Daily Discussion Thread: 🐦‍⬛🧙🐈‍⬛👻🦇 Monday, October 28, 2024

I underestimated how many more would come in today. Over 110 entries now!

That's bloody awesome, well done! Picking a winner may be tough though!
Now let's all face Launceston and pray.
- Buddha Boon!
- Sure am. I've started on the 13+ age group since they didn't have too many entries. But man, kids are creative. Love seeing the stuff they come up with.
Boooooonie
Oh you're going to be so busy with all those entries!
- but the most wonderful kind of busy 😄

Unmolded my soap today. The good batch is looking pretty good (although I probably should have put some effort into removing air bubbles). The dodgy batch has been melted down and poured into new molds, hopefully it has been saved.

I thought these were shortbread cookies 😭
- They look more like fudge in real life. Unfortunately they don't taste like fudge.
Those are cute!
those are so beautiful 😍
How can we get some? Or are these going to be cured in time to be Christmas gifts?
- Just mix up some fat and caustic soda and you can have all the soap you want!
  I have given soaps as Christmas gifts before, but this lot are all for me 🙂
I wish I knew how to make soap. It’s a bit dangerous in my current place (with fumes, weak arms, a cat who dances under my feet in the kitchen etc).
- It's not very complicated to make a basic soap, most difficulties come in when you are trying to add colours and fragrances. I mix it under the rangehood to deal with any fumes from the caustic soda. It's basically a process of warming up the oil to around 54 degrees, mixing the caustic soda with water and waiting for it to cool to 54 degrees, then when they are both at the same temperature mix them together until it starts to thicken - I use an old slender blender so don't need to have strong arms, and it mixes in a couple of minutes. Then you just pour it into the moulds and wait a bit. You can use something like a milk carton lined with baking paper, then in a day or two cut it into slices and leave it to dry for around 6 weeks to fully harden.
  These batches are made with beef fat which I collected off a very fatty batch of soup bones I made stock with a while ago, so they should also count as quite frugal!

Tinyest has started repeating words back to you. Shit is ADORABLE. Bathtime, GO!, Buh Bye and Ball are all big ones.

Goodnight all ❤️

Sweet Gibson 😍😍
- You guys only see the nice side. Not the random nibbles on my arm when I'm trying to eat dinner lol
In the biz we call that the squint of approval.

The writing competition blew up over the weekend. Ended up with 83 entries with maybe some more coming in today. I am super proud of the effort.

yay, booking for new glasses has been made :)

this is the first time i'm going to be getting my second pair adjusted for my astigmatism, i just can't have the glare anymore, it's unsafe

I am short sighted and have astigmatism, all streetlights are staaaaars
- same here
  not great for night driving , plus i'm curious what the world looks like without it

Saturday is going to be a high of 27 and low of 21. Friday high of 17, low of 7. What a juxtaposition.

Replaced the headlight globe and managed to order my one of my favourite café lunches yesterday over the phone before I got there (the kitchen would have closed before I arrived).

I’ve been intermittent with my hayfever defence and I have been attacked. Ugh.

But… as for today, I have done a load of laundry, started the trickle-charge on one bike, washed and put the side mirror back on the scooter, finished a lengthy phone call and am now at the hairdressers.

Of course, I always accomplish things other than what I should be. 😂

apparently I'm healthy other than a bad back . Who knew? Just need to lose weight, get a little fitter and keep an eye on stuff.

That would deprive us of your comments though
- I think we straddle the edge of social media here. I think the layer of anonymity here means we're not quite social media. This feels more like the old usenet newsgroups of the 90's to me. I know it's pretty much the Reddit 2009 experience, but that also felt like Usenet.
Imagine how wholesome society would be if everything wasn't for a feed.
Walking through the park today and went under trees that just had bark chips and dirt underneath. Looked a bit meh. I was reminded of a pic of some young adult saying how people tell him to go outside instead of being of the computer all day. He showed outside, a very dull dingy grey dirty old eastern bloc dormitory city. So his SIM city would be better, just like on the new Brave New World series, people could be fed a nice make believe place.
But surely it would be best if he went outside and did something to improve his home rather than escape reality?
it should be regulated

8.00 am and I'm already in trouble. Ted bit my bum because he hadn't gotten his kangaroo for breakfast yet.

Corpse is in the oven with marinade and some chopped tomato, carrots and onions

I’m currently warming up the bath for my pasta.

❤️

I think I'm gonna have my first sick day at my new job. Have been here 8 weeks now. Got a bad case of the weekend-wasnt-long-enough's

Next week is Cup day - hang on in there Force. Nothing happens on Monday so its a loooong weekend too. Take the Monday off too if you like.
- I'm working the public holiday 😔

someone please put your bins out so I can figure out which one I'm supposed to do.

You need a binfluencer
I put bin night into my calendar as a recurring reminder. Every two weeks it's yellow/red bin. Works a treat: my phone knows what colour bin night it is!

So Elder refused to go to school this morning. Yes we are back to this again. Mondayitis. But Miniest refused to go because her brother isn't. I ended up having to leave or I'd be late for work.😥😬😫And now I'm I T C H Y. The rash (or whatever the hell it is) had actually gone down a bit overnight and didn't look so livid this morning. Off to work so I can stress less🫤

My tactic is to make it as boring as possible if they stay home. Youngest stayed home today, and he nearly went insane without people to stimulate him. He's going to school tomorrow. 😁

I had a dream I could see death. As in, I could see where people had died, no matter how long ago, as ugly growths and it was everywhere. And I could see upcoming deaths in people via grotesque disfiguring and mold. Rather disturbing.

sounds like an awesome idea for a movie

Thanks guys for your answers about NZ. I'm looking at Christchurch, Lake Tekepo, Arrow Town, Queenstown or Dunedin.

Went out to check my downpipe fix and I'm not the only one checking pipes.

Yesterday sucked,I had a headache after I took a nap and it basically lasted the whole day, I could barely concentrate on anything.

Most I achieved was having the cricket on for most of the evening, couldn't really use my phone much or anything else during that time.

Wasted Sunday :(

gentle hugs
sometimes we just a day off , it's never wasted 😘
- Thanks Seagoon, feeling a bit off and exhausted today and a bit spacey.
  Trying to take it easy at work and not overdo things.

Today felt like it went past quick. Either that or I'm getting used to work lol

I always have my lunch break at 4pm so I can just leave.

And someone is happy the treat dispenser is back.

My husband does that. Lunch at 1:30. Knock off at 2.
- I don't understand stopping work, just to go back to work. Let's smash it all out in one go when see ya later.
The good old back ending go out to lunch and never come back.
Can easily let you get home 30-40 mins earlier depending on how long your lunch break is.
- I actually get to sit down on the train and am not squashed against everyone.
Meow

I love when you have a dream that connects to a dream you had years and years ago. I mean, as in the fictitious area where the dreams happened.

Just one day of using the Samsung UI for more than just work and I'm reminded how much I hate it. And the fucking bloat. Can't delete the Facebook app off the phone, only disable it, what a joke. Can't be stuffed dicking around with custom ROMs for this one, I think I'll be using this phone for work only as much as possible rather than making it my primary.

Gonna be hopefully clocking some overtime this pay cycle, maybe I'll get a Nothing Phone 2a or something else with stock Android. Although once again, hisssss at modern smartphones not having headphone jacks

Nova launcher beats Samsung UI hands down
Red Magic 9 Pro user here, it has a headphone jack and is a beast of a phone and comparatively cheap.
I could not possibly recommend it more highly. I no longer have to charge my phone every day and when I do charge it it's done in less than 30 mins, performance is insane for a phone.
It's a gaming phone, and so is also like having a Nintendo switch in your pocket for nearly half the price of the latest Samsung / Pixel / iPhone, whilst it blitz's day to day stuff.
You don't have to ever use the gaming mode btw, there's a literal physical slider on the side to enable it. It feels like a 2000s gamer designed their dream modern portable device that's primarily a phone.
Do check it out!
- Oh wow, that's really high praise and sounds like an amazing phone. It's beyond my budget though, I think I gotta go for something more mid range with all the moving expenses coming up.
I went from a Samsung to a Pixel, because of the Samsung bloat. I mean I get a bit of Google bloat, but nothing like Samsung.
Also I miss phones have a charge port AND a headphone port. My Pixel uses ONE usbc port for both and I fucking hate that shit. I feel like they're forcing me to buy wireless head/earphones and I don't want to fucking dammit! I prefer wired ones tyvm
- Same!!! I will never use wireless headphones - sorry but I already have trouble remembering to charge my phone as it is, I do NOT want to have to remember to charge headphones as well and I would be fuming if I'd headed out and the headphones had no charge. No thank you.
  I can get away with a 3.5mm to USB c converter if I have to, but it sucks on flights, PT etc when you want to charge your phone and listen to music at the same time.
  Sigh. I remember the days when you could swap out phone batteries 😭

It’s cold. I am desperate for some warmer weather. I know global warming is bad but if a tiny bit of it happened to Melbourne so we could have some glorious Spring weather I would not be mad.

Today's rental viewing was a lot better than I thought, heaps of space inside and nice kitchen - but overheard someone chatting to the agent who'd already applied before even inspecting the place 🤡 tf. Gonna apply anyway but ugh...

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Will @Baku@aussie.zone ever come back?

Now that's an interesting question. Given that he didn't wipe all his posts and comments as he went, I wonder whether it might be possible to re-create his database record manually?
The simple and official answer is that baku deleted his account and we will respect that decision. There is no such user. There is also no admin tool in our UI that permits this.
But if he somehow reached out to me and requested it, I'd be willing to have an attempt to rebuild his old account. Helping Seagoon_ last week taught me a bit about the user tables (there are actually two) in the database and I think it might be possible. I'm not about to do it without him asking, though.
- Well I had zero interest in going through the lemmy code until this msg.
- That’s very kind of you. I’ve seen the time you put in, thank you for all you’ve done.
If he does it needs to be done of his own free will and when he’s ready. Sometimes when you’re having a rough time or undergoing a lot of change you need to withdraw and save your energy for yourself.
Also sometimes well meaning people might not quite grok your reactions or situation, or you might feel that you’re burdening them.
However he is not a burden, his social skills are fine and he’s welcome back any time. (Seeing the self deprecation in his last post/s hurt)
- I missed what happened. All I saw was that Baku has left and felt kind of sad at the gist of it, since not long ago I mentioned I enjoyed Baku’s posts.
  It’s a funny thing. Reminds me of when I did a short stint at a community centre that had hydro and the morning regulars would notice if someone hadn’t been for a while and someone else would always have some idea of how they’re doing and if they were okay.
  I really do like our community here. While I sort of come in and out, or lurk more when I think I don’t have much to say or am busy, it’s a part of my life. Even if it’s online. I refer to the DDT IRL, almost in the same way as regulars in the community. Not so much by specifics, but more, like oh yes, a few people mentioned they’ve been unwell or, someone had this experience, etc.
  I guess since @Seagoon_@aussie.zone’s recent absence, it’s just made me hope Baku is doing okay IRL. (I also don’t mean to imply any pressure to return. I’ve been in enough online communities to see people come and go, that’s absolutely their right, but for those that contribute regularly, you notice when they’re gone.)
- he's the bravest smartest and kindest young man I know
  my one wish is that he have a mentor, doesn't matter how brave or smart a young person is they still need to be guided and taught about the world
I miss him, and hope he comes back when he’s ready.
I’m not completely sure what happened to him, but I hope he’s okay

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 🦇👻

Nighty night. Don't let the bed bugs bite.

Fun little mouse head at the back door

It's an offering to the modern god
- bleh

I’m glad it’s late night so nobody sees this. I just purchased a pair of crocs. How embarrassing but I’m looking forward to the comfort.

are you going to get those cute little personalising charms? 🙂 I think it's worth it just for those. And the comfort.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=croc+charms&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
- I'm of the opinion go hard or go home. Get the eyeballs.
What colour??
- Colour is “bone”, it’s like a beige / cream colour.
It's nearly 10pm for me. Not that late at all! 👾
It's when this mob start posting before I go to bed that I know I've made some poor life choices.
- I'm still awake lol
I like the croc sandals. Comfy and durable.

ordered a "new" PC to take over plex responsibilities. The old XPS is starting to show its age. Heres my question, do I go Linux? Or stick to win 11? I've heard Linux performance is a lot better, but my experince is pretty limited to a few Ubuntu Distros. The other challenege is my library sits on a 12tb internal drive on the XPS. Is Ubuntu going to be ok reading off what I assume is NTFS?

Yes Ubuntu can read NTFS. And yes, I've found Plex runs happily on low spec Linux machines. Running mine on an Ubuntu VM with 2GB ram allocated quite happily.
Plex install on Linux is very easy from memory.
- any special deployment of Ubuntu required as far as drivers go? I know you can just chuck it on from a live USB but I've never actually optimized anything. Frankly, it runs like crap on Windows.
- I’m literally running Plex on a Synology DS220+ NAS with all the usual addons in docker containers. I only use it locally and have had zero issues (Besides it getting laggy when downloading from Usenet at nearly 1gbps but I’ll give that a pass)
win 11 is such a cluster of bullshit the hassle of setup is gonna be about the same, but the nix box isn't going to rape its own hardware to death and snitch on you for mp3's
- I booted 11 because it was installed and just to make sure the desktop runs (and I new how to review system specs on windows easier). Having to use OOBE to bypass account creation requirements is such bullshit.
I put Debian on my optiplex with xfce as the desktop environment and it uses less than a gig at idle. Debian's great too because it has a slow update cycle so you don't need to worry about anything breaking. You could set Plex to autostart so you never actually see the OS, then you have free extra RAM from using a lighter system
- I was just reading about the whole snaps debate. No experience with Debian but I might give Mint a go. Sounds like its the darling child these days.

TV and Movie Chat.

Woman of the Hour with and by Anna Kendrick.

I think this movie could have benefited from another 20 minutes. The problem is that suspense over the whole movie was not built up tho individual scenes were good.

There are two ways to show a bad guy. One is to show him doing his evil acts. The other is to show how seriously the good people are chasing him.

There has to be much more screen time of the chasing by good guys than of the bad guy doing evil stuff otherwise we just don't take in the story of the good guys adequately.

So I came away from watching that movie not as affected by the stories of the victims and the victim's families struggle for answers and justice as I should have been.

A good example of the right balance is the movie Zodiac. A few scenes of evil, 90% is the chase.

3 hobbits.

I rewatched the pilot of MAS*H. It cannot be over stated how popular and influential this series was . I have watched the whole 220 episodes , some more than others. It was show I would watch after high school.

And I couldn't watch it this time. Maybe I'm tired of war and sarcasm.

But I did think of the show and pondered how American sitcoms are different to Brit culture sitcoms.

I think Americans like to have many episodes a year in their shows because they like to get to know the characters really well. Brit sitcom is 6 episodes a year and more about a situation and challenge.

I think it can all be explained by The Office and how the show differs in UK and US versions.

FWIW Wed is Kukur Tihar, Nepalese Dog festival day.

How does one go about celebrating this event?
- You pamper the doggo and they will 'stop you from being tortured in hell' from what I'm reading.

I have now come to realise that it takes about 4 years of early mornings to ruin my usual sleep schedule. No matter how late I sleep, how tired/exhausted I am or whether it’s a day off, unless I’m unusually unwell, I cannot sleep in the same way I used to.

This is an annoying revelation. Even napping, which I do very poorly, is worse now.

I need to find a way around this. I need more hours.

You have to find your natural sleep length. For most people it's between 7 - 9 hrs. Food, alcohol, caffeine even water plays a big part in how well we sleep. Higher the stress level the shittier the sleep, the tired we are during the day.

I saw Vampire Survivors has a local coop mode now. I'm going to try it out with my girlfriend soon, and it sounds like a good excuse to get addicted again and get a friend hooked too

Castlevania dlc coming out on the 31st as well.
I can’t figure out how this works. Possibly because I’m on a phone? Can see multiplayer in settings but nowhere to use it.
- With a phone, apparently you're meant to connect bluetooth controllers to the device to enable multiplayer I think.
- I haven't booted it up to check. I noticed it had the local coop community tag and there's an announcement on the product page about it

....I literally just got "ok boomer" 'd for correcting a CDS employee who said bojack was an import company and not part of the CDS scheme. dafuq

^{mister boomer is my father}

Oh damn… turns out while I knew I was near one bad spot, I’m actually right between two. On a busy highway per se. No wonder I’ve been getting a lot of grief.

Even with how much I keep to myself and mind my own it was unavoidable.

Boo! Try not to stab anyone before breakfast 😼

Idk, that’s a big ask…
- Ok, stab somebody for breakfast?

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Something to get me through the week please Chef.
- 📜 sick leave certificate for one (1) week
A mutilated corpse and some marshmallow fluff please 😇
- I'm roasting a corpse for dinner. 🤤
- 🍤☁️
Dumplings please Bacon. Lots of dumplings. And a large coffee.
- 🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟
  ☕️
Spinach and mushroom omelette with plenty of cheese and some sourdough toast please
- 🥬🍄🍄‍🟫🥚🥚🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🍞

Had to do a "Criteria" assessment for one of the jobs I'm interviewing for - interesting insights! I don't agree to what it's said on some things, but I did answer trying to be in a strictly current role mindset, but also remembering what my current workplace has some... quirks.

ACH AURELIE!

DER DEUTSCHEN FLIRTEN SEHR SUBTIL!!

Das liegt an ihrem großartigen Sinn für Humor
- Sie ist Französin, sie würde es nicht verstehen lol