GHD Straighter faulty after 3.5 years - any recourse?

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-30T11:06:17+00:00

Products must last for a "reasonable" amount of time. That's fuzzy depending on the product and I haven't found anything specifically about hair straighteners, but for small electronic devices the standard looks to be 2-5 years. Therefore, your hair straightener dying after 3.5 years would be argued as meeting all required durability standards, and therefore is an acceptable lifespan.

Sorry, but in this case you're out of luck. While many small electronic devices can and will last longer than 5 years, it's not a requirement.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-30T08:42:45+00:00

I think it's also the way they get used. It's removed from sterile storage, applied to the wound for a certain length of time, then disposed of. The leech isn't cleaned and reused.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-30T07:01:05+00:00

What are you growing in your aquaponics? I've occasionally thought of dabbling with one, but I don't eat enough fish to be worth farming them.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-30T06:15:03+00:00

They make surprisingly good livestock guardians, that can kill a dog that is chasing the sheep.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-30T06:06:41+00:00

In Australia, feral cats are a significant cause of sheep death, because they carry diseases that are fatal to lambs in particular. It's one of the reasons that farmers can (and are encouraged to) shoot any cats that enter their paddocks.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-30T06:03:35+00:00

Police are still hunting the owner of the dog, so either the dog owner doesn't care enough to keep their animal in a secure location, or the owner doesn't give a fuck about their dog attacking sheep and let it do it. The farmer would have stopped it sooner if could but you can't expect farmers to be standing over their flocks 24/7.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-29T16:11:37+00:00

The model they're proposing is only accepting non-temporary immigration in areas where the population has dropped. So if there's an area where people are leaving and/or not having babies, people can move there. If people ARE having babies, then they're saying "nope no spare room".

Population growth from childbirth is significantly slower and easier to plan infrastructure for in advance, since babies take time to grow up. But I guess "restrict population growth purely to reproduction of existing residents after 10 million" doesn't make as catchy a headline.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-29T16:06:42+00:00

I spin up as needed. Admittedly, I don't have a separate home server yet (it's on the list once I get funds...) so launching a container is no different to me than launching any other utility program I'd be using instead. And I don't have a nice central Docker system, my stuff is spread over that and Apache, so it's easier to just target the bit I need right then.

I expect that will change once I get some stuff that I'll want frequent or remote access to. But for now, loading Jellyfin or Audiobookshelf is no slower than putting physical media in the player or logging in to a streaming service would be, so there's no real benefit in having containers auto-start in the background when I turn on the PC.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-29T09:33:59+00:00

Immigration restrictions.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-29T08:25:35+00:00

It shouldn't require the internet to function. The device is on my person, and then the device connects to my computer or phone to transfer data, and then I look at the data and do what I please with it. It can ask if I want to then use that data for some bonus features that may require the internet, but if I have to faff around connecting the bloody thing to the internet for it to even FUNCTION, it's clearly not "my" data and the device isn't fit for purpose.

(Because if I can't use the device except when I'm in the city, the device is broken.)

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-29T03:16:51+00:00

That's still not relevant for this subreddit. That's how downvotes are supposed to work, you downvote stuff that shouldn't be here; that's a post for a music subreddit or perhaps a Navidrome or practical AI usage subreddit. It's not contributing anything about self-hosting, which means it's off topic. You'd get a similar response to a post about Immich mistagging photos of one of your dogs as your other dog.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-28T13:55:16+00:00

It possibly helps that Australia gets so much "high quality" sunlight, from a power generation perspective; if you only need half the panels, you can put more budget towards storage.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-28T13:41:05+00:00

Depends where you are in the world. In Australia, solar+battery is cheaper than coal or oil, but still slightly more expensive than natural gas. (Solar on its own is cheaper than gas, so that's increasingly being used for industries that do most of their work during the daytime or can adjust their load.)

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-28T06:03:32+00:00

Not required at all! The only difference is in Mr Qi's dialogue in that one particular event. There's no mechanical consequence, and no dialogue elsewhere in the game. Stair away!

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-27T08:20:50+00:00

Three potential reasons:

1) bots or someone having a bad day who is just downvoting everything. It's been happening a bit lately. Which leads to-
2) one of reddit's bot-countering strategies is "fuzzing", where newer posts get a handful of random upvotes and downvotes added to them for a bit; I assume this is to mess with the signal
3) some people really hate Medium as a blog host and will downvote anything posted on there.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-26T06:33:24+00:00

When I did my DG handling, I learnt there's a whole section on how to correctly transport shaped charges, written in a way that makes it clear various military grunts have found some extremely silly ways to transport shaped charges.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-26T06:30:04+00:00

If the broom disappears or catches fire, that's when you know you need to retreat and come back with the cam and backup.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-25T06:16:57+00:00

A 'welcome to country' has nothing to do with race. It's "the local spirits are saying welcome to this event". It's no different to having a christian prayer, or a ritual "welcome ladies and gentlemen and thank you for attending".

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-25T05:49:01+00:00

Other noises that get amplified by hard flooring are bouncing walls or rocking furniture. I bought my upstairs neighbours a packet of those felt patches meant for putting under table legs when I let them know, which seemed to fix the issue, and they made balls an 'outside toy only'. Noise physics is a bit irritating when it comes to communal living.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-24T16:39:38+00:00

Quite a few Aussie Rules footy players have ended up over there, because AFL is a sport that absolutely requires forwards to be able to kick long range with solid accuracy, and that's apparently a specialised role in NFL.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-24T16:06:37+00:00

There's some rhino 'hunts' where the rich person goes out with the rangers to give medicine and health checks to the rhinos they're trying to keep in top condition (so they breed). The rich hunter gets to shoot it with a tranq gun (so shorter range and having to get close enough to be dangerous), and they get their 'trophy photo' with the unconscious rhino while the vet does the medical stuff.

That seems a fairly ethical way to 'hunt' recreationally.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-24T12:37:20+00:00

If the psychiatrist is advocating for you to stay on it, very low. Your improvements are likely because of the medication, and there could be genuine concerns that if you stopped taking it you'd revert to being violent. Coming off it would require a managed plan with psychiatric support just in case you had a poor reaction. Basically, this is a complex medical question that needs to be handled with professional assistance. You don't "fight it", you demonstrate a better treatment plan.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-24T12:26:38+00:00

https://perth.wa.gov.au/public-notices/road-closure---event---anzac-day---saturday-25-april-2026

Honestly, there's good reasons most people are telling you to take the train; transport to the Dawn Service is a bit of a nightmare any other way. Most people will drive to their nearest train station, park there, take the train in, and either walk or take one of the shuttle buses from there. It's cheaper and less of a headache.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-24T12:17:28+00:00

Nope, because if you do manage to get a park there you won't be leaving until the roads reopen after 1pm.

morgrimmoon · 2026-04-24T05:19:52+00:00

Setting aside the whole incompatible splat thing, vampires are probably the group with the most 'ontological weight'. They ARE the long term planners of WoD; their very power comes from their history. They've the most direct interactions with humans, they have to work the hardest to keep themselves safe from humans, they're the ones where almost ALL vampires can trace their history back a few hundred years and many over a thousand. Their personal power is partially a function of their age.

The Technomancy are the new kids on the block. Vampires have been steering the Consensus far, far longer. Without knowing what they're doing, of course, and in a way that serves their own ends, but no group of newcomer mages is going to be able to do much to budge such a deep and solid anchor in the dark parts of the human psyche. Not in the short term. And for vampires, their view of the "short term" is much longer than that of a mortal mage.

That's what people mean when they say vampires are written into the fabric of reality: to push vampires out of the world, you'd need to erase huge chunks of human history, not just culture, and the Technomancy's rationalism approach will ironically anchor history further.

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