• melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Had to log in install an app and allow location (which I will be turning off) just to be able to print a test page and run the head cleaning thing… on a printer.

    I swear ten years ago this crap would have seemed like malware. Requiring a full colour cartridge to print b+w is definitely a scam.

    No black is printing despite it saying the cartridge has some. Waiting on a second level clean and next I’m going to try installing new drivers.

    Missing my hulking reliable old printer scanner and wishing I didn’t buy a HP.

    • goodthanks@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Cory Doctorow talks about how printer ink is the most expensive liquid you can buy as a consumer. More expensive than pure bred racing horse semen (gross comparison though). He suggests a response to US tariffs being that Canada disregards printer firmware copyright and undercuts the US market by offering 3rd party printer ink cartridges via illegal reverse engineering.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        4 days ago

        I wish they would and bring the tech here. You should be able to buy generic and refill.

        There’s libraries but not everyone can easily get there

        • goodthanks@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          I bought a printer for my dad and the refills cost more than the printer. It’s built into the business model. We’re in the age of the capitalist monopoly squeeze. The squeeze continues until it’s squeezed dry. Same reason there’s a huge number of computers heading to landfill due to windows 11 artificial hardware requirements.

          • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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            3 days ago

            It sucks. It’s going to get bad when a significant chunk of customers can no longer afford to buy - they could raise the prices but at some point infinite growth is sustainable.

            I’m only hoping refurbishing places like Computerbank can salvage a lot of them. Things like Linux and Libre Office will be lifelines to older and poorer people.

            If I could just get organised enough and had the mind for it I’d be all over FOSS myself

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    I have been very good with the limited sweets thing this lentish…until tonight when I made this creation.

    Here we have vanilla bean ice cream, hot chocolate topping, coffee topping, chocolate ice magic with a biscoff crumb and a twix. It was magnificent. 5/5 yum yums.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    A tutor said to me after I contributed in class,

    “You said as much as you didn’t say.”

    Huh? I’m sorry I have a really foggy brain and no one else wanted to talk.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    dusk view from my balcony 🙂 meh, for the cables but there are cables everywhere

    the trees are lovely here 🙂

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Yay: my mum got her eye surgery moved forward after much pressure

    Nay: it’s on Anzac Day and my aunt can’t go and flights are stupidly expensive but at least my aunt has offered to chip in.

    Looks like I might be doing a week back in the equatorial concrete jungle soup. Maybe a good opportunity to focus on writing uni stuff… Shame it’s my favourite time of the year in melbs but honestly all that is irrelevant when my mum’s eyes are at stake.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        Yes and I won’t lie, what happened to your mum definitely added fuel to the fire for me in urging my mum to take the private option and get it done asap. So thank you for sharing your experiences!

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    I want so badly to draw or do something but not enough to actually be able to do it. It’s like my mind and body are fried.

    Almost a week after the iron infusion I’m still aching, nauseous, have a splitting headache and going between hot and cold.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Back home after picking up my mum from the hospital. I left around 3am once we realised she wasn’t going to get seen by the doctor for hours, and I would be too tired to safely drive her home. Took until 10am to get her scans done, and 3pm to get the all clear, so a long stint in ED. She’s just got some bruises and she’s a bit sore, so glad that’s all it is.

    I went to the tow truck place to clear out her car and she’s lucky the collison was on the passenger side and not the driver side, because she would have been severely injured. The other person involved was completely fine, newer car with way more airbags that cushioned the impact.

    Barely slept last night and all the driving around today, I’m exhausted.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Came home late last night from the psych to find mrs and tinyest eating 2 minute noodles out of a bowl on (as well as off of) the floor. Apparently this was the “compromise” to get him to eat. Glad I washed the floor the other day.

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    This election campaign will drive me crazy because of the huge number of people who cannot pronounce nuclear. Nukular, nooclearar, nuklah, gnocchi-la, newklrrrr, arrgghhhhhhhh.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Cutting a big old bit of concrete with an angle grinder and didn’t realise it had rebar in it… whoopsie doodle. Tried to snap it in half when half way through without realising. Whoopsie doodle x 2 :(

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      6 days ago

      The dietician has taken ham and salami off my wife’s menu to address cholesterol. It should likely apply to me also, but I’m not organised enough to book things like “check ups” and dieticians. So I bought a large whole chook last weekend and we roasted it. It’s going into sandwiches this week (and will likely be a weekly thing for the foreseeable future) instead of ham/salami. So far, everyone likes the change. It works out far cheaper also: over 2kg of chook is about he prices of 500g of ham/salami.

      • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        A whole chook in the instant pot for 40 mins is easy peasy and you get left over stock. I do it for curries, chilli and apricot chicken.

        The chook also wont have the nitrites found in ham and salami so there’s another health bonus.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        but I’m not organised enough to book things like “check ups”

        Alright consider this an order to GET organized. This is your health ffs. Nothing else is more important.

        This is the second time today I’ve had to tell someone “yo you should REALLY see a doctor”.

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
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        6 days ago

        I personally use drumsticks as a bag of them are pretty cheap and the meat is so tender.

        Air fry 1 big one or 2 medium or small should be enough for one sandwich size serving. Season before cooking, let stand for a few mins then cut the meat off.

        Yum Yums to be had!