I mean, my local Colesworth doesn’t really give a shit. I’ve seen people on the phone buying mass gift cards and had to step in because the staff just allow the purchases. I haven’t heard a warning over the PA/in-store radio for years now. YMMV but it’s still a problem around NW Sydney it seems.
Hey, thanks for the link/suggestion for Yattee! Never knew something like this existed for iOS.
Music production. And IT in general.
But specifically the music production; started off as “I’ll by FL Studio and muck around with it” to “I need ALL THE VSTs!”. I’ve sunk like $2500 into it in the last two months (which is a hell of a lot of money to me), and I keep buying shit for it.
Am I any good at it? Fuck no. But it’s not stopping me from keeping at it and buying shit I probably don’t need :P
And the IT stuff consists of rack-mount servers and Pi’s. I’ve sunk around $25k into it all over the last 12 years.
I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.
From an Aussie where our Internet is somewhat considered a “public utility” (NBNCo), it’s not the best. I’m paying $130/mo (Aussie bucks) for 250/100 fibre.
Our NTDs are capable of gigabit symmetrical, but thanks to our Lord and Saviour, Rupert Murdoch, it was essentially limited speed wise and the network was built with ridiculous complexity, such as the CVC constraints (Connectivity Virtual Circuit), which means ISPs have to buy additional bandwidth and hope and pray that every user doesn’t max out their connections at the same time.
For example, the POI (Point of Interconnect) I’m connected to has a total of 1.5Gbps with the ISP I’m with. Based on their stats which they make public to customers, I’m guesstimating that there’s approximately ~50 other households in my POI area connected with this ISP. We all have to share that bandwidth otherwise it slows to a crawl.
ETA: I’m purely talking about the FTTP network here, not the other part of the mess that is NBNCo and FTTN/C/B, Fixed Wireless, Satellite & HFC… the NBN is a complete mess.
Yeah it’s an absolutely shitty predicament to be placed in.
My partner was lucky in the sense that she’s been given basically guaranteed shifts… but she’s off crook with the flu, which she caught from one of her clients. Which means she’s going to be up shit creek this fortnight money wise.
perhaps having some sort of “earnings bank”
There already is this feature in place for CLink recipients. It’s called “Working Credits”. But, you can only earn 48 “credits” (being dollars) per fortnight, up to a maximum bank of 1000 on JobSeeker. Source
Their example of how it works:
Janine is single, has no children and doesn’t earn an income. Over time, Janine has built up 1,000 Working Credits as part of her JobSeeker payments.
Janine starts a full time job earning $1,600 per fortnight. In the first fortnight the 1,000 Working Credits reduce the amount we count as income from $1,600 to $600. This means Janine gets some JobSeeker Payment that fortnight. Janine’s Working Credit balance is zero.
The next fortnight all of Janine’s income will count. This reduces Janine’s JobSeeker Payment to zero.
My partner went through this recently. She got a casual job (which is great), and used up all of her working credit for the fortnight. I think the amount you can “bank” is a bit too small IMO. Along with the amount you can earn before you’re cut off completely. With Cost of Living going through the roof, she’s finding that she has to cut back on food and other essentials because rent is getting ridiculous, shopping for food is getting ridiculous and yeah. Plus the risk of it being casual work, there’s no guarantee of shifts.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My disappointment is immeasurable… and my day is ruined.
Australian here. Yes, I regularly drink water from the tap without boiling it.
The only exception is if Sydney Water issue a “Boil water” alert. That usually only happens after really major flooding though.
I just set up Pixelfed myself. I’ve got it running on a 1GB Linode. Would definitely recommend at least 2GB RAM, because mine is using swap like there’s no tomorrow.
Processor wise, one core seems to be OK. My load averages are 0.11-ish.
When I say two servers I mean two VMs to get the system to work effectively.
From memory, the admin interface doesn’t get an SSL certificate issued to it. It perpetually stays HTTP. If you don’t set up another server as a reverse proxy, it won’t let you log in due to CORS issues. Add another server as a reverse proxy, and it’ll come good and let you log in.
Hopefully that makes sense?