirely recently?
I gave up caffeine for these reasons and it didn’t help… all that happened is now if I try to drink something caffeinated it hits me really hard.
So probably
I gave up coffee because I was starting to feel the ritual of making coffee was something I was being trapped by, not something I was really enjoying any more. And I was right, I have been enjoying not feeling it is something I have to do every morning and can instead choose to do if I want to. But I might have chosen it a couple of times more than I should have considering my reduced tolerance - I normally go to bed sometime around 8 or 9, still being awake at 2am is going to hurt me tomorrow!
Well, that Netflix Life on our Planet doc has got one of the most detailed and convincingly animated dinosaur obliterating asteroid scenes I’ve ever seen… May not have been the best choice for (young kids) family viewing Friday…
Well with that review, I’ll have to put it on my watch list.
Hahahah you’ve reminded me of the GI Joe movie. I saw a review that was ostensibly negative - it basically said ‘it’s like they gave a bunch of GI Joe toys to a ten-year-old, and then made a movie out of what ensued.’
I thought the image was so hilarious that I watched the movie. 🤣
friggin tradies man, supposed to be here at 8am. not even a call or text saying “sorry, gonna be late”
Has anyone noticed there’s hardly any wind lately?
Now that you mention it, yes. It’s still out in the burbs , once I’m closer to the bay in Carlton it’s a little bit blowier.
And I have noticed the weather seems to be drier than usual.
Yes. There are deciduous trees around my house and usually the wind does a nice job of ushering the fallen leaves towards one area, which makes them easier to clean up. This past couple of weeks leaves are everywhere and wind seems to be in strike.
sads My sleep has been so rotten over the last couple weeks.
Very annoying.
Ozbargain had a place selling raspberry pis for a decent price and I decided to order one.
Anyone here have one? And what do you use it for? I’m thinking it would be a chance to learn docker, I can use it to run pihole and still have it set up as an emulation station
What site? I’ve never seen them on sale before.
I have 2, I’ve got a 4b which I got to build a little NAS with, but my last place wasn’t a fan of that idea so it never happened. Currently not in use.
I also have a zero W I got recently to run a lightweight python script that just archives a webpage once per day into the Wayback machine. In the future, I’ll probably use the 4b either for a more complex archiving script (I discovered a nice CLI utility with a lot more features than the one I made), probably run on some sort of Cron job and possibly modify it to be easily configured remotely from any device, rather than just SSHing.
I’m going to use the 4b to run a local ArchiveBox instance and a Tube archivist instance to archive some YouTube channels eventually.
Once you find your niche, you can do pretty much anything with it. My niche is archiving and datahoardery, so anything like that will probably run on one of my pis at some time in the future
I preordered the 5 4gb here. I can’t find the listing again but they were on preorder https://au.element14.com/w/c/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-boards/prl/results?ost=raspberry%2Bpi&sort=P_PRODUCT_ID|1
Mainly emulation and sometimes as an external standalone music synthesizer.
I’ll need to look into the synth side. We went to a community festival recently and they had plants with soil sensors hooked up to an RPI that played notes when you touched them.
I’m pretty sure the organelle is just an RPI in a fancy case as well
@tombruzzo @Seagoon_ I was thinking about getting one of the Raspberry Pis that are built into a keyboard: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
The very first computer that I owned was a Commodore 64, and just for nostalgia’s sake I like the idea of having a computer that’s a modern take on that all-in-one keyboard design.
I didn’t end up getting one, but if that design is on special, I might be interested?
See now you’re showing your age!
@Orange1 That’s just rude lol
PiHole / bit of content filtering for the kids.
I’m very light touch here: I’d rather know they were going to PornHub and then know it’s time to have “that” conversation than try to stop them going to PornHub.Three, actually
- Octoprint print server for my 3d printer
- Retropi in a mini-SEGA case for taking around to mates places for retro gaming (non-N64)
- Brewpi for brewery
If I can use it to manage brewing it can give me another hobby
kinda other way around. You want the fundamentals before you get to the point of being anal enough to use a brewpi
I always see the raspberry and get excited then I realise it’s not raspberry pies. 😔
I was a bit hopeful there for a second, too
@Seagoon_ So I’m getting a head start on the weekend by getting a couple of loads of washing done this evening.
But.
It annoys me that they no longer include a scoop with the laundry powder anymore.
Yes, I’m all for less plastic.
So why not make the scoop out of cardboard?
Our local Chinese takeaway can figure out how to do a cardboard soup spoon. You’re telling me the global multinational can’t figure out how to do a laundry powder scoop from cardboard?
This annoys me too. It’s too fiddly to figure out how many grams or teaspoons it whatever measure they suggest you use, and find an appropriately sized vessel at home. Just give me a scoop or sell it separately.
Go to your local Vinnes or Brotherhood or Salvos. Look in the kitchenware section for a 1/2 or 1/3 cup measuring scoop or spoon or cup. May cost you all of 20 cents. My local Vinnies has zillions of these that have become detached from their sets and are perfect for the purpose.
@Thornburywitch That’s a really good suggestion 😊
My partner tidied up the laundry during the week and threw out the old container — with the scoop — without thinking.
I did manage to find a lid that was roughly the right size, thankfully.
On the upside, most of the washing will be out of the way, meaning one less chore to do over the weekend 😎
I have picked the wrong pathology location today. Soooooo slow and I have stuff to do today!
We are doomed, doomed I tell you
I’m glad I have gas hot water now.
This lacks useful information, should I turn everything off? Or just avoid being in a helicopter? Beware of triffids?
The triffids could be a problem. Would you like some of mine? I have a superfluity at present.
As do I. But they should be manageable if I retain my sight.
Don’t look at the sky and thereafter when the triffids have taken over wear goggles and a face shield. Invest in a flame thrower or two.
Jeez.
Might be going back to tin cans and string.
Would this cause a good Aurora? Wish I was in Tasmania, would brave the cold to go see it!
Yesssss. Visible as far north as Sydney they say. Round about midnight tonight and tomorrow night will be at its most intense. Could well be visible on the beach or suchlike here in Melbourne. Might pop on over to the hill behind Northcote Plaza to see if it’s visible from there.
I really, really dislike people that are just babbling into their phones non stop on public transport.
It’s like nails on a chalkboard.
Watching videos with the phone speaker on loud gets me every time.
I can stand it so long as its not on speakerphone. But if your on ANY call in a bathroom you absolutely deserve to be shamed for it.
That’s when you start groaning and making fart noises with your mouth lol
@Gibsonisafluffybutt @TinyBreak The other day, wifey and I caught a train and there was a lady who had a really blocked nose.
As in, she was awake, but full-on sounded like she was snoring.
Honk-pheeew honk-pheeew.
Both my partner and I took turns at giving her a dirty look. I gave her a full-blown death stare.
Honk-pheeew honk-pheeew.
She just looked back with a look that said: “What are you looking at me for? What did I do?”
Honk-pheeew honk-pheeew.
I usually carry a pocket pack of Kleenex tissues in my bag, but unfortunately I didn’t have any on me.
Otherwise, I would have given her the packet and said: “Please, just take these — I INSIST!”
So gross!
the worst is if they blow nose snot bubbles
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone as promised I have procured and been using the ZeroCo cucumber and green tea deodorant!
Ok, I feel pretty confident speaking authoritatively on smells since I literally picked up a gas leak further away than a leak sniffer did, but as always YMMV:
I actually find this scent to be subtler than my usual (dove cucumber) and doesn’t really have any chemical over or undertones. It smells stronger in the pouch, but on application via roller it’s very very light to almost undetectable when I applied the same way I did dove. I did feel a bit of skin tingle on application, but more “I just used a mint-containing soap (and not on my genitals)” than anything else, and I’ve had no reaction and it’s been several days and multiple applications . Haven’t had the chance to test its efficacy after a hard slog of yardwork, but is holding up thus far.
I actually have some left in the pouch (you return them for refilling) and a bunch of those tiny little glass roller bottles floating about - if you like I could mail you a tiny sampler for sniffing and skin testing
One of my friends just had her second baby and all my other friends are jumping up straightaway to visit her as soon as possible. Is it wrong that I…just don’t care? I mean I’m glad she has had a safe birth, the baby is healthy etc, I sent congratulations and contributed to a baby gift but…I’m sorry i’m not chomping at the bit to come and visit and check-in.
it actaully means a shit load more to give it a couple of weeks THEN go say hi. You go in the first couple of weeks? Its about the baby. You go after the excitement settles down and the craziness sets in? You’re there to see your mate. Its the later weeks that are more lonely.
Nah, perfectly normal.
Sounds perfectly rational to me. Actually, a visit from you might be more welcome in about a month’s time when all the new has worn off and everyone else has stepped back a bit.
Exactly, just because you’re not gaga doesn’t mean you are mean. You have nothing to be sorry about
Don’t let others set the standard of behaviour, set your own. There is more than one way to be a good caring person.
Hugs.
That lying Tesla driver has got 9 months in prison.
On top of everything else, it really makes a mockery of ‘you’ll get punished for lying in court’.
She will probably be deported after serving her time.
She might not have even be sentenced to time if she didn’t flee the scene or lie and keep on lying. This will be lesson. Don’t lie.
I thought the lesson was “If you wanna hurt people, use a car”.
