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backupbear, 9 months ago to random

Well, with no lottery wins over the weekend, I guess it’s back to the bump and grind this morning.

backupbear, 9 months ago to random

Husband: “Wait, this is the first Father’s Day you couldn’t call your dad.”
Me: “Yeah well I contemplated calling the farm we used to live on and asking them to walk to the top paddock where my brother threw his ashes so I could shout nice things at him but I don’t know their number…”

Side effects of an abusive upbringing, I guess.

backupbear, 3 months ago to random

Interesting idea - DBOS.

https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/postgresql-and-databricks-founders-join-forces-for-dbos-to-create-a-new-type-of-operating-system/

backupbear, 5 months ago to melbourne

One thing I’ll miss about inner suburb living in #Melbourne when I move to #Ballarat is the partially bluestone cobbled laneways in rain.

backupbear, 18 days ago to random

Husband's Thermomix has arrived today. Can confirm it's slightly shocking when it sends out a 360º LIDAR pulse on initial setup to identify all competing products in the vicinity. Also it has assimilation tubules to lock itself to the bench top? That bit was disturbing.

backupbear, 1 month ago to random

A nice suburban dawn earlier. #Ballarat

backupbear, 2 months ago to random

We are hopeful that we might get to take possession of the house tomorrow. ANZ have done the final payment and as long as the builder sees it by 11am tomorrow they'll do handover in the afternoon. Fingers crossed.

backupbear, 2 months ago to random

Crazy: builder told us today that they no longer allow people to customise power & lighting on their plans. We must have added at least 15 double power-points around the house for the build after so many years of living in places with extension cords running everywhere due to poorly placed & insufficient power-points.

backupbear, 2 months ago to random

Husband: “I wish they’d do a Bogan voice for Siri.”
Me: “Oi ct you missed the fken turn!”
Husband: “I take it back.”

backupbear, 2 months ago to IT

Can any #IT folk (particularly in Australia, for local prices) recommend a reasonably priced network accessible #KVM? Not after 4K support -- literally 1920x1080 is more than sufficient for my needs, but ideally should support at least 4 connections. #AskFedi

backupbear, 1 month ago to random

Got our heating activated today. Since it was meant to be connected yesterday, it was a rather chilly night last night given we didn’t bring heaters with us. Chilly night & morning aside, loving the Ballarat weather already — colder than Melbourne works well for me.

backupbear, 1 month ago to random

The shits who own the block beside us and are yet to build are refusing to communicate with us over shared fence costs. We've done the formal contact requests twice, and now the government body that tries to force contact is also onto their second contact attempt. Looks like we'll be taking the shits to court.

backupbear, 3 months ago to random

It's always amazing when someone reveals something that's actually horrifying treatment of a child as if it were something normal. (Been there, done that myself a few times.)

Someone noting: "Of course, [as a kid] I was banned from talking in the car because I'd talk too much."

Hey, that's a sign of shitty parents, don't wear it as some criticism of you.

backupbear, 3 months ago to random

Currently doing research to find a decent dolly with good wheels and a carrying capacity of 150 KG, and deciding how we can attach a decent platform to it for the move of our #PowerPlate. Going to be a bit of a pain to get it into the new house.

Turns out the best dolly options seem to be for moving pianos ... just need to find a decent platform to sit on top of one now.

backupbear, 2 months ago to random

First official pre-handover inspection with the builder tomorrow. This was after several quite sharp conversations with them that no, it's not OK to start just talking about maybe putting it off a few weeks because they have a number of houses close to handover and maybe we could wait a while.

I'll be very glad when this is over; and the new-house bit will only be part of that reason.

backupbear, 4 months ago to random

Congratulations, Japan, for getting the plan underway for eliminating the use of floppy disks!

https://www.engadget.com/japan-will-no-longer-require-floppy-disks-for-submitting-some-official-documents-212048844.html

backupbear, 4 months ago to random

Few things are more rage-inducing to discover after spending half an hour debugging weird DHCP & DNS issues to realise the network cable's clip has broken and it's wobbling in the switch.

backupbear, 4 months ago to random

Dear $retailer,

Pestering me weekly to respond to your stupid #NPS survey will not garner you the result you want.

Signed,
The Universe.

backupbear, 4 months ago to random

Contemplating blowing away the FreeBSD install I’ve got running on an old NUC and replacing it with HaikuOS for shits & giggles.

backupbear, 4 months ago to random

Has aus.social blocked brid.gy? Can't find it on global searches so I'm hoping it's already been excluded.

backupbear, 4 months ago to llm

Tell me your #LLM has been trained using cishet data, not vetted for diversity & inclusion, without telling me your LLM has been trained using cishet data & vetted for diversity & inclusion. #Phi #Phi2

backupbear, 3 months ago to random

Headline: "Young family snaps up $3.8M home in Brunswick!"

Me: "OK honey, let's play the guessing game re: whether this 'young couple' will turn out to both be earning $500Kp/a or how the bank of mum & dad with a 17-house investment portfolio are bank-rolling them."

backupbear, 5 months ago to random

Open web page:

1. Dismiss popup with some shit I don’t even read
2. Do the cookie dance
3. Dismiss popup lower-right corner asking me if I’d like to chat to Shazelle, the autobot director of despair
4. Answer ‘No’ to the stupid popup asking me if I’d like to accept notifications from the page
5. Increase browser font size.
6. Page dynamically readjusts.
7. Increase font size.
8. Page dynamically readjusts.
9. Increase font size you BASTARDS.
10. Start reading.
11. Popup, “How would you rate our site?”
12. Become a hermit.

backupbear, 3 months ago to UX

I love* the integration of OneDrive and Office Apps.

For instance, in PowerPoint, I love* how when I go to save a deck I've just created, I get the #UX of this workflow in order to pick the folder I want to write it to:

1. First get prompted just to throw it in my OneDrive. Click the little "More options..." link down the bottom.

2. Go to an erstwhile full "Save As" dialog that lets me choose between OneDrive, SharePoint, This PC, etc. Click the "This PC" link.

3. Get the offer to just write it in my Documents folder, or maybe I'd like to create a New Folder, or maybe I'd like to pick one of 5 or 6 folders under Documents that I've never saved a document into. Click the little "More options..." link.

4. Finally get presented with a true Explorer Save-As dialog where I can navigate my damn file structure and choose the directory I want to write the file to.

Seriously, if you want a lesson in how not to do file-access UX, look no further than MS Office fully integrated with OneDrive.

backupbear, 5 months ago to random

#ProductivityTip: Don't let a lazy decision in your last few days of work in 2023 become a hassle of consequences for you at the start of 2024.