Spyke
Tofureply

๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ๐ŸŒ

๐ŸŽ‚

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Tofureply

๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽŠ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿพ๐Ÿป๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿ‘ฏ

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Yay! The heart and soul of the DT is back!!!! We've missed you.

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Seagoon__reply
lemmy.world

Giving so many thanks to CEO, Nath and Lodian who have worked tirelessly for over a week to get me back, even to the extent of resolving programming issues with [email protected] . Love youse guys and everyone else here ๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜˜

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wait, this is a different ID again ๐Ÿซ  seems they all work now. I tried so many different IDs and email providers .

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aussie.zone

I freaking HATE when you order a coffee with alternate milk. Say a flat white with Oat. You say that to them. They make it and announce "Flat white?" and you go "With oat?" and they go "..... yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes...." in a REALLY uncertain tone.

Takes all my effort to not lock eye contact and say "Cause bro, if it isnt, and I shit myself to death your gonna experience exactly what this will feel like when I get my hands on you".

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It must be the location of the cafe lol, the ones around me in Brunswick judge me for just having normal milk, over almond, skim, etc ๐Ÿ˜‚

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People who don't repeat orders in full bother me, I like a supreme with extra garlic, don't say only supreme back to me. Also when I'm giving numbers over the phone... 931 uh huh, 334 uh huh, 553 uhh the computer says no.

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Yeah, I got one that served me lactose free as if it was the same thing.

What part of OAT did you not understand?

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aussie.zone

Real estate update: no nasty emails, except... A notice to vacate in Feb 2025 because the owner's decided to sell. LOL. Guessed this was gonna happen when a REA supposedly joined the inspection. Good thing I've already started looking!

Plus side is now I only need to give 14 days notice when leaving so this means a whole lot less of double rent.

If I catch the unit not being sold though, or rented again under the same owner past the vacate date I'd love to report that shit (e: looks like she has 6 months from now within which she can't re-let the property. If her intention was to boot me out, hope she enjoys 5 months of no rent!)

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

Add that to VCAT, they love changing stories like this

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just_kittenreply
aussie.zone

Tell me more... do you mean VCAT if I find that she's re-listed it within 6 months? Or VCAT for any breach notice/bond shenanigans that might come up?

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aussie.zone

Both. VCAT for all RE and LL shenanigans. Remember to claim your bond immediately after leaving as well so they can't do anything tricksy with it

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just_kittenreply
aussie.zone

I'm definitely claiming my bond the second I hand back the keys - phone in hand, finger hovering over the button. LL seems clueless about tenants' rights and I'm not about to educate her. She can moan about needing to inspect first as much as she likes on the day... got any problems, see you at VCATโœŒ๏ธ

I'll be asking her for a rental payment ledger asap, good that she is legally required to provide one within 7 days.

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fuck the REAS, best thing that ever happened for renters was having the ability to request your bond back yourself

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

right, first things first: https://tenantsvic.org.au/advice/during-your-tenancy/your-landlord-is-selling/

ANYTHING that deviates outside the law, get on CAV right away. Anything. No matter how small. You owe this trash nothing now, take the gloves off.

You already spoke to tenants vic about the pots, right? If so, call them again and mention this escalation. The sequence of events may actually have this considered retaliatory in context and they'll go right up the tailpipe.

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just_kittenreply
aussie.zone

Thanks for the details! Yeah I did speak to Tenants Vic about the pots. The lady on the phone laughed (apologetically) at how ridiculous the request was.

I intend to move out anyway regardless of notice to vacate as I don't want to deal with this person any longer than I need to, just wondering when I might actually get to use this info. I'm guessing if and when any breach happens. It does take at least 45 minutes (after about 10+ tries) to get through to Tenants Vic so I probably might hold off on calling them until any further developments happen.

One thing I'm concerned about is that if I apply for a new place and LL is contacted as a reference, that they might make up shit about me - not sure what I can do about any of that.

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

get a mate and make them your LL for reference.

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These blinking application portals (2Form, whatever) do often need evidence of past rental history though, and my lease/bank statements show payment to the LL...

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TinyBreakreply
aussie.zone

I know you said you are already looking, but get on it sooner rather than later. This side of chirstmas is a bit slower, but jan feb is NUUUUUTs for rentals.

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just_kittenreply
aussie.zone

Oh absolutely, I was intending to have moved out by Dec anyway (which is when the rent increase was gonna kick in). Not a whole heap coming online atm, but as my next place is just short term I'm cutting out a lot of nice to haves and being a lot less picky.

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TinyBreakreply
aussie.zone

dunno where you live, dunno what your looking for, but Fairfield always surprised me as being cheap to rent. Not sure if thats still the case though. mrs had a dump on station street back in the day that was perfectly serviceable.

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It's at the northern edge of where I'm looking but I'm definitely seeing some cheaper apts there and in Alphington too. One non negotiable for me though is not on a main road as I'm sensitive to traffic noise when wfh/sleeping. So far a lot of things that tick the other boxes have been on main roads. Saw a nice joint that ticked every box but then I saw it was off Power St in Hawthorn and I'm like... Yeah nah

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aussie.zone

I forgot to post something funny.

Iโ€™ve been occasionally stepping out the front door for a second to throw a few high quality cat food kibbles to the maggies, just letting them see my face to learn Iโ€™m not a threat and tell their mates not to swoop.

Yesterday one came walking right up to my screen door wanting to come in! He or she was genuinely curious and hung around peeping in for a couple of minutes.

I explained that they couldnโ€™t come in because there was a kitty living in here, so they stuck around a little longer and eventually wandered off.

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Duenanreply
aussie.zone

I'm jealous, I wanted wanted to befriend the local magpie but it's never really taken an interest in me, at least it's not swooping me in my front yard though.

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They used to swoop me because I so rarely went out. Iโ€™m just lucky theyโ€™re coming right to me so I can pop out with some food and say hello

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PeelerSheilareply
aussie.zone

I've been wanting to give my local maggies and crows a treat, there are heaps in the few tall trees in my street. I love the crows, they're so shiny!

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aussie.zone

We have crows in Melbourne, but the most common is actually the Little Raven. I think it's so cool that we have ravens tbh, the little Poe fan in me squeals haha.

They're all very intelligent, magpies, crows, and ravens; so if you do give them treats, theyll actually remember your face and tell their mates. So smart ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›

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Ah cool, happy to be corrected on the raven/crow thing. Quoth the raven, "gimme more! (of Melba's gourmet kibble)"

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Be careful not to make the treats too niceโ€ฆ I already had neighbourhood cats wanting to book a stay and now the birds want in too!

I think itโ€™s the same maggie that came right up to my visitor today to see if she had anything

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aussie.zone

It has been many weeks now that I have been feeding the birds again. The garden pots have been cleaned of all bugs and currawongs and fairy wrens have started to visit again. ๐Ÿ™‚

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aussie.zone

I've been getting a LOT of 'bad gateway' errors on aussie.zone over the last few days. Happening no matter what device. Anyone else having the same trouble? So far today twice on both of two different devices.

EDIT: Oh that naughty naughty gateway. ๐Ÿ˜ˆ ๐Ÿšช ๐Ÿ˜ต

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Yes. Worse in the first few minutes of the hour. Reboot thing?

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I've had a lot of timeouts and blank loading screens. But my device is a cheap almost 4yo Android phone that I don't think is meant to be still going, so I thought it was me!

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I've had a few instances of aussie.zone not loading as well over the last few days.

A bit random but it happens occasionally.

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SpinMeRoundreply
aussie.zone

I had that yesterday when I was already an hour late... got half way there and had to turn around.

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Terrible morning. Woke up late, by the time I was ready to leave home I was going to miss the next train and the one after that wasn't for 25 minutes for some reason. Got to train station only to realise that I left my laptop charger at home. Had to watch the train go by that I would now miss. Back home, then back to station, just made the next train. When I got to Parliament to catch a tram to my co-working office, there was a protest happening so all trams going in the direction I needed to go were stuck. I then had to walk 25 minutes from the city, carrying two bags mind you. It was really comical how nothing lined up for me today. On the bright side, I got a lot of steps in this morning and had a really good coffee once I finally arrived.

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aussie.zone

Got the thread through the eye of the needle first go, no cap.

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aussie.zone

Watched a few movies. :)

Heads up. Amazon is removing The Hobbit movies from their list in a week.

Such beautiful movies I could watch them all the day. Everything is a joy to see and the story is good too.

The costumes , the jewellery, the furnishings, the weaponry, armour, the calligraphy, the saddlery and other leather work, the carpentry. All the artisan work is so beautiful.

My favourite scenes are the Stone Giants, reading the moon runes, Kili and Tauriel, and finding the gate.

Anyway, it made me remember I have two acorns I picked up in the oak forests of Pennsylvania on a stop over on a road trip with my bestie Tam. I'm keeping them until I have my own settled place when I can try to grow some oak trees.

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So I watched The Hobbit trilogy for about the tenth time and I think I get why they are flawed. It's not something I've read, 99% of lotr fans say it's because it doesn't follow the books or is childish or has extra story lines.

To me that's not a problem, movies are a different form of storytelling and books needs to be adapted and changed for the screen.

I think it's flawed because there are two voices in the story telling. The first is story telling as a child's story. This has world building and explanations. I really don't enough about writing to explain, I just know it when I see it.

The second voice is the same voice we hear in the LOTR movies, adult story telling. The world is not explained, it is.

Mixing the two doesn't work. I'm surprised at jackson , walsh and boyens , they know better.

So I agree that 2 movies was a necessity if they wanted to tell the story of the geopolitics of middle earth and the hobbit story.

It's still really good tho.

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The Sun beats down on my back
But I shiver from the cold
Small in the sea at the track
Of people far younger; I'm old
I would rather be out the front
With the protestors and signs
But it would be insulting, an affront
If the ticket paid for I declined
So I drink too much and run away
To smoke away from the crowd
Of wealth and youth led astray
By bets, in debts they drown

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Duenan
aussie.zone

All the fried potato I can eat please Chef. Chips, potato cakes, you name it.

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aussie.zone

๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿฅ”๐ŸŸ๐Ÿธ

Apologies for the late delivery, may this be an adequate late night snack :D

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Oh you ripping legend.

Just what I need right now.

Share it with me!

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aussie.zone

Chillies have finally been planted out. They're so small. Spent months worrying about watering / hardening them up in the sun / led lighting / temp and figured fuck it close enough in we go. Will be interesting to see if I jumped the gun. Really slow growing varieties and you sometimes wonder if you've buggered something up. Needs more soil / compost but that can wait.

But the rest of the gang is getting there:

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aussie.zone

Iโ€™m going to ask a silly question because Im not a gardening enthusiast but, if you were to lay out the irrigation line in an โ€œsโ€ pattern. Wouldnโ€™t that reduce the connection points and therefore reduce chances of failure?

Or would it get too kinky, so to speak.

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Yep it would. On a really hot day in summer unclipped it would fail left right and centre. But I ran into a problem where the drip line in an S or continuous line couldn't quite deliver the same amount of water to all corners of the bed.

I ripped up another large irrigation system a few years ago and ended up with hundreds of clips and connectors and thought bugger it smoke 'em if you got 'em heh. I had doubts but 4 years in no failures (yet).

edit yea in terms of the kinkiness that was pretty much the issue. Angles were too tight and I just couldn't keep it in place with pegs etc.

edit 2 the other thing is redundancy. If there was a blockage in a continuous line then downstream has an issue. I figured (rightly or wrongly) that a sort of manifold type thing would resolve that.

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aussie.zone

This is for @Gibsonhasafluffybutt but why hide it from everyone else?

If you have a Line 6 user in your life, they put up a bunch of free patches on their blog and YouTube videos. Here's one for HX models that makes it sound like two rhythm guitars at once, the link to the chat is in the chat replay https://www.youtube.com/live/dMZBiG3sP70?si=u5ONG6dUYPXsI3Rq

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tombruzzoreply
aussie.zone

You could add a slow attack synth pad to really fill in sections like the chorus of a song. The possibilities are endless with the Helix

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aussie.zone

Dude! I'm gonna give that a go tomorrow!

Because open mic venues usually have stereo speakers setup for their PA, you can build some really cool, multipath stereo patches in the helix.

For example:

Blend 2 amps on the first path and path 2 can have 2 delays, each panned hard left and right with a stereo reverb at the end.

Sounds fucking insane!

I used to buy pedals every week and had some weird obsession with buying more and more.

Since I got the helix, I only have bought one. The hologram microcosm because it's trippy as fuck lol

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tombruzzoreply
aussie.zone

I saw a video on the Microcosm, it looks very nice.

And yeah, the Helix can be more than a pedalboard or your rig in a box. It can almost be your whole studio on the go with all the things you can do with it. Get crazy on the outputs and blow everyone away with what you can do at an open mic with just your guitar and a single floor unit

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Absolutely man. Like, having it warm and filled out more adds a real nice vibe to the set.

Even with the microcosm sitting low volume in the background makes a huge difference

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aussie.zone

Some hectic winds out this way. Very blowy out there. Might be the cause of this nasty gateway.

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Alright. I've got my ticket for the Bang Emo Halloween party. It had better be worth the ticket cost lol

Also, thanks pointless all hands company meeting, I did have some guitar practice I needed to get done today

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did a rough memory inventory, realised I shoulda had about four irrigatias unaccounted for. Found the last five. Now cleaning up, cycling batteries, fixing diaphragms and all that fun stuff while I inventory 6 years of organically grown watering equipment ripped out and taken with us.

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aussie.zone

If the avos were planted as fruits at the beginning of the semester, you've got several years to wait for harvestable fruit. If the trees have fruit on them already, well, the fruit doesn't ripen until removed from or falls off the tree. Ripening then takes up to 60 days and can be longer depending on storage temperature. They might be waiting for the fruit to get bigger before taking them off the tree, though. This might give you something of a timeline.

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Tofu
aussie.zone

Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅญ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿฅฆ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿซ›๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿฅ’๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿซš๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿง…๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿงˆ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–๐Ÿซ“๐Ÿ•๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿฅ™๐Ÿง†๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฏ๐Ÿฅ—๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿฅฎ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿง๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿง๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฅœ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฅ›โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿต๐Ÿบ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿง‹๐Ÿงƒ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿท๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿน๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿ”‹

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Tofureply

๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฆž๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿฆ‘๐Ÿ™๐Ÿก๐ŸŸ๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿค

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hey

I'm here

miss you all to bits ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

I see we got the tram and the Melb map back

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