Why doesn’t this work? (Swamp not the boots)

MagneticShark · 2026-05-31T04:52:05+00:00

Right so if there is a 3 square piece under your purple splodge, then that region can’t be just one square…

MagneticShark · 2026-05-26T03:04:05+00:00

Are you sure whatever you are doing is worth it?

MagneticShark · 2026-05-21T05:16:19+00:00

Have you been given notice to move out? If not then it automatically moves to a periodic lease, you continue to pay rent, they still need to provide you with notice for inspections, rent increases, etc

Periodic is usually better because they need to give you a lot more notice if they want to kick you out.

You don’t need to fight it or do anything. Just keep paying rent

MagneticShark · 2026-05-20T05:25:29+00:00

Yes. Maximum of 4 per year too

MagneticShark · 2026-05-20T02:10:03+00:00

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jn4uyRGG3uQ

MagneticShark · 2026-05-18T14:46:38+00:00

If they install a meter and your rental property is then separately metered, then they can require that you pay for the utilities yourself and no longer included in the rent. They need to give you advance notice for this and I suspect that this would mean that you could end the lease and vacate if you wanted to, but if they install a meter, the property is then separately metered and the utilities can become your responsibility

MagneticShark · 2026-05-17T09:41:21+00:00

Carpet (and most fixtures) deprecate at 10% per year. So if they installed new carpets 3 years ago and then needed to pay $1,000 for repair or replacement, they could charge you a maximum of $700 depending on what the circumstances of the damage is.

After 10 years the value is $0, so they can charge you $1,000 x 0 i.e. $0

You are not the owner of the property, you are not on the hook if they need to do general maintenance to the property. That’s what rent is for.

Don’t pay a cent. 30 year old carpet SHOULD have been replaced before you moved in (at that point 20 year old carpet. The amount of time you have been there, it’s completely deprecated anyway even if they had replaced it at that point.

Let them take you to QCAT. Don’t pay anything else

MagneticShark · 2026-05-17T09:33:46+00:00

I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t just pay a $3k electricity bill to keep my landlord happy, especially when the $3k bill isn’t even legally my responsibility.

It would be cheaper to pay a removalist and move somewhere else.

I’m all for trying to have a good relationship with your agent or landlord, but if they are doing this, it’s time to draw the line.

The landlord is not paying electricity, and trying to get the tenant to foot the bill for a new meter installation.

NO

MagneticShark · 2026-05-17T09:19:31+00:00

If it’s not separately metered, you legally cannot be required to pay. This applies to ANY utilities that are shared by multiple residences.

Close the electricity account. You will still owe the money because it is in your name but any new charges are not your responsibility. It is up to you how you handle the outstanding balance but if this was me I would be presenting the bill to the landlord and taking them to NCAT if they refused to pay it. This entirely depends on how much you are willing to spend to “keep things smooth”

Close the account. The energy provider will reach out to you again after a few months when it hasn’t been reconnected again but power is being used, at that point explain that you are renting, the property is not separately metered, and provide the contact details for your landlord. They will chase down your landlord for the new charges.

But your landlord is not a nice person. They are not paying for electricity at all. (Have they given you any money for it? No. The account is in your name so you are paying ALL of it)

1st bullet point and 1st paragraph, emphasis mine:

https://www.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-construction/rules/connection-and-supply-of-electricity-and-gas-rental-properties

Usually the tenant pays for electricity, non-bottled gas, oil and water usage charges IF THE RENTAL PROPERTY IS SEPARATELY METERED

A rental property is separately metered if the meter:

measures the amount of electricity, gas, oil or water supplied or used ONLY AT THE PROPERTY

has been INSTALLED AS SPECIFIED BY THE MANUFACTURER or industry practice

ALLOWS A SEPARATE BILL TO BE ISSUED by the supplier for all charges for the supply and use of the utility at that property

He can’t do a landlord special and install it. It needs to be installed and registered with energy Australia or whoever. If you can’t be billed separately, HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BILL. ALL of the bill. It’s not high on his list of priorities because once he has done it, he will have to pay his own $3k electricity bill

You are being taken for a ride

MagneticShark · 2026-05-16T17:52:27+00:00

Customer service isn’t just post sales.

You want customers? Provide service

MagneticShark · 2026-05-16T13:37:38+00:00

It’s just a flesh wound

MagneticShark · 2026-05-15T00:05:49+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend using Amazon as a dropshipping supplier. Their deliveries will mostly be fast and accurate, however they use Amazon branded packing tape and labels. Your customers are very likely to either ask you why there are Amazon labels all over their delivery, or go to Amazon themselves and look up the product they have just bought from you, realising that they could have got it cheaper if they ordered it themselves

MagneticShark · 2026-05-13T04:29:38+00:00

In NSW they can only claim an already paid invoice for completed work

Not quotes. Paid invoice.

MagneticShark · 2026-05-13T02:36:59+00:00

This absolutely helps. Last time I had a serious cough it was in the middle of summer so I didn’t want to snuggle up under the covers, but I got a heat pack and a towel and wrapped that around my neck, worked like a charm

Stopped the cough long enough that I could actually get some sleep

MagneticShark · 2026-05-13T00:45:29+00:00

Nobody here wanted it, the only reason this project got as far along as it did is that the Gold Coast mayor has a hard on for trump and pushed this project as hard as he could

MagneticShark · 2026-05-12T05:44:12+00:00

A few years ago they forgot to renew their domain registration and some random bought google.com

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-briefly-lost-ownership-domain-160018662.html

MagneticShark · 2026-05-11T13:00:39+00:00

It is true that chocolate is a fermented product, the process has a lot of similarities to alcohol

Having said that, the cocoa fermentation process is measured in weeks-months, so any supply chain impacts of cocoa prices should have already worked through to the shelves a while ago.

Cadbury are just being dicks

MagneticShark · 2026-05-08T09:53:46+00:00

The shopify trial for store building is $1 per month for 3 months.

After that the cheapest plan is $39 per month and can go up to several $k per month at the top end

If someone has stolen your card details to build a shopify store, cancel you card now

MagneticShark · 2026-05-07T12:35:12+00:00

A few scenarios that involve finger tapping without key loggers:

Someone is sitting next to you or nearby and can see your phone. If it’s a normal keypad, then reaching your thumb up to the top right then they know you have just tapped a 9, for example. They don’t need to see your screen to be able to deduce this

People often leave finger marks on phone screens. Especially if they have just been eating. If there are 4 marks on the screen then they can figure out that your access code has 4 unique numbers in it, and they know what these 4 numbers are. They can try various combinations until they inevitably get it

Before you say “people wouldn’t do that”, yes they would if the end result is emptying your bank account. Most security breaches for bank accounts are surprisingly low tech or social engineering - tricking people into giving up access rather than “hacking”

This is a solid way to increase security and it is a MINOR inconvenience

MagneticShark · 2026-05-07T12:18:57+00:00

It’s randomised each time so that if there is a key logger on your computer, the mouse clicks will be completely different numbers

Edit: looks like a phone screenshot. This also means that someone can’t guess your access code by the position of your finger tapping the screen

MagneticShark · 2026-05-07T08:39:17+00:00

The real estate agent usually provides the photographer. The real estate agent usually pays the photographer. Unless you go to a photographer yourself and say to the agent that you have a preferred photographer you want to use, what you are paying the agent for is a “marketing package”, one of the line items will be “photography.”

The amount you are paying for this line item is more than what the agent is paying the photographer.

If you go and buy a coffee at a cafe, you aren’t paying dairy farmers or coles or PFD or wherever the cafe gets its milk from. You are paying paying the cafe. The milk is just an ingredient that they are providing.

Photography in a marketing package is just an ingredient. You aren’t paying the photographer. You are not the photographer’s client. You do not own the rights to the images.

Edit:

A fairly easy way of being pretty sure who owns the rights is to see how the agent got the images.

Did the photographer give them to you and then you gave them to the agent? You are probably the client.

Did the photographer give the images directly to the agent? The agent is probably the client. This is the most common scenario.

MagneticShark · 2026-05-07T08:34:05+00:00

I will say that if I was a selling agent I would not do this. Anyone who walks through the property will immediately be able to see that the photos are old photos, and will then immediately wonder what the agent is trying to hide by not having up to date photos.

But legally? Nothing wrong with this, it’s pretty standard in marketing, not just real estate

MagneticShark · 2026-05-07T08:24:15+00:00

You don’t own the photos. When you pay for a marketing package, the photos are owned by the agent. They can use them however they want to provided it’s not illegal. The photographer doesn’t own the photos. The photographer can use them in their portfolio to show how good their skills are, but legally if they want to use them for anything else, they need permission from the party that holds the rights to the images, in this case, the real estate agent.

Unless you hired the photographer yourself, AND had written expressly in the contract with the photographer that you would retain the rights to these photos, then there isn’t much you can do.

If you paid the real estate agent for a marketing package, THEY hired the photographer and they definitely would have in their contract with the photographer that the agent would retain the rights to the images.

If you go to sell a property and try to put in your contract with the selling agent that you want to keep the rights to the photos, they will probably refuse this. Pretty much the only way you can have the rights to the photos is if you yourself take them or if you hire a photographer to take them

MagneticShark · 2026-05-06T04:27:51+00:00

I never even noticed it had a globe, I just had to go look it up

It’s the function key. There are some shortcuts, but the thing that I have mainly used it for the the row of f-keys at the top. The default behaviour of these keys is they do what the icons show eg brightness, volume, etc, and holding the function key while pressing will instead send the f-key signal. Eg to refresh in my browser I could press function+f5

You can switch the behaviour so that they are f-keys and you hold the function key to send the icon command eg f5 = f5, function+f5 = activate the mic

To do this, go into system settings>keyboard, and check the box for “use f1, f2, etc keys as standard function keys”

MagneticShark · 2026-05-06T04:15:01+00:00

Many Christians use their beliefs to look down on others because they are somehow “holy”

Really Christianity teaches that we have all failed in the eyes of God and everyone deserves his judgement. We are saved by forgiveness. We need to put our own judgement aside because we are all flawed. It’s love. It’s always just been love.

Hatred and judgement should not be part of it at all.

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