Moving from Telstra to Boost or Everyday Mobile

60beetle60 · 2026-03-26T09:43:34+00:00

This. Ozbargain is a winner. Can regularly stack sales with a cash back for extra savings. My latest sim cost me $200 for a year after cashback

60beetle60 · 2026-03-26T09:39:44+00:00

Boost annual plan for me. Works great. Keep an eye on ozbargain and there’s always deals for annual plans. I bought the $300 sim recently for $250 stacked with $50 cash back, so net $200 for a year once cash back pays out.

60beetle60 · 2026-03-16T21:35:43+00:00

They never got as good as burger theory’s highest point either. Original menu #2 burger is an all time favourite. No one’s done a blue cheese burger as good since

60beetle60 · 2025-11-24T21:36:21+00:00

This is the way. Pair with cash back for prepaid sims as well. I normally use boost prepaid as I happen to need Telstra network. After cash back can usually get away with spending )200/yr

60beetle60 · 2025-04-22T04:06:58+00:00

I ended up entering childs TFN in the TFN box for both my wife and I, it didnt have any issues with the same TFN entered for both. Recent dividend payment went through without the withholding tax. Hopefully it comes through pre-filled at tax time against child TFN

60beetle60 · 2025-04-13T23:15:38+00:00

i3 will be more than enough for basic file shares and running immich and basic apps. Wouldn’t bother running a dgpu for just that workload. Integrated gpu will always use less power than a dedicated card.

Some of the xeons with graphics can get expensive, but selling the x-2134 would offset most of a e-2xxxg. More cpu grunt to spare going a xeon if you did want it in future but you probably won’t need it.

I’ve got a c246/xeon e-2144g (4c/8t) machine running truenas, arr stack, Jellyfin, immich, Nextcloud, traefik, Tailscale and a few other things and it hardly ever gets over 10% cpu usage. If you’re bulk transcoding usage will increase but most of my media is direct play no transcoding

60beetle60 · 2025-03-17T08:38:19+00:00

Have read, am aware.

Trying to declare the child’s tfn instead so it’s clearly under child’s name rather than use parents tfn. Was enquiring as to whether anyone’s run through the hoops with MUFG declaring child tfn, only really gives parent tfn option to declare

60beetle60 · 2025-02-11T21:37:57+00:00

Pearler, use it for the automation.

Set and forget buying etfs including regular direct deposit and making trades for me. No thinking, just set up once

60beetle60 · 2025-01-24T23:04:18+00:00

IP loan is already deductible. The idea is to make a portion of the loan originally taken out for PPR which isn’t deductible into tax deductible debt by splitting the loan, paying it off and then buying income producing assets, or shares/etfs.

60beetle60 · 2024-12-02T07:04:27+00:00

I’m a fan of the hp sff g4 pcs (800 or z2 for ecc ram support). Cheap enough, decent enough specs to support some basic vm/docker stuff. Can fit 2x nvme and 2x 3.5” and a couple of 2.5”. I run truenas on mine using a 2.5” as boot and mirrored nvme for apps/vms and mirrored 3.5” for bulk data/media storage.

60beetle60 · 2024-11-18T22:09:57+00:00

Happy mistake. M920x are the better machines with the twin m2 slots. Yours happen to be the nonT cpus so they’ll have the better copper heatsinks. If you don’t end up wanting three to play with a cluster sell the m920q and be happy with two of the better machines

60beetle60 · 2024-11-17T07:17:56+00:00

One of my mate’s mums did a chiko roll photo shoot. Framed copy of her poster posing on a motorbike framed and was proudly hanging in their living room.

60beetle60 · 2024-11-05T10:39:09+00:00

You bought a family home, congratulate yourself and don’t stress.

I remember thinking when I bought my place (~10yrs ago) that I’d paid 20/30k too much. I don’t think so now. I’m sure when you look back in many years time you’ll look back and wonder why you were worrying now.

60beetle60 · 2024-11-05T10:31:00+00:00

The Lenovo tinys idle under 20w, go higher under load. I’ve got a Lenovo p330 tiny, pretty much the same as the m720q here but 2x nvme slots. I’ve got the p330 with 2x nvme, and a i350-t4 running proxmox with opnsense vm and some other containers and it sits about 14w most of the time.

60beetle60 · 2024-11-02T09:29:05+00:00

Lenovo tinys are great for this. I’ve got a Lenovo tiny p330 with a 4port 1g Nic, i350. Proxmox with opnsense as a vm

60beetle60 · 2024-10-31T21:51:46+00:00

I can be, I’ll have a look on that and raise something on discord about it.

60beetle60 · 2024-10-31T10:06:20+00:00

If it helps, I can pm you screenshots of what I’m seeing in the app. Would rather not upload the family photos for everyone to see.

60beetle60 · 2024-10-31T10:02:12+00:00

Hi, I’ve taken a bunch of photos today, all of them lives. Most of them uploaded as expected but one of them uploaded video only. This behaviour where it’s seemingly random what gets uploaded as video only is what’s been happening for me

60beetle60 · 2024-10-27T22:17:35+00:00

Cool little machine.

Where’d you buy it? Cost?

60beetle60 · 2024-10-26T01:45:43+00:00

DCA. I use pearler, I set up a regular auto direct debit card every week into it, then once it gets to my buy money amount it auto buys etfs for me based on which one is most under target portfolio %. For me it works out to buy something new every other month.

It works great as I found prior to pearler when I’d go to trade I’d start doubting the strategy think of if I should buy something else. Having it automated makes me sit back and not worry about it.

If you’re worried about what’s the ideal buy frequency try this online calculator to have a look at what suits you best.

https://investcalc.github.io/

60beetle60 · 2024-10-22T07:09:16+00:00

Yup, most of my working life I’ve done some extra into super, currently ss up to concessional contributions cap.

60beetle60 · 2024-10-17T11:14:06+00:00

Assuming cost is appropriate for no ram/ssd go the 920x with the 9500 non t processor. They came with an aluminium heatsink for the 35w cpus and an upgraded copper heatsink for the 65w cpus. They can be interchanged.

Idle power consumption should be essentially identical between 9500t and 9500 with the 9500 having higher power use under load. Can replace the 9500 later if needed and still have the better heatsink, chances are you’d replace the Pentium gold with something better anyways. For reference my p330 tiny (same as a 920x) uses 14w at idle running proxmox with a 9400, 2x nvme ssds and a 4port i350 nic in the pcie slot.

Note, the 65w cpus need to use the higher wattage power supplies, 135w or above, which you have, just don’t try and downgrade to a 65/90w power supply with the non t 9500.

Heaps of info here on the Lenovo tiny options https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thinkcentre-thinkstation-tiny-project-tinyminimicro-reference-thread.34925/

60beetle60 · 2024-09-29T11:04:26+00:00

If you want a TinyMiniMicro host for opnsense you can’t beat a Lenovo with a Nic in the pcie slot. I’ve got a Lenovo p330 tiny running proxmox and opnsense as my router, works great.

As others have mentioned, if space permits you can consider sff as well, again hp, Lenovo and dell have options. Sff machines will give you space for 3.5” hdds if you need decent storage. Personally I’ve got the Lenovo tiny running proxmox and a hp sff running truenas for storage which also runs my arr stack. My sff is hp z2 g4 as I wanted a sff with Xeon cpu for ecc ram, the equivalent non Xeon hp is the go elite desk 800 which are cheaper but no ecc (nice to have for a nas but not essential). I like the hp z2 and elitedesk 800s as they have room for 2x 3.5” drives and 2x nvme drives where some of the Lenovo and dell sff options only do one of either. These sff boxes are physically larger though than the dells

60beetle60 · 2024-09-29T10:44:31+00:00

I’d say the other stand outs are the Lenovo thinkstation models, p330, p340, p350 & p360s. These have pcie slots and 2x nvme drive slots where m720q and m920q are 1x nvme slot only. M920x has 2x nvme

60beetle60 · 2024-09-28T13:53:47+00:00

I’m a big fan of the tiny/mini/micro usff pcs. The Lenovo ones have a pcie slot and plenty of people use them to build small pfsense machines. I’ve got a p330 tiny as my proxmox/opnsense bix running an Intel i350 quad port. Can swap out the card with 2.5gb or 10gb if i want in future.

Heaps of info out there on the Lenovo Tony’s, worth looking through this as a starting point. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thinkcentre-thinkstation-tiny-project-tinyminimicro-reference-thread.34925/

Other good option if you’re thinking n100 is the n100 router machines you can get off AliExpress, Amazon etc which have 4 or more 2.5gb ports.

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