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[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Woke up ๐Ÿฅฑ Back to the tech bullshit.

spoilerIโ€™ve already switched to Duck Duck Go on my phone which is a bit hard to get used to. Oh well. Gotta do it on the computer now.

Iโ€™m making non-Gmail versions of my emails and replacing them on the appropriate platforms to ensure I retain access to those connected services if I lose access to the gmail (even if itโ€™s only to have the option to overwrite or delete them).

Reddit is demanding government id now so Iโ€™m wondering whether I should use that addon to mass redact my posts and then delete my account.

It breaks my heart to do it. Itโ€™s a lot of history with some fantastic people, so many posts with Melbcat including adopting her, and it all probably documents stuff I might want to refer to. And itโ€™s the last nail in the coffin of me potentially returning there. </3

At the same time I donโ€™t trust Spez with his intent to emulate Musk and the way he handled changes to the site, am annoyed I didnโ€™t do it before ai scraped my content, and itโ€™s possibly better not to leave so much personal info sitting on there. I wonder if thereโ€™s a way to download it for myself and then wipe it off Reddit.

I donโ€™t know. Iโ€™ll have to see how long I have to decide. Probably not long :(

Next on the agenda is getting my photos and files back off the cloud. Need to see how long I have to do that.

The privacy and physical media buffs were so right. I didnโ€™t have the time or savvy to be preventative but I can try my best now.

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] StudChud@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] kudra@aus.social 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@bacon @StudChud be careful with Proton. I've now seen several accounts of people having issues with Proton VPN then getting their entire Proton suite locked and no recourse: as bad as Google. Also they have autopayment without notification which some people will definitely take issue with.

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I am only using it free for when I access 18+ things. Not gonna let them keep any data.

[โ€“] kudra@aus.social 0 points 9 months ago

@bacon very sensible!

[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What kind of 18+ things ๐Ÿฟ

[โ€“] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We all know bacon enjoys lingering shots of rotating rotisserie chickens

[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I bet the chickens are naked too

Naked for Saetan

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[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

This is good to be aware of

I donโ€™t know a lot about this stuff

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

VPN would get me banned or shadowbanned from socmed but I want to look into VPN for general use anyway.

The free ones have a reputation for being dodgy so Iโ€™m wondering about the free one included with the Opera browser?

[โ€“] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use Brave browser when also has a VPN option and lots of inbuilt "do not track" privacy settings. I've not used the VPN much but just adding it as an option for yiu

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

Iโ€™ll look into it, thanks

[โ€“] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

nah I live in PIA and haven't had issues

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[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅญ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿฅฆ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿซ›๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿฅ’๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿซš๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿง…๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿงˆ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–๐Ÿซ“๐Ÿ•๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿฅ™๐Ÿง†๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฏ๐Ÿฅ—๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿฅฎ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿง๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿง๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฅœ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฅ›โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿต๐Ÿบ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿง‹๐Ÿงƒ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿท๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿน๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿ”‹

[โ€“] StudChud@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

May I please have a single plum floating in perfume served in a man's hat? ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿป๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿป
๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿป

๐Ÿ’‚๐Ÿป

[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Hmmmm... Well it IS Saturday I guess

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago
[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dark rye toast and just butter please

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[โ€“] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chicken and mushroom pie, hold the death caps?

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[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I ate the vegan cream cheese without dramatic negative effects. โ€ฆyet. However itโ€™s way too expensive to buy regularly and didnโ€™t have much in the way of nutrition.

Iโ€™m going to have to work out if I can eat tofu. If I can thatโ€™s a lot cheaper, higher protein, and can be used to make both โ€˜cream cheeseโ€™ and โ€˜ice creamโ€™. (I know cashews are an option but way too expensive.) Silken tofu is higher FOD MAPs but well blended firm tofu might be ok?

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh you want details, well.......when the fuzz ain't home we fuck like wild drunken rabbits. And I also won in cards.

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And I also won in cards.

These are the raunchy details we need!

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

More than happy to oblige

[โ€“] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

Lazing around in bed. The pain in my legs and knees will go away if I get up but I can't be bothered.

[โ€“] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Iโ€™m off to the market before returning to hibernate for the afternoon. Can I get anyone anything?

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[โ€“] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

LMAOOOO His Lordship literally just said "I'm gonna be so fucking mad if fucking spiderbait's cover of Black Betty makes it. It's a shit cover"

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

WTF. It's an awesome cover.

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I don't know if this is clever or tightarsy but a macca's cheese burger costs $4 or $5 each but a hamburger which has everything a cheese burger has except the cheese is $2. I'm gonna get 2 hamburgers and add my own burger cheese to them. Lunch sorted.

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[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The right side is always my side. Well, it was.

[โ€“] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Dangerous Animals (2025) is an Australian survival horror film. Directed by Sean Byrne, It had a world premiere at Cannes Film Festival (the first Australian film in the program in over a decade)

A serial killer (Jai Courtney) kidnaps and films his victims being eaten alive by sharks. Itโ€™s revealed he has made dozens of videos. Apparently heโ€™s somehow trying to deal with his own childhood trauma of being mauled by a shark.

Eventually, the killer chooses the wrong girl, our protagonist, a van life surfer chick, Zephyr (Hassie Harrison). She possesses both physical and mental strength, as well as being drop dead gorgeous and very clever.

You can imagine how the plot unfolds. Itโ€™s comparable to big game deep sea fishing in which the Marlin resists and tries escape for hours on end and the fishermen slowly reels it in. So too, does the killer thwart escape attempts time and time again.

In this regard, I feel a bit let down by the filmโ€™s only real strength. Itโ€™s a tight story but predictable. The viewer is ultimately just waiting for the final victorious escape and revenge (the scene is a glorious and fitting demise for the killer though).

Most of the film is shot on a smallish fishing boat with some very nice underwater shark scenes, the soundtrack is pretty cool with old school songs by Billy Idol, Creedence, The Regrettes, Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac, and Stevie Wright.

A solid horror film, maybe like a Wolf Creek on the water. Itโ€™s worth one viewing but, I probably wonโ€™t ever watch it again.

6.8/10 gaffer hooks

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

this sounds good and will go on the watch list ๐Ÿ˜Š

so much to watch, so little time

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[โ€“] tone212_@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Set up and connected my new vinyl player, the records sound sooo much better. Got this player half price during EOFY sales, it was a steal. Having fun re-listening to my records sounding the way they should have all along.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

enjoy ๐Ÿ˜Š

and for some reason playing vinyls just seems more fun than playing cds

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

ikea package is on the way

it's a small cupboard with baskets to hold all my calligraphy stuff ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

I return. The market is flooded with B+I Lions fans here for the rugby

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