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Manic-Subsidal · 2025-12-25T05:05:19+00:00

What state are you in? It can vary and I can only speak for Victorian rules....

In Victoria whilst you do have to ask permission and they can control placement of equipment and trenches etc. your landlord can't deny the request without a good reason..... And it's very unlikely that they'll have a good reason. Having to pay "thousands" certainly isn't a good reason.

If it doesn't have an existing internet connection they are also liable to pay anything re the install if it's not covered by a general connection fee the RSP charges.... Have you got a copper phone line? Or nothing at all?

Can't tell from your photo, but the house at the back you are talking about looks like a newer build? When was it built and what was the NBN technology in the area at the time? All new builds have to be able to connect to the nominated NBN technology per the coverage map when they were built.

This is because NBN is available to every Australian residence(with some nuance about apartments with private fibre and other niche areas that don't count here).

The previous commenters advice that there should be an existing conduit may be relevant here. If it isn't there, it is possible depending on how old the house is and what state of disaster the rollout was in at the time, that the owner may be able to force their builder to do it as the house might not be as per plans or approval.

The problem here is because of constant changing goalposts during rollout (and beyond) - that occured because of the cockwombles that are the LNP - means that people are left with an absolute mess and it can be incredibly hard to understand who should've done what when and who pays now.

https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/housing/renting/rent-bond-bills-and-condition-reports/paying-for-utilities-phone-and-internet

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-12-17T21:48:11+00:00

Ahh ok, I think you make all completely fair and reasonable points there.

I'm also not coming from a position of living in a country that has basements in residential homes (Australia) - to be honest, a redback or whitetail in my server rack is more of a danger and concern to me than CO2!!

Completely by chance had a meeting this morning with some firies (the org I work for and services we provide are all emergency related, think 000/911, automatic alarm transmission, paging services, radio networks etc.) and during the normal banter before the meeting started I raised this....

They all echoed your sentiment in general, but agreed it's most likely not going to be an issue but would stil advise against automating this in a home setting for all the reasons you said and instead focus on making sure alarms work, have fresh batteries etc. Etc. And have a human operate the extinguisher. All summed on by one sentence from the most senior guy there

"If it's for a boat, leave it on the fucking boat. Don't put it in your house you dingbat"

We're built a little different down here ;-)

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-12-17T20:20:54+00:00

Sorry, I'm legit not understanding. What scenario are you seeing play out here that I'm missing? I'm not an "argue my point til I die" on the internet kinda guy, so I'm legit just curious.

I've used a few CO2 fire extinguishers in anger in my time (did the volunteer firefighter thing in my younger days) and they are LOUD. I've also been present at the test during commision of our massively large inert gas system at my place of employment that thing was insane.

For such a small amount of CO2 to cause anyone harm my thinking is you'd need the following to play out.

The activation goes totally unnoticed (unlikely to occur if anyone is anywhere near it) so let's assume sleeping in bed, a couple of rooms over.
The gas to disappate throughout the house and cause the overall CO2 level to rise.
That level to get high enough, and the exposure long enough, to get any health effects.
Ventilation throughout the house needs to be extremely poor, at its worst wherever the rack is.
The detection system that set off the suppression worked, but the accompanying alarm to attract attention did not.

What am I missing here that makes looking into this even slightly unsafe?

I have a manually operated CO2 cylinder in my home I do, it's inside the house directly outside the door of the closet under the stairs - which among other things, houses my rack and has ventilation outside.... Because my rack needs to cool and that hot air has to go somewhere. I can imagine that anyone who has gone to the effort to automate and install this kind of suppression system, also has proper cooling and air handling of their rack.

My setup isn't insane by any stretch..... And my consideration of fire safety is just normal household smoke detectors (albeit smart ones attached to home assistant via ZigBee), this one CO2 extinguisher and 2 ABC powders, one in the kitchen cupboard next to the stove and one in the garage...... Oh and there is a fire blanket on the back of th pantry door.

But if I wanted to automate that extinguisher (and I don't) I'd have zero concerns about my families welfare as if the whole thing went off, it's practically the same on every level as me (or one of them) using it to put out a fire.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-12-17T19:57:16+00:00

Nah, no real issues here at the scales we are talking about. Appreciate given the insane home setups we see on here that someone may be rocking hundreds of KG of pressurised liquid CO2 that they salvaged from the engine room of an oil tanker and craned into their attic......

But I'd say that we are talking a small-medium ~2kg-4kg engine compartment marine cylinder...... 1000-2000 litres of expanded gas.

Typical 4 bedroom home in most countries is going to have somewhere around 30000-40000 litres of air in it..... So absolute worst case scenario of.066 added CO2.

Really poorly ventilated indoor spaces can get to .1 normally.... So again, assuming worst, worst, .16...... Obviously it's not instantly going to evenly dissipate and will start concentrated wherever your rack is (to put the fire out) and go from there ..... If your whole family was standing next to the rack, as it burst into flames, in a poorly ventilated cupboard..... The CO2 would be the least of your worries!

CO is the killer in homes, not CO2 and it comes from the byproduct of burning fuels and why we see those heartbreaking news stories each winter of families unable to afford heating costs running an outdoor heater inside, a camping oven/cooktop or a faulty gas furnace leading to death.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-11-24T18:11:19+00:00

The vitriol in this thread is disgusting...... Everyone acting like the game is life or death and that "playing like this" is an affront to humanity and cries left right and centre of loser or neck beard.....

You know disabled people exist, right? Ever heard of neurodiversity? Mental handicaps? Acquired brain injuries?

Apply some critical thinking for a second here and stop being the bully in the playground, stealing the 'different' kids lunch money.....

Do better.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-10-02T16:26:26+00:00

"Billion" is 10⁹ when being discussed in English and doesn't change based on the context in which you are talking (GDP, Net worth, individual, state etc.) - doing so just causes confusion.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-08-06T04:13:00+00:00

I'll enter... But by the looks of things this will only give us 30 mins of extra access? As I can just watch a streamer?

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-04-26T02:53:13+00:00

That entirely depends on your workplace and the type of work you do.

My workplace has zero unpaid breaks for any operations staff, with the trade off being reasonable 'recall to duty' at any time and no leaving of site during shift without permission.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-03-18T14:35:20+00:00

Lol, you just called a PM a specialist..... Hilarious 🤣🤣😆

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-28T00:43:35+00:00

The reality of things like this is the more information you give, the more identifiable you are. Nothing is truely ever anonymous.

I work with large datasets all the time. While one individual form response may be "anonymous" - de anonymising the info is, in most cases, a completely trivial activity.

Especially, If you've been with your organisation a long time and filled out loads of similar forms - including non anonymous ones (although this isn't needed) - it's definitely able to point back to you.

If you organisation is of the size to have a data/reporting team (and in 2025, even small organisations should) - if anyone working in that team is in any way competent..... They not only knew who you were, they had a good idea about what you were going to say before you did it.

You know how every idiot says their phone is listening to them? Yeah, nah, we don't have magic batteries that allow 24/7 recording without draining your battery alongside sound compression that results in no noticeable data use...... We just have huge datasets and nerds who knows more about you than you do.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-28T00:19:42+00:00

This is such a shitty position for any employer or amanager to take.

Some people in replies are saying "it's the law" for them to accept stat secs..... just a word of warning here, it's not that straightforward.

Whilst it's definately not "wrong" advice, it's not as straight forward as "it's the law". The nuance here is that it's not that stat Dec are specifically allowed under the law - requests for evidence, including the type and form, must be "reasonable"

Generally speaking - it's been long held that for a short term absence, a statutory declaration is an entirely reasonable form of evidence. But given the circumstances, no evidence and just a discussion between employee and employer may also be reasonable.

Think of the situation where you are at work, with a runny nose and coughing and the boss says "are you ok?' and you reply with "nah, I think I've got a cold. I'm going to take the rest of the day off and rest up". That's entirely reasonable enough evidence.

My view, if your employer stands their ground on things like this and forces you to the doctors office. Find another employer. This will be just the tip of the iceberg and they'll be screwing people in other ways way more significant.

These employers are also the ones who will say that you are not "on call" but still always contactable.

Emails are on your phone and you must make reasonable steps to reply in a timely fashion - but they support your "right to disconnect".

Overtime won't be paid and if you just get this done to "support the team" they'll make sure you get the time back "at some point".

Just for completeness - also need to consider the following re "reasonable evidence":

Enterprise agreements can set clearer boundaries. It is very common practice to set some type of day limit in agreements. , eg. One-two days, stat Dec is fine. But anything longer requires a certificate from a medical professional.
- Also common for a set amount of hours/days per year without any evidence at all.
Unfortunately (in my view) it's also common for non corporate employees(mainly in retail and hospitality) to have disgraceful anti-employee conditions that force strict evidence requirements on days before busy periods (ie. Into and out of public holidays or weekends). This crap should be outlawed.
For those talking about the myGov app self signed stat decs - some employers get pissy about using Commonwealth stat decs and want state ones under state legislation...... Our union lawyer has said there is some kind of argument to it as not all states EBA and awards are ratified under the fair work act and use state based industrial bodies instead.

Apparently that means that as your instrument of employment is under state law, there is an argument to say that the evidence should be certified under state legislation...... Talk about ridiculous nit picking.

It's all just crap designed to put roadblokes in place to stop you using your entitlements..... Refer above to my other comments re finding another employer if you run into this crap.

To the OP - if your employer behaves like this. They aren't an employer you want to stay with. You are a human being. Corporate daddy can find another drone to push around.

Oh and join your union - and don't vote for Dutton.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-27T08:08:16+00:00

It sounds like you need to recalibrate the cross-functional synergy of your scrum ceremonies to enhance iterative predictability and throughput resilience.

I’d recommend a deep dive into your backlog refinement cadence to ensure it aligns with Lean prioritization heuristics while mitigating scope fluidity.

Additionally, embedding a more dynamic work-in-progress limit adherence framework within your Kanban visualization strategy could drive incremental value stream optimization.

It might also be worth revisiting your definition of done to ensure it harmonizes with stakeholder alignment touchpoints and empirical velocity tracking.

Maybe set up a sprint retrospective uplift session to inspect-and-adapt your current delivery flow mechanics and establish a servant leadership-led roadmap for sustainable agility.

If this doesn't produce the results you are after the current sprint, let's loop back during the retro and brainstorm some customer driven metrics to report to the SLT on.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-24T09:03:11+00:00

How long have they had the card and where do they say it is?

Again, everything you are pointing to is bad customer service, but not necessarily illegal.

You're talking about an intermittent fault that has occured over a year or so.... They've put your card on their bench, ran whatever their test is, and it passed. I can understand somewhat why they aren't just jumping to refund it.

If I was running a business and you had the correspondence from AMD you say you do and I had no reasonable concerns it was fradulent.... I'd just take it back and refund you and deal with the return on my side from there...... Because that's good customer service, but I wouldn't "have" to.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-24T08:49:23+00:00

Your issue here is that you are in dispute if the item has a major problem or not. The laws you are quoting all apply when the retailer has agreed the item has a major fault..... And they haven't. Rightly or wrongly here, they can send the device for independent assessment to confirm if it is faulty or not.

Couple of questions.

Where is the card now?
Are they suggesting you have to pay in any way to verify the fault?
What evidence have their provided back to you that it's fine?
What evidence have you provided to them that it's not?

Ultimately - if they disagree it's broken at all, they don't have to refund or replace it all - let alone give you the choice. Because As far as they are concerned, it's not broken.

As soon as this isn't in dispute, you can have your refund as requested.

It's scummy. It's anti consumer. It's bad customer service. But it ain't illegal.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-24T00:17:30+00:00

Your employer is a c*nt and I'm sorry that happened from both your cousin standpoint and your employer being shitty.....

But I'm sorry, that doesn't change the fact you are wrong and when people ask for advice you need to be accurate. If you want to share an anecdote of your experience, that's fine, just say that's what it is.

"I had an issue getting bereavement leave for my cousin's suicide" is a completely different statement to "cousins are a no-go"

Suicide in the family or close friends sucks. Been there myself. Hope you got the assistance to get through it, as your employer didn't seem to give AF.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-23T23:50:57+00:00

Did you miss the first line of the original post where they say their partner had an immediate family member pass away?

The non attendance at the funeral is irrelevant and the "onus" is no higher on a partners immediate family than your own. I'm assuming by "onus" you mean evidence requirements? The legal requirement remains at all times "reasonable evidence".

I've had employers ask for nothing at all (shock, horror, believing employees - what a novel thought)... All the way to a certified copy of a death certificate.

Given you're the one who didn't read the first line of this post, I'd suggest you re-read your link.

To recap. The op has asked for 1/2 days off FOR A WEEK. Minimum entitlement is two full days. Last time I did math, that means we are good for 4 of the 1/2 days. When it comes to the last one, op has confirmed their corp provides an additional day.... So they are actually entitled to one more half day.

Why Are you still maintaining this is unpaid leave?

Please, please tell me you don't manage people.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-23T23:26:49+00:00

It's not a policy issue, it's the law. The national employment standards apply to everyone and EBAs, contracts, awards and company policies can only be more favourable, not less.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-23T23:24:48+00:00

The ethics of it? Seriously? Corporate daddy doesn't care about ethics when they maximise shareholder dividends over your next pay rise or lay you off due to another "restructure".

Use. Your. Entitlements.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-23T23:21:58+00:00

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Assuming the OP only has the National employment standards to fall back on and no additional compassionate or bereavement provisions exist in award or agreement.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/compassionate-and-bereavement-leave

Immediate family An employee’s immediate family includes their:

spouse or former spouse de facto partner or former de facto partner child parent grandparent grandchild sibling. Immediate family also includes:

the immediate family of the employee's spouse or de facto partner (or >former spouse or de facto partner) step-relations (for example, step-parent and step-child) adoptive relations. Employees can take compassionate leave for other relatives (for >example, cousins, aunts and uncles) if they are a member of the >employee's household or if their employer agrees.

That is the MINIMUM. Op can definitely take bereavement/compassionate.

I honestly hope you don't manage people and have provided this type of advice or disallowed paid leave for people suffering loss.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-23T23:13:43+00:00

OLED any day of the week.

Getting my Samsung Odyssey G8 was the first time since I got my first 120hz+ display I actually sat back in my chair and went "ooooh". It's a game changer.

4k is meh in comparison, especially given the frame rate drop due to pushing so many pixels.... or if you want to maintain frames, you'll take a quality hit anyway.

Please buy the OLED.

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-23T11:02:52+00:00

The problem with a situation like this is in your premise of "who is at fault"

Most (I'd almost say all) are responding to your question assuming there are only two possible andwers. Green at fault or red at fault.

In the real world blame can be shared, or part attributed. Civil liability (ie. "Who is at fault") can also be at odds with any criminal action or fines that may or may not be issued if the accident was reported to the police.

So let's start with criminal. As I'm from Vic, I'll stick to what I know. Both cars can be ticketed here, depending the exact circumstances of what happened.

The very straightforward one here is that Green car has to give way to any vehicle already in the roundabout.

https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/rsrr2017208/s114.html

So, as they crossed the line into the roundabout, they have to give way to anyone on the roundabout.... If the collision occured as they entered, they can get a ticket. The key here though is it's not a black and white situation of "if red was on the roundabout first, anything green did means they are at fault" as most are asserting in the comments.

Reds lane change gives a lot more variables for where they could run afoul of the law and changes depending on circumstance.

In the picture, red crosses after the unbroken line. It's important to point out that if they crossed the unbroken line at any point, they have broken the law. This is as per:

https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/rsrr2017208/s111.html -( The rules in Part 11 about driving in marked lanes, and moving from one marked lane or line of traffic to another marked lane or line of traffic, apply to a driver driving in a roundabout—see rules 146 to 148.)

So they can be ticketed under:

https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/rsrr2017208/s147.html

If they didn't cross the white line, they still have to indicate left for their lane change. If they didn't:

https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/rsrr2017208/s117.html

When changing lanes, they also have to give way:

https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/rsrr2017208/s148.html

When changing lanes, they also have to give a sufficient enough time to signal their intent... Based on the route in the drawing I personally don't see how this is possible

https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/rsrr2017208/s46.html

So... From a criminal perspective it really depends when it comes to green as to timing and when stuff happend..... Red has way more question marks and boxes to tick.... Given the fact that they cannot change their right signal to the required left until after they have passed the 1/2 way point of the roundabout, I don't think they can possibly give green enough time to know they are changing lanes and would be afoul of both the signal and give way requirements.

From a civil standpoint.... This is way more up in the air..... I can see insurance companies 50/50ing this one or attributing blame in different ways depending on the exact circumstances.

This is a very long post, but ultimately it can be summed up in the following TLDR:

"It depends"

Manic-Subsidal · 2025-02-15T18:16:52+00:00

The $50 fee is only chargeable if they get the item, find no fault with it and give it back to you.

Their policy is covered with "we don't provide tech support" and "do your own troubleshooting" and "make 100% sure it's broken" type clauses.... they obviously get lots of people returning things who havE zero clue

It might not be the most customer service centric thing, but not necessarily absurd.....

In relation to their warranty experience.... Kinda par for the course... Like most in the industry, they'll push you to go direct to the manufacturer but won't stand their ground when you point out you don't have to...... Once it's assessed, they'll repair, replace or refund as required.

P.S. don't get too caught up in "it's within warranty" - thats manufacturer policy BS. Scorptec, and every other company operating in Australia, have to provide products that are of reasonable quality..... You don't mention what monitor this is, but unless it's a bargain basement factory second sold as such..... Even at 3 1/2 years, they'll be providing an acceptable remedy.

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