I have: news

I thought on the TAFE situation some more and decided to see if I’d pass the assessment for the dual cert 4 in AOD/Community services, and if I didn’t, I was going to look elsewhere for the cert 3 I wanted in the first place.

An hour of stressing over not knowing what I’m doing and what to answer with later, I finished the LLN assesment and got a phone call from the course lady. Apparently I don’t quite meet the general entry requirements, but that given the nature of the course, I have a sufficient level to still understand what’s happening. Apparently TAFE (or at least this TAFE) don’t do binary pass/fails for their entry tests, it’s either fine or needs work.

With that said, I’ve now been offered a place in the new course, so as long as they don’t cancel this one too, I should be starting the same day as the last one (in 7 days). Do I know what I’m doing? No. But I hope I’ll figure it out soon…

But for some bad news, I think I’m going to take a little break from Lemmy for a while. With everything that’s been going on in my real life, I’ve found myself being more thin skinned and easily agitated than usual. Normally most things (particularly online) don’t phase me all too much, but it’s beginning to feel like I’m a camel that’s a few straws away from a broken back. So for the sake of my own sanity, and not lashing out at people who don’t deserve it, I’m going to take a short mental health break. I’ll be back in a couple of weeks probably

Ha, aldi is so cheap (and have food high quality enough) that they could punch me in the face while they’re throwing my knockoff Pringles at me and I’d still go back

Shows up fine for me

I really wish there was a mainstream social media site Americans were forbidden from using, or at least a way to automatically block/hide them, and their petty little political turf wars from my feed, no matter how I sort.

I take it this is a reference to… Something, but I can’t figure it out. What?

I’ve only ever used MAS because it’s a fairly simple single PowerShell script, it works for activating office as well, which is nice. I wish I could actually buy a copy of modern office, without any of the annoying subscription BS

https://youtu.be/pp01djoiTkc?si=r_HjwnU99fRM46Gg

I don’t know if they meet your criteria for a franchise, but any forum based website (including Reddit, Lemmy, etc) always ends up with at least 1 office, friends, or IT crowd reference somewhere in the thread. They’re definitely essential pop culture pillars, even if they don’t qualify as franchises

I’ve still never seen any of them though

I’m 17, and either dislike or don’t know most of them. Here’s my thoughts on most of them, if anybody’s curious:

Star wars - don’t like it

James Bond - never seen it

Lord of the rings - never seen ir

Sherlock Holmes - don’t like it

Batman - hate it

Superman - never seen it

Spiderman - don’t like it

Mission Impossible -never seen of it

Mario - played and enjoyed Mario kart, that’s about it

Zelda - never seen it

Pokemon - never seen it

Indiana Jones - don’t like it

Back to the Future - I saw it but don’t really remember anything from it, mostly forgettable

The Karate Kid - I watched it when I was too young to care, but I think I’d like it if I watched it now

A Nightmare on Elm Street - liked it

Friday the 13th - I know it, but can’t remember if I’ve seen it

Child’s Play - watched one of them, got bored halfway through

It - liked it

Rambo - liked it

Rocky - never seen it

Jurassic Park - seen it, no strong feelings

The Matrix - got bored by the 30 minute mark and turned it off

The Terminator - never seen it

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - don’t like it

Transformers - never seen (or played?) it

The Simpsons - seen most of it, love some of it

Barbie - heard the song, nothing more

GI Joe - not a clue who/what that is

He-Man/Masters of the universe - as above

Mickey Mouse - I sometimes watched Mickey mouse club house before school, but wasn’t a huge fan

Toy Story - I watched (and liked) the first two

Looney Tunes - liked it

King Kong - I’ve heard of it but don’t know if it’s a toy or a tv show or what

Godzilla - I saw one of the sequels and enjoyed it

Planet of the Apes - never seen it

Mad Max - never seen it, but I live in Australia and like the outback, so this gets quoted at me at least monthly

The Muppets - I think the Muppets had a cameo in toy story or something, but I don’t really know much about it

The Godfather - I really really tried to watch and enjoy this earlier this year. I turned my phone off so I wouldn’t get distracted, I sat down, I ordered a pizza, I did my very best to watch and enjoy it, but I was so mind numbingly bored by the hour and a half mark that I gave up

Ghostbusters - I think I’ve seen bits and pieces

Alien - no, but I have seen ET

Star Trek - I don’t know or care what the difference is between this and star war

Robocop - I watched one of them on late night tv a few years ago, when I was around half the age it was classified for. Barely remember it

Frankenstein - never seen (or read?) it

Dracula - never seen

Tarzan - never seen

Conan the Barbarian - never even heard of it

Jaws - I saw one

Harry Potter - hate it

The Incredible Hulk - hate ir

The Dollars Trilogy - not a clue who or what this is

Sesame Street - don’t like it

The Hannibal Lecter series - don’t know who or what this is

MASH - I’m pretty sure this was always on after the Simpsons finished at 7, and everybody loves Raymond was on before. I didn’t like either of them. But then again, I was 5 or 6 and only interested in the Simpsons and nothing else, so I probably wasn’t the target audience

And fuck Microsoft for only allowing remote desktop on enterprise versions of windows

MAS has a change windows edition feature, which I believe also lists the enterprise editions. I’m not sure if it works, or if there’s any catches, but I used it to upgrade from normal windows to pro and it worked well

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Also has IoT enterprise and education edition

I was annoyed at how slow the salt was coming out of the bottle (just a standard cheapy iodised table salt thingy from woolies) the other day and squeezed it and it blew out a huge plume of white dust. It stung my nose a little, I can only imagine Epson salt dust to the eyeball would be fairly painful!

Especially when it’s 53% water by weight!

Wow, that’s an unusually bad showing from you, Goonsy! Did you skip the morning cuppa?

Same

Sky double black and magpie song double pretty?

My old shitty Asus laptop used to be dual partitioned with Ubuntu + windows, because it was my only computer with a webcam, but now that I’ve upgraded, I’m considering wiping it and running some lightweight Linux distribution, and using it just for TubeArchivist and a couple of other docker images.

The old MacBook runs fairly sluggishly these days, but it’s still good for basic schoolwork and I primarily use it for running UNIX based scripts and such, since I still don’t know how to use WSL. Ansible and WM-SPN nainly

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Thanks seagoon 🫂

Night Goonsy

I took a nap at about 6 and woke up again around 8, that was a bad nap. I felt (and still feel) worse and more tired after waking up than before. I got the lovely trifecta with extra tiredness, a bad headache, and feeling really really really thirsty after waking up

Apparently the bank processed my dispute and sided with me though, so that’s nice. And as with pretty much every step of the process, they told me it will be returned to my account within 3 days, unless it isn’t, in which case it will be returned in a period of time which is not 3 days