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well why not
Feb 10, 2009




switch carts taste like how cockroaches look

I may have some form of synthesia

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~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

kirbysuperstar posted:

I tried to get a customer's SSD RMA'd through Samsung. All the warranty info says "Call 1300 blahblah or visit samsung.com.au". There's no link to contact support on their website, at all and it just tells you to call them. Their phone menu doesn't have ANY choices for computer parts or laptops, the closest thing is Galaxy Tabs. Ended up having to use the chatbot to call a support member in and they gave me an email address to get it done through Samsung Enterprise.

Absolute loving joke.

Sarnsung is pretty bad, it took months and month of calling and emailing every week or so to get a RMA through.
I got a full refund of the purchase price so all's well that ends well, but still.

(Checking my gmail it took about 3 months_

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

MikeJF posted:

Anyone know a source for ordering reliable actually good usb-c cables that don't skimp out on half the spec or support and won't melt, and also aren't hideously overpriced? Australia's hell for finding sources of that kind of thing.

Amazon is very much not trustworthy, that kind of stuff is just full of fakes.

What do you want them for?

There's chinese TB3 cables that will be the best option for "cheap" and good, but they're not cheap.

maxe posted:

you gotta buy that one device that comes with a bulletproof cable that is super long and works on everything

Any cable that comes with a device won't be USB3 and probably won't be e-marked.

Jestery
Aug 2, 2016


Not a Dickman, just a shape
I got a gelled good type C cable from a OnePlus phone

It was an early fast charge cable, and I think they were operating on a large safety margin

It's the greatest cable I have ever owned

Jestery
Aug 2, 2016


Not a Dickman, just a shape
Hard boiling eggs in a kettle

Yay or nae

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Microwaving ice cream for 30 seconds so I don't need to wait for it to thaw out for 15min

Yay or nae

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde

Infinitum posted:

Microwaving ice cream for 30 seconds so I don't need to wait for it to thaw out for 15min

Yay or nae

yes

Jestery posted:

I got a gelled good type C cable from a OnePlus phone

It was an early fast charge cable, and I think they were operating on a large safety margin

It's the greatest cable I have ever owned

are you in a hotel

Airstream Driver
May 6, 2009

Infinitum posted:

Microwaving ice cream for 30 seconds so I don't need to wait for it to thaw out for 15min

Yay or nae

Do what I do and take it out to thaw and then remember you did that when you wake up the next morning.

well why not
Feb 10, 2009




Jestery posted:

Hard boiling eggs in a kettle

Yay or nae

if your cellmate is ok with it sure

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde

Jestery posted:

Hard boiling eggs in a kettle

Yay or nae

hot dogs

GrandMaster
Aug 15, 2004
laidback
I've given up and just buy expensive cables now and they've been way less poo poo.. Lasted longer, and actually worked for fast charging compared with the garbage on ebay. Belkin or whatever isn't the cheapest

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

well why not posted:

switch carts taste like how cockroaches look

I may have some form of synthesia

Pretty sure that's the point

Keep them away from lizards

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

Jestery posted:

Hard boiling eggs in a kettle

Yay or nae

When my grandson was younger, he put tea bags in the kettle to make tea.

You all need a Birko. You can use them to heat food and drink (and poach eggs) as well as to boil water.

Schneider Inside Her
Aug 6, 2009

Please bitches. If nothing else I am a gentleman
https://youtu.be/5CPPovCZPKQ

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum
Last of the Christmas shopping done.

Now I only need to tidy up the house and balcony and start cooking Christmas food tomorrow.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer
My family does a bring a plate type thing for Christmas
This year it's loosely Italian themed and I'm on nibbles and salad so I'm making caponata bruschettas and roast vegetable salad with romesco (Spanish is loosely Italian) sauce
Missus is on dessert so she's making semifreddo and cannolis

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

EoinCannon posted:

My family does a bring a plate type thing for Christmas
This year it's loosely Italian themed and I'm on nibbles and salad so I'm making caponata bruschettas and roast vegetable salad with romesco (Spanish is loosely Italian) sauce
Missus is on dessert so she's making semifreddo and cannolis

Son and daughter-in-law are doing ham, roast potatoes, bread rolls and a salad. I'm cooking roast chicken and roast pork and making a trifle (the first year in gently caress knows how long we haven't had pavlova), eldest daughter is cooking turkey and youngest daughter is providing drinks.

I'm just amazed that everyone's schedules have lined up this year. Normally that doesn't happen until late January.

There's a currawong on my roof and the magpies are not happy about it.

Lolie fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Dec 22, 2022

Elissimpark
May 20, 2010

Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

Infinitum posted:

Microwaving ice cream for 30 seconds so I don't need to wait for it to thaw out for 15min

Yay or nae

Yay. Our microwave has a specific setting for doing this. You can also proof bread in it and incubate(?) yoghurt.

Jestery posted:

Hard boiling eggs in a kettle

Yay or nae

Boiling eggs is for losers. Steam your hard-"boiled" eggs.

Seriously, try steaming your eggs.


Lolie posted:

When my grandson was younger, he put tea bags in the kettle to make tea.

Our electric kettle from Kmart came with a tea strainer attachment so that you can actually make tea in the kettle.

We don't, because we have a giant 1.5L beige teapot, which the strainer conveniently fits inside.

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

Elissimpark posted:

Boiling eggs is for losers. Steam your hard-"boiled" eggs.

Seriously, try steaming your eggs.


I have an egg cooker which steams boiled eggs. It's got a poacher but poached eggs have a better flavour and texture cooked in simmering water than steamed.

Elissimpark
May 20, 2010

Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

Lolie posted:

I have an egg cooker which steams boiled eggs. It's got a poacher but poached eggs have a better flavour and texture cooked in simmering water than steamed.

I can't poach an egg in water to save my life, probably some weird witch's curse.

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

Elissimpark posted:

I can't poach an egg in water to save my life, probably some weird witch's curse.

I couldn't until one day I just could. Same with using chopsticks.

The eggs need to be fresh if you're going to poach them so they don't spread out. I don't know why I didn't realise that because I did know that eggs which aren't fresh spread out if you're frying them.

I'm very much a "whatever works for you" cook.

Dr. Garbanzo
Sep 14, 2010
The real trick to poached eggs is a 10% vinegar solution and having the water at a decent simmer. Fresh eggs do help but the vinegar and the temp are the most important. It's worked for multiple others in the discord and my old man wants me to teach him the tricks

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

Dr. Garbanzo posted:

The real trick to poached eggs is a 10% vinegar solution and having the water at a decent simmer. Fresh eggs do help but the vinegar and the temp are the most important. It's worked for multiple others in the discord and my old man wants me to teach him the tricks

Yeah, I always add a splash of vinegar and have the temp low enough that the bubbles never break the surface.

Nam Taf
Jun 25, 2005

I am Fat Man, hear me roar!

Nah gently caress adding vinegar to poached eggs, I don’t want them tasting like vinegar.

Grab a sieve and crack the egg into a small bowl. Then tip it into the sieve and gently roll it around. Scrape the underside of the sieve to remove any loose water/wispy bits of egg white (the newer the egg, the less there is of this - why new eggs are best for poached). Then tip the egg out and back into a small bowl. This will get rid of most of the part of the white that goes wispy and everywhere.

Then before you put it in the water, stir the water into a gentle whirlpool. Tip it in the middle and use the moving water to hold it together for the first few seconds as it sets.

Follow this

Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Dec 23, 2022

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

MikeJF posted:

Anyone know a source for ordering reliable actually good usb-c cables that don't skimp out on half the spec or support and won't melt, and also aren't hideously overpriced? Australia's hell for finding sources of that kind of thing.

Amazon is very much not trustworthy, that kind of stuff is just full of fakes.

https://www.lindy.com.au/

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

quote:

The first heatwave of summer will send temperatures into the 40s across southern states.

The heatwave will hit between Boxing Day and New Year's Eve, increasing the risk of grassfires and heat-related illness during the Christmas break.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-23/summer-heatwave-to-hit-southern-australia-on-boxing-day/101802910

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

The best Christmas Special you'll ever watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUelSpbcWl8

Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018

GET LOSE❌🗺️, YOUS CAN'T COMPARE😤 WITH ME 💪POWERS🇦🇺
https://twitter.com/thomas_violence/status/1606112960744550400?t=hXCJO7VCPkyB1nRWvGmuog&s=19

Jezza of OZPOS
Mar 21, 2018

GET LOSE❌🗺️, YOUS CAN'T COMPARE😤 WITH ME 💪POWERS🇦🇺
Ive decided to try and befriend the weird loving dude who inherited the building on brunswick st with the thai restaurant and the old lust for life tattoo parlour and just lives in there smoking weed and loudly listening to the radio with his three dogs and people watching. Starting out slow by saying hi whenever i walk past. Gonna build that up to being one of the chosen few allowed to sit on his cane furniture and from there its just a matter of time until i can pet the dogs

Jezza of OZPOS fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Dec 23, 2022

ili
Jul 26, 2003


That's fucken bullshit hey, southerners don't deserve 40 degree bliss while I freeze my arse off in the twenties.

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde
Jezzas going to get eaten by those dogs

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

ili posted:

That's fucken bullshit hey, southerners don't deserve 40 degree bliss while I freeze my arse off in the twenties.

There hasn't been a day over 32 in Sydney this year and I hope it stays that way.

Bill Posters
Apr 27, 2007

I'm tripping right now... Don't fuck this up for me.

Elissimpark posted:

Yay. Our microwave has a specific setting for doing this. You can also proof bread in it and incubate(?) yoghurt.

Boiling eggs is for losers. Steam your hard-"boiled" eggs.

Seriously, try steaming your eggs.

Steamed eggs and hams?

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Lolie posted:

There hasn't been a day over 32 in Sydney this year and I hope it stays that way.

yeah gently caress anyone who is having a massive sook that its 'not summer'

Infinitum
Jul 30, 2004


Lolie posted:

There hasn't been a day over 32 in Sydney this year and I hope it stays that way.

Just did the lawns and it was 32

That'll do pig.

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

quote:

22 December 2022

NSW Health is warning of the potential dangers from a potent opioid (nitazene class) detected in heroin following recent cases of serious overdose on the NSW Central Coast.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20221222_01.aspx

Right on party season, too.

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


just got big C covid in time for Xmas day and the heatwave. I'm going back to bed

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

quote:

The organisation responsible for administering university offers has apologised after it mistakenly told 13,000 students they had been rejected from tertiary study when they still had a chance of receiving a place.

The University Admissions Centre sent out the email with “unsuccessful letters” on Thursday, telling the HSC graduates they would not be offered a spot in a university course next year. But students who were emailed the letter still stand to possibly be offered a place in the next round in January.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/uni-admissions-body-sends-rejection-letters-to-13-000-students-by-mistake-20221223-p5c8k0.html

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/cgffd (to avoid registering)

That's quite the gently caress up. Our old friend "system error" is being blamed.

Jestery
Aug 2, 2016


Not a Dickman, just a shape
Getting stuck in the backroom a but you take a left and it's a chemists warehouse

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Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


The best way to poach eggs is to put them in a pan and fucken fry them.

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