Party pies / Sausage Rolls! You can make dozens of them at a time, almost no effort. No matter how many I make, they all seem to vanish.

Corn chips are another one you can’t seem to over cater. They’re so morish. Couple of dips on the side.

Pizza is another thing that is always popular, but it can get a little pricey.

I have a hard time taking this seriously. Data centers are far more power efficient than what we had previously (every medium sized business having a server room). And servers in general are far more power efficient than they were even a decade ago. We can fit so much more on a single server than we ever used to be able to.

Not that you would do it in 2024, but I could happily run a large business of 1,000+ users, including their public web presence out of about 10RU. Which translates to roughly a quarter of a server rack.

But why would you do that? Then you need to worry about cooling, power, redundant power, multiple Internet links, UPS and generator backup. Suddenly 10RU is a whole rack and more. Now, you need hardware contracts, people on call 24x7 and all sorts of overheads. Then there’s stress testing on that infrastructure (eg simulating a power outage and making sure your UPS and generator carry the load). And I haven’t even touched on multiple sites for redundancy.

It’s far more efficient to host that in a data centre and let them worry about all that stuff.

Ha! That’s a wacky edge case. Federation is instance based though. That explanation only makes sense if no aussie.zone user subscribes to any lemmy.blahaj.zone community. Given the overlap of users (a few blahaj users are regulars on aussie.zone), I have a hard time believing that’s the case.

If the unban still hasn’t federated, try getting their mod to ban/unban again. We’ve had issues with posts in /c/Melbourne getting unpinned for other instances previously. The fix was to pin again, wait a minute or so and unpin.

$27 gets you a month of Stan + the sports pack. Every event live or on-demand at a time that suits you. No ads. It’s amazeballs. I just watched four rugby rapid recaps, 8 hours of rugby distilled into 20 intense minutes. You can watch on whatever screen you have.

I think $100k would be my price. 😁

Gina, if you’re reading this: I’ll happily jump on all the socials and tell everyone they’re being mean to you and that your portrait should no longer be on display.

Make it a Million, and I’ll make a sign and protest out the front of the gallery in person.

(I don’t know that it’s $100k, but I expect that’s roughly what is happening here. She gives swimmers money, they defend her.)

I love them all - I’m always amazed seeing people who are the best in the world at what they do, doing their thing.

The biggest change in our house is the kids have taken up hockey in the past four years. So, hockey (a sport I’ve been mildly interested in at most) is going to be a huge deal. I think Perth might be the HQ for hockey in Australia. The kids met and had photos playing and hanging out with the Hockeyroos - who visited our club.

It’s not the screen. It’s your eyes focused on one thing constantly. You need to give them a break every 45 minutes or so. Even something as simple as looking at something distant for a minute every hour will help a great deal.

Ok, it’s happened again. I don’t watch TV, except when the Olympics or World Cup are on. I am amped to be completely smothered in sport for a few weeks until I again am sick of sports for another four years. 🏑🏃‍♂️🚴‍♂️🤸‍♀️🏅🏀🏓🎯🏸

Something Olympic/French themed methinks. With Coffee!

Swordigo.
Mega addictive for a couple of weeks, until you complete it.

It sounds like a blind taste test is in order. Maybe I’m easy to please, because I don’t think I could tell the difference between any of the brands.

Which is probably why I have no loyalty to a particular brand.

I’ve had both of those brands at various points in time. No loyalty to a particular brand, here. The current chicken salt in the pantry is this one:

It’s been over 20 years since I did phones, but I don’t imagine it has changed that much. The “techie” callers fall into two categories: Those who actually know what they’re doing and those who think they know what they’re doing. The latter group are the worst of all callers. I’d rather be on the phone to an 80-year-old who has trouble finding the start menu than with a caller who thinks they know more than they actually do.

If you honestly do know what you are talking about, the way to get this to tech support is to tell them what prompted you to call. An actual competent caller will open the call with something like:

“Hi, this is Cile. I’m calling from ______. My UserID/AccountNo etc is _______. I’m having a problem with ___________. The error message is [EXACT MESSAGE]. I have done a, b, c, but that resolved it.”

For your example where it’s an access matter, adapt the above accordingly. Something like “I need to do ________, but I lack the access to [steps you would take if you did have access]”.

Finally:
Unless you are experiencing something super weird, the tech support people have probably seen this problem before and know how to solve it. Follow their instructions even if it’s something you wouldn’t have done. Even if their way seems less efficient. There will be a reason why they’re doing it that way, and it won’t always be apparent to you.

Everything in Melbourne is black/grey in the winter. I used to protest it as much as possible with bright scarves, Bright coloured laptop bags etc.

will argue down to the hour for project work.

I swear by Grindstone for time tracking. I’ve been using it for many years.

Maybe a nice German sausage? Wouldn’t even need to cook one - some of the German smallmeats are amazing.

I thought those were Dutch. My life is a lie.

Hahaha you say that like you won’t still be wearing a hoodie in December!

Yeah, we’re aware of that issue. It’s a limitation with the Lemmy software itself. It only synchronises one thing (comment/vote/post etc) at a time. Confirms it federated and then the next thing. Due to the physical distance between us in Australia and lemmy.world in Finland, each thing takes ~.25 seconds to federate. As there are more things to federate than there is minutes in the day, there is a backlog.

Out friends over the Tasman got around the problem by spinning up a proxy server in Finland just to grab batches of lemmy.world content and bulk transfer it to NZ. We’ve been invited to share the code that enables that process, but it requires us setting up our own extra host in Finland. We haven’t allotted the time and funds to do that - mostly as it’s a problem that is expected to correct itself in an upcoming version of the Lemmy backend software.

I’m not fussed, personally. I think of aussie.zone as its own island of calm in the storm of the Internet. It’s honestly a madhouse out there and while I’m absolutely all about empowering you to dive into that maelstrom as much as you desire (in fact a decent percentage of our users do that almost exclusively and aren’t regulars in our local communities), I’m not really too interested in the madness coming here and messing with what we have.

We are not set up to cope with 10,000 users coming into our communities and having a full-on flame war with personal attacks and the sort of nastiness I’ve seen this past week since the former President of the USA was shot at and the current Vice President announced her candidacy.

I can’t stress enough how much of a pleasure it is to interact with our userbase. I’m not really limiting that statement exclusively to aussie.zone users either. The users from other places in the fediverse who have found our communities and become a part of our mix are delightful also. I am more than happy to organically grow - but my biggest fear with the instance is waking up one day to a sudden influx of tens of thousands of new users, hundreds of user reports and our existing users getting swept aside in the noise.