I had this issue for ages with Linux. Something about power saving kills the wifi connection. Fedora finally fixed whatever it is. Try booting off a fedora USB and seeing if it goes away.

I’d take a photo of the sky here, but I think I’d be unpopular. 😃

Suffice it to say that I don’t miss going an entire week without seeing the sun.

The 7-eleven coffee is far better than it has any right to be for $2. Plus you can reliably obtain it when real coffee shops have closed.
I don’t think I’ve ever moaned while sipping it, but you make allowances for the price.

If you have the budget, I recommend you get yourself an air fryer. I know that doesn’t really help you with your present problem. I don’t know whether you can cook it up in a frying pan. I’ve always had access to an oven.

You can probably cook it up in a Microwave, but take it out of the foil first.

The road closure is not in Google Maps. This is the same reason the Montague St bridge keeps getting hit - Google Maps sending people down that road.

I had a bunch of these from Ikea when the kids were little. Very useful when the kids awoke in the middle of the night. They were strategically placed around the house, I remember one being in the kitchen another in the bathroom. One in their room.

They were <$5, used 3x AAA batteries that lasted ages and had great magnets. If you have a real use for them, I recommend the Ikea ones. Of course, the real challenge with Ikea is actually walking in and out and only buying the $5 you went in there for. I’ve never managed it.

You don’t need to memorize everything. It’s enough to know what’s possible. Once you know one language really well, all you really need to do is learn the way another language does the same thing. Google is your friend.

Don’t tell my kids, but I don’t really want to get up at 7:30 on a Saturday to go and watch them play hockey. I’m tired, it’s cold, wet and I’m not really having fun.

I might be getting my first new computer in 14 years later today, so I have something to look forward to.

Oh, inside our building is fairly steady. Temprature is set to 23°. I purchased a little digital thermometer that I have at my desk. It was only 21° on the thing first thing this morning before the building filled. But, it’s back to 22.9° right now.

Would love to know WTF building and facilities actually DO.

This will boil down to money. It is loads less work for them to arrange proper repairs and improvements to building facilities, as that really reduces the number of maintenance requests they get. So, they would want to make sure everything is repaired and serviced etc. But the building owners put limitations on that - can only spend $x on improvements and $y on temperature control etc. Then, they stand between the tenants/employees and the owners to shield the latter group from complaints.

I’m enjoying hearing people complain about the cold around the office. It’s presently 18.5° and sunny in Perth. Yes, it was a bit chilly this morning, but nothing like what Melbourne goes through.

I guess it always boils down to what people are accustomed to.

That’s a good point. They didn’t word it like that.

We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting July 2, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements.

But also:

We will also offer a new ad free option for an additional A$2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here.

I think I still would have cancelled had they said ‘we are increasing the price by $3, but you can stay at the current price and get ads’. But I believe that’s how Netflix would have worded it.

It depends on the parents. We let our kids go off together a lot more than most parents. They both get themselves to school, and have done so for years. We’ll let them go off to the park unsupervised etc. Older kid goes off for a couple of hours at a time on bike/train adventures. Yes, his phone has tracking on it, but he leaves it home a lot and honestly I ever used it the first week to verify it was working.

Just cancelled my prime membership. In truth, I haven’t been buying enough from Amazon to justify it, but it isn’t something I think about all that often.

Then they emailed me last week saying “hey, we’ll be introducing ads to Prime on July 1st”

Yeah, nah. I can’t justify that. What surprised me though is that it was moderately easy to cancel. I thought cancelling was needlessly complicated and they just got in trouble about that.

I’ve read that people did this for centuries: went to bed early, woke up for a few hours around midnight and then had a second sleep to the morning.

I don’t know whether that’s really true, but it certainly matches my personal experience. If I go to sleep early and I’m not completely exhausted, I’ll wake up around 11 and be awake for the next 2-3 hours. I am usually up past midnight so this doesn’t often come up.

You really should complete that last sentence. 45 what?

I am both amused and irritated. Diversity is massive in IT. Until very recently, I was the only person in my team actually born in Australia. Now 2/13 of us were born here.

Whoever is hiring IT people should be able to cope with your name.

Strong endorsement for the Pharaoh exhibition!

If you’re there all week, its half-price on Friday.

I’m still trying to figure out the point of it all, personally. But if this is the sort of shit you’re into, then save it until Friday.

It’s an old Nintendo console code that Baku is about 20 years too young to have first-hand knowledge of. But it lives on as an Internet meme.

It’s funny, I keep wondering what tidbits of culture will go on as time goes by. I remember loads of stuff from the late 70’s and early 80’s that nobody else seems to relate to. Things like bits from the Paul Hogan show, “tiny Tina” (a 5-year old Tina Arena), heaps of songs and advertising jingles.

Other stuff survives. Like the Konami code. Why this code and not “IDDQD”? I can never predict what stuff will get retained.

At least if wasn’t one of those 2kg buckets. Take the small wins. 😃