Daily discussion thread: Sunday 7 April 2024. Where did the time go? ⌚

Pretty sure I’ve had my last friend step down to acquaintance.

oh no , so many hugs
Hugs. I prefer animals to people, no bullshit games.
ooh that one will hurt.
We are here for you.
- Thank you, collectively
Ouch, I'm so sorry ❤️
Want to write something nice, but also I know the feeling so will just say hang in there.

Stopping by after a very long absence to introduce you all to Mabel:

I am OBSESSED with her and I am just showing her off to every single person I’ve ever met.

Hello Melbourneians? Melbourneites? Person from almost the other side of the world here.

How come this community is so active on Lemmy? I haven't seen any other city pop up on my feed as often as yours. You regularly get more than a hundred comments each day in these discussion threads.

Many of us are Reddit blackout immigrants.
Because we're actually a cult and everyone's welcome to join. Even you. Sign up with a picture of a pet. We're open 24/7.
We were a pretty active community back on Reddit,. especially during COVID.
Many of us migrated here last year during the Reddit boycott/fuckery.
We share random mundane shit and talk shit with each other.
Most of my posts are me being annoyed with me neighbours mowing their lawn twice a week or watering the same lawn when it's raining.
Feel free to join us. You don't have to live here to talk shit 😊
- And most of my posts are really long rants about minor, mostly inconsequential shit
- Cat photos and the job hunt from me.
I serve breakfast daily, as compensation for the end of donut (zero covid) days
Because ithe internet is made of cats & boobs, and we have cute cats 😝
- My cat is indeed cute. My boobs however, not so much.
- I have neither of these things. 😞
We’re just that cool!
Really tho? I’d guess because of the dynamics of Australia, whereas else where people are more spread out we all live largely in 2-5 cities.
Melbourne is over 5 million people and the largest city in Australia. We can all gather and talk about the same place and things.
We also speak English so others internationally can engage more easily with our community.
Oh and both work, but we generally use Melbournians.
It's often 300+ on a Friday.
We're coming at you from the future just now because daylight savings time ended overnight.
It's an active community because it's an active community. Any community with 50+ daily commenters could be as active.
G'day! Melbournian is the most common term for us, although I'd usually drop the o to emphasise its Mel-burn and not mel-born (although it's usually said Melb'n, but that's a whole other story!)
My theory on why we're so active: these daily threads were previously going on the melbourne subreddit for years, so when r/Melbourne went dark for the protests, there was a lot of oragnising to get people here. A few people came, and since everybody in the DT knows each other, they told everyone else and then everybody started moving over here. A few people refused to come, but enough people came, and enough others were forced to come when the sub vanished that we formed our own community.
If you want your mind blown even more - look at the thread from June 15th 2023. Over 600 comments on it! A few of those people went back to Reddit as soon as the subreddit reopened, but enough stayed that it didn't just become a group of 3 people like a lot of other communities. Our other city communities like !Brisbane@aussie.zone sometimes have DTs too, but only get 5 or 10 comments, so that's meant that our DT kind of ends up attracting people from all around australia since we're so active and such awesome people (lol)
It's actually a pretty even in terms of comments between us and r/Melbourne. Their thread is currently at 159 comments and ours is at 119 (this thread was actually posted 5 hours early)
Not sure if any of this actually answered your question, but the TL;DR is that these DTs were happening on Reddit for many years and the community split in 2 during the shit reddit pulled last year. Most of the long term active people moved here, although a couple stayed back on reddit.

Sun is streaming in my window onto the couch so I have given up any thought of moving, have made a G&T, pulled out the diary and sitting here planning holidays and just chilling.

I imagine this is how normies (ie people whose brains are not filled with depression etc) get to live all the time. It's nice. I approve.

🤔
my brain is 95% work , 1% is walking in the park looking at trees and finding banksia pods, 2% is watching movies, 2% skiving here
I might be exaggerating but not much

Bird cage cleaned and renovated to Sir’s liking. He appears to approve of pea sprouts.

Clearly a gentleman of refined tastes. A verray Beau Brummel of a bird.

I bemoan chicken and vegetables, but holy fuck do I feel good today.

Like a different person.

Energetic, focused, motivated.

Crazy shit.

Edit: Noticeable performance increase at the gym as well.

Have made a report about last night’s yard screamer. The more I think about it the more it seems like a SA situation.

It's so dark 😓

I almost want to turn the heater on for emotional support. But it's 19 degrees inside so I will refrain. But it looks cold.

It really doesn't help that I've just returned from 10 days in a tropical island resort. It's like being plunged into winter all at once.

I feel like life is slowly grinding me down.

I think a lot of us experience something similar every now and then. A feeling of hopelessness and heaviness and inertia. Hopefully you can walk through it and out the other side. Hugs.
- Thanks
That and seems like it’s Groundhog Day. Definitely not just you feeling this way….

Omg it's 7pm not 7am

Lol I used to have this am pm shift happening when I did rotating day/night shift. I'd wake up in a darkened room with an analogue clock and no idea whether it was say 2am or 2pm. Very disorientating!

The alarm to get ready for work went off and I woke to a text asking if I would like AL today. Hell yeah I do! Back to sleep for me.

I was thinking: maybe I could be one of those people who goes around to schools and talks to the students about the realities of drug addiction.

Maybe.

I love playing network engineer. Really all I did was unplug some cables then plug some different cables in, but it was still so much fun. I also made our internet not be as shit as I thought it was. Went from 200-500ms latency at 20mbps to 50-150 latency at 50-60mbps

I'm not sure how well the new router will handle multiple devices and concurrent transfers though. It's pretty much just a test and a way to make the internet usable for now. The old router sucked, but it could handle 20 devices just fine. The new ones for all these features but it's on the cheaper side, so I have my doubts

Edit: and changing the DNS server to 1.1.1.1 has removed the last bit of slowdown I was noticing. Telstra's DNS is kinda shit ngl. For the last 6 months I've had to use CloudFlare warp or my mobile data to access aussie.zone because it never worked otherwise. I ended up narrowing it down to Telstra's DNS acting like it's never heard of an Aussie zone in its entire life, which is how I learnt what DNS even is and how it works

ISPs often choose not to obey TTL on dns records too, because they don’t want to waste the bandwidth refreshing the records. Can be problematic. I usually use 8.8.8.8 (Google)
- That'd probably explain why it was always giving me issues. CloudFlare has a form that I can fill out to purge the record cache for certain websites if need be. I set Google's DNS as secondary, but I like and trust CloudFlare more than I do google, so I've always just used them

Chook is awake. Time to get up.

7:30 and I’m ready for bed. Was awake at 6 tho.

I hear you.

TIL that little flappy bird thing that seems to be everywhere is called Pam

I'm not clicking because like, it's the Harold scum, I'm not a boomer. But I've been wondering what the go is behind it

No idea, I haven’t seen one (at least that I took notice of) BUT, does that man have a dog or a goat with him? I mean dog makes sense, but it really looks like a goat.
- Apparently the bird also has an instagram account. Yes its a goat. Don't even ask
  https://www.instagram.com/p/C5Fys13hLp0/?hl=en
- https://allthoseshapes.com/pam_graffiti/
  I see it a lot around the city and inner west, usually along rail corridors. But apparently it's on freeway signs and such too
  There's like 3 dozen along the fencing in front of the west melb alstom depot on the way into southern cross, from about here to southern cross
Cool. I love Pam. The little birds make me happy as I go into work on the train and I was looking at the long chain near southern cross on the weekend
- I don't really mind the ones that are painted on blank surfaces like on the backside of the freeway signs and near socro, but I do mind the ones painted directly on the trains. There's a few posts on his insta where he's tagged up an entire train with massive birds covering the windows, which forces trains to be pulled out of service and cleaned. He's even done a few directly onto the drivers cab windscreens, which forces the train to be taken out of service wherever it's noticed

The dog is harassing me for food. He doesn't understand daylight savings.

I’m a bit peckish myself. It’s steak night 🥩
- i too bought steak, and frozen cheese mash from aldi

I’ve just had the most luxuriant breakfast

Awake at 6am on a Sunday. Why can’t I sleep in any more? The curse of getting older

Eye mask and headphones can help you get back to sleep with some practice
- Laughs in hormonal mania *
shall we tell 🤭

Mmm vanilla latte packet coffee

I'm pooped, did a lot on my list.

I pooped
- TIL pooped and pooped are two different words entirely
  https://www.etymonline.com/word/pooped
Don't be poop :(

tonight for dinner I am making tex chili

⏰🕰️🕥⏲️🕗⌚️🕗⏰

Only for 40 hours.

Oh force would you mind editing the date into the title please? Makes it easier to follow and keep track of

I got U fam
- Thanks bossinator 😎

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Bacon and mushrooms on toast, please. With an iced coffee.
- 🥓🍄
  🍞
  🧊🥛☕️
Gyoza with a pleasing appropiate dipping sauce please.
- shit I can't spell.
- 🥟🥃
Rich decadent platter of everything delicious. And a cup of coffee please.
- 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
  🍽️
  ☕️
Turkey, red Leicester, & olive oil pickle on sourdough please
- Oooh, that sounds grand
- 🦃🧀🥒
  🍞
Ham and cheese croissant and a freshly squeezed orange juice please
- 🍖🧀🥐🍊🧃

I'm sure it makes me Officially Old but Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite tv shows. I would love to go on a gentle and beautiful holiday with Sandi.

I love that show and reckon Sandi would be excellent company. I also like having a stickybeak into all the houses

It's still not quite pumpkin soup season yet but the pumpkin can't wait so I'm gonna have to make it today. Maybe. No promises.

Scones!
- Nah cos I've got some onions and potato I wanna chuck in there too. You have got me thinking about making some cheese and chive scones though.

Walk walked. Groceries shopped. New pair of fingerless gloves bought (merino+possum for extra coziness). Bluey watched. I think it's time for a cuppa and to dig out the oodie

Goodnight everyone. 😘

I can't remember so many crickets so late in the season . It's good, it's a natural thing in the city. 😊

s'pose I should make a to do list

Decide to make list
- I should get around to it any minute
  list is done!

Rather a fun one today - got only 1 wrong. Quiz

Just had my first porrdige of the season. yummy

Who's doing tomorrows thread - Monday April 8?

(Sorry Im late)

I guess since I was so late nobody saw so nobody claimed it. Rip

Well I have a problem.

Had a new pump in the sump installed recently to feed the tanks and it is not turning off when emptied. I believe the float valve is giving incorrect instruction!

I am not a plumber so I will shake the things and give it a kick and with any luck...

last time my toilet was acting up i removed its helmet, gave it an angry stare, starved it of water and made it work an extra order. It said sorry won’t do that again
- hrmm I will stare at this thing this is a good strategy :)
There could be some shit in the float valve. Look for a part number and search youtube for service tips?

I think I prefer more time in the morning. I liked how it took so long to get to midday today.

Looking forward to the reunion for mafs, last few episodes have been a snore fest. Don't think I'll be watching future seasons though, been getting more and more obvious with the forced storylines by the producers and clear terrible matches.

Sometimes I read the mafs subreddit despite never having seen an episode.
It's oddly entertaining.

I've got a dual partition on my laptop and dual boot between windows and Ubuntu. But Ubuntu seems to have booked my windows partition after an update. I don't keep anything important on either partition, or even do anything important on the laptop, so it's no big loss. But I used the windows partition for meetings and 3D printing things.

The drive seems to be working fine though, and I can still access my windows drive through Ubuntu, so it's probably fixable when I've got the time and brain capacity to figure out what the hell is even wrong with it

Do you have two bootloader entries in the BIOS? Or were you using GRUB (or Systemd-boot) to boot between them?
It's probably easy to fix, it's just knowing exactly what happened is probably the most complicated step lol
Hope you're able to fix it. Having the different OSes on different drives (portable drive in case of laptop) seems to cause the least amount of issues with boot entries dying after updates.
- It's setup to use GRUB I'm pretty sure. After windows started refusing to boot, GRUB/Ubuntu started yelling about the environment block being too small, although it didn't prevent Ubuntu from starting up I fixed it anyways by deleting and recreating it (following this), which fixed it.
  It's probably easy to fix, it's just knowing exactly what happened is probably the most complicated step lol
  It really is lol. Doesn't help that windows error messages are either hyper specific (or more commonly) so vague they're next to useless with absolutely no in between. Since the error message is hard drive related, all the Microsoft support articles and forum posts are mostly suggesting that the hard drive is completely dead with no hope of recovery and to buy a new one, although since it seems to be working completely fine through Ubuntu I'm doubting that's the case

Can confirm, new Bluey is funny until it’s not

How so? What changed? I didn't even realise there was a distinct "new Bluey"
- New episode released this morning. There’s another next week
- new episode today, and a 28min episode next week
I am surprisingly concerned about how a cartoon dog will feel about moving...

5pm rave choon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rALVOFwYZvg

Movie Review.

This is my 3rd movie about tv weather guys. Ground Hog Day, The Weatherman and today's movie, All Hail.

All Hail, from some of the team who brought you The Revenant and Bardo.

This movie has the same feel as Bardo. I admit I love this kind of cinematography/direction, it uses familiar ways to set the scene, it's feels up close and personal looking at actors without making you feel uncomfortable, it all feels natural and it's so easy to let the story happen. Every actor is perfectly cast. Every set and location is just right, every camera angle .

It makes everyday life and our world look so beautiful .

Seems to me this team loves to use the elements to tell a story, fire, ice, water, air, earth. There is always an interaction between people and the elements that is part of the story.

It's the story of a very well educated tv meteorologist who starts to believe the hype of his own forecasting record. It's about pride. Not as bad as Bill Murray who brought a curse down upon himself by saying "I make the weather". This guy, Miguel, brings a mild curse by saying "I guarantee it".

So he fails, is condemned and he must find redemption and grace by getting back in touch with real people and his family, not just users and stans, and getting back in touch with nature.

I had to look up who Professor Neurus was. 🤔

4.5 hobbits. So easy to watch, that's why I think watching twice would be a good idea.

Walk complete. Now football

Useful shopping this weekend for some winter clothes which needed replacing. 2 hoodies and a pair of track pants. Looking forward to coziness. Although it’s annoying that things just don’t last like they used to, quality is so much lower than it used to be.