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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    10 days ago
    Cat TMI

    It’s been a rough one. Melbcat was sick last night then had a urine accident in the bed, and is still sooky. All of this tells me getting the second course of antibiotics was the right thing to do. She still has the uti.

    It’s the same broad spectrum antibiotic as before which isn’t ideal. But due to not being able to get her seen in person at the start and then her still being on them when there was a chance for a urine draw - this is what we’ve got and it is what it is. At least it’s a liquid this time which is easier to give.

    But if it were pills I could count down to know just when she would finish and book a vet appointment for re-testing.

    This sucks. She’s otherwise very healthy and happy aside from the arthritis which is being managed. It’s just these damn constant utis. And she can’t have any of the special prescription foods. Metacam would help pain and inflammation but is recommended against due to her kidneys.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    Thank you near neighbour for the giant bunch of lemon grass. Sorry the plums aren’t quite ripe.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    I. Am. Done.

    With work for the year. Out of office on, notifications off. Yeeeahhh. Now to clean up and get packed for a wee getaway.

    I am thinking of deleting all social apps for a few weeks. I suspect I will keep jerboa but going to try to have less screen time for a bit. If I don’t catch has then have a good one 🍻🍻🍻

  • Nath@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    Buying an eGift Card for Christmas:
    Nath: ‘Hey Woolies, I wish to purchase a gift card on your site, but want to delay the gift until Christmas morning. Can this be done?’
    Woolies: ‘Of course not. If you buy a gift card at 2am, we send a text message to your recipient at 2am. They clearly want this gift right now!’

    I’m not going crazy, right? It’s a super obvious thing when buying a gift card that the person buying the gift would want to specify a delivery date/time as well as a recipient yeah? I told my work colleague and he reckons I’m an edge case. Most customers would want the gift sent immediately. Even if I wanted it same-day, I’d want the option to send it during waking hours.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      Nah agreed with you. Did a click and collect from Dans for Friday. They sent the text to the person on Wednesday that their delivery was

    • indisin@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      If you’re bored try chatting with their online support as a side task and raise this as an issue. They’ll stay typing away as long as you keep talking.

      My most recent one was asking them to disable 2FA on my woolies account because it doesn’t keep my devices logged in. I mean NetBank doesn’t have 2FA yet I need my mobile any time either one of us logs in to woolies? Like I really don’t care if someone can see that I cook too many curries at my address. Support person spent about 45 mins with me (I gave them positive feedback, but no they can’t fix my account’s 2FA everytime or remove 2FA altogether).

      You might get them to raise a feature request for you?

      Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?

      • Nath@aussie.zone
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        9 days ago

        Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?

        Alas, the promotion I was making use of ends on Dec 20. So that method won’t work. It’s a good idea, though.

        Not sure how such a site would handle payments for the gift cards, though? I sure wouldn’t want to be collecting credit card details and passing them through to Woolies via some API. Any API they have (if they have one) is unlikely to accept payments. It sounds like it’d be less work to make a competing egift card site.

        • indisin@aussie.zone
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          9 days ago

          Think a little more grey.

          Woolies will not have an API for this, therefore you have two options, you could do both.

          a) Schedule the payment from their card (encryption is easy) and charge a % processing fee, declined payments are charged at y% and no gift card is distributed.

          b) Take the payment immediately and hold it in an offshore companies account with one of your subsidiary companies. Sched the payment from that account.

          You could offer both, but with b) you get the fun of having their money in your third cousin’s business account in Belize to turn that $100 gift card for their gran into $200 before buying buying the gift card and distributing it on time.

          If that fails your third cousin’s company can go bankrupt I guess. Shame for them, I’m ure they’ll land on their feet in their next company.

          On the implementation, any website can be scraped / populated with bare basics, so you’d just have to set up a schedule to actually do that to be a legit business without needing to have to get buy in from stores on accepting your special new fooCard.

      • Pilk@aussie.zone
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        9 days ago

        The 2FA on the Oporto app is obscene. You’re logged out every time you launch it, need to enter a text message code to log back in, you get a text and email saying you logged in. Bro I was checking for cheap chicken strips and chips, not accessing the nuclear codes.

        • indisin@aussie.zone
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          9 days ago

          As someone who is in tech this made me actually laugh. That’s absolutely utterly ridiculous, but I understand why those engineers were forced to should implement that.

          • Pilk@aussie.zone
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            9 days ago

            I’m no longer working but my background is tech too, I think it’s because they have a “save this card for next time” so there’s a bit extra needed to for the payment gateway to let you charge cards. I suspect they’ve gone a bit beyond the basic requirements though…

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      I’m with you on this one - have bought makeup gift cards before and they only had the option of sending when you buy them, too. Very annoying!

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    10 days ago

    “Yeah I felt horrible at 3am and have been sick for days, but I feel well enough to come in for the Christmas lunch” are you fucking kidding me?! Jesus people STAY HOME!

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    Made it to the bellarine.

    Chillos growing quickly which is good. Hoping for dem mini-jungle vibes soon. Not sure why the top right ones (thai) are happier than the rest, hope they’re not crosses. Habs at the front seem uniform-ish.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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      9 days ago

      I have a jalepeno that miraculously managed to survive the winter after being planted in a terribly harsh, dry spot last year. It is about the size of those plants, and currently has two chiles on it!

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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          9 days ago

          I suspect it is putting all of it’s life energy into these chillies before it dies. I did give it some fertilizer & extra water, but it is in a brutally exposed spot, in full sun right next to the footpath. I only planted it because it was an extra seedling and I figured I’d give it a chance - I guess it’s taking it’s chance and doing everything it can with it.

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Decisions decisions.

    My boss just told me that the xmas do is this afternoon - but I also have a pre-existing dentist appointment for late this afternoon and there’s no possibility of re-scheduling it to a pre-xmas slot. Will have to wait until the new year at least.

    So, dentist or xmas party? - so far the dentist is winning.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    I’m meant to be doing work so I can leave early, instead I got roped into a game of table tennis.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    I downloaded Thunderbird and set my emails up on it. For some reason it makes me feel 10,000 years old using an email client. But it’s great for gmail on your phone as it gets rid of the ads

    • indisin@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      You’re making me nostalgic for Outlook 2000 on a desktop.

      Why couldn’t they have adopted a if it ain’t broke don’t fix it attitude?..

      • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I really really hate the outlook and mail apps on windows. I’m neutral on mail clients in general. Personally, I’m used to PWAs so do everything from my browser or the first party mobile app, but I completely get why people like mail clients

        Any Microsoft-owned/created/run mail clients released or redesigned in the last decade or so is always clunky for me. Laggy, clunky, unintuitive, random features vanish, etc etc

        • indisin@aussie.zone
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          9 days ago

          Yeah I hate today’s mail desktop clients. Everything got worse with the introduction of “the ribbon” and that becoming the defacto user experience. I use the web clients too and mobile apps but I still don’t like them compared to my old school 2000s “I only want to use a keyboard to solve this most basic of mundane tasks” approach.

          Maybe I should build a client for myself, but then that’ll fall into the hundreds of other projects I should start…

          • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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            9 days ago

            I don’t think you’re alone in that! I’m sure someone would’ve made a mail client you like as a passion project already!

            I’ve only ever used the browser, so I’m too used to it to mind personally

            • indisin@aussie.zone
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              9 days ago

              Yeah there are, there’s even vim based clients for people who really want the brick all of a learning curve hehe…

              If you’ve grown up with web based ones that understandable, but know that you’re talking to someone who started writing code as a child in the early 90s so any minor frustration you feel when a behaviour is unexpected or janky is amplified thousands of % for me as I know I could fix it but don’t work there to be able to fix it. My partner is also a senior dev so you can imagine how much we rant about little things like this haha

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        9 days ago

        Well, they didn’t fix the render engine for Outlook and it became the worst platform to build emails for.

        I’m thinking a client would be good for someone like the MIL. She needs to have a couple of email addresses and she always forgets the passwords. A client like Thunderbird could put them all in one place

  • Pilk@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    OK new scopes booked in on Monday. I am a glutton for punishment and ended up asking for a slightly more thorough cleaning procedure because I was a bit dubious about the results the first time, effectively doubling the amount of slop I have to drink. Merry Christmas to me!

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    There’s no work for me to do. Yet i have to go to the office tomorrow and literally sit around doing nothing.

    Ah well. YouTube it is.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      YouTube in the miniplayer on your least visible screen with something important on the main screen. At most people will think you’re following a tutorial