Construction companies be rubbing their hands together over the thought that the CFMEU may lose some of its power.

He has many names - Dins, Dinnies, Mr Dins, Din-dins, Muh dins… The tag on his collar even says “Dinners” now. If he ever gets out someone will ring up and say they have my dinner.

So, for me, 90 percent of the time this function would be firmly set to “off”.

I bought a car that has heated seats and a heated steering wheel that I’ve never used, and being in Australia will probably never use. It did not detract from the rest of the cars functionality including its main purpose which is to get me from A to B.

I suspect the optional functionality of this hardware button will be similar.

It’s a tag, that works well as a tag.

Also, you can use it as a remote shutter should you wish to place your phone somewhere and take the photo from somewhere else - like standing in front of a famous landmark, or wanting to be in a group photo instead of being behind the camera.

Seems like a no brainer bit of useful add-on functionality to supplement its primary usage.

Knew it felt a little brisk this morning 🥶

Probably should get around to fixing that window that’s stuck open cause damn

Fun fact: My dog is called Dinners because when he was a puppy he won Puppy In Show at his first dog show event. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

His original name was Kong but he hasnt been called that in over a decade.

Well, that’s America buggered.

First 😎

Samsung being a shit company aside, this “really strong” chemical smell is just going to be a burnt out fan motor / hot joint in a cable causing the insulation to smolder / some food spilt over the defrost heater / or something equally benign.

There’s just nothing in a domestic fridge that can cause a whole house full of people to get all these mysterious symptoms. Any bets on the “racing heart rate” and what not being a panic attack brought on by getting all flustered?

It won’t be refrigerant. It’s colourless, odorless, and tasteless. Burning something like R22 back in the day would give you the stink because it had chlorine in it, but you wouldn’t even notice 600/290 burning. It doesn’t even had the odorant in it like propane and butane.

I’m yet to see R600a in Australian domestic fridges

That’s pretty much all they are. I’d be surprised if you find anything BUT hydrocarbons fridges. Even commercial units are going to hydrocarbons now.

More like FriYA… oh wait you already said it.

Heck yes FriYAY!

Would any? Probably not.

Assuming the will was there, I feel a set of laws set to prevent monopoly/duopoly of ANY industry would be easier and more effective than playing around with price caps though. We had the media ownership laws (brought in by Labor) which were at least somewhat effective, until they were abolished… by the Liberals.

Labor then tried to bring some regulation back and was completely annihilated in the court of public opinion by the same media monopolies they were attempting to regulate which kind of proved how desperately needed regulation is. But Australians are pretty stupid so we all just happily voted Liberal because unions bad.

I dont really like things like price caps.

I’d prefer stricter protections against monopolies (or duopolies) which would naturally lower pricing of everything, not just the few capped items.

I honestly don’t understand how Spotify is so popular. I’ve had multiple attempts over the years of subscribing for a month or two at a time and it’s always been terrible. Its like Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon or something - I always end up listening to the same couple of dozen “popular” songs no matter where I started.

I kick off with some random bluegrass hillbilly banjo shit and within half an hour of random song selection it’s on Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran again.

And if you opt for [artist name] Radio, it’s literally the exact same playlist every time. That’s not what radio is!

At least with YouTube Music you can change between Related / Deep Cuts / Explore etc and force it to regenerate your queue with more variation. And [artist name] Radio actually chooses different random songs each time.

Also:

Stayed back yesterday afternoon and got the cameras working… PTZ camera is now guided by the overhead panoramic camera so there’s no blind spots. Can’t wait for the couriers to start turning up and see it in real action instead of me wandering around out the front at all hours.

Gonna load up an old palm tree stump we dug up recently in an Amazon box and tape it all up and leave it out the front as bait. So exciting.

The Beaudesert Road Precision Driving Team never ceases to amaze. I just roll along on adaptive cruise with a 2 second following gap and enjoy the show.

My favourite part is after watching Danny Dual Cab, Helen Hot Hatch, and Terry Tradie Van jockeying for position with constant lane changes and slipping up the temporary 3rd lane for the entire length of Beaudesert Road seeing them end up in basically exactly the same relative position they started in compared to me (Eddie Extremely-handsome-but-humble-EV-driver) who changed lanes exactly 0 times.

So fun fact I just found pottering around in the settings of our new NVR: With the Dahua PTZ security cameras you can use another camera as a “spotter” camera to direct the PTZ camera…

In our case we have a panoramic camera mounted on top of the shed which captures the whole… well, neighbourhood really. But mostly street in a 180 degree view. You can set that ridiculously wide coverage camera to tell the PTZ camera - which is a much narrower / closer view - where to spin around and zoom in on to capture those nice high res close ups of numberplates / faces / what someone had for breakfast. This feature means the panorama’s wide view lets the PTZ “see” everywhere even when its zoomed in. Technology is so rad I love it.

tl;dr if you enter our property you can run but you can’t hide (well actually right now you can cause I haven’t set it up properly, so wait a few days before you break in pls)

During school holidays, my commute is around 25 minutes each way.

Outside of school holidays, my commute is around 40 minutes each way.

How do kids who start school at 9:00am ruin my commute at 6:30am?