• just_kitten@aussie.zone
    7·
    58 minutes ago

    My friend has helped me move out about 70% of my stuff (deadset legend).

    But I have vastly underestimated how much stuff I have, and how much stuff I can realistically store at this next place…

    I am REALLY working hard to keep myself together. Wow this is a huge huge downgrade. I really did not prepare myself for this. Even my friend looked at the other place and (reluctantly, after I was whinging) said “yeah… it’s a place to crash at after a long day, not a home - it’s a good thing you’re only there for six months”.

    The plan will work, I just need to get everything out of here by the 19th. I will cull and sell further once it’s been moved, none of it is too heavy.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      4·
      13 minutes ago

      I’m really sorry. I know how it is to live somewhere you hate.

      Re the fridge, I used to live somewhere the kitchen was so small it didn’t account for a fridge (literally no place for even a bar fridge - not built to accommodate one) so I kept my fridge nearby in the lounge. If it turns out that the fridge just doesn’t fit you can get creative or you could use a buy nothing/swap site to get a smaller one just to last you for the 6 months.

      (If you have the money you can be a little lenient on convenience/tinned/fast foods just until you get out of there, or cook one pot food. Snacks help greatly.)

      I’m sure Givit would take the big fridge, and perhaps the drawers(?). You might get a tax discount for the donations too.

      This might not be legal in Australia bc food safety but in Slav countries the washing machine is in the kitchen with hot plates sitting on top because of space and also that’s where the plumbing allows it to be.

      And this is hypocritical because I am a packrat/clutterbug when space allows - but I definitely did have ways of storing things/things I would cook or ways of doing things that helped me manage in a small place. Hit me up if you want some tips.

      Just focus on survival for now, you’re in a great position to move in with family and save up for a strong return. It’s a lot easier to tolerate a bad situation if there’s an end date in sight.

      Edit: I also know that Diabetes Victoria does pickups of clothes and other stuff, and there was a thing I used where you could download a prepaid postage label and mail donations to the Iconic.

      However if it’s too much hassle or you don’t have time just do whatever you have to do. I should have thought to tell you this stuff earlier

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      1·
      12 minutes ago

      so many hugs

      And let this new place be a home, just a little home, get to know your new neighbourhood and some local people. Try to keep some of your old habits. It will be fine. 😘

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    7·
    1 hour ago

    🍒 The season has arrived 🍒

    I just bought half a kilo of cherries for my pocket change. I am delighted

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
    2·
    55 minutes ago

    Movie Review. Moon with Sam Rockwell. Pretty harrowing . I love how these guys are still so very human. Will watch again, I expect it’s one of those movies that you think about.

    3.5 hobbits

    TV Review. Benidorm. Amazon.

    I just couldn’t watch it so I watched every first episode and the last. Too histrionic for me but I can see how this series is made with love and respect for those who like the all inclusive holiday camp holidays.

    2 hobbits tho it must have appealed to many as it had 10 series made.

    • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
      2·
      8 minutes ago

      I really enjoyed Moon. I saw it in the cinema with no clue going in. We actually missed the start of the movie we were going to see because of traffic so decided to see it instead as it hasn’t started.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    6·
    2 hours ago

    I feel like the internet has turned really shit and at some point it’ll be so user unfriendly that it’s barely usable. I miss past eras of it (well the ones I’m old enough to have known) and the niches I like of current day are the ones most similar to that. I want to go back.

    Lemmy is like a cosy comforting old school forum.

    • Tofu@aussie.zone
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I miss when I scrolled I saw memes and not 4-year-old reposts. But I guess it’s good I don’t spend much time scrolling now.

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Went to The Glen, came out with a bag full of soju and snacks after eating skewers and onigiri while there. Mmmhmm!

      • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
        4·
        2 hours ago

        I’ve currently got lychee, apple, passionfruit, peach, original, guava in the fridge. I want to try honeydew melon but haven’t found it yet. Haven’t tried any of the yoghurt flavoured ones, but did once try a choc mint one which was very, very confusing for my mouth. What’s your fav? I had a strawberry one last weekend, wish I’d nabbed another of that! Boyo is currently in love with jelly sake, so we got some peach, apple and plum cans of that!

        • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
          2·
          1 hour ago

          They’re all my favourite. Strawberry is good. Peach and plum probably my least favourites. I need to try passionfruit now.

  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
    14·
    3 hours ago

    Got flowers today… Nothing like feeling you are seen. 🖤

    Flowers

    Also, they are massive… Like I had to dig out my 50+ cm vase for them.

    Feel absolutely blessed. A millions miles from how I’ve felt the last couple of days.

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

    Life lesson for today. When you buy a remnant of corduroy to make something, please please please zigzag the edges BEFORE pre-washing it. I am now going to have to run a cleaning cycle on my washing machine which I did not plan to do today. The lint was abominable.

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
    6·
    3 hours ago

    Beep Beep 🚚
    🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    5·
    3 hours ago

    I feel like I should save and back up any pictures or music I want to keep onto a hard drive and maybe even have a few versions.

    Annoyed that I haven’t done so already because it’s a complete no brainer but life has basically been survival mode for a very long time and any kind of organisation has fallen by the wayside. Even now it seems like a mammoth task.

    Physical media just seems like a sensible way to go. I envy the people who are organised and disciplined enough to ‘go caveman’, and also the people who can wrangle Linux.

    While going through saving old pictures to my computer I found some of my old art. Doxable so I won’t post it.

    But how the hell is it better and more prolific than my art now? To be fair it was basically just copying pictures I liked but there’s some original stuff in there. And back then I didn’t have access to any of the resources I do now, no education on fundamentals other than some completely forgotten lessons as a kid, nothing. I didn’t know to do frames or shapes. I just did the contour lines and paid close attention to the space between them. The hands are a bit wonky but I drew hands wtf.

    I guess it’s just elbow grease. Which I’m currently so very short on 😮‍💨

    • indisin@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Hands are super super hard so wow. I can only dream of spending the time to do that.

      Your art is yours and so your creation. It’s not a competition and so love your pieces. Bet yours are better than mine!

      Also on the local storage, buy a NAS and drives. Will cost you some monies but has many other use cases. I can help you here, I love mine and all the other stuff it can do.

      Also, Google cloud storage if your on android is cheap if you want stuff backed up that isn’t local (I’m very pro local and have about 70TB now).

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah I was surprised I even dared to go for it. I guess I hadn’t heard people saying it was hard so I wasn’t scared to try, and if it wasn’t good it was a skill issue so just try harder.

        Thanks, I could use any tips. I’m still getting into the habit of backups and probably don’t know how to use a NAS.

        I’ve got Google drive but my stuff is split over a few email addys and also I kinda don’t trust it not to fail :/

        I’ve lost so much to crashes, been really slack. Sounds dumb because I managed to teach myself some stuff that’s more advanced and took a short course on computer repair trying to get up to speed. But due to a weird long term laziness I’m just not familiar or comfortable with the backup and restore processes which should be 101.

        • indisin@aussie.zone
          2·
          59 minutes ago

          Hands again, omg, it’s easy to draw shitty hands but even half decent ones I cannot do and I love drawing and have a dedicated art room and station… So well done ❤️

          NAS’s are really simple these days, they’re pretty much plug and play. I use QNAP but I know Synology are suited better to my personal use case. All my stuff on my QNAP is 1 click install, e.g. Plex. Everything is so easy, including personal media back ups.

          If you’re doing just data storage and media stuff an ARM cpu is completely fine with a just a GB of RAM, more is always better. But it’s annoying when you’re hacking and need to compile for ARM to spin up docker containers. So AMD or Intel x64 is best if you wanna go nuts at hacking at shit. And if not you can always supplement your NAS with NUC or more raspberry pis.

          I don’t think that’ll be an issue for you. Think of them as mini dedicated servers for local backups and media storage and sharing that can be used for a lot more. They are a private local cloud. Again very very easy to use and have mobile apps.

          So then it just getting the stuff you want onto those drives however you’re comfortable. I prefer automated but it’s obviously easier for anyone not in tech to do it manually with a drag and drop, or upload from the app.

          RAID options are a choice too and should be read up on. I YOLO (only) 2 of my drives in RAID 0 which is going to trigger some people reading this but with a gigabit connection to Usenet I’d prefer the performance as it can be rebuilt.

          The Google drive side, you could consolidate that and backup it to AWS S3 too and put it in cold storage? That’s possibly too complex for you unless you like this kinda thing.

          Losing things to crashes though is very abnormal. That’s symptoms of many things so can you give more details?

          Also having a NAS is ftw!.. My partner is saying no to the full rack mount haha

          Edit1: typos and sentence structure which still sucks. And if you don’t understand any acronyms then happy to expand.

          Edit2: Be aware this is going to cost you. If $1k bothers you walk away. Happy to price up your setup if you let me know your storage requirements.

          Edit3: You can get cheaper solutions but in my experience they’re unreliable and less extensible.

          • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
            2·
            48 minutes ago

            lol that’s all Greek to me but thanks, I’ve made a note to try and figure it out.

            Basically it was my own lack of planning and consistency. I was too lazy or distracted to backup consistently, head full of whatever I was busy with, or gave/lent my backed-up-on-cd music collection to someone else I didn’t stay in contact with. Then my computer would get a virus or a component would break and that was it. Or I lost stuff in moves, or a hard drive I kept to try and salvage later got irreparably damaged in storage.

            I still have some kept drives I might try to get data off when I figure out how to do it safely. I know there are a few ways of doing data recovery and I have at least once managed to get a computer going again with a bootable Linux usb just long enough to grab the important stuff. I’ve even used it to rescue scan and find viruses that hid from the AV. Another time I manually put the drive in a drive enclosure.

            But with some it might still be risky. I know at least one forces you to enter your Microsoft password to log in (at least while in the computer) which I don’t want to do on a compromised device. I haven’t tried to see if the Linux usb can bypass that or if that’s guarded against. I’m also not sure if there’s any ‘protections’ against accessing data while the drive is out of the machine but I do know that stuff exists with some hard drives so we will see.

            Anything I know about computers I had to teach myself, so despite trying to catch up there’s knowledge gaps and lack of experience with some things.

            Idk the old drives aren’t urgent. I think for now I’ll focus on getting anything important and possibly time sensitive downloaded to local and then back it up to the hard drive I have, and the hard drives can wait til I have the brain space to deal with it.

            • indisin@aussie.zone
              2·
              16 minutes ago

              You don’t need to figure it out mate, I can explain anything you need me to. Been hacking since the commodore 64 days and I love to teach.

              I understand about the lost music, I have so much locally backed up music in my birth country, music that doesn’t exist anywhere anymore. No one has the skills to boot it up or can be arsed sending my stacks of backups for me to sort, share and preserve…

              Why you getting viruses? Too many porn.exe downloads hehe? Your talking about the risk of a boot sector virus and if you have one of those, wtf were you doing lol?

              Yeah a Linux USB bootable stick can help if it can read those non native partition formats. Different file system after all, they try but don’t always succeed. Those recovery programs are useful but if you’ve used the device those bits have potentially been mutated so best of luck.

              Do you have a spare PC to throw this in and air gap it if you’re that concerned? What kinda of drives are they? Could you connect it to a cheap raspberry pi if you’re really worried?

              Also pretty much certain your drive isn’t bitlocked or you have any concerns outside of your data being unretrievable because of a head crash.

              Learning is fun so keep doing it!

              And yeah, local is fun. But having cloud backups too is also prudent if you really care about the data. You can also still burn things to discs!

              (Apologies if I’ve missed anything, lot to reply to and am on mobile)

              • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
                1·
                2 minutes ago

                Cheers, didn’t really get taught any of this. Haha no pr0n! Just past lack of education about net safety or didn’t shell out for good AV, or maybe forgot regular updates.

                Most are various laptop drives within the 15 year old range. I forget what connections.

                Fingers crossed that’s it’s not the heads because that’s actual physical damage I think.

                Spare pc is a possibility, I just would have to back up and wipe an old laptop and I’m kind of struggling with day to day chores as is. Also it feels like wasting a pc by exposing a safe one if that makes sense?

                I could buy a raspberry pi as they’re cheap but I don’t know if I have the brain cells for the learning curve rn.

                It should be ok. I just need to back up social media pics locally first, then grab the stuff from other cloud storage, and then back the computer/s up. (And try to grab contact info of establish an outside connection in case social media requires ID in like a year.) The drives are sitting there and hopefully won’t get damaged or lost before I can get to them.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
    5·
    3 hours ago

    One of the things I pray for is my nephew to have a secure life full of love, so that they aren’t pushed into some of the scenarios and resulting relatively harmless but nonetheless questionable choices that I’ve made.

    I want them to be able to choose the right thing secure in the knowledge that even if it blows back on them they are safe enough in life to withstand it.

    I want them to be able to grow rather than just merely survive.

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Having someone in their life like you who wants this for them (and knows some of the harder paths) will help them a lot. Knowing someone has your back and wants the best for you is one of the most important things. They are lucky to have you.

      • wscholermann@aussie.zone
        3·
        2 hours ago

        I hope so. I just have to make sure I don’t self destruct through one way or another in the meantime.