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trib

@trib@aus.social

Runs a sustainably-managed, dog-friendly B&B in the hills of the Bega Valley and also works at a large dairy. Semi-retired from 20+ years of working in design of user experience, services, and organisations. Outdoorsman. Bowhunter. Gamer. Progressive. Husband. Dad. Pro 🐈and 🐕. Lives in Djiringanj Yuin country. He/him.

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Best iOS app for Mastodon? Anyone? Bueller?
Balance of ease of use, cleverness, cost, etc.
TIA

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, I have a Pixel 7a phone with a cracked screen, but the local repairer doesn't fix Pixel devices. Is there someone reliable, quality, and trustworthy I can send it to for repair?

I could buy the kit from iFixit, but I don't presently have the time (or patience) to do the job (too much farm work, firewood cutting, and house reno work to do).

Suggestions appreciated.

@decryption should I put this on the forums?

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Masto = r/Landy

cc @liamvhogan @Kels_316 @franksting

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Just the absolute worst.

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Fat worms are fat.

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Remember, a surplus in a government budget means they've FAILED to spend on social and public goods - the things that build a society and lift people up.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-13/budget-to-confirm-a-surplus-this-year-then-deficits/103841688

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shows a lot of promise for integration across manufacturers, but right now, there is still an awful lot of Fucking About™ required to make things happen.

I'm trying to integrate something and the bit that's required before I set the integration up requires SSH, an additional interface element (HACS), and an installation sequence, accompanied by clearing browser cache, that does not easily seem to work.

I'm as keen as the next geek to mess with stuff under the hood, but this is pretty much deep nerd only territory.

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I find it incomprehensible that people are gullible enough to get caught in these schemes. I’ve seen the emails, the text messages, and the like that draw people in, and while some of them are somewhat well crafted, they contain giveaways that make it clear what they are.

Surely by now we’ve reached a point as a society where “don’t give your bank details or send money to someone you don’t know, and if you do think you know them, confirm with the actual person”?

If someone is naïf enough to fall for this stuff, I really don’t have sympathy for them any more.

https://theconversation.com/australians-lose-5-200-a-minute-to-scammers-theres-a-simple-thing-the-government-could-do-to-reduce-this-why-wont-they-228867

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I don't remotely believe in that "thoughts and prayers" nonsense, but whatever vibes you can send into the universe as $partner goes into her breast cancer surgery would be appreciated.

Despite her medical team assuring us everything should be fine, and all the tests and exams she's had in the last 8 weeks indicating the same, it's been a bit of a ride (with more ride to come).

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Why the fuck is anyone listening to anything Pezzullo has to say? He's a corrupt former public servant with far too big an opinion of himself.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/18/michael-pezzullo-australia-war-plan-book-former-secretary-home-affairs

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The cookers are getting stranger (if that could be imagined).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-08/financial-sovereignty-and-why-some-think-ato-is-not-real/103578948

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This seems like @jpm areas.
https://aus.social/@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space/112124284763752102

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Folks using one of the online language learning apps: if you're learning a language that doesn't use English characters or script, what's your approach to practicing writing?
I'm finding tracing with a finger on screen doesn't cut it for me. I think I need to get some basic writing practice books for both characters and words.

cc @helenperris @kcarruthers

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"Are you right, mate?"
Coco expressing her general attitude to existence if not being patted, brushed, sleeping, eating, or eliminating mice, rats, and rabbits.

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This sounds horrifying but also I would eat the heck out of it as a nice steak sandwich.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-09/the-florrie-horsham-steak-based-dish-history/103541146

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“ You can hear the emptiness when he breathes. It comes out of his nostrils in little, whistling snorts. Like so much else, he mistakes this noise for gravitas.”

Fucken sick burn on in The Saturday Paper editorial today.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/editorial/2024/03/02/decade-hoping

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m8 you’ve had 40-odd years of the PC, 30 years of the internet being publicly available in Australia, and not much less than that since online banking and inter-account transfers have been around. If you’re unwilling to move away from a dinosaur like cheques and live in a fantasy where "We don't do any banking online because we're not familiar enough with computers. Computers don't figure largely in our lives,” you can’t be helped.

This is a bullshit story about a bullshit non-issue.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/cheques-personal-finance-banks-rent-money-cash/103354036

cc @geordie because I know he loves these poor oldies who refuse to adapt and learn.

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Fuck it, going to subscribne to @decryption's The Sizzle. It may not be useful to me every day, but at $0.16 a day, it's a good deal.

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Apple knows their audience. Their latest specifically Australian iPhone ad is :chefkiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiAeKmT4QY4

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Today's Service NSW mailout includes the headline/link "It's a great time to be a cop".

No. No it's not. Policing is almost never the answer.

If you're of a mind to help people, choose almost any social or community service career other than policing and focus on being really good at that.

There's no crime outbreak that's such a hobby horse of the media. It's not real. The official stats prove it in almost every category - https://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Pages/bocsar_crime_stats/bocsar_crime_stats.aspx

The same applies nationally - https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/recorded-crime-offenders/latest-release

Build a better society. Do the things to move society toward everyone being safe with shelter and access to work they are able and want to do, and these challenges will continue to decline.

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With a long house of multiple buildings (hooray for rural builds over many years), mesh wifi just manages, and often enough, introduces weirdness and signal weakness in the ends.
For my partner, who works a busy job from home, connectivity can be fraught some days and she has to fall back to phone tethering. That's not a sustainable solution.
The attached image shows how our network is set up. It's increasingly apparent that running some network cable through parts of the house would be beneficial, but I fear it will be prohibitively expensive because of the weird construction.
Can any of my wifi/networking nerd friends here offer some advice? More mesh, or definitely look into cabling?
As I see it, cables would need to run from the office where the satellite connection comes in, to Building 3 where a wifi point/router could be connected, and into Building 2 upstairs where connectivity is not so important but where several smart lights and a couple of other devices are.

@jpm? Who else?

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I'm no ABC conspiracy theorist, but this case and the way it's being managed by he ABC certainly indicates something has broken there.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/abc-hires-seyfarth-shaw-in-lattouf-unfair-dismissal-case/103394616

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This is the absolute nonsense that greets me every time I go down to the shed and vege beds. Sansa lies in wait with a toy in the hope that I will play fetch with her. Absolute boofhead.

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If you're not using an adblocker, whether at the DNS level, as system software, or as a browser plugin (or even a multilayered combination), WHY THE HELL NOT!?

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As the owner of a regular 4x4 vehicle equipped for offroad if needed, the failure of a Cybertruck to deal with a pretty low-key offroad effort is unsurprising and amusing.
https://jalopnik.com/ford-f-150-comes-to-the-rescue-after-tesla-cybertruck-g-1851092936

cc @liamvhogan @Kels_316

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