• MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    For those who care, Canada beat the USA in the 4 Nations hockey tournament, in overtime.

    A great day for Canada, therefore the entire the Commonwealth and largely the world.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      6·
      6 days ago

      I shall proudly wear my Canadian hockey cap, t-shirt and puffer vest this weekend. Seriously I have the collection. (Saved from the skip a few years ago). 🇨🇦

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      5·
      6 days ago

      I sorta do and don’t. I didn’t know the event was on and this news doesn’t change my day in any way.

      But if I were asked who I’d prefer to win in a(ny) sporting contest between Canada and USA, I’m picking Canada!

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It was kind of like an all-star tournament with USA, Canada, Finland and Sweden sending their best. It’s been a long time since professional hockey players competed in the Olympics, so this was a bit of a trial run before the next winter games.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      5·
      6 days ago

      Mate i dont much care who beats them I’m happy to watch america get their asses kicked all the live long day. Always an added bonus if its the “snow aussies” (I recently heard them called that) take a win as well.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        The game was closer than I’d liked, and to be fair, the US team is absolutely stacked. Next Olympics are going to be fun as heck.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    6 days ago

    That was an alright sort of day. Feel like I’ve been operating on autopilot… anyway it’s good to be home to a pre-cooled lounge room, time to heat up a hearty dinner and enjoy this week’s tv! My favourite thing about Fridays atm 🥳

    What’s everyone’s plans for the weekend? I’ve got to list these dang little items on fbm before my rental inspection in two weeks, and probably do more bulk cooking. Nothing much else otherwise. Try and finish Juice, I guess

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        3·
        6 days ago

        Another Saturday chill day person? People often assume I prefer to have active Saturdays and chill Sundays like many others, maybe a hangover from when Sundays were for rest and church and all that but I desperately need my sleep-in and recovery day on Saturday, not Sunday.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      6·
      6 days ago

      Shopping tomorrow early as possible at Southland for groceries and a click and collect.

      Staying cool and catching up Severance if I don’t get to it tonight.

      I think cricket match might be on tomorrow so I’ll try and catch that too.

      At the moment I have no idea what groceries I want to get so that’s a bit of a bother.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        1·
        6 days ago

        Is it that you’re not sure what you’d like to cook for the next few days? Maybe get whatever’s on special and make up something out of it, that’s often fun.

        This week’s Severence was really emotional and definitely moving some characters forward, I’d be keen to hear your thoughts.

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
          2·
          5 days ago

          Sorry for the late reply.

          I don’t have much of an ide a what I want to eat for the next week or so. Usually I have some sort of an idea but I’m sort of drawing blanks.

          Will do. I’ll put it on today in the afternoon.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      4·
      6 days ago

      Miniest needs new shoes. I need new work boots. Shopping whilst avoiding the heat. Tackling Mount Washmore. Not much I guess.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        4·
        6 days ago

        Tis a warm weekend and perfect for scaling that treacherous peak. I need to wash some woolens that have been sitting in my clothes basket from when I moved in…

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
      4·
      6 days ago

      I’ve got an unusually busy weekend lined up, seeing some friends and also visiting the kusama exhibition and maybe someone’s birthday drinks. Along all the usual chores - lucky it will be good weather for drying laundry

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        4·
        6 days ago

        Oh nice! A good social weekend can be really rewarding. I have a really quiet weekend and been feeling anti-people recently but also recognising I need to socialise a bit so that it doesn’t sink into total social dysfunction heh.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      8·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, I’ve hurt my knee. Pes anserine bursitis at a very educated guess. Got a bag of Epsom salt glad wrapped to it… And elevated.

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
        3·
        6 days ago

        I didn’t know you could use Epsom salts like that, it honestly never occurred to me. Does it work well? I’ve always just dissolved it in a bath.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
          4·
          6 days ago

          Apparently using them like that can also help to remove a splinter. It didn’t work for me, but that’s probably because the “splinter” turned out to be a small stick requiring surgical intervention. But the whole osmotic pressure thing is supposed to work on normal splinters.

          • dumblederp@aussie.zone
            3·
            6 days ago

            It’s magnesium sulfate, mangnoplam splinter gel is pretty much Epsom and a carrier like solugel or Sorbonne.

        • dumblederp@aussie.zone
          4·
          6 days ago

          It creates some osmotic pressure to pull edema. It’s a bit of an old timey solution. Whenever I recommend it to clients I was sure to inform them that the science was weak. It’s cheap, low risk and easy to self manage. I was always bad at the business part of being a therapist.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      3·
      6 days ago

      I must have walked at least 5k yesterday, probably my longest walk in a year. I’m a bit tired but also glad my back isn’t sore from it. 🙂

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    We’ve had a break in at our office overnight! So far nothing appears stolen, but the office is crawling with cops blowing fingerprint dust everywhere.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      3·
      6 days ago

      Work break-ins are always a fun break-up of the usual routine. One happened at my old job and even though there’s all this expensive musical equipment, the guy just tried to make off with some laptops and cheap guitars.

      It looked like the guy was homeless though. So he was more just trying to get whatever he thought would sell, which is quite sad overall

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    -wake up

    • win10 work machine rebooted update overnight closing all open docs despite explicitly being told not to cheers ya fuckhead
    • Win7 machine decides it now hates name resolution
    • tweak dns / set to dhcp, no go
    • flush dns no go
    • pull up dns repository and see some freah adobe hell in there
    • use win10 machine to scoop latest blacklist for hosts file while i’m at it
    • win 7 machine won’t talk to win10 machine or ping (talks to everything else) but win10 can ping win 7

    Oh. It’s gonna be one of those days.

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Also i know the go to is "try linux!!’ And it’s solid advice, but dumping it unsolicited is about as useful as a fart in an elevator. Don’t be the fart.

        • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
          3·
          6 days ago

          Sorry. Debian’s good because it has a longer update cycle, and you can opt out of them completely if you’d like. So you don’t get things suddenly breaking on you.

          I feel like Linux also plays better with remote desktop services as any version of Linux can do it, you don’t need the pro or enterprise versions like with Windows.

          And mounting network drives can feel more complicated when doing it in the command line, but I like the transparency of working in there than Windows’ wizard.

          That’s been my experience at least, I’ve just been tinkering and don’t actually work in networking

          • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            I actually built a multi session MINT termserv for work to baby the users away from windows. Had a looooooot of linux people saying it was preposterous despite the fact this is what fucking linux was built for and trying to mock me, someone with 20 years experience who spends 90% of my time balls deep in production deb servers and proxmox (irony of ironies, I personally run slack)

            …i have a very dim view of a lot of online *nix touters. The dunning-kruger, it is real.

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          😂😂

          I used to have a friend who was a total Linux nerd, and he’d take every opportunity to try and force on the rest of us.

          But then would struggle to get a multiplayer game to work because it wasn’t compatible… I know things have improved since but I’m so turned off Linux anything because of it being shoved down my throat non-stop

          • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            Yeah it gets a bit like that. Where’s that jon stewart “you’re not helping” gif :)

            (I mean this very lovingly as a non partisan tech: don’t proselytise guys…)

            In other fresh hell it threw the bootloader, fixed that, disconnected my actual content (non-os) drives so i can fuck about with the validation, thought 'i’ll give her a clean while i’m in here" aaand the front bezel 14mm intake fan is also pooted. (Lives behind the hdd cage, so a hassle to get at). Got plenty of 12s, even a spare 24, no 14s.

            On my bike to the shop i go…

            • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              MY FUCKING BIKE THREW ITS BACK TYRE ARE YOU SHITTING ME

              there’s a hole in my bucket dear liza dear liza…

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
    8·
    6 days ago

    I’ve been to Whistler Blackcomb a couple of times. That’s really all I know of Canada.

    So based on that limited experience, 6/5 Hobbits

    🫡🇨🇦

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        As weird as it may sound, Aussie culture is closer to British and American culture, than Canadian culture is to both those.

        Canada shook away it’s British roots quite a bit (wtf is cricket anyway) and tried to distance itself culturally from America due to proximity.

        However Canadian humour and Aussie humour is very different, but appealing to each other.

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          Oh yeah they’re different types of humour but mutually intelligible 😂 my uncle is Canadian (partner to my aunt/dad’s sister) and it’s definitely evident, but still funny and on point!

          And it isn’t weird at all, Aussie humour is its own thing but very very heavily influenced by Britain and the USA for sure!

          Oh omg I’m a born and raised Aussie but I don’t even know what cricket is!! I don’t know how it scores, what any terminology means, nothing. I can’t even remember if the bowler is supposed to hit the wickets or not 😭 I MUCH prefer tennis!

          • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            Aussie sarcasm and shit talking for the fun of it, is second to none.

            Brits do it in a condescending way, but Aussies do it more egalitarian. None one is safe, and everyone can be made fun off.

            Canadian sarcasm is not far off just more polite.

            American sarcasm is reserved for those who can think…so not enough.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      Whistler is the Gold Coast of Canada.

      Holidays for some locals and many foreigners, not looked down upon, but not really celebrated

      If you want to know about Canada, ask away. Apart from recent stuff, cause I’ve lived here for two decades now.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    8·
    6 days ago

    Looks like my good run on marketplace is at an end. Today’s buyer was a no show, and the person who made an offer on another item yesterday has ghosted. I knew it was too good to last!

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      4·
      6 days ago

      Gah! We’ve been getting Can I have it free, also delivered to the total other side of the city? This is why I prefer just giving stuff away.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        3·
        6 days ago

        My favourite was the guy interested in my $5 fishing net, who asked if I could post it and told me he didn’t need the handle so I could cut it off with a hacksaw.

        I’m a definite fan of giving stuff away, but stuff you can’t just drop down at the op shop is a pain. I’ve found if I put a low price on there will often be competition to take it off my hands, but some items seem to just bring out crazy people no matter what you do. The fishing net was a bit wild, I was totally flooded with enquiries for that one. According to the guy that bought it it’s a really good net for boat fishing because it’s really deep and has a lip you can use to pull the boat towards you, but I still think the 30+ enquiries I was flooded with in the first few hours is a bit odd.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    11·
    6 days ago

    One of the great things about getting into work early is there’s no one there to notice you got in 5 minutes late

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    8·
    6 days ago

    Well that was surprisingly not so difficult. REA was on leave and had no auto reply but when I called the agency they were very attentive, escalated to another PM who called me then got in touch with the owners and scheduled in a maintenance request all within 2 hours. Pumber called at lunch, they’ll come in on Monday. I guess it’s a good thing the next two days are gonna be hot so I won’t really need the hot water anyway!

    Relieved it didn’t involve a whole lot of back and forth and procrastinating from the REA/dodgy edit.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    9·
    6 days ago

    I am very much over trying to move and photograph heavy things to sell. Especially because there is not much room to move them in. But I’ve been having a good run on Marketplace and hopefully these will all be cleared out and I can stop tripping over them. buying that antique post drill press seemed a much better idea when I didn’t realise how big and heavy it was! Getting it to the front door if I manage to sell it is going to be quite a workout.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        4·
        6 days ago

        They are good. I’m pretty sure I used to have some, and am now wondering where they went. Unfortunately they wouldn’t help in this case though - it’s all stuff like old tools, including a really heavy old drill press that is designed to be mounted on a post - my guess it is around 40-50kg, with handles and things sticking out everywhere to make it even more awkward. The rest is at least only heavy because there are so many things - including a rediculous number of hand saws. I’m not even sure where they have all come from, but begin to suspect that someone has been sneaking into my shed to add extra struff! It’s amazing what 20 years of living in the same spot can see you accumulate.