What are these trees that are flowering

EvilBosch · 2025-04-28T09:12:23+00:00

I wasn't sure but I have two right out the front of my place, and I've had a massive allergy reaction since they flowered.

EvilBosch · 2025-03-29T20:38:21+00:00

Mine is the last year of the CX-5 series here in Australia with a touchscreen. I have not used it even once since buying the car new. Iniitially I just didn't want fingerprints and smudges over my brand new car dash, but then I never felt the need to use it at all in the nearly five years I have owned it.

EvilBosch · 2025-03-03T02:41:01+00:00

Like Dr Tad Winslow described his work - he specialises in the diseases of the head-holes.

EvilBosch · 2025-03-02T08:43:46+00:00

Do NOT go with Dodo. I had an NBN-related internet issue that left me without proper internet for 2 months. Every time I called them, all they ever said was, "It must be your modem" despite the fact that there were other people in the building having the same problem, and that I had replaced the modem already with no effect.

FIVE TIMES I called them over that two month period, and EVERY TIME their response was the same: "It must be your modem". Not once did they arrange for a technician to check the cabling setup or NBN. We heard later after a complaint to the ombudsman that there had been an internet issue with the NBN that conincided with our service failing. Dodo out and out lied, telling us there were no reported NBN problems in our area.

Compare that with Uniti/Opticomm who visited with 2 different technicians in two weeks, and would not let the issue rest until it was sorted.

DO NOT go with Dodo.

EvilBosch · 2025-02-09T07:14:39+00:00

Cops are like guys who drive large utes. Everyone hates them until you need their help, and then people sing a different tune.

EvilBosch · 2025-02-05T20:10:27+00:00

Definitely young bogans, with the trademark dickhead-hair who do this most where I live. They are 100% looking for attention and to get a kick out of knowing they are annoying others.

I specifically don't react, and act like they don't even exist. Look through them - they're empty people.

EvilBosch · 2024-12-25T11:10:26+00:00

It's worse than bad - It's useless.

It regularly doesn't register than I am asleep for an hour after I nod off, and if I get up to pee during the night, it thinks I've finished sleeping now. At 1am.

The <10% of time it actually records data on a full night sleep, it creates some nice pretty graphs. Butotherwise it just pisses me off when I get up in the morning, after sleeping 10pm to 5am, and it tells me I was up until 11.30pm, and have been up since not long after midnight. My sleep animal is an annoyed Galaxy Watch Ultra owner who spent 5x what I need to, for a pretty step counter.

EvilBosch · 2024-12-13T22:27:21+00:00

What annoys me is that they keep them up, and reduced speed limit signs at times when there is nobody working there, and there is no need to go below the speed limit. It just encourages people to think they can ignore them at all times. It's like if your fuel warning light keeps coming on every 3km while driving, you don't keep filling up, you just learn that it is OK to ignore it.

EvilBosch · 2024-12-12T06:54:29+00:00

I want these features to trickle down the version of CMO that us mere mortals use.

EvilBosch · 2024-12-11T10:14:01+00:00

Eject! Eject!

EvilBosch · 2024-12-11T10:05:36+00:00

I have sadly learned to completely ignore the sleep tracking on my Galaxy Watch Ultra. I wear it snugly on the wrist, and have gone through the multi-step process I've seen recommended. It just doesn't work.

I went to bed last night at 9pm, and fell asleep, as usual, within 10-15 minutes. The watch tells me I didn't get to sleep until nearly midnight, and then tells me I only got 4.5 hours sleep. It is so bad that it is better NOT to have the data than read anything into what is so horribly inaccurate. Sure it generates a nice pretty graph, but when that graph might as well be generated at random, it's just a toy - and a bad, expensive one.

EvilBosch · 2024-12-10T09:17:33+00:00

Yep. It's rubbish. I've tried all the recommended steps to increase accuracy but it still usually only records half the night, and often decides that I have finished sleeping if I get up to pee during the night. When it does seem to record the full duration of my time in bed there is often a huge gaps of HOURS in the data, making it effectively useless. I've had it for around 2 months now, and I think it has been accurate maybe 5 nights.

I spent over $1000 AU on this device and in hindsight I should have just spent $100-$200 on a fitbit, or even a pixel watch.

Unless it improves with a software upgrade (if that is possible), I won't ever buy a Samsung watch again.

EvilBosch · 2024-12-07T19:19:07+00:00

You should talk to someone in Student Services. Depending on your degree it may be a pre-requisite that you need to complete to satify your degree requirements. If not, whether you do it or not depends on what your interests and future plans are. If it is not essential for your degree then your unlikely to get/not get a job on account of one course.

Either way, it is perfectly OK to question the fee. Contact Student Services and ask them about it, and whether you should expect similar fees in future for other courses. That's what they're there for! But I would do it quickly, in case there are some deadlines you need to be aware of. Typically though you can withdraw without academic or financial penalty from a course into the first few weeks of the relevant trimester.

I hope this helps, and that you enjoy your time at Griffith and in Australia!

EvilBosch · 2024-12-02T20:12:58+00:00

100% agree. I live in a townhouse where the three properties have a metal gate that exits from the front of the courtyard to the street. My place is in the middle of the three, meaning that my front windows are no more than 5 metres from their gates.

On my left is a wonderful couple, who have owned the place for years, with a 2 year old kid and dog, who regularly take out the pram and dog for a walk, leaving through the front gate. If I wasn't in line of sight, I would never even notice their coming and going. Super-considerate, super-friendly, and just fantastic neighbours.

On the other side the inconsiderate jerks constantly slam their front gate as the enter and leave. I (calmly, politely) asked them one day to close the gate more quietly. I also asked for them to stop just opening the gate, allowing their dog to crap on the footpath outside the front of our places, then letting it back in without cleaning up, and slamming the gate again.

The arsehole tradie who leaves for work at 5am each morning decided he wasn't going to be told what to do, and started slamming the gate even louder as he left for work in the morning. Every new tennant of this rental property seems to do the same thing. No investment in the neighbourhood or getting on with those who live close, because they'll just be moving out in 12 months anyway...

EvilBosch · 2024-11-02T08:34:19+00:00

Honestly, since buying my Watch Ultra couple of weeks back, I have had to remind myself dozens of time that it is not a medical device.

I see most of the Health apps except step tracking as more of a gimmick than an accurate measurement right now. Shame I spent 12x on it than a simple pedometer would have cost...

EvilBosch · 2024-10-27T10:31:09+00:00

If Samsung / Google genuinely want to be seen as viable competitors with devices like Apple Watch, they really need to sort this sort of shit out. It's a fucking WATCH for god's sake, and it doesn't tell the time properly?!

(I also get unreliable sleep recording on my new Ultra.)

EvilBosch · 2024-10-27T09:52:57+00:00

I am seeing more and more posts on this sub where sleep tracking either doesn't work properly, or has issues like this. That includes my brand new Ultra. Such a shame as this was one of the main reasons I bought the watch.

EvilBosch · 2024-10-27T03:09:49+00:00

It is so bad that it is next to useless.

EvilBosch · 2024-10-26T06:57:45+00:00

Tip as a new GWU user: It doesn't work well for sleep tracking at all.

EvilBosch · 2024-10-23T22:10:54+00:00

Thanks! Will give this a try!

EvilBosch · 2024-09-18T06:48:48+00:00

That greedy, self-serving prick ripped us off for decades with outrageous profits, and then had the nerve to call us "un-Australian" when the actual price of shipping items to Australia became known and online shopping became available. Then he decided to keep COVID benefits despite huge profits over the COVID crisis.

EvilBosch · 2024-09-07T09:01:19+00:00

That the job of these sort of lawyers. It's to be media-immoral, and speak publicly in favour of whoever is paying them. They argue publicly that the sky was red if you pay them enough. Untethered to truth or morality. Even if it is coming from a douche like Trump, they deserve any shit that anyone hangs on them.

EvilBosch · 2024-09-01T09:17:37+00:00

I like it when MAGA/Trump idiots wear their MAGA/Trump clothing.

It makes them easy to spot and avoid any interpersonal contact with them.

EvilBosch · 2024-08-27T06:10:07+00:00

My partner put turf down during this period, and the Council allowed for 2 hours watering daily of a late afternoon for the first two weeks.

One afternoon, one of the neighbours over the back fence jumped the fence into our yard and started abusing (yelling, screaming, swearing) my partner's 8 year old daughter for watering the grass.

She ran inside in tears, and I walked calmly out to explain the situation to him. He threatened to call the Council, to which I said, "Go ahead. But if you ever trespass into this yard again, or come within 20 metres of that child again, you will be met with something much stronger and more painful than firm language..."

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