I mean, my local Colesworth doesn't really give a shit. I've seen people on the phone buying mass gift cards and had to step in because the staff just allow the purchases. I haven't heard a warning over the PA/in-store radio for years now. YMMV but it's still a problem around NW Sydney it seems.
For my non-Aussie friends, the ATO = Australian Taxation Office.
She was asleep like this, but as I picked my phone up she woke up... still with tongue out.
Hey, thanks for the link/suggestion for Yattee! Never knew something like this existed for iOS.
Music production. And IT in general.
But specifically the music production; started off as "I'll by FL Studio and muck around with it" to "I need ALL THE VSTs!". I've sunk like $2500 into it in the last two months (which is a hell of a lot of money to me), and I keep buying shit for it.
Am I any good at it? Fuck no. But it's not stopping me from keeping at it and buying shit I probably don't need :P
And the IT stuff consists of rack-mount servers and Pi's. I've sunk around $25k into it all over the last 12 years.
I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.
From an Aussie where our Internet is somewhat considered a "public utility" (NBNCo), it's not the best. I'm paying $130/mo (Aussie bucks) for 250/100 fibre.
Our NTDs are capable of gigabit symmetrical, but thanks to our Lord and Saviour, Rupert Murdoch, it was essentially limited speed wise and the network was built with ridiculous complexity, such as the CVC constraints (Connectivity Virtual Circuit), which means ISPs have to buy additional bandwidth and hope and pray that every user doesn't max out their connections at the same time.
For example, the POI (Point of Interconnect) I'm connected to has a total of 1.5Gbps with the ISP I'm with. Based on their stats which they make public to customers, I'm guesstimating that there's approximately ~50 other households in my POI area connected with this ISP. We all have to share that bandwidth otherwise it slows to a crawl.
ETA: I'm purely talking about the FTTP network here, not the other part of the mess that is NBNCo and FTTN/C/B, Fixed Wireless, Satellite & HFC... the NBN is a complete mess.
As per the title, 0.18.4 was released a few days ago and we'll be updating to it in the next hour.
As usual, attached is an overview of the (new) server! Barely a scratch so far. Everything is running optimally.
Thanks for all your support! ❤️
We did have an issue with NPM refusing to start, which is what took the most time to get sorted and why we were offline for more than 5 minutes.
Kinda. There are a few small issues to still figure out, but for the most part we're back and should be federating.
I'll be working over the coming hours to finalise things and fix the niggly errors.
If you notice any errors, please message me or post here.
Cheers!
Hopefully you won't notice much downtime, because it's going to be a relatively simple migration. But if you do notice, apologies in advance!
I plan on doing the migration within the next 24 hours. Possibly sooner. Can't give an exact time at the moment, but check the comments. I'll post updates here.
My disappointment is immeasurable... and my day is ruined.
On a similar note, we will be migrating the Fediverse instances to a colocation server this coming week. This will give us the ability to rapidly expand the resources allocated to each instance without breaking the bank.
So, expect some downtime! I'll post another warning 24 hours before the migration.
As per the title, we've just upgraded the instance to 0.18.3. Hopefully this'll fix the database taking up enormous amounts of space!
I've also attached some graphs of the instance's status for the nerds out there.
If you notice any issues, please let us know!
Thanks ❤️
Also wanted to add, as pointed out by another thread I've read....
We wouldn't be able to sustain federation with Threads from a bandwidth perspective anyway. Data transfer is ridiculously expensive in Australia, so it's not feasible for us to federate and consume the enormous amount of bandwidth required. We'd be struggling with Bandwidth as it is with our Mastodon instance; but thankfully I've got a grandfathered account with Digital Ocean which has no bandwidth limitation.
B365 build here (2020 build).
I'm going to miss Hackintoshing and (same as you) dual booting when they go full ARM-only. But I'll probably still rock this build for at least the next 3 years before upgrading to a Mac Studio or a Mac Mini.
macOS on a Hackintosh. It’s stable AF, and I love it. Use it for work and music production. Then I dual boot Windows 10 for games.
Australian here. Yes, I regularly drink water from the tap without boiling it.
The only exception is if Sydney Water issue a "Boil water" alert. That usually only happens after really major flooding though.
When I say two servers I mean two VMs to get the system to work effectively.
From memory, the admin interface doesn't get an SSL certificate issued to it. It perpetually stays HTTP. If you don't set up another server as a reverse proxy, it won't let you log in due to CORS issues. Add another server as a reverse proxy, and it'll come good and let you log in.
Hopefully that makes sense?