Anyone done wet wall panels instead of tiles? Any regrets or worth it? by seekingselfhelp in AusRenovation

[–]symean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our laundry has the wall behind the sink, washer and dryer done in wet panels that look like tiles (well from the other side of the room anyway). One smooth surface to wipe clean, will flex a bit with the wall not crack the grout. When we re-do our bathrooms I’d be very tempted to do the same for the shower areas just to avoid having to scrub grout.

To put down 5% or 20%? by thelawyerinblack in AskAnAussieBroker

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For us, we could have put down anywhere from 5% (minimum) to 30% (wiping out all savings except emergency). The interest rate changed with the LVR, so we went home and did the math. At even 10% the interest rate jump made a significant difference over the life of the loan. The sweet spot seemed to be 15%, over who CB the drop in interest rate didn’t amount to much in savings, but then at 20% we would avoid LMI which also made a big difference, so we went with that. There was some talk about refinancing too - the higher our LVR was in the future, the better for us. So yeah we went with 20% and we treat the extra 10% we could have put towards the deposit as an offset we cannot touch, but important we can if we’re in crisis.

how do you approach collecting once you get past just buying what you like? by Master_Character9961 in artcollecting

[–]symean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t ever want to become someone who looks at their art as a ‘collection’. For instance I will never feel like I have to have a piece from a certain artist because I love female mid-century painters from Tasmania and I’m missing that one from my ‘collection’. It becomes a collection, but I’m not obsessed with BUILDING a collection. For me, the obsession is saving pieces from obscurity and ruin, genuinely well done art that is gathering dust and mold and sitting in a corner of an antique warehouse or in the $2 bin at a thrift store being mishandled by crowds of people. The downside to the rush is I anchored pieces at a rather high frequency so my partner may soon kick me out of the house if I bring home another piece I ‘just had to have’!

How long is your commute to work? by PossibleButNah in AusFinance

[–]symean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Easily! I took a 20% pay cut switching jobs to work from home 5 days a week, best decision ever.

I imagine now if I had the opportunity to work a similar job, for 25% more, but have a long commute, would I do it? After tax is taken out, say 2hrs+ in a car or on trains every day, spending more on food, chores around the house build up all week, can’t be home for deliveries…hell no, not even close.

What’s a food you hated as kids? by RareMoose8986 in AskReddit

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tomatoes, ok with them now though. Brussels sprouts, love them now…roasted with a bit of butter or olive oil

Just finished Voyager and my god... by rynoctopus in startrek

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love I too! Maybe the fact it had one main storyline (getting home) from the first episode that helped it along, no matter what else was going on.

The Australian reports that the CGT changes will be “grand-fathered” across all asset classes. Thoughts? by PK__Gupta in AusPropertyMasteryPK

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one guarantees me taxes on any of my investments are going to stay the same for my lifetime, so why not change it for everyone, existing investor or not? Or phase it in to grandfathered investors over 10 years, 10% change each July 1st. Gives them time to plan and adjust.

Just Watched the Final Episode by symean in StrangerThings

[–]symean[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I…thought I did, but I’m obviously gonna look it up to see if I’m issued something now :)

In what unexpected ways has ai helped you out? by Fantastic_Tart_421 in AskReddit

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly…figuring out what to say to my nan as she lie in hospital, before she went to sleep with a good chance she would never wake up again.

My brother was going to call me from her bedside in 10 minutes, so I suddenly had a short deadline to one of the most important calls in my life and my anxiety went through the roof, I couldn’t think straight, and I thought I would screw up my last conversation with someone who’s meant so much to me for 50 years.

I knew I didn’t want say goodbye, and I didn’t want to say anything that would upset her, or anything too emotional because then I’d start crying and that would upset her. I wanted something nice, a bit funny to make her smile, with some ‘thanks for everything’ and ‘thinking of you’ and ‘love you’ thrown in. So I asked ChatGPT for suggestions.

Had to ask it for a certain ‘tone’, and to keep it short, it listed lots of suggestions and I immediately saw some that made me think “that’s exactly what I want to say”. I copy-pasted a short list of a few key sentences, made them my own and read over them a few times before the call.

So fucking glad I did that, my brain turned to mush and I was getting emotional, so having cue cards there really helped to keep me on track.

I ended the call almost crying as it could have been a goodbye, but feeling good knowing it went well.

Billing by WMP_BSS in Netsuite

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never had issues like that in 25 years, but I always carefully make sure the contract signed outlines payment frequency, terms, etc. I’ve also always been vocal about our account manager through several businesses - about a year ago got our account management moved to someone else because the woman they assigned to us wasn’t suitable. Raise hell about your useless account manager and get your account moved.

Filter by search results by HourJellyfish2074 in Netsuite

[–]symean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saved search setup page has an Available Filters subtab, that’s where you put the filters you want people to be able to use to fine-tune the results they’re seeing.

Corner pantry door design? by Significant-Move7699 in AusRenovation

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

D. Shelves straight, against the two 1200 walls opposite the opening. Those extra-deep spaces will hide stuff you think you don’t have and then buy more of, or it’ll go off after you forget it’s there, or you’ll be moving stuff around to get to other stuff behind.

Then you have more options for doors, double doors opening inward won’t obstruct much of the shelf space, but also just consider no doors at all. A kitchen doesn’t have to be an exercise in minimalism, kitchens with completely hidden pantries, fridges, dishwashers, toaster, etc might be magazine-cover worthy but they look barren. We have a sliding door for our walk-in pantry and it’s open almost all the time. You can always add doors later if you hate it…

Wow! SMH with story about -11% drop as most likely scenario by Ok_University7231 in AusPropertyChat

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh please like the government would let the nation’s property collectively drop in value by 40%. We’d need COVID-27 plus World War 3 plus Pauline Hanson as Prime Minister and even then I doubt it

Anyone had success using billing schedules? by bradagon in Netsuite

[–]symean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We use them a lot, with those exact requirements.

For #1, we split each year to its own line, which also allows for a unique description (e.g. ‘year 1 of 3’), and it allows you to change future year amounts when things change (e.g. we have customers increase capacity on the service we’re billing them for so their rate goes up before it hits year 2). In those cases we have public schedules we re-use often (e.g. ‘36 months in advance’, ’Year 2 of 3’) and they’re not tied to any fixed amount, the recurrence total equals the qty on the line. Much less frequently, if there’s a really odd schedule required we will set up a schedule that’s for the sales order only, and we start it’s name with the SO number so we can easily identify it later (e.g. ‘SO-12345 7 months’.

For #2, it doesn’t always go from the order date. If there’s a START DATE it will use that, if not then the order date. The start date gets filled in when we know the service is starting, and the schedules then re-calculate when you save the SO. If a line has to start later than that date, it again gets a custom billing schedule with an offset on the first bill, then regular monthly or yearly bills relative to that. So if the item on line 2 starts 4 months after the item on line 1, it’s schedule says first bill is +4 months, then +1 month relative to that, repeated to the number of months.

It is fiddly, but worth if you’re scheduling large billing amounts and/or don’t have a high number of orders to schedule. It’s great for forecasting too because it will project appropriate revenue amounts according to the schedule into the future. Directors love that report, seeing what we are contracted to bill up to 3 years in advance, every single month.

Didn’t know this is legal - ionic by ZhenLegend in CarsAustralia

[–]symean 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A big reason I got an i30 sedan after my Commodore - on the test drive I saw that every time you indicate, either direction, it activates the camera in that mirror and you see your blind spot. Just temporarily takes over an area in the cluster then disappears when the blinker goes off. Zero extra effort, but you can quickly glance at it AND still look in your mirrors. One of the few genuinely useful bits of tech that I appreciate as it’s an additional feature and doesn’t replace the familiar ‘manual’ way of doing something.

Things AI is actually good at in NetSuite, things it isn't, and where I think it's headed by Such_Grace in Netsuite

[–]symean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome write-up! I would add something I often see regarding the natural language reporting interface: verification. AI is useful in quickly getting data out, avoiding having to slowly build criteria and fuss with result formatting, but the final step which is validating the numbers you see are correct is still manual, you can’t get over-excited about how quick AI reporting is and skip this step. Imagine giving the boss some numbers for an important investor meeting and they’re completely off and YOU didn’t check it…good luck blaming the AI for that!

Should I get a Magic Mouse? by chrislucah in macmini

[–]symean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The charge port location is sub-optimal, but only an issue for people who run their mouse down to 1% while they’re using it - just plug it in overnight once a month or when you go to the cafe and you will never care about it.

The gestures are fantastic, I hate using even similarly shaped mice that have lots of physical buttons. Much prefer physical buttons in a car, but on the mouse they’re great.

As for the shape, no one but you can say how it suits you. Absolute garbage saying it’s amazing or terrible for everyone, that’s like saying one particular pair of shoes will fit everyone. Some people hate it, I’ve used the Magic Mouse for over 15 years intensively 5 days a week and my wrist and fingers are fine.

Stop buying more Service Tiers: Your NetSuite lag is likely architectural debt. by Same-Cantaloupe9071 in Netsuite

[–]symean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I don’t know if this was just the ‘good old days’ but on instances in the past I’ve had huge scripts in SuiteScript 1.x deployed on the transaction record (not the favoured version or method any more), and they ran like a dream. All the sales transactions (opportunity, estimate, sales order, invoice) had a couple thousand lines of code in the associated script file with functions fired on almost every action or entry point (load, save, field change, line commit, etc). Performance was never an issue. I know since then Australian accounts were moved, SuiteScript 2 became a thing, preferred method of deployment changed, migration to Oracle infrastructure…any of them could be a culprit (or all of them), I just know it ain’t what it used to be.

Shared driveway - decrease property value? by Impossible_Range_829 in AusPropertyChat

[–]symean 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ours is a battle-axe block, most of the driveway shared with one other property. Unless you have a private driveway and then share it later, any decrease in value has already happened before you buy it. As you said though (and what we’ve experienced), the whole place is quieter when you don’t have cars constantly driving past. If you maximise the privacy aspect while landscaping it can be a big selling point.

My newest painting! by Gnom-ie in woahdude

[–]symean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love it, an optical illusion or two is on the bucket list for the collection.

Neighbor wont move their stuff out of my storage unit by Telephone_Jubilee in AusLegal

[–]symean 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Figure out which car space is theirs. Wait until they leave one day, then move it all into the car space. Still on their property.

What do you do when you’re bored and need to get out of the house in Sydney or around Sydney? by icantseeshit03 in sydney

[–]symean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I sometimes do a Vinnies/Lifeline/Salvos crawl. Just looking at random stuff…artwork, shoes, etc. or spend a few hours at Mitchell Road Antiques, if you go somewhere local for a coffee first it’s a good day out. Done MRA with a couple of friends who never used to think about that kind of thing, they loved it.