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Discussion Thread 📻 Tuesday 23 December 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Optometrist says bugger off and come back next year. Only pretending to work until then, but still annoying.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Optometrist says "bugger off". Computer says "no".

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

I suspect them of trying to double charge my insurance. Plenty of appointments free online, but not the 'right type'

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

A weird win today with one of my laptops. It was running out off space because a busted Windows partition was taking up so much room. It also stopped doing system updates to Linux, which I thought was because Secureboot was on and blocking it. I took the SSD out, reformatted it, even unplugged the battery to the motherboard clock, and turned it all back on. Secureboot was still on and locked by the BIOS, but Fedora has reinstalled anyway.

Now I just need to check if it slows down on Google websites like before. If Google sites work smoothly it will feel like a new laptop all over again

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Traffic was great this morning, travel to Melbourne took 2 hours instead of the usual 2 and a half. I normally drink my coffee while stuck in traffic and I just kept moving today and had to finish it when I got to the office instead.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Playing Fallout New Vegas still (ofc, lol. It's huge). Sold some tribe/fiend gear to the NCR merchant

and he decided to wear it 😂 😂

I just can't 😂

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Back to books?

Found Mistress of Spices on TV. I did own this. It had a sightly unusual binding format. Can't find the bloody thing. Did I discard it? Potential brain problem

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