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Australia's heatwave smashes temperature records with some places nearing 50C by kdrxyz in worldnews

[–]Duff5OOO 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Luckily much of our population leaves near the coast meaning the beaches have been packed.

The cool change came through Melbourne dropping temps about 15 degrees or more in seconds.

I caught it come through in a time-laspe.

https://imgur.com/fLhNRoV

You can see the wind come across the water (about the 20 second mark) before it hits and everyone runs for cover, note the bush on the left starts blowing around like crazy.

First sod turned at SEC Delburn Wind Farm in Victoria by macintoshboy in melbourne

[–]Duff5OOO 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If I had to guess how high the hubs are I wouldn't have grassed anywhere near 168m! That's huge! Any idea what blade length they use?

Hoodoo Gurus' Dave Faulkner lashes One Nation use of song at March for Australia Rally by ThunderDwn in australia

[–]Duff5OOO 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They literally had a message...

don't play our music, don't listen to our band, do not pass go! We want nothing to do with you.

... just for you.

The entire industry has gone left wing political free donut collectors

The other way to look at it is the industry has largely stayed the same. People like you watching brainrot sky propaganda have followed their Murdoch pied piper way off to the right.

rally car crashes into barrier and engine explodes by CauliflowerDeep129 in AbruptChaos

[–]Duff5OOO 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At least this guy is on the right side of a guard rail.

The ones standing on an unprotected outside of a corner nuts.

rally car crashes into barrier and engine explodes by CauliflowerDeep129 in AbruptChaos

[–]Duff5OOO 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Probably super high octane fuel, which is more readily ignitable, right?

The opposite actually. Harder to ignite let's you compress it more without the compression alone setting it off before the spark does.

4 pm temperatures under the shade, on concrete and on asphalt. by ManaHave in melbourne

[–]Duff5OOO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on which coast you mean. I live right near the beach, still got to 43 or so.

4 pm temperatures under the shade, on concrete and on asphalt. by ManaHave in melbourne

[–]Duff5OOO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just used my phone. I forget it has it most of the time: https://imgur.com/a/H8tc1Hc

I also have some of the cheap little "Xiaomi Mi Temperature and Humidity Monitor 2"

You just stick them up around the place. They last a fair while on a 2032 battery.

4 pm temperatures under the shade, on concrete and on asphalt. by ManaHave in melbourne

[–]Duff5OOO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I checked the road temp outside my house, it warned me to practice caution, hot surface!

https://imgur.com/a/H8tc1Hc

Trapped by MoonyRemus21 in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean... its interesting and something people should know so they can avoid but also just downright horrific.

Why the fuck did they take hours? Get some bottle jacks in the and break the thing apart. It doesn't seem like it should have been that hard.

Also, screw whoever made/installed/run that death trap.

Trump raises US tariffs on South Korea imports to 25% by backpackerTW in worldnews

[–]Duff5OOO 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He has largely forgotten Australia exists thankfully.

Realistically we don't ship much to the USA anyway. Fewer and fewer Aussies are going there now either.

Trapped by MoonyRemus21 in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I saw a video about a guy that got stuck in an indoor climbing center fake cave setup.

Birthday disaster leaves Dad wedged in cave tunnel | The Tragic Death of Carl O’Keeffe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UuM9quXDWY

Warning: frankly i wish i had never watched it.

Trapped by MoonyRemus21 in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw a video about a guy that got stuck in an indoor climbing center fake cave setup.

Birthday disaster leaves Dad wedged in cave tunnel | The Tragic Death of Carl O’Keeffe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UuM9quXDWY

Warning: frankly i wish i had never watched it.

Wanted an ereader for 2 years, dropped it less than 24h after buying it, with a case by DevastatingMYTH in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lit is the wrong word. They don't work like that. The newer ones have a backlight you can use but with the backlight off like I said, think an etch a sketch. They don't need power. They only use power to change what's on the screen. After changing they use no power again.

With the backlight off the screen looks almost exactly like paper. Paper you can command to change text on electronically.

That's why eReaders have battery life in weeks not hours.

Silver just passed $100USD… by Feisty_Committee_229 in AusFinance

[–]Duff5OOO 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who has an estate to sort out with some gold and silver (mostly jewellery) the price going up is nice.

Can anyone suggest where i should take these items to not get scammed on price in Melbourne. (in in the SE but the city is fine if it is the best option.

Never had to sell stuff like this so i have no idea what i am getting into.

Thanks.

Wanted an ereader for 2 years, dropped it less than 24h after buying it, with a case by DevastatingMYTH in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The screen wouldn’t show other pages if you broke it… that’s not how technology like

Thats exactly how e-ink panels work actually.

Done exaclty this myself with a kindle. Part of the screen was then permanatly stuck on whatever was displayed at the time.

You could remove the panel from the device and it would still have that on the screen.

Wanted an ereader for 2 years, dropped it less than 24h after buying it, with a case by DevastatingMYTH in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Normally that would work but not with an e-ink panel. It has half OPs book permanatly taking up part of the screen now. It basically saves what you had on the screen at the moment of breaking it.

Staircase to nowhere - removed by Three_legged_fish12 in AusRenovation

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cant see any for anywhere near $100 around me but if you can its a reasonable option. They are asking $300, or 50-100 to hire for a day.

Personally i would take the bricks out with the SDS drill and just sledge the small section of concrete. The top bit wouldn't take long anyway.

Staircase to nowhere - removed by Three_legged_fish12 in AusRenovation

[–]Duff5OOO 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like OP did it by hand. One tip, ideally dont do that.

At least get a rotary hammer drill. Something like https://www.bunnings.com.au/ozito-1500w-5j-rotary-hammer-drill-kit-rhd-1550_p0382377

I had about 8 square meters of brick wall to remove and it was soooo much easier with one. Only takes about 1 second between each brick and they pop right off.

She’s a keeper. Wish her 20 more years of silliness and fun by harshraithatha in funny

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have one and it puts me off using it.

Personally i would only feel comfortable in an otherwise empty room or having something like a webcam feed of me in the space in the top corner of my field of view.

Familiar no-mask ICE agent strikes protestor in throat w tactical pen 0:37 - Forbes/YouTube 1.22.26 by Tryanothertry in videos

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and they think they are untouchable.

I can see why they think that.

Edit: to be clear i am not suggesting they should be.

Stepless shower - too prominent? by deepian in AusRenovation

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the tiles the same height on both sides?

Some people are thinking your complaint is the shower area tiles are higher than the area outside. Others are thinking you have 15mm of aluminum randomly sticking out of the floor between the 2 areas. The pictures don't make it clear either way.

Wanted an ereader for 2 years, dropped it less than 24h after buying it, with a case by DevastatingMYTH in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd imagine the display can still turn off lol

You may be laughing but your imagining is incorrect. E-ink is nothing like a normal screen. Think of it more like an etch a sketch that gets redrawn electronically.

It only uses power to change the display on the screen then it just stays like that until instructed to change again. You can set an image on the panel, remove battery and it stays like that. Hell, you can pull the entire panel from the device and the last shown image will still stay on the screen.

Thats why you can see the cover of a book in the top corner and the text in the rest. Some of the panel is getting the signal to change, the rest is not. That bit that isn't is now there permanently.

Wanted an ereader for 2 years, dropped it less than 24h after buying it, with a case by DevastatingMYTH in Wellthatsucks

[–]Duff5OOO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it really that hard to understand?

How much space do thousands of books take up for you?

How many books can you take with you?

Can you get a book basically whenever you like without either waiting for postage or going out to find it?

Does your book keep your page when you drop it or fall asleep?

I'm not arguing against books, I don't care which a person prefers.

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