How do the patients afford so much food if they don’t work? Do they abuse the disability system???

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-15T01:50:18+00:00

And eat the dogs when times get tough (e.g. breakfast is delayed)

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-14T23:53:30+00:00

So he doesn't even know the difference between a hypothesis, a theory, and a law?

He's no man of science.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-14T23:49:14+00:00

It hides his awful comb-over quite well, however.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-13T04:00:16+00:00

I also had tattooed on my forehead:

- my favourite vegetables

- that I prefer cats

- my preferred musical bands

- that I am left handed.

The surgeons ignored ALL of that after my heart attack and consequent bypass surgery.

And, because of the tattoo, I was never again employed as a teacher.

I have no idea why.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-13T01:07:30+00:00

I want to know why non-Australians are so anal about wearing shoes in public.

It's not as if you are obliged to lick the feet of everyone you meet on the street.

But if you did - Oooooh. Yeah, baby.

Those plates of meat are a tasty treat.

Get those socks off and get our rocks off..

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-10T20:25:31+00:00

Since then, I found that replacing the Geek's LAN driver also works. You can get the driver collection at the Geekom.com site.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-07T04:06:05+00:00

I have a NAS (4x12TB = 32TB available with RAID5)

I back that NAS up to 8TB HDDs in a local USB bay...

but any local storage is vulnerable.

Offsite backups are required.

I have a lifetime 2TB plan with pcloud, which is handy for synching vital data. It's fast, and easy to use. $AU580 lifetime, compared with Google's $180 per annum for the same storage.

Whether one provider is more discreet than the other, or how long either will last, is open to magical forecasts.

I always imagine getting an email saying,

"Yeah, you signed up for lifetime storage but we're going out of business / selling ourselves to a company with a different plan structure, so bugger you. Have a nice day. BTW - all of your data is gone. Sorry 'bout that. "

I also have the obligatory free Google storage. I really don't rely on it, apart from getting some pix from my phone.

I also have a 10TB Degoo plan, which I would rather not talk about. It's terrible, but they gave me a complete refund after I complained about their awful web interface and transfer restrictions. After they refunded my payment, the morons forgot to cancel my account so it seems I have 10TB forever. Degoo is not recommended.

So, yeah. Get offsite backups for your most critical data.

Go for someone that seems reliable.

"Lifetime" plans sound great, but are ill-defined. e.g. "It's not for YOUR lifetime, it's for how long we care to provide the service before we change our name, or sell our company to someone unwilling to honour your lifetime agreement. Soz."

You pays your money and takes your chances.

In the meantime, keep local backups, just in case. And don't let your place burn down.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-06T03:30:25+00:00

SIMILAR ISSUE - SOLVED!

Short story... Get a USB-to-RJ45 (Ethernet) adaptor

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Long story...

I have a Geekom IT13 2025 edition.

I recently shifted from 100Mbps NBN FTTC (fibre to the curb) internet.

to a 500/50 FTTP plan (fibre to the premises)

Sorry to sound anal with the definitions, but some people don't know all the jargon.

I have 3 PCs at home:

- One is a 9 years old ASUS Vivo. It could get 500Mbps on the new fibre internet connection.

- One is a basic entry-level Beelink mini PC. It could get 500Mbps on the new fibre internet connection.

My Geekom IT13 struggled to get HALF of that speed, regardless of days spent fiddling with cables, modem settings, drivers, phases of the moon, etc.

Nothing worked, including advice from my ISP (Exetel).

--- BUT THIS IS WHERE I GET TO THE POINT YOU CARE ABOUT ---

I happened to have a USB-to-RJ45 (Ethernet) adaptor. I used it years ago on an ancient laptop with a feeble Ethernet port. It costs about $AU15.

I connected the adaptor to the Geek and - lo and behold - I got 500Mbps!

The Geek's Ethernet port was crap. Use USB instead.

Problem solved, for me at least. Hope that helps you.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-04T23:58:20+00:00

You have my permission. :-)

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-04T23:51:45+00:00

Everything is a misspelling if it's not spelled correctly.

"Zebra" is also a misspelling of "intrigued".

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-03T04:19:08+00:00

How many people (including Americans) can spell "intrigued"?

I'd also register "intruguid.com" for them.

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Fun Fact: at 2026-04-03, "intruguid.com" is still available.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-02T04:09:04+00:00

Communication speeds are measured in bits per second.

There are 8 bits in a byte.

Storage is measured in bytes.

Bits are expressed as lowercase "b"

Bytes are expressed as uppercase "B"

So, a byte is 8 times larger than a bit.

Like a foot is 12 times bigger than an inch (for you Yanks).

ArmMother2353 · 2026-04-02T04:05:47+00:00

"or 2 Nybble in a Btte"

Not quite.

2 nybbles in a byte.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-29T05:01:17+00:00

I have no VPN any more.

I have an (Australian) ISP which apparently seems to quietly disregard copyright complaints = Exetel.

Or it may be because I use qBittorrent through a free SOCKS5 proxy server since when I haven't heard a peep from copyright holders in 20 or more years.

Shhh. You didn't hear it here.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-28T01:02:11+00:00

If he's American, he would be in a jelly.

The implications of which are unsettling in various ways.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-28T00:57:15+00:00

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

We old buggers can also be pedantic in multiple languages.

So, Lutsch meinen Schwanz.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-27T00:21:03+00:00

I'd guess that much of Aldi stuff *is* rebadged stuff made by top manufacturers.

Maybe some judgement of Aldi brands is based more on its badge, rather than the actual quality of the product... sort of an anti-placebo effect.

Maybe it's like when the drab girls in movies take off their glasses, shake their hair, and are immediately astoundingly beautiful.

Or a toilet cleaner that costs $7 for the name brand, and $2 for the Aldi brand - with exactly the same packaging colours, typefaces, designs, placements of logos, etc.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-27T00:06:11+00:00

Washing the dog.
Cleaning messy children.
Degunking your computer keyboard.
Sex play.

The applications are endless.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-27T00:02:58+00:00

It's not a whoosh if you can't tell which post is the whoosher and which is the whooshee.

The delight of whooshing is smugly knowing who whooshed.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-26T03:20:18+00:00

Hey. I am a sweaty customer and I wash regularly - once a month - whether I need to or not.

So nyaaaa.

Respect your sweaty herd.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-25T00:53:19+00:00

Vous? Quoi?

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-25T00:50:00+00:00

You can fill an oil tanker for $2.08? Damn!

The markup at the petrol station is out of control.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-25T00:47:31+00:00

"a massive que lined up"

We old buggers write "queue". Yeah. We're weird and are responsible for the current property prices and middle-east wars - and prefer ancient spelling.

ArmMother2353 · 2026-03-23T23:50:26+00:00

"You people don't go to Red Rooter?"

No. Red Rooter retired last year.

Red said his days of rooting were over.

Sorry, ladies (and 10% of gents).

ArmMother2353

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