Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    The master of timing has done it again - stepping down while most of the cookers are playing referendum politics. I am in awe. I wonder who the cookers will protest about from now on. Not that reality features in their rhetoric.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
        12·
        1 year ago

        the yes isnt gonna win. It should. But I’d bet a significant sum of money it wont. The federal governments entirely failed to rise to the challenge and let potato head kill the thing before it was born. I’d say Albo should resign, but the alternative is the aforementioned potato head.

        EDIT: The yes vote I mean. No is clearly gonna win.

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          If Albo resigns it’s his deputy that’s PM. I couldn’t even tell you who that is right now. My understanding is that for the referendum it’s has to majority in every state. I can’t see QLD voting yes to be honest.

          • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            Overall majority of all voters in Australia PLUS a majority of states have to have a majority YES vote. Not all states, just most of them. And NT & ACT and the islands aren’t states for this purpose but do contribute to the overall score. So Vic, SA, WA, NSW, Tas, Qld - we can spare two states to the cookers as long as the overall majority is a Yes vote. We just have to do our bit.

            • just_kitten@aussie.zone
              4·
              1 year ago

              It’s the majority of states thing that makes me feel very pessimistic though. I think Yes would pass with a majority of voters across the whole country, but in essence the votes in big, sparser states like Qld and WA and to some degree SA have more weight and I think it is extremely unlikely that these three would have a majority Yes. Really don’t know about NSW either. Vic would be the only one that I think is a safe Yes majority

            • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Cool thanks for clarifying. I’ve got a bit more confidence in the vote now. Hopefully NSW pulls through.

              • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
                5·
                1 year ago

                No idea, but it speaks volumes about the problem. or is it that the media just isn’t giving them as much coverage? Labor do seem to have less “Shit the bed” moments to cover.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    14·
    1 year ago

    Food Australia has been there a little more than 1 day and already 35 subscribers. I’m pretty chuffed. Thinking about expanding now. Drink Australia. BBQ Australia… Anyway I must keep spruiking so if you haven’t visited [email protected] or [email protected] please do.

    A big thanks to everybody who already have.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Okay, I am doing well at work. People are impressed I’ve jumped on inbound and doing outbounds within the first week and a bit. I’m good at it, and have much more to learn.

    I’m very tired, but a weekly paycycle is such a blessing; as opposed to the curse of a monthly paycycle lol

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    12·
    1 year ago

    The milk study I am on ends tomorrow, which means I am now going to have to start paying for my own milk again. Back to the cheapest long life milk available again.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’ve got a crook shoulder today but at least ive been entertained with the Dan news and more than I need to know about cat balls. Lol.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 year ago

    VICTORY, MY FRIENDS!!! I have painstakingly upgraded this old phone to stock OS Android 10 (having to manually incrementally update from certain versions to another), upgraded everything and FLASHED A NEW ROM! Lineage 20 running Android 13! And bonus, thanks to the angels at XDA I have got root back on AND can still use my bank app and Google Wallet and have system wide ad blocking.

    I will have to spend a decent amount of time later this week configuring the launcher and display etc. My only one stupid mistake was forgetting to use whatsapp’s own service to backup messages to the cloud before doing all this; it apparently didn’t detect wifi and hasn’t done an automatic backup since the 22nd - and ye olde titanium backup can’t restore data given that the app was running off such an ancient OS.

    It all sounds silly but it really is a point of extreme and irrational inertia/avoidance updating things that substantially change the UI/UX of my phone (worse still changing the phone itself). This REALLY feels like dusting out the cobwebs and making a fresh start! :)

    If I can get my banking and national login apps from my home country onto this phone off my iPhone (because that’s the only thing it worked on), I’ll be singing. e: banking might be a go, although again I stupidly should’ve disabled the digital token before all this, I’ll have to sort it out in person in a few weeks. but national login is absolutely airtight, I might need to use a burner phone for the rare time I need that login thing. think mygov but on 30593095039403493094 steroids - I hate it, tbh, way too much info in one place.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 year ago

        Ran into a major snag though I forgot to disable 2FA on my uber account and I’ve booked an uber carshare thingo for my trip next week. Authenticator app hasn’t saved all the thingos. Can’t for the life of me remember what my “backup codes” were. Hopefully they’ll respond to my request for help

        • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          If my oppo was officially supported I’d use Lineage. Would be great if you could use banking apps on it though. It can be pretty handy to payid for stuff on the occasional times a merchant is down etc.

          • just_kitten@aussie.zone
            2·
            1 year ago

            Is it a really old model? Seems to be Lineage available for damn near every phone out there. I definitely appreciate having my banking app available when I need to transfer money - also for some godforsaken reason my bank only allows a particular type of savings account to be created from within the latest version of the app, not on the phone, not on the desktop, not even in person!

            Biggest success was adding my card to Google Wallet. Took several tries

            • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              No it’s only a few years old. But from memory it’s not unlockable… just checked and it’s still the case. Oh well, next time I need to replace a dropped phone I’ll make sure I can get something that can be unlocked.

              So your banking app works on Lineage? If so that’s great.

              • just_kitten@aussie.zone
                1·
                1 year ago

                Ah okay, that’s really unfortunate. I use an older OnePlus that is insanely dev friendly (unlock bootloader from within the settings menu!! No waiting for the correct star sign and pressing the right button combo 0.0492049 milliseconds after boot…) I would’ve thought Oppo phones were not that difficult to unlock either but I guess they decided to lock down the less dev oriented devices (That said - I have no idea if recent OP phones are that dev friendly either).

                Some day when this phone physically gives up the ghost I am going to try and find another OnePlus or Fairphone or whatever that can be easily unlocked.

                I actually don’t know if my Australian banking app works on unrooted Lineage. It very well might as it’s extremely basic. My foreign banking app definitely wouldn’t (I had to install a slightly older version to get it to work even with all the other root hide features). Google Wallet probably wouldn’t have either.

                I rooted my phone anyway for other reasons but I had read in the forums that some people had to root their phones in order to hide the custom ROM from those apps, even if they had no intention of using root at all! Which sucks for people wanting to just extend the lifespan of their phones that are EOL for official OTA updates.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    So I’ve set up an appointment with the real estate agent to look at selling the house.
    breathes into paper bag

  • prime_factor@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 year ago

    Got to learn who had the most based and cooked political views in the work chat today.

    The most based person tuned into 3AW, just to listen to the Boomer Outrage.

  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 year ago

    Resignations aplenty… Meanwhile I am still eating Doritos like they’re going out of fashion. sigh I’d like a rewind of this month, but c’est la vie. At least we have sunshine, so that’s something.

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
      7·
      1 year ago

      I just want freedom. I’d love to see the world before I die. Never got to the chance to travel when I was younger.

      But gotta climb the corporate ladder and buy a house. Fucking sucks.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      1 year ago

      “Can’t buy me love…”

      but it can definitely mean freedom from worries about bills

      can’t help in a hurricane or earthquake or bushfire but maybe the house is built a little better and thus a bit safer