• just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    First day at second job was really awesome. Feels like I’m working with real people! And so much respect and warmth! Plus some very compatible interests/tastes/politics. Cozy, comfy office and such a short commute… I couldn’t ask for more??!

    I think I have a random crush developing on a colleague however, which needs to be viciously stepped on and killed with a flamethrower immediately. Please let them have a partner. Haven’t heard one mentioned so far… if they don’t say anything I’m going to ask (obliquely).

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      Sounds awesome, so happy for you.

      In regard to your work colleague though there are some people who never talk or mentions their other half or partner, even with people who I’ve worked with for over a decade, some of them rarely talk about their other half though they do talk about other aspects of their lives including their kids.

      Just a friendly little heads up about it.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        Oh for sure. Most people I’ve worked with have the age and circumstances to be partnered even if without kids, so I generally assume that unless said otherwise.

        Not that I care 99% of the time; this is just an incredibly stupid crush that will go away soon enough… but it’ll go away faster if I know there’s a partner for sure!

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
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          6 months ago

          But at the same time who knows what could happen!

          Especially if this person isn’t with or seeing someone.

          New beginnings and all.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        I definitely had a couple of poignant moments of “wow I can’t believe what I put up with at my old place”.

        But it’s like with love and relationships, sometimes the best healing from an old job isn’t just time off, but a new and better environment to rewire the brain 😊

        We’ll see how this goes over the next few weeks. Never managed two jobs like this before

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I was laying in bed awake for over 2 hours and just couldn’t slip into sleepy land so I said fuck it and now I’m just not going to sleep it seems

    • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I was vibrating with stress for obvious reasons - ended up googling mattresses in boxes. Slept once one was sourced.

    • AJ Sadauskas @lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I know that feeling!

      Wifey is already sound asleep, as are our fur babies. I need to be up early for work tomorrow.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Ok. Groceries purchased. Cat fed and brushed. Dinner in the oven.

    I really hope this cold doesn’t last much longer. I live alone and am single so bring sick brings my life to a standstill.

    Gibson is concerned also.

  • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    When we purchased our new house 5 years ago, we had a Tesla PowerWall installed. It came with a Telstra 3G SIM card and when they installed it, I told them to connect it via Ethernet. The technician refused, saying that it has 3G and doesn’t need to be connect to the home network at all.

    I received a text from Tesla this morning, telling me that our PowerWall will not be covered by warranty when Telstra kill 3G at the end of next month.

    I then received an email from Tesla (that looked like Spam).

    I then receive a phone call from Tesla.

    I mentioned that I don’t have WiFi coverage in my garage and they told me to move my router. I told them that I instructed the technician to connect via Ethernet originally and they said that I would need to get the technician back out to connect it.

    I am not allowed to plug Ethernet into it without voiding warranty and I need to plug Ethernet into it to prevent the warranty from being void.

    • Third spruce tree on the left@mas.to
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      5 months ago

      @Salvo @Seagoon_ i have no plans on ever buying anything Tesla, but if I ever had any potential to, its bullshit like this which smacks me out of it (drunken stupor likely)

    • Jon@fosstodon.org
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      6 months ago

      @Salvo My wall connector was on wifi initially but it always crapped out after power outages. It still worked fine to charge the car. Never got an update either even after connecting it several times. So don’t bother.

      • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        It is insane that the installing sparky ran three-phase power to the location but doesn’t bother running some twisted pair for Ethernet at the same time.

        We had to fight with the installer to have our Solar Inverter connected to Ethernet, even though there was a cable already in place. Unfortunately we won the fight for the Inverter but lost the fight for the PowerWall.

        I know that at least one Manufacturer who is deprioritising warranty claims on “smart” Car Charger wallboxes unless they were connected by Ethernet at the time of installation.

        • Jon@fosstodon.org
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          6 months ago

          @Salvo It is insane and frustrating how these things are built. I went through a similar situation with the builder of our home with ethernet cable runs. 🤦‍♂️

    • Azuaron@hachyderm.io
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      6 months ago

      @Salvo Oof. In the next couple of years I’ll be getting solar and some kind of home battery. I’ve been vaguely considering Tesla on the idea that they couldn’t possibly mess up a stationary battery in my home like they do their cars. Thanks for setting me straight.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    6 months ago

    I have apparently had a suspicious transaction on my credit card, someone trying to buy gift cards. I do wonder how they got the card number, I barely use it. I think I’ve seen something about methods using random numbers so maybe they just guessed it. The transaction history on that card are all Paypal, Amazon and a couple of local stores in person so not really anything risky. Fortunately it’s not my main card so there are no automatic payments to be messed up.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    So I got a phonecall at 11:20 from the original guy at the auction place wanting to know if I was still bringing the furniture 🤦🏻‍♀️.
    Thank God the car was loaded so I just had to drive there. Auction is this afternoon so 🤞🏻.
    In other news, went back in my room and was hit with a blast of Eau de dead rat - checked and realised I’d managed to sprinkle bicarb soda everywhere except where it’d carked it. Google suggested bleach and I had some lemon White King on hand so I poured a good glug on it, opened the window and closed the door. Went in for something and all I could smell was bleach, so here’s hoping that’s sorted it. 😖

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I noticed a new thing at Woolies self checkout. Previously when you put fruit and veg on it you’d have to select the fruit and veg button and get the frequently bought items menu, and go from there. Now, it’s using a recognition system where it offers a selection based on what it thinks you have put in the scale. For example I bought cucumbers, and it offered me a choice of cucumber or zucchini to select. For a leek, it gave me leek, zucchini or banana.

    • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yep no more “brown onions” for everything. People did this to themselves but no doubt they’ll find another loophole. I wonder if you could trick it with a photo of onions covering what’s on the scale.

    • Russell@mstdn.social
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      6 months ago

      @SituationCake I gave up on buying fruit and veges at Woolies a couple years ago when they added the cameras. I bring my own fruit/vege bags, which are white cotton. I refuse to use plastic bags. Cameras couldn’t see the contents and locked the check-out every time. It was a good reason to switch to the independent fruit and vegetable shop next door, which I should have been using all along.

        • AJ Sadauskas@aus.social
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          6 months ago

          @SituationCake @Seagoon_ They also have another camera pointing at where your basket is.

          It’s “smart” enough to notice if you place something from another shop in your basket, or if you put a bag from another shop in the bagging area.

          But.

          It’s not smart enough to realise that Chemist Warehouse bag probably isn’t something you got from Woolies.

          So when you go to pay, it will show an error message, and call over an attendant.

          And the attendant will take one look at it and go, yeah, that’s not from here.

          It wastes your time, and the attendant’s time.

            • AJ Sadauskas@aus.social
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              6 months ago

              @ppossej @SituationCake @Seagoon_ Assuming malicious intent is the worst part. They make you feel like a shoplifter every time you enter the store!

              They’re the ones who took over almost all the independent supermarkets and chains. (Remember Safeway? BiLo? Franklin’s No Frills? Jewel? Tuckerbag? Festival? Rainbow? SSW?)

              They’re the ones who jacked up prices during a cost of living crisis and made billions.

              They’re the ones who ripped out humans at the checkout and replaced them with self-checkouts.

              They’re the ones that replaced most of the brand-name products with their home brands.

              They’re the ones that decided to clog up their aisles by doing night full during the day to save costs.

              And then they assume we’re the ones with a malicious intent!

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      Funny you mention that. I was buying some mushrooms (safe edible ones) and put them on the scale and selected the vegetable thing and it automatically suggested mushrooms to me as an item instead of me having to search for it.

      I’m going to have to keep an eye on if I buy more fresh veggies at Woolies from now on.

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

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  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I see Melbourne has greeted me upon my return back to the country with it’s usual sunny disposition.

    Tullamarine Airport is fucked. 8 planes all land at once. All passengers are jammed into a narrow corridor lining up for the egates.

    Foreigners and children don’t use them, so they have to continue. But there’s no sign saying that. You only know if a random border security officer happens to swan past you.

    Baggage carousels are a joke. Queueing for customs declaration also a joke.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Argh!!!

    Installation of split system delayed again!

    Well I guess on the bright side I managed to do a couple of hours of more decluttering and cleaning.

    I half moved some stuff already. Wondering I should just make the moving of furniture within the next day so I don’t have to do it in 2 weeks time.

    Still though so frustrating with the constantly delaying. 4th time now I think

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    6 months ago

    I have been listening to a book about scientific intuition, what is is and why people believe incorrect theories and facts.

    Answer, we are born as babies who know nothing, cognitive limitation as adults and the way we live and experience the world around us frames the questions we ask.

    I was really surprised at the cognitive limitations data, even graduates of physics degrees might not know or understand basic principles because they are unable to have the mental imagery required for understanding. ie, unable to use visualisation

    I suppose that explains why some students can pass exams but can’t explain what they learnt or remember it years later or integrate the knowledge into their wide world view

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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        6 months ago

        Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong By: Andrew Shtulman

        “In Scienceblind, cognitive and developmental psychologist Andrew Shtulman shows that the root of our misconceptions lies in the theories about the world we develop as children. They’re not only wrong, they close our minds to ideas inconsistent with them, making us unable to learn science later in life. So how do we get the world right? We must dismantle our intuitive theories and rebuild our knowledge from its foundations. The reward won’t just be a truer picture of the world, but clearer solutions to many controversies - around vaccines, climate change, or evolution - that plague our politics today.”

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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            6 months ago

            This book has really made me think about what I thought of the world when I was a little child and then an older child.

            Here’s the thing, no adult ever asked me anything about my beliefs so any thoughts I had weren’t put into speech or writing. And because of that I have to try to remember original thoughts rather than recall an action. It’s not easy.

            I expect like most people I like to think I was smart and didn’t have silly ideas. But that’s not true, I was a kid , I didn’t have theories, for example the ground was the ground and I thought no more about it.

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    We were shopping for our first home many years ago. It was on a hill. As we were stepping out to leave, the agent says “hey is that your car?”

    I look over across the street, and my car had started rolling down the hill!! I bolted over the fence, quickly zapped the alarm button and dove inside to stop it just in time before crashing into another car.!

    We ended up buying the house.

    The End

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      Got a similar story with a trolley.

      Was loading groceries and stuff into my car and put down something to stop the trolley from rolling downhill.

      Come back from one load and trolley is missing and I see it slowly rolling down picking up momentum in the car park, at the end one incline are more cars parked.

      Bolted after the trolley and thankfully no cars were coming up or down the laneway at the time and after 100 metres I manage to catch the trolley without hitting a car or being hit by one.

      That scared the bejubus out of me that day. Never parked there ever again.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    You’re not going to believe this - after one person at the auction place called on Friday to say that the furniture I want to sell can’t be picked up, someone else called to talk about pickup.
    We agreed it would be easier for me to bring the stuff up anyway but they now don’t have a slot for me to drop it off until 2:45.
    Anyway the neighbour came around to help me load the car so that’s all done, and he helped me disassemble Mum’s old bed in the bargain and waved off any suggestion of payment. What a guy.