• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    The idiots across the road have put decorations out. Their wheelie bins sit out the front so I hope they put one of their kids in one so they can frighten the adults walking past. Here’s ya trick now scram.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    7 days ago

    Reminder tonight is the last night for watching The Hobbit on Amazon. They are charming movies, I really do recommend them. 🧝🧙‍♂️🐲

  • Dalek Thal@aussie.zone
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    8 days ago

    Woke up roughly two hours before I meant to. Goddamnit Dragon Age just fucking release so I can sleep normally again

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    8 days ago

    I’ve started out my morning by hitting my head on a door handle at work.

    Looking good so far!

        • Nath@aussie.zone
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          7 days ago

          “Start > CMD > Type ‘Net Statistics Workstation’”
          “Read the line where is says ‘Statistics since’ and a date”
          “Oh, it’s three weeks ago? It appears the reboot failed. That happens sometimes. Let’s go ahead and reboot it again”

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    8 days ago

    Everyone encouraged to dress up for Halloween to work today. I’m going as an overweight, sleep deprived, depressed desk jockey.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    8 days ago

    Plex migration update: Gave up on Debian, installed Mint. Mint installed great, more options in the GUI this looks promising. It wants an update, no worries go for, reboot aaaaaand it no longer boots. You have got to be shitting me linux. Installed windows, replaced plex files and looks to have completely failed. Gave up in frustration and went to bed.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        7 days ago

        I am completely ok with the level of Linux skill I already have. The ammount of time and money I have poured into improving the plex experince is really starting to feel like a sunk cost fallacy.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
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          7 days ago

          fair enough. If you do feel like giving it another swing try unbuntu or kubuntu, there’s a reason why they’re so popular.

          I’m arguing with Kodi because His Lordship likes the interface but I refuse to change the naming conventions on the fileserver to serve the fucking machine.

          • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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            7 days ago

            I heard Ubuntu isnt popular due to snaps integration. The whole point is a lightweight build to try improve the plex experince so probably not ideal.

            Then again, makes windows even less ideal.

          • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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            7 days ago

            Ha this is me but with Emby. It has a very simple interface on the Google TV without all the recommendations and extras and bells and whistles and is the one my non-techie wife likes best, so it was my job to mould the server to suit it :/

            I’m running the server in a Debian VM, no GUI installed at all, very bare-bones. Wasn’t TOO hard to get set up once Debian was mounting the NAS share properly and it’s been set-and-forget for years now.

            • Taleya@aussie.zone
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              7 days ago

              My fserve is an ancient beast that basically sits there holding content. I’m happy to use straight up file shares, but His Lordship hasn’t a clue as to half the shows on there and wants to be coaxed lol

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    8 days ago

    Why does life have to be so difficult…

    The irony is that if it weren’t for a few huge things I don’t have control over, I could be happy and satisfied with the life I have.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    Day off for uni, working from home, trying not to have a total wobble over feeling like maybe this was all a mistake. I’m in too deep now! But as I get older I certainly find myself craving security over novelty and excitement. Kinda sad because I feel like I am shrinking as a person. It’s not too late to claw back a sense of wonder and discovery though.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      7 days ago

      The stakes are higher now than when I was young, now homelessness is a very real possibility for many.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        7 days ago

        yes, the time spent travelling and exploring is now time “wasted” on not getting secure housing. It’s getting harder to catch up

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
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          7 days ago

          I don’t know if it’s wasted if you had a good time and it brought joy to you.

          Hopefully when things settle down you can go back to having more joy in your life with those aspects in mind.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      7 days ago

      Ooor… you’re in a stage of building a more stable base from which you can grow and venture out from once again.

      Life comes in phases

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        7 days ago

        You’re right about life and phases, I do sometimes think that our trajectories are fixed but they don’t have to be, although age is certainly something I can’t ignore.

        It would be nice to have had this period of huge instability after I got through this hurdle, but c’est la vie. I may be very far from finding housing stability but least I have a lot more of a fallback than I used to. Namely the right to live here permanently.

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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          7 days ago

          Oh man. I just realised what I said was intended to be encouraging/hopeful but could be toxic positivity. Sorry

  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    So, Thom Yorke was amazing. I chatted to the person next to me… Quite young looking woman, asked her if she’d seen Radiohead before, no first time. Told her I’d seen them in 97. Wow, that was before they got big. my dad went to that tour, that’s where I got this shirt That show was 27 years ago… I was very likely at least double her age. I don’t know whether I should feel old as time itself or that I should assume it’s because of Radiohead being a timeless band and all that… Second one right?

      • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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        7 days ago

        Yeah. Very vocal Palestinian protest by one person at the last encore. Fair enough, but unfortunately I don’t think the crowd got on their side because of that interruption to the show and their yelling and anger towards Thom Yorke. Crowd actually felt quite tense until the protester decided to leave the venue. Just seemrd like an odd choice by the protester. Buy a ticket then wait until the final encore acoustic song to have their have their say in such an aggressive manner and tone…

        • Nath@aussie.zone
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          7 days ago

          Yeah well, the protester didn’t want to miss out on the show. There’s no point in protesting during the first song and getting escorted out. Palestine is super important and all - but not worth missing out on the whole gig!
          (I’m probably being nasty, but I suspect there’s a kernel of truth in this)

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      7 days ago

      I don’t know where she got the idea that Radiohead weren’t huge before 1997. That was the year Ok Computer was released, and that’s about as big as Radiohead got.

      • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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        7 days ago

        She barely knew anything about ok computer…ie. last song was Karma police, she’d heard it before she thought… Different strokes I guess.