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  • Here's the dinner report after the husband's folks came for dinner.

    So it mostly went to plan. After dinner and I had cleaned up I sat down to do some needle work but bro was bored and he'd been very sick, just came out of hospital, so I took pity on him. After he insulted me just a little and I pushed back a little I asked him if he reads audiobooks, as that may be an easy way for him to do an interesting activity. He said they always send him to sleep. My radar immediately pinged real loud, I'm always on the alert for when he or others talk about their experience in cults. I went on to explain that the books he was listening to were designed to relax him and even send to him sleep. I explained how the tapes were relaxing, why the makers of the tapes did that and how those books differ to regular audio recordings of regular novels and nonfiction books. I never once used a value judgement or trigger word. I never mentioned the cult nor any people in the cult, I kept it fact based and impersonal. He listened with interest and very intently.

    I'm a very good cult deprogrammer.

  • Dinner report part 2.

    As I wrote below bro has been in hospital and he really is poorly, no denying that, even hypochondriacs get sick. Husband's mother was there, she's elderly now, and she was complaining she was so tired from visiting bro in hospital everyday. It's a 45 min drive there .

    I got 🙄 and reminded her the doctors told her to only visit every second day. She was so angry that she couldn't play victim. I do not care, I don't think the others did either.

    She asked if she could take food home, I gave her the scrapings off her own plate and put them in an old washed take away container. She didn't get a carry bag either. She doesn't get meals to take home anymore , not after her slanderous games.

    I just do. not. care.

  • I thought I’d check out the tax return forms just got fun but the ATO website is being smashed at the moment.

    Anyway I can’t lodge it till I get the pre fill information uploaded by various places.

    Don’t imagine I’m going to get much back this year if last year was anything to go by.

  • Now that it's July, I'm seeing so many users with a cake next to their name because of how many people joined in June and july after reddit banned 3rd party apps

    • Oh yeah - that'll be me in a couple of days. And for the exact same reason. I had a couple of days detox and then decided to look into this Lemmy thing on July 4.

  • I'm starting off the new financial year with pay day today. A bit of a tax cut and a sliver more Super. If the new EBA gets through there will be a pay rise in a couple of months. Not enough to keep up with the CPI increases of the last couple of years but it's nice to be finally closing the gap a bit.

  • Just back from Brunswick and popped into some opshops. Not one stripe jumper on the racks anywhere. All gone.

  • Today's dream involved looking at planning applications... but every time I did, they fell apart. Like the drawings of the buildings collapsed on paper or on an aerial image. Or I'd head on site and watch them blow up in front of me. Meanwhile Sufjan Steven's Eugene has been playing in my head in the dream and while awake. ...and he called me Subaru... And now I wanna be near you 🎶

    • Today's dream was the big house where I grew up my first six years. It was a big beautiful house divided into large apartments with stained glass and staircases and carved stone. My first memories are from there and they were happy memories of music and the young musicians who lived there

  • Finished the dual screen and dock setup. One work laptop is STILL a bit dicey with the dual screens and I can 100% confirm it's a shitty usb-c port.

    My original Metabox laptop though... it's getting onto 6 years old, the dock connects to one screen only but not two. Realised the internal AND external graphics drivers basically haven't been updated since the laptop was bought, yikes), so I've updated those but no dice.

    I can sense myself using this to procrastinate on all sorts of other things so... one monitor is better than none. Onwards...

    • Is it a DisplayLink-based dock, does it need the DisplayLink driver installed (and the utility running) to drive both screens over USB?

      Common issue with docks at our hotdesks here at work.

      • Hmmm, doesn't look like it is. I installed the DisplayLink driver and have the utility running anyway, but it doesn't seem to be making much of a difference. I think it might be the USB-C port for this laptop, it might be an older one that can't support the thoroughput of 2x 1080p monitors at 60Hz for some reason?

        E: The dock (Belkin INC014) does support Display Port Alt Mode, and obviously it worked on other laptops, so I'm thinking it's really this older laptop that's got an issue.

  • Just in case you're wondering, there is a Tour de France app to look at while you're watching....

    Years ago, someone did a live feed using Google Earth mixed with the coverage and various graphs on screen and it was the best coverage I've seen....

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