Nath

Nath, 8 hours ago

24 hours:
7 hours sleep.
1 hour preparing for work.
8 hours working.
4 hours commuting.
2 hours preparing and eating food.

That leaves 2 hours for everything else. I could not do this.

Nath, 1 day ago

ICANN lookup is another source. According to them, aussie.zone was registered on 2023-06-08 05:26:09 UTC.

So, yes. 8th of June would be a date I’d endorse. It’s also @lodion’s signup date. The oldest “regular” user is @BadlyDrawnRhino, who signed up on June 16th. You could argue that was the day we opened to the public and is more appropriate.

Nath, 1 day ago

I see what you mean, you pre-date June 16th. I actually didn’t know there was a week where signups were free-for-all and not admin approved. Rhino was the earliest user who was approved by an admin. Now I’m back to endorsing June 8th.

Nath, 1 day ago

I stuck with BaconReader until it stopped working on July 1. Then I just detoxed for a bit.
After a couple of days, I looked into this whole Lemmy thing and then laughed out loud when I saw an old friend was running the Australian instance.

Nath, 1 day ago

Not sure whether you can, but forget the encounter. The other party has most likely forgotten you entirely.

Perhaps instead direct the dark thoughts to what you might do differently should a similar thing happen again?

Nath, 1 day ago

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.

Nath, 1 day ago

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. 🤣

Nath, 1 day ago

I only watched the first 10 reasons, but the first was enough for me. I don’t have to, the law explicitly says you can cycle on the road. Beyond that, my reasons are my own. I’m glad he laid it out for viewers, but I don’t think many motorists will sit through all the reasons, either.

Bikes were on roads before motor vehicles. Bikes will be on roads after people stop owning private motor vehicles. The idea that cars own the roads is not one I subscribe to.

Like most cyclists, I am also a motorist. The idea that we are two totally combative and distinct classes of road users is also not one I subscribe to. I think we’d all be better road users if non-cyclists were convinced to use the roads as the “other” side more frequently.

Nath, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Maybe fare compensation is where you get your public transport fares covered by your employer if you have to go into the office?

Nath, 2 days 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!

Nath, 2 days 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, 2 days 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.

Nath, 2 days 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.

Nath, 3 days ago

Ahh, here’s the post I hadn’t seen yet because I was at work.

I’ll throw my suggestion in here as well, but you kids may not remember the reference:
LifeBeInIt

Nath, 2 days ago

Ok it exists (!ausfit). Go make a post in it so I can mod you. I’m still at work (only 4:15 here), so I can’t do up a banner/icon yet.

Nath, 3 days ago

Easily done. What do you want to call it?

Nath, 3 days ago

Showing my age: LifeBeInIt

Nath, 4 days ago

Being clear: nobody is getting their debt “wiped out”. This isn’t a debt forgiveness that you missed out on by already having paid your loan off. The HECS indexation last year resulted in unfair loan interest of 7.1% being applied to debts for 2023. HECS was never intended to do that to people. The “wipe out” is an adjustment of this interest only for last year.

Nath, 6 days ago

Are you counting from January 2000 or 2001? I remember there being debate at the time over when the century starts. Either way, I have a bit to go.

Nath, 6 days ago

Quite reminiscent of Flight Control. An early mobile game from Australia. From back when games cost $1.19 and had no ads or stupid psychological tricks to keep you playing daily. You played them daily because they were fun!

Nath, 7 days ago

I’ll be real with you: I’ve had a look at the database schema and tables exactly once. It’s a bowl of spaghetti in there. We just sort of view it as a single entity and don’t really separate it out in any granular view.

What I can tell you is that the bulk of the storage is federated content. When a user subscribes to a community on another instance, the aussie.zone database caches content from it here for them. So, lemmy.world for example uses a lot more storage than the user messages. Or aussie.zone content if I’m being honest. We really aren’t that big an instance. We are pretty engaged though. Our user base is small but active.

Nath, 7 days ago

I’m wearing my “visit Tatooine” T-shirt. 😁

Nath, 7 days ago

Most of the vitriol I see is directed at US police. Being an Australian instance, we don’t get that so much.

Nath, 7 days ago

Uber did that to me, too! In the early days, drivers used to offer you minties. I ended up buying them for myself for a while there.