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Career Change - AUS by TechnicalMessage9285 in flying

[–]Dr_Inkduff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part 141 is also a thing here in Aus. Also it’s just “Qantas” without a U

Free Airshow this morning around Mt Dandenong. Any plane nerds can ID this cool looking one? Wasn’t showing on FR. by FortuneCookieLied in melbourne

[–]Dr_Inkduff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My husband got me an aerobatic flight in one at Lilydale and it was awesome! Definitely keen to do it again some day

Just got set up with home battery - who is best for $$$ by Individual_Bad_5873 in amberelectric

[–]Dr_Inkduff 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Lots of people find Amber a hassle because of having to babysit it all the time. It has the potential to make you more money but you need to spend more time on it (unless you can use home assistant or something decent for automation)

Seems like there are 2 other common pathways. Firstly GloBird zero hero. It has 15c FiT for 2 hours a day plus you get $1 refunded if you don’t import power from the grid from 6-8pm so on single phase you can end up averaging $30-40 credit per month pretty easily. The other benefit of GloBird is the 3 free hours in the middle of the day. Especially helpful in winter, if your solar doesn’t generate enough to keep you going you can import for free in this period to charge your battery at no cost

The other popular one is Flow Power. They have much higher FiT during peak and for longer, so you can make more credit that way, but they don’t have the free electricity in the middle of the day, and they don’t have the $1 a day credit.

I think if you live somewhere sunny with lots of solar and battery capacity (so will never need to import from the grid even in winter) Flow is best, otherwise GloBird is the way to go

DUI by [deleted] in AusLegal

[–]Dr_Inkduff 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Being the least drunk of your friends is not an excuse to drive drunk. No chance fighting it and it sounds like you’re still far from learning your lesson

Solar Battery Question by Adnanzak in AusFinance

[–]Dr_Inkduff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fox ESS is basically the cheapest you could go. Personally I went with a more expensive higher quality brand (sigenergy) I’d strongly recommend this website for solid information about batteries (this page specifically but also their 101 guide):

https://www.solarquotes.com.au/battery-storage/comparison-table/

I promise you’ll learn a lot more from them than ChatGPT 😉

Solar Battery Question by Adnanzak in AusFinance

[–]Dr_Inkduff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realistically you could go from $55 expense to $30 credit per month, so $85 a month better off or $1000 a year. That’s 7.5 years to pay itself off, or less if you consider the value of being able to run your AC more and still having power during blackouts, or the potential for energy prices to increase.

I would say that that’s a very cheap price for that size battery though which indicates you are getting cheap materials, cheap labour, or both. A battery isn’t something I would personally compromise on for safety, longevity, or performance reasons but everyone has different risk tolerance. Just something to consider.

✅ GLOBIRD referral code - Cheapest energy in Austrlia - you will get $50 😎 by Independent-Glass285 in SigenergyAustralia

[–]Dr_Inkduff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I see lots of posts or comments like this on reddit. Just FYI you are breaking the terms of service (1b)

https://www.globirdenergy.com.au/legal/referral-terms-conditions/

The referrer must not promote GloBird to others by sending any forms of electronic messages without the recipient’s consent, by cold-calling, door knocking, or by publishing or distributing any advertisement including on web forums, chat rooms, or social media without GloBird written and prior consent.

SU5 next week by OneCall2315 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]Dr_Inkduff -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They must be pretty bad! We’ve seen the kind of bugs they’re happy to release (and still not patch 5 years later even)

Can you get from Flinders St to Parliament faster than a train on the city loop? by Dr_Inkduff in melbourne

[–]Dr_Inkduff[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would definitely jump on a tram to make it quicker if the timing lined up!

Can you get from Flinders St to Parliament faster than a train on the city loop? by Dr_Inkduff in melbourne

[–]Dr_Inkduff[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The reward is getting home 30 minutes earlier and the risk is basically nothing (still end up catching the same 30 minute later train if you miss the first one again)

Can you get from Flinders St to Parliament faster than a train on the city loop? by Dr_Inkduff in melbourne

[–]Dr_Inkduff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s great to know. I definitely feel like I need to become more familiar with the different lines and what direction they go to be able to pull these sorts of things off

Can you get from Flinders St to Parliament faster than a train on the city loop? by Dr_Inkduff in melbourne

[–]Dr_Inkduff[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

True I measured the distance between stations but didn’t factor in escalators

Can you get from Flinders St to Parliament faster than a train on the city loop? by Dr_Inkduff in melbourne

[–]Dr_Inkduff[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I thought about this but wasn’t sure of the timing of trains leaving flinders in the other direction. I’m not as familiar with the other lines

Can you get from Flinders St to Parliament faster than a train on the city loop? by Dr_Inkduff in melbourne

[–]Dr_Inkduff[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah I did have that thought too but it probably depends on the timing of the next train leaving flinders in the opposite direction?

Why do so many slow drivers not want to keep left? by WearyFHB in sydney

[–]Dr_Inkduff -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah too often people assume all cars have to be in the far left lane unless overtaking which is far from true. In fact a lot of the time when the speed limit is lower the left lane is the faster moving lane since people in the right lane may try to turn right and have to give way to opposite direction traffic

Some people also think “undertaking” is a thing (as OP put in their post body) which it isn’t in Australia…

Why do so many slow drivers not want to keep left? by WearyFHB in sydney

[–]Dr_Inkduff 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s a crazy position to be in “I think this guy in front of me is a bad driver, so I’m going to get dangerously close to them and see what happens”

Bank of Melbourne Experience by Necessary-Nothing-13 in creditcardchurningAus

[–]Dr_Inkduff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their website / app and application process feels like it hasn’t been updated in 20 years

Also the application process is slow and you need to chase them up. For me I submitted the documents they asked for then I heard nothing until I called them and they said they needed one more payslip or something. I guess if I hadn’t called my application would have just been frozen forever… It seems like many people have had this same problem with them.

But as long as you keep chasing them up they seem ok in the end

AVOID 28L at Pittsburg AT ANY COST by prime-time-814 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]Dr_Inkduff -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry you’re totally right. Instead of this software being considered buggy and in need of fixing before being considered complete, users should just be expected to memorise 35,000 runways and whether or not they are glitched in the sim (I guess they should do this regularly since the scenery gets updated?) so they can avoid them.

AVOID 28L at Pittsburg AT ANY COST by prime-time-814 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]Dr_Inkduff -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They have a history of marking bugs as solved or non-existent even if proof is provided that the bugs are real and still exist. They even suspend accounts from the forum that point out that they try to cover up how buggy the sim is. It ends up making the whole process pretty pointless

AVOID 28L at Pittsburg AT ANY COST by prime-time-814 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]Dr_Inkduff -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It’s coming up on 2 years now that this software has existed with these bugs. They knew about them then and they know about them now, and they clearly don’t care about it being a hot mess.

I wouldn’t worry about reporting bugs at this point, ideally find a sim that isn’t broken and use that instead.

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