The winner with the $50 guess is PeelerSheila! I spent $126.50 over 2 days then didn’t drink booze for the rest of the trip because that’s when I got sick.
Enjoy your celebratory Numbat!
Well done @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone!
Is that some AIs idea of a Numbat? Because that’s not a Numbat.
Omg thankyou! I love it!
Bin fuckery with neighbour was avoided.
The cheeky fucker swapped his green for recycling last night (saw it when I got home late).
He brought it in right after pick up this morning too (at like 7 am).
I’ll still claim the moral victory.
Aaand home. Banger of a day outside but for now I think I’ll just lay down for a bit.
Yay, home!!! Hope the drive was nice and easy!
I have a long, slow cooking day planned today in preparation for a Mexican dinner tomorrow night. I am making carnitas, which is basically pork slow cooked in fat. It will be served in soft tacos, so I will be making an oven-roasted salsa today, then making tortillas and some other accompaniments tomorrow. I am also going to make desserts today - caramel flan, which is similar to a creme caramel, but made with condensed and evaporated milks. I’m taking it all to my sister’s house, so it should work well to be able to heat and serve with minimal fuss and mess there while still being a bit fancy.
Sounds delish! I’ve never tried a caramel flan or Carnitas before
I’ve never tried them before either, this seemed like a good occassion to try something new.
oh god, mexican caramel flan is divine. If it’s on the menu always get it. Tres leches cake is also nice. Carnitas are also good. ( mexican food is soooo good )
Tres leches cake was second on the short list. I have not actually had the flan or carnitas before, although I have had similar. Having grown up with “Old El Paso” being the first and only option for ‘Mexican food’ I am working on slowly increasing my repertoire of from-scratch real Mexican/Latin American recipes.
I miss Mexican Town in Detroit 😭
yum
JFC every goddamn bricks and mortar retailer has been so desperate to start becoming a “marketplace” they’ve made themselves and their websites utterly fucking useless
I just wanted to see if woolies had brulee torches in stock for me to walk down and pick up. Instead I get wall to wall listings for their “market partners” and if you’re gonna pull that bullshit then what the absolute fuck are you for.
So much this. I try to filter out marketplace shit where possible. It’s usually the same junk sold at kogan, catch, mydeal etc.
Trying to find anything before htting up a Bunnings is a complete shitshow now
Ten minutes without worrying that Ted Cat is going to bite my bum. Is that too much to ask?
( he’s on the balcony meowing like a sad waif )
make a noise he really really hates every time he bites you. ATM you’ve made it a game for mister bum bitey killypants. Alter the parameters.
A spray bottle might work, too
depends. Some cats like it, the filthy little perverts. And all you’re doing is teaching him to fear the spray. Making noises of protest is how cats communicate NOT FUN!!
Good to know, should I get another kitty. And it is easier to shout than go searching for the sprayer, too
I’d alwatys recommend another kitty
Yes, he’s very playful.
Work has been a bit wild, the two new people at work (who joined a month after me) are thinking of leaving.
It’s insane, the phones have been going nuts, they want us to priotise the new inquires while also staying on top of all the emails to complete. But the phones have been going nuts so we’re behind. Shit flows downhill so upper is shitting on middle, shitting on us. They’ve introduced KPIs but averaged it over 8 hours instead of 7 (2x 15 min breaks, 1x 30min lunch) so they don’t make sense.
On breaks, we’re always behind. We have to take them in order, so as the late shift I don’t have lunch until 3pm.
The office is an echo chamber, so quite loud, but they want us in office full-time. Not feasible when clients can hear the other operators so clearly they think the lines have crossed.
I could go on. I think if the other two and I left, it’d leave the business in complete shit. I’m smashing their stupid KPIs, but I want to cry everyday from the utter mismanagement of the call centre. It’s bush week every day and I’m tired
/endrant
PTV logic is weird
Meanwhile, I’m using the same Transperth SmartRider that I was issued when I was a beta tester of the program in 2003.
(just an FYI, this is the expiration date of the Myki pass loaded on to it, not the card itself. I do get what you’re saying though)
think of it as T-Minus.
T-minus 143 days til March 1 2023!
Now you’re thinking with portals!
caught my reflection in a mirror. My god I look like a mess! Not physically (I’ve kind of got that whole exhausted but a little bit sexy thing going on) but the eyes… they look so run down, and the smile just looks off. 3 rough nights sleep plus 2 early morning starts appear to be taking their toll, even if my mood is still ok.
Whoops, managed to sleep for 10 hours straight and got up half an hour ago. Haven’t slept this long in forever even when I’ve been exhausted. Absolutely starving, need to get around to making a proper lunch today instead of potato gems and frozen fish fillets…
You know when you can’t be bothered cooking but you end up doing it anyway and it turns out really good. Yeah.
Anyone else use a linux distro as main computer?
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The Steam Deck really moved *nix gaming along.
If only other people got onboard. Everyone else built a handheld, but they shipped with windows and just proved for the umpteenth that Windows is NOT a portable OS. Its almost like we should have learned that from Windows Mobile, or Windows Phone, Or Windows XP tablet mode, or Windows 8.
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I want things to work out of the box too! Last think I want to come home and do is use CLI to make my PC work to play a game.
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I tried to a few years ago with Ubuntu but it was missing a lot of apps and games I liked or needed to use for various reasons. These days I unfortunately still use windows as a main, but I have Ubuntu in a dual partition with windows on my laptop
tried years ago with Ubuntu. There was a lot to like, but ultimately gaming just wasnt a thing.
Yeah. I’m hopeful that with all the work proton and steam are doing to get things compatible with Linux we might see that change soon
I have Mint on dual boot and a VM image, but mostly Win10.
There are two laptops on my desk at home. One dual boots between MacOS and Windows (90% Windows) and the other is running Fedora 39. If I had to point at one of them as my “main” computer, it’d be the dual-booting one. I use both fairly heavily, though.
Yep! Current daily driver is Ubuntu but I have tinkered with fedora in the past. I am not a gamer but am a programmer and find I have everything I need for work/life easily available. I am comfortable on the command line which helps but if it’s set up then anyone can use it I reckon. All my coding stack is open source. And libre Office is a pretty good replacement for MS office (without the shitful 365 cloud garbage)
I have also used Mac regularly and I can’t think of much I can do on one and not the other.
Happy to answer any more specific question - feel free to PM me. Not that I know how that works on lemmy.
Finished book 2 in the Silo trilogy, and tbh… This was definitely not as great a read as the first book - actually quite hated it by the end, felt rushed and disjointed in the third part and I didn’t care about most of the characters; worst of all the writing felt so lazy when it came to the technology and certain key developments. So much hand-waving and incredibly plot-convenient tech… anyway, I’m committed now and I’d just like to see where this all goes, so onto the final book.
Beach sunsets are pretty sunsets
Grocery shopping - everything $1 - $2 more expensive. Bring on the review of price gouging.
Over the last year, golden circle cordial has gone from $3.20 to $5. I’d switched from cottees at $5.90 a bottle, and here we are now…
Sure the prices have increased 25% -35% but we must not forgot averages wages are 1/3 of what they were in the 1970s. If you are earning $3,000 a month now if we had 70s wages you would be getting $9,000.
Bastards in Australia have a way of distracting us from the hard issues and the real culprits.
Employers/news media encourages talk about rent and prices because it means we aren’t talking about wages.
Farmers like talk of global warming because it means we don’t talk about the 100 years of damage farming and farming pollution has done to the environment.
Industry likes it when we talk of household water restrictions so we don’t look at the subsidies and water waste of farming and mining
It would not surprise me if we pushed hard on the issues activists would be bumped off just like are in other countries.
It isn’t only about the wages (a lot of it is wages), another huge factor is productivity. With technology and automation, the same number of people can do so much more than they could in the 70’s. Employers are getting far more output from the same number of staff than they ever used to.
Protests about ten years ago predicting these very issues did get the bum’s rush
There have been protests for 100 years. Writing for 100 years.
7 bucks for 4 oat bars this morning. taking the ABSOLUTE piss.
I agree and I can’t wait for this.
Bring it on. Minipeelers favourite cheese used to cost $6 per block (that was the reason I first tried it, it wasn’t too costly). It is now $10.90. We used to enjoy the odd treat of icecream or some sweet biscuits. They’ve gone up so much in price I can’t justify it. Anything that’s not strictly necessary is out.
