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gtvwill
4y ago
Buy a gaggia, mod it or pay someone to mod it. https://gaggiuino.github.io/#/ Spent a few months fixated on coffee machines. Went deep. Gaggiuino give you equivalent machine value of $3k machine for under $1k aud. Coff
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Hell yeah! Congrats on getting into the world of coffee. Go check out https://gaggiuino.github.io/#/ if your into tinkering. Your gaggia is about 250 to 300 bucks away from walking all over $3k+ machines. :)
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4y ago
12kg direct drive LG washer. 2nd biggest you can get. Washing for the house has gone from an unmanageable 7-9 loads a day to 3 tops. Life changing. Hercules 500 mixer and an Omni turntable. Been flogging myself as a one man band MSP the las
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4y ago
Lol, rip. Chat-gpt is merely a new tool for the modern day worker. Feel free to not use it but rip your productivity Vs those that do/can/aren't limited from using it. These arguments against it are what I would expect from h
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4y ago
Companies aren't people. Companies whilst run by people are not acting in the best interest of people as a whole only a small subset of people(stakeholders). Just like criminal gangs and how they lead to some small subsets of people re
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4y ago
The benefit standardized batteries have over those trade offs just by increasing longevity of items and in turn reducing waste I will argue day in day out make it worth it. Those metrics are worth zip in the grand scheme of things given wha
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4y ago
This would be awesome. Proprietary batteries are truly terrible design.
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Lol >50% of farmers would disagree with you. Your opinion re. Who wants to fix stuff is quite limited it would seem. I mean hell my parents and every old person I have provided tech support to generally if they find out you can't ch
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4y ago
Well folks seem to keep pushing the boundaries and pumping out crap that's wasteful, unrepairable and just shit designed to appease to some kids fishcher price kids toy aesthetic. Then yes. We need these laws. If your so thick we have
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Lol,EU fighting unnecessary waste and here we have people butthurt? Lol spud we literally regulate people for building shit products that are harmful in every other sector, health, food, you name it. Why should tech be any different? And ye
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4y ago
Not really sure how you got to that point. I'd say given the way the document words it, point (1) Holding a mandatory captive audience meeting in which its representative stated that the Employer would refuse to bargain certain subject
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4y ago
Lol I would call myself a non programmer. Only ever did a few units at uni. Basically just do it now to get job done, can read it but am AVG at writing. Lol I've done about 2 to 3 weeks worth of work coding powershell and mikrotik scri
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4y ago
Nah I thought that was the case too. Turns out it is not. Had a clients employee as me for help w/ her iphone about 2 weeks back. 32gb phone, no storage space left on device so it legit just stopped working, wouldnt recieve texts or an
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4y ago
May isn't today. Downloading some random GitHub app to access a phones storage sure as shit won't be happening on any managed corporate devices I deploy. Or unmanaged devices tbh. That's the kinda shit I leave for quarantined
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They don't have to lobby anyone for this. Apple has operations in aus. We have laws here gov can force you to put a backdoor in software or hardware and you are not allowed to tell even your employer you have been requested to do so. T
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>>>seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river. Lol I would never advocate for any company I engage with to use apple
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4y ago
Yeah I was like that a few years back. Now I flip laptop screen over on its back like a giant tablet. Use it for signing docs, drawing rough interface plans & ideas, sketching out flow charts, producing diagrams, brainstorming with clie
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4y ago
No touch screen, makes Mac productivity 4/10 at best. Whilst it might look good I'll take the extra functionality of touch and pen input on a screen that looks good over a screen that looks barely noticeably better but lacks this
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4y ago
Lol wtf work flow is that? Man Mac iOS and osx are cooked af in workflows. Had a client recently run out of space on phone due to photos. Lol turns out apples sync is all or nothing. She couldn't free up space by telling iPhoto to not
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4y ago
Lol the presence of apple hardware is literally a litmus test for how much an individual gives a shit about ethics particularly in tech and employment ethics. They aren't graded well if they buy apple. Applies 10x if they actually work
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Mate most of us don't hate bin chickens at all. Tbh love em. Icon of the cities especially Sydney's inner west. Folks graf murals of them and all kinda representations :) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dYWhkSbTU
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This ^^^ We weren't drilling core for todays mining. We were sampling to see if the mine was viable years ahead and where underground would be directed over the coming months. The deeper you are or the further you are from the pit or u
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Core sampling the whole way. Outskirts of jundee at wiluna. Punched a few holes down the side of the pit while I was there and the deep holes were for underground to work out where they were going. Most target zones 800-1200. I got lucky as
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Geez https://amcmud.com/drilling-fluids/ if you want to look into some of the fluids/chems used in drilling. This stuff is nuts, https://amcmud.com/product/amc-cr-650/ Have sent pallets
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Nah no photos allowed as it was gold core work. You basically see if a mine is going to strike gold over next few years before everyone else does (think stock market performance impacts). Too much risk of data exfiltration given they had en
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4y ago
So we drilled core for gold. There are two main types of drilling RC and diamond core. RC is like a pneumatic hammer system i didnt work with those so cant say much about them (they recover a dust pile as their sample type, diamond core pul
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Worked on a core drill rig that that did 2200m core drilling, worked a number of holes from 100-2200m on a few different types of surface rigs. Stuff gets weird when you get deep >1500m. Runs take ages, bit changes can take an entire shi
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4y ago
I just wanna see racing ev's with straight cut dog boxes. Audio Volume Warning. Turn sound way down. https://youtu.be/dmJH84FnQa8
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Well company directors hire people to do jobs. You could call any employee underneath them a PA. They're all helping to get the job done. Everybody is providing assistance to someone else. If you break down my o.g comment a bit more tb
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"Hey AI. I need x, y and z configured and implemented for client a." *Ai does job* "Aight cheers, fill the brew kettle and set temp to 72 we'll try squeeze in a double mash now works done before it's beach time.&quo
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