Daily Random Thread: Hump Day edition 14 June 2023
Daily Random Thread: Hump Day edition 14 June 2023
Is is still hump day if Monday is a public holiday?
Well, here I am.
Welp, I’m here too!
Makes me realise how much I relied on avatar’s in place of scanning peoples usernames.
Isn't it odd! I didn't realise too, but I need ugly avatars to know who's who
I never saw avatars on old.reddit.com, so it's all so weird here with avatars.
And mine's not even the same on the desktop and mobile! Go figure...
r/DT is going full private after 4pm today. Popcorn moment.
Whoa what? That’s it? So long and thanks for all the fish the DT is done?! I get it. It sucks. But like, arnt we cutting off our nose to spite our face here?
Yeah that was very sudden. Glad I'm here though. Might take my old arse a bit to get used to the interface and such, but looking forward to the experience.
What's DT? I'm out of the loop?
The daily thread from r/Melbourne.
???
Is this where I live now?
Seems that way.
Yes!
Hi mom. The milk expired 5 days ago. I took a sip. Can I have some money to buy a new bottle please?
Dibs on the third sofa to the left!
Hello dt friends!
🤗
Ok I'm here.
You know what annoys me the most about all this? I have thousands of saved posts that I was ONE DAY going to get around to sorting through. Now a lot of them are going to be gone.
This morning I spent quite some time screenshoting the DT comments I saved
Now that's a thought - and I can still view mine!
I only save posts so I can bring them up smugly when someone in the footy sub shows themselves to be a hypocrite.
What’s everyone having for dinner on this, the day the DT died?
(Testing out posting pictures don’t mind me)
I made kitsune udon
Some leftover potato and leek soup with a dinner roll for dipping. There's also some sticky date for dessert, the thing I am most excited about.
That looks fucking amazing. We had leftover braised steak and onions with mashed potato.
roast sweet potato, baked whiting, steamed vegies
I hadn't worked out what to have for dinner yet, but I think I'll put over and have some of that thanks!
Yuuum! Just threw together a bog standard stir fry while I screenshot my saved posts, heh.
Looks amazing! Some leftover pasta carbonara (no cream). Had no special ingredients in the house and no idea what to make for dinner yesterday, it's perfect for that situation.
omg
Hello friends! I made it. I'm going to crack an Aldi gratin from the freezer in memory of the DT.
Pair it with an apple crumble cider.
Mmm, if only I had some!
My friends catholic primary school in Echuca relocated and now the building is an Aldi, I love how it feels like I know where things are without being to one as they are mostly uniform.
hey
You missed roll call
Yo
sup
You made it here! Did you hear us calling you?
yes I did ( I am so embarrassed )
Caved and signed up here, I work too much shift work alone not have some sort of little outlet.
TB checking in. Relieved to see them friendly usernames here. Not sure I like the site itself but I mean this is hopefully temporary right?
I don't know where I am or what I've done but I'm here.
Welcome to the new frontier! It's pretty basic, but we have plenty of potatoes to sustain us while we build. 🥔
I've been here a couple of days but had a teleporting incident on the way over, which led to the development of a multiple personality disorder. I am BrightFadedDog elsewhere, but appear here in the form of a Raven😁
Ty for modding :)
Thanks so much for your hard work Raven!
Me too but I'm happy I'm here :)
🫡
🖤
I'm so happy to see so many friendly faces from Reddit here! (I'm IAmABakuAMA if anyone was wondering, but was able to score the shorter version here)
How's life DT peeps?
Hello there!
Have a potato 🥔
🥔
The death of /r/melbourne is just an inside job to increase WFH productivity
Real eyes realise real lies 👀👀👀
DT fam! 🖤🖤🖤
So is the DT part 2 electric boogaloo and can we save the community centre?
Hi everyone! I’m so pleased I can see you all here …
Jobseeker application FINALLY submitted
Yay, Waddle!
shakes pompoms Seriously, I know how hard (and soul-sucking) it is. Good for you!
Tysm! Took 2.5 months but better late than never haha
I don't know. This feels like somebody's messy bedroom.
Agreed. But I didn’t love reddit initially. Happy to give it some time. Especially if this is it… you know?
I lurked on reddit for a long time before I had some Dutch courage to jump in. Here I'm swimming blindly.
I am in this picture.
It's a bit of a fixer upper, but bit of elbow grease and a coat of paint could make it real nice.
I don't know. I feel like I've moved from a 4 star hotel to someone's bungalow in the backyard. Lol
Only you beautiful people are going to know about the St Kilda Rd tram disruption. Trams being diverted down Park St and Kings way from ANZAC Station. Back onto St Kilda Rd at arts precinct (theoretically - we've moved 100m in 15m on King's way)
Force! Business as usual :)
sticks head up
waves
goes back to screenshotting the saved postsWell, I'm here... Didn't know if it would be the same but after having a look, it does feel a bit like home. I promise that I'll try be on my best behaviour, but like in the old times, if I act up please don't be afraid to put me in my place. I'm not the brightest, but with the DT here, I think I can continue to grow.
My sanemartigan account has been blocked from replying to posts in the daily thread. EDIT: looks like all comments have been shutdown.
oh wow this all feels kind of weird! I feel like i'm in another dimension or something.
Haha… doesn’t it?!
Also, it never dawned on me that your new account was sanemartigan....I am not very bright
Yeah I got blocked too. Very odd but such is I guess
I received one of my TAFE assignments back marked. All correct, no need to resubmit🎉
Just one more to get back and I can declare myself TAFE free until term 3.
is it still hump day?
Just means this week is a Bactrian 🐫 instead of a Dromedary 🐪
Two hump days in one week! We are blessed.
Is this where all the cool kids are now?
Present 🙋♂️
Not sure if I count as cool but I'm glad to be here. Whoever did this thanks for making it.
Pobblesssss
Cool might be pushing it haha
Man I hope the jerboa devs are working feverishly to polish this app up. This could be a pretty painless transition if they get a move on.
Remembering preferences, like that I want my "front page" to be Subscribed and trending rather than active, not Local Active.. that and sorting by new are probably the big ones. If they can eventually get it anywhere near the Boost/baconreader experience that'd be incredible.
Getting people's heads around instances will be tricky but if people are looking for a specific place and are directed to it, that should be ok.
If you go to the settings for your profile you can set the preferences for the front page. Mine is now set to subscribed and new and works for the main page for the instance. No settings for the individual communits that I can see though.
Setting to new doesn't seem to sort comments here by new though. I have to manually sort every time I refresh.
Oooh I somehow missed those dropdowns when I went looking. Subscribed/Hot seems to have done the trick. Now I see today's DT above yesterday's which is way better. Thanks!
🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
🤜⏰🤛
⏰️🫷💤
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Looks like I've come to the right place
May I have a cheese tornadao potato?
R.I.P Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy. 89.
A titan
one of the few authors I've read that I will still think about years later
Hello world! Super relieved to see how active the new daily thread is, here's to many a daily thread to come!
Great to see how active we were today.
So how many of you came from reddit
Me! This seems like the best alternative, and nice to see lots of familiar usernames.
Just signed up
me
Yep, me too
Yo
Yep!
Let’s get this party stalled y’all
Aye
Me, I have no idea what I'm doing
Same, I’m working it out as I go lmao
Hi
Me! Just signed up, nice to see lots of regulars from the DT are here!
Me! And r/Melbourne and the DT was my main go to over there so I might stick around here now
Yep
Despite popular demand, I am here
Me
I'm at work and forgot to bring in my noise cancelling headphones. The TV is on and its constant Trump rally "news". 😞
Please don't take this the wrong way, but were you trained in the arcane arts of typewriting? The only time I've seen anyone do double spaces after a punctuation was when dad taught me how to use the typewriter as a kid.
Yes, I was trained on a typewriter. My fingers insist on the double space and my brain is no longer involved in the process. I don't think I could change now, no matter how much I wanted to!
To give you an idea of the timeframe, I came first place in my typing class, an achievement for which I was awarded a Brashes voucher 🤣
Ha, nice catch! I recently noticed an older colleague doing the double spaces and it brought back memories of my mum teaching me how to type. Not sure when I dropped it, it looks weird to me now once I notice it.
The news being on the TV was probably the worst part of giving blood the other day. Fuckin free to air news is the pits.
Is this where I find god|dog
We have both here. I somewhat represent the dog contingent, but due to confusion over the new platform and ending up with multiple accounts I am mostly present in my Raven form🙂
Breakfast is a bit sparse here so far, I have only been able to supply potatoes.
Hi everyone who's joined this morning!!! Anyone know if there are good apps for this?
Jerboa's been good so far, but I'm hoping Baconreader does an equivalent for this - I already miss its layout
I hope the ones that blocked me on r/melbourne don't come over and do the same here. Also can you swear on here? Everyone seems very well mannered on here so far.
No fuckin idea.. let's try!
I already blocked the person who'd blocked me.
I was going to mention that small elephant in the room but was too scared haha.
I can't see it being a problem, as long as you are not swearing at anyone. Although it's a bit wild west here, we're all working it out as we go.
Whoops. I didn't call one single person a cunt. It was a collective I promise. Just testing the waters.
I reinstalled Reddit earlier today, and I'm very sad to see the news about the DT. I haven't been there as long as some of you, but I have been around long enough for it to feel like my little internet home. It's very upsetting to see all of the conversations and memories from the sub just gone, potentially forever.
The silver lining, I guess, is that r/Melbourne was almost the only reason I even use reddit, so I guess I can get rid of it now.
I hope everyone will be sticking around, I guess this will be my new home now.
(also, I'm still getting the hang of this fediverse and instance stuff, [email protected] is also me, but Jebora doesn't seem to have a way of logging into aussie.zone, so sh.itjust.works is my home instance for now)
I have so much laundry to fold, and so many veggies to roast
Arrrggh it's cold and work sucks and everything is expensive - am I doing this right? :D Also - hi DT peeps!
Yes exactly right 😅
The electrical issue from last night has been resolved. Turns out it was a light sensor outside that had been flooded.
Cooking in the dark was interesting.
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Happy wednesday (imoldgreeeegg but snagged a more tech name for this mob)
kidcalhoon1 attained double digit status today.. All the sugar was had, and some presents (mostly asked for encyclopaedia type books, which was cool), and seemingly no meltdown.... she's asleep now, so I think we did it.
@[email protected] It is possible to tag here, but it works differently. Type out the name with @ at the start, then put another @ at the end and it should give you the option of doing it as a tag. Or hold down/right click the name (on the web browser) and select copy text.
Ohhh thank you!
I didn't see our community on the /r/melbourne sticky about going dark again, they mentioned a discord so I messaged them about this community and I'll have a look at the discord to let them know as well.
Update: Zooks is happily nomming the Dine.
The Dine that both of them have refused for days.
The Dine that Sammi has already sampled and licked the gravy off of.
ten millon facepalm emojis
edit: and now she's hoovered up the mince that neither of them would touch. Cats gonna cat.Salt and pepper squid in the air fryer. Let's do this
I got asked for ID at liquorland today. First time ever. Apparently I look under 25, which is weird because I thought people between 18 and 25 could drink. It tripped me out
I think the general rule is if you look under 25 they ask to see it. I've seen it on signs.
How the shit do I log into Jerboa?
I can’t procrastinate on the DT if I can’t make you all live on my phone
Swipe from the left. Scroll right up the top. Add account.... Worked for me
How do I even download Jerboa, is it on iOS?
Just had a good gossip with one of the graduates, so much drama happening at work lately. I am teaching him to engage in workplace gossip, whoops.
The drama keeps work interesting, but also very shitty that it's there. I think I prefer the boring, uneventful, pre-drama workplace.
Realised the comments I made from lemmy.ml wasn't appearing on here. Anyway, made a new account 🥳
G'day g'day!
not sure if want
I just discovered we can put a display name in that allows things like spaces - I even added a bird emoji.
My dryer is making uncomfortable noises as it tries to spin. What do
Too much weight due to too many clothes or clothes too wet.
OR it's dying a slow agonizing death and the bearings or motor are about to go.
chop off
In a moment of sheer brilliance, I got completely fuddled, thought I created a duplicate account, and accidentally deleted the account I just made, inadvertently locking out the other name for good. Eventually managed to get things together enough, although I ended up with a headache. Not ideal for just getting over being ill, and a different kind of headache.
I now know what it is to be like, to be 97, and not know how to computer. Admittedly, the interface not telling you that there's an issue and just sitting there loading forever did not help any.
oh they changed the shutdown time to
11:59pmmidnighttime to frantically go through my saved posts
They've shut down comments now though. Flogs the lot of them
Yeah I was about to comment From 11:59pm tonight, r/melbourne will enter a lockdown but it has already happened
Ah, crap, and I was going to do a goodbye comment. :(
Roasting all of the things
I think @[email protected] got stuck in yesterday's thread. Can everyone yell really loud and guide them here?
Update on the cats: Sammi at least licked the gravy off some of the opened Dine (but didn't finish the contents).
Zooks is sacked out but the plate is near her so we'll see (wouldn't bet the farm on it).
Neither of them seem to like the minced beef.Sitrep: she now loves the stuff.
Never mind I figured it out
Alright then.
I cannot see anyone’s avatar 😦 through my instance. I’m glad most people kept the same reddit username
You can toggle to see/not see avatars in the settings. Go to the top right and find the 三 looking button and click on your username, scroll down to Settings to configure this.
Thanks for trying but there is no option for that in settings(other than configuring my own avatar)
Cheap katsu curry has been had. Snuggled up in an oodie of sorts. Actually going to try to go bed early again…
We’ll see.
I've been saving 1/2 a 3 day old peri peri chicken burger with pineapple for today.
I'm still lost in the dark. Where are my settings?
Upper right 三, your name, settings
Anyway to use other 'zones' with the aussie zone username? Trying to sign up for some other communities and cannot. I'll figure it out eventually.
Some communities might take a little time to approve you.
Thank you. I'll keep trying.
The majority of the communities I am subbed to in aussie.zone are from other instances, usually you can search [email protected] in the top right search area and it will come up in our instance.
You can put the full name in the search - so Melbourne would be [email protected] . I found it didn't always work first time, and you need to have "all" selected, not communities.
I signed up on another instance before I found this one, and couldn't get to this community from there. I ended up creating a new user account here (which is how I became RustyRaven instead of BrightFadedDog). Then I managed to get it to work from the first one anyway, but my MPD was already established by then.
Ok I have another Jerboa question sorry. Is it possible to filter by new? I can do it on the web version but can't seem to find out how on Jerboa 🤔
Not the comments, sadly no. Not yet. It's apparently coming in a new version.
Ah bummer. That's a deal breaker for me I think. Will continue to use web version tho, works fine!
Just doesn't feel right...
Which "zone" is it in Jerboa?
For the time being, I have found it easier to sub on the desktop and it will be in Jerboa after you restart the app. It's not the most seamless, but its good after you have subbed to a few active communities.
Thank you!
You need to type in aussie.zone not use the dropdown to select one. I got caught there too.
Nice this worked thank you!!
Ok, may as well just go back to daily rants and updates here. I think I finally might have bought almost everything I need for this place and almost removed everything I don't need. The last part is a lie. I bought cats new toys and they still want to play with what's on my desk. Bit the audio cables and stuff.
About to do another aa meeting. Did much better than getting drunk with my enabler today and the opportunity was there. One day at a time as they say. Higher power? Its those people, not some god or anything, I listened to them for hours last night and they're pretty normal, believe in each other and what the teachings say, that we spend too much time being self indulgent and not enough time being giving.
I got upped on my hormones and tonight I feel superior to my old self in a lot of ways. Dr could have so easily lectured but I'm 100% honest with him so he doesn't. We have a meeting of minds, informed consent but not just on the hormones. It's very refreshing. ADHD likely he thinks also. Great. Got my wig bangs cut nicely too ,,,
After crying in the drs surgery to the replies I read about lamenting the dt dying I feel actually elated to see so many familiar faces here. There's a few people I blocked in the past, and that was then. I'm sure we've all moved on from whatever petty beef we had. I hope so anyway.
Thanks for reading, this journal isn't over than fuck. It's been a good friend.
So i thought the reddit blackout would make me use social media less, but I ended up going down the lemmy rabbit hole, and even created my own community here. I tink I'm just too good at procrastinating. Halp.
I should go do adult stuff now... Or maybe I should post more lol.
(if anyone's interested, I created /c/[email protected] - not sure what links work, but also try https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance or type [email protected] in the search bar)
Well, well, well. Well. Ok lots of stuff to play with here.
Look's like you all found a new place to be miserable
Have fun goobers lmao