• @[email protected]
    14•1 year ago

    It’s my birthday today.

    My friend offered to get me a gift. Not sure what I want, maybe a Kmart milk frother?

    Chilling on the couch with my radio show on then I guess some footy watching and playing Hogwarts.

    Low key day today but a little concerned I haven’t heard from my dad yet. He sends me a birthday message every year without fail but he has been sick lately.

    Anyway I sent him a message just to let me know he’s ok because it’s so unusual for him to not contact me today.

  • PeelerSheila
    10•1 year ago

    Mr P has finished remaking his bed out of bits of the broken/destroyed bed plus other timbers, and there was much swearing and insults while trying to get it into the house. Hey, don’t get shitty at me, I’m not the one who constructed a thing too big to fit through the damn door! We ended up putting it through the living room window and it just fit through. He hasn’t done too bad a job, but I’m not praising it on principle because he shouldn’t have smashed it up to start with.

    Edit: ok I probably will praise it a little bit. While I’m still a bit miffed that he broke the bed in the first place, it is actually pretty impressive to be able to make yourself a bed.

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year ago

      Personally I wouldn’t bother, cutting off the power cord does help tell people it’s waste though.

      If I was paranoid about someone finding my AskJeeves search history, I’d open it and smash the HDD platter inside (or just go over it with a magnet).

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      Last time I did this I pulled the drive bashed a few nails through it and let sit in a bucket of heavily salted water. I am also partial to tin foil hats.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      They may be able to recover it and reinstall the OS by using the recovery mode.

      Try and boot up the laptop and hold Command & R as you boot or reboot it and see what options it’ll give you.

        • @[email protected]
          2•1 year ago

          I don’t know which bit that is and I’m too scared to touch anything for fear of electrocution (even though it’s unplugged) 😂

  • bull⚡English
    2•1 year ago

    Got what from everything I can tell a real email from uber with a verification code to login and I haven’t logged in today. That means that, assuming it was real, someone got my password right.

    Aaaand then I spent an hour resetting a bunch of passwords and deleting all passwords from Microsoft and Google (I use an external password manager now).

    While digging through privacy and security stuff I did see that someone tries to unsuccessfully login to my Microsoft account every few hours from various countries around the world. I’m guessing that happens to a lot of people whose accounts are old and have been involved in breaches of services you sign up with them with.

    Glad I have multifactor authentication setup for all the important stuff.

    • Stephen Darby :ma_flag_aus:
      7•1 year ago

      @wscholermann @Seagoon_ Fatherhood means - after a while you prefer the crust. All relationships involve some form of compromise. It takes a lifetime to find a good one and maintain it. My marriage and family life is worth it. I see more material on throuples and other arrangements, but that stuff is for my kids gen to work out - looks like a lot more work

    • PeelerSheila
      9•1 year ago

      If this stage in life is not conducive to a relationship, or is pleasant enough without one, then you’re under no obligation to have one, regardless of the opinions of family and friends. I have a lot of regrets over how little time of my younger life I’ve really lived for me.

      Otherwise, I think the important thing is to find someone who wants the same as you, no matter what that is. If you’re a “meet in the middle,” compromising person then it’s important that the person you’re with also has those qualities, or you’ll find you’re always the one having to be flexible, and may end up feeling taken advantage of. If you’re an individualist who wants to have a lot of independence and “room to move” within a relationship, and can’t bear the thought of “living in someone else’s pockets” then it’s vital to live true to that while that’s how your life is. A couple of friends of mine are very career forward people, spend a lot of time separate from each other due to the demands of their careers, but undeniably love and respect each other and aren’t clingy. It’s perfect for them. How do you know how it’s going to be with someone? You don’t always, or you think you know people but then they change, or you find out things you didn’t know. The arrival of children can complicate things that before seemed much simpler and more straightforward.

    • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      I sacrificed a lot for someone who hurt me for over 8 years, in varying ways. I grew up abused and it set me up for abuse later on because I had no idea what was normal. I almost had a kid with the cunt (thank fuck I made my own money and bought a plan b pill).

      But I would never let myself do that again. I know so much more now, about people, the world, and right and wrong. I got extremely lucky my one-night-stand turned out to be my person. We’re better together than we are separately. But if I hadn’t of met my current partner, I think I’d still be single after leaving my ex. Dating seems so dangerous now for vagina-owners (what with the tater-tots and “alpha” male shite).

      I’d never change myself ever again for another person. I’d compromise (like quitting smoking), but not on the big things (buying a house, having kids, etc).

    • CEOofmyhouse56
      8•1 year ago

      Love makes you compromise. Love makes you sacrifice. If you have love for one another those things are easier.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      The thing is, compromise doesn’t always start out as effort. Early on in a relationship (or maybe youth is a factor?) it can feel easy to work with differences. And then over the years as we grow and mature sometimes our wants, needs and habits evolve and set firmer. Our world view can change, our life goals can change. But you might still love the person you’re with so you continue to try and make it work. Sometimes that works out and the relationships stays strong, sometimes it doesn’t. I think if I was starting over again at my age I too would be a lot less flexible in what I wanted in a partner. I know myself better.

      The other reason why people might stay in non-perfect relationships is that the way our society works, it’s centred around a couple being the primary relationship unit. So doing things like housing, child rearing, holiday companion, someone to help if you’re sick, someone to chat to if you had a bad day at work, etc, are all often done with a partner. Without a partner it can be hard work to build a network that can fill those roles, or you have to be happy to do it on your own. So yes there’s compromises, but if the partners value the companionship enough they may choose to tolerate the annoyances and personality differences.

  • @[email protected]OP
    3•1 year ago

    staple gun has been bought, tapestry patchwork has been made, now to clean up so I can get started on the chairs tomorrow

    the fabrics turned out so much nicer than I imagined 😊

  • @[email protected]English
    8•1 year ago

    Google made another one if their little annoying and breaking changes (as they do). They’ve basically killed maps timelines, at least as they used to be. They tricked me into signing up for it. I know a lot of people don’t like timeline, but I really do. Firstly it’s the only tool I have to make sense of some of the moves I’ve made over time and is the only real record I keep of the places I visit, secondly I export the timeline data onto a heatmap that shows me where I still haven’t been yet.

    They have this “encrypted backup” thing now, but even submitting a takeout request doesn’t give me the actual timeline. And of course this “local” timeline is hidden amongst all the system files I can’t even access, and is probably in some proprietary garbage encrypted format.

    I’m guessing they probably did this to comply with some legal requirement, but that doesn’t make me feel any better. I just want to generate my place heatmaps FFS. They’re still using my timeline history for advertising and “personalisation”, the only thing that’s changed is instead of it being stored somewhere else I can access conveniently, it’s stored locally but fucking impossible to reach

  • @[email protected]
    4•1 year ago

    Ehh… wonky sleep.

    I put my knockoff oodie on ‘delicates’ but accidentally washed it on 30 degrees instead of cold. Oops. The fleece has popcorned very slightly but a quick brush with the knockoff tangle teezer when it’s dry should fluff it up again.

    I also saw my hair is longer than I realised which explains things. I’ve gone back to using a drop of oil through the ends/lengths before washing and that helps a lot. I still haven’t had an opportunity for a cut

    Ps: Annoyed about the egg limits/issues as I was going to pass a lot of egg recipes on. Being as they’re a cheap good source of protein, cheaper than meat

  • Rusty Raven M
    10•1 year ago

    Anti-gratitude thread.

    My headlight died. I just changed the bulb a couple of weeks ago.

    • @[email protected]
      8•1 year ago

      I am utterly ungrateful for the stupid dangling bits on the seam of my socks that have given me a blister

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      Well I pretty much already did this, but I’m still annoyed so will do it again. Google nerfed my maps timeline. There’s only 2 reasons I stay in the google ecosystem: 1. Google timeline, and 2. Google photos. But if those donkeys keep breaking everything I like them I’m going to cancel my Google one membership, finally purchase unraid, and build a nice little google free lifestyle where people don’t break everything for no reason. I’m still annoyed about them killing the mobile MyMaps app

    • @[email protected]
      8•1 year ago

      Punched a wall yesterday removing render and now have a raw knuckle that is all swollen and nonworky. I need that finger to pick my nose, dammit

    • PeelerSheila
      8•1 year ago

      A friend of mine passed away less than 2 months ago, and now her son has messed up big time (no sympathy, he really screwed up in a stupid unnecessary way) and is going to jail, I’d say for a long time. His boys lost their beloved Nan and now their Dad in less than 2 months and I’m pissed off about it. Also, the oldest of the boys is friends with my boy but I don’t know the mum, so they probably won’t see each other anymore. The kids are nice kids, but their little world has changed so much in such a short time, and I really feel for them.

    • @[email protected]
      8•1 year ago

      I put a studio subwoofer (weighs about 50kg) straight into a wall yesterday trying to get it down stairs on a trolley. Such a stupid mistake. I’ve fixed the hole (sort of) but everytime I walk past I just shake my head :(

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      Amen.

      I broke something even more at work by attempting to fix it. And my headlight also died. The way the car is means I might have to take the whole front panel off to change it.

  • @[email protected]
    10•1 year ago

    The day of darkness begins much earlier than wanted. Power goes out shortly. Boo! Overusing heater in the hope warm will hold for a bit, then decamping for mini golf and boiling a ham hock.

  • Tofu
    2•1 year ago

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