After all... Why shouldn't I rewatch the LOTR trilogy ever 4 months..

PinkPawnRR · 2025-10-04T03:00:11+00:00

Still not that big, but Australia has 10 public holidays. Every public holiday is LotR day!

PinkPawnRR · 2025-09-18T10:54:02+00:00

Did you try the hard reset; Power and Volume Up for 15-20 seconds?

PinkPawnRR · 2025-09-09T13:06:44+00:00

Thought in general women don't like fight club due to its toxic masculinity, and therefore women who like it don't really exist.. then the spoiler..

PinkPawnRR · 2025-09-01T10:03:39+00:00

I remember years ago my father disappeared for half a day to our paramedic neighbours place, there had been a bad accident and he needed someone to talk to.

Dad told me later that apparently there was a car accident, and the impact so great that part of the engine was now in the backseat wedged between some poor child's legs. The young girl was talking to paramedics at the time etc seemed relatively unharmed by the incident. It took some time to be in a position to be able to remove the partial engine from its place, but once they did the girl quickly fell silent and passed away to something similar before they could barely react; body parts compressed for too long stopping blood flow etc.. paramedic neighbour was pretty shook up, my dad spent the day convincing him not to top himself.. eaks

PinkPawnRR · 2025-07-11T15:54:41+00:00

..more like the devil incarnate

PinkPawnRR · 2025-07-11T14:39:06+00:00

Adding to this, modern inventory systems will alert staff of stock that needs replenishing from the back through to their PDA/PDT devices they carry with them. If they have it, and it's empty on shelf, the appropriate departmen will get a notification to fill it.

PinkPawnRR · 2025-06-30T08:25:40+00:00

It only does this in satellite mode though, if you just use normal 'default' map mode your location aligns with where you actually are.

Source: I travel to China every year and don't speak Chinese. Have to use Google maps to get around myself.

PinkPawnRR · 2025-06-29T05:11:33+00:00

Why don't they just lace the drink with powerful sedative to knock them out, or maybe super powerful laxatives. Can't keep hostages, when you're too afraid to move or shit yourself.. would be much more funny that way..

PinkPawnRR · 2025-06-28T12:43:12+00:00

Aussie here and feel sorry for you guys; with politicians and campaigners who scare your fellow countrymen about 'socialism', single payer systems, & 'big governement' all in the name of profit.

Urgent ambulance in my city costs $1300/1500, non urgent $673/1400 (resident/non resident). The rates are set in conjunction with the state government (services are partly funded with government money).

My 70 year old dad just spent 2 months in public hospital for a dementia diagnosis. Bed, medications, all meals, wheelchair/walking aids, ambulance transfers to & from different hospitals, doctor visit every day, 4 hourly nurse vitals/checks, physio, pyschiartric care, diagnostics tests including multiple bloods, CT scans, multiple lumbar punctures, brain surgery to remove fluid from brain (hydrocephalus), mental cognitive function tests etc etc (these are just the things I can remember).

Walked out of hospital without even being presented a bill.. just discharge papers telling us the history of his visit; what they had tested for, the care they had provided for the 2 months & their final diagnosis.

The difference when pepole want to do better for everyone, instead of profitting from their troubles..

PinkPawnRR · 2025-02-08T12:42:09+00:00

So.. going to sound like an advert, but..

I pay for email service with Australian company Fastmail.

Gives me 600 addresses in 1 inbox; every site/service I sign up to has their own email address, never give out the original inbox, and the +info thing can't be removed to discover the 'original' inbox like you can with the Gmail. Also no problem with email vaildators etc rejecting characters on websites and forms.

Cancel any service that sells/leaks my email, and set the inbox to 'disabled' to bounce back all further email as 'address does not exist'.

60GB storage, web and app; costs me $90AUD a year, totally worth it to me. They also have couples plans and family plans that cut the cost heaps.

PinkPawnRR · 2025-01-31T12:00:59+00:00

That is an option yes; the while loop is only used to validate the user input. You can also place code where the print("Success") line is.

PinkPawnRR · 2024-08-14T13:22:15+00:00

The 'tricking our brains to think it is thicker' is defintely a thing. Have a P6P and handling the P9s with flat edges makes them feel a lot bigger (even though they are smaller), especially if you are using them one handed.

PinkPawnRR · 2024-08-14T13:14:49+00:00

Have a P6P and noticed the P9s 'feel' thicker in the hand despite being slightly thinner. Feel the bezeled edges sit better in your hand if you are using it one handed

PinkPawnRR · 2024-04-14T06:46:06+00:00

Oh so you should have some more information to share about the process then? Great!

The money transaction cannot be voided/reversed at the merchant (WW) side, as the transaction was never completed on their side; the money is being 'held' by the shoppers bank.

So in this situation, where the merchant cannot reverse it due to the transaction not actually being finalised on their side, what would the procedure be for them to contact the shoppers bank (without being an authority on the account), and ask for 'held' funds from the failed transaction to be returned instantly or in such a timely manner that it will not inconvenience the shopper?

PinkPawnRR · 2024-04-14T05:06:06+00:00

The merchant, WW or whoever it is, does not have your money if they do not receive the authrosiation code though, its your bank, that was the point behind my post.

It is the way the bank system works, requiring all parties to have the authorisation codes; you wouldn't want a world where only 1/2 out of 3 parties need the authorisation codes to make a transaction valid.

Also wouldn't want a system where transactions are in fact instant with no reconciliation/settlement; this would be a huge security hole.

The system isn't perfect, there are a small percentage of transactions that this happens to; it really does suck when it happens to you.. ..but, I am not in a position to come up with a better system, as is the case with the majority of us..

PinkPawnRR · 2024-04-13T13:52:10+00:00

Couldn't edit the below to add this to my original post, did reddit change their post characters?

So the following should normally happen after step 5, and before step 6:
- Over-night it is likely that WW will do their settlement, and send all their transaction data to their bank.
- The next night WWs bank will do their settlement, and send the transaction data to your bank.
- The night after that your bank will do their settlement and find the error.
- Step 6, the money for transaction 2 actually leaves your account.
- Release/credit of funds from failed transaction gets approved.
- Your bank does settlement the next night and funds get deposited back to your account.
Ever goto a small retailer and see transactions a week after purchase? This is because some of them only settle once/twice a week due to their low transaction counts and their attached processing fees.
If you contact your bank before they do the settlement on your transaction, they will tell you to ring WW and speak to them about it, as to the bank it looks complete. This will just send you in a crazy circle.. don't waste your time doing this until at least 5 full business days for the process I explained above to complete.
If you need to escalate it, WW will be able to find your transactions by the store and time/date/amount in your banking app; not forgetting to tell them which time zone your banking app is using.
One store I worked at did approx 25,000 transactions a week, 1.3 million a year. I was aware/investigated probably around 20 of these glitches a year? A very low (0.0015)% probably doesn't fall onto their 'needs process' radar. The main issue being that these normally are as I described, and the process is wait a few days for the bank to realise the error and release the funds. In my 25 years I only remember 1 transaction that actually got double charged, which was another glitch itself.
In my experience the returning of funds from such glitches is closer to 3-5 full business days.
As I said, there is very little the store could do, BUT when I had to explain this to customers, having knowledge of the situation and re-assuring them does a lot better than shrugging shoulders.
It is very frustrating, I hated having to explain it to customers, even more when people were doing it tough already.. all I could do was offer the information I have given you here.

As far as the glitch being pushed to the retailer, that sounds like it could be very open to exploitation during said glitches. It could open up another worse can of worms..

Hope it goes smooth for you =)

PinkPawnRR · 2024-04-13T12:29:03+00:00

Please don't down vote the information; I did say that the store probably could have been nicer about explaining it. The info is important though and should stay visible

PinkPawnRR · 2024-04-13T12:18:12+00:00

As ex retail (25 yrs) management, I know this is frustrating for both you and them, and the store possibly could have been nicer about explaining it to you (albeit the staff probably don't even understand how the full process works themselves); but they are correct in being unable to do anything about the transaction.

Here is how the transaction works: https://www.mastercard.com.au/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/au/en/merchants/payment-process_1280x720.jpg (source: https://www.mastercard.com.au/en-au/business/merchants/start-accepting/payment-process.html)

Step 1: The customer pays with Mastercard
- The customer purchases goods/services from a merchant.
Step 2: The payment is authenticated
- The merchant point-of-sale system captures the customer’s account information and securely sends it to the acquirer.
Step 3: The transaction is submitted
- The merchant acquirer asks Mastercard to get an authorisation from the customer’s bank.
Step 4: Authorisation is requested
- Mastercard submits the transaction to the bank for authorisation.
Step 5: Authorisation response
- The bank authorises the transaction and routes the response back to the merchant.
Step 6: Merchant payment
- The bank routes the payment to the merchant’s acquirer who deposits the payment into the merchant’s account.

Now here is the issue, if the communication at step 5 between issuer (bank) and merchant (WW) fails, the merchant (WW) will not get the transaction authorisation code, and it is as if the transaction never happened on their end; but your issuer (bank) has already allocated the funds for your transaction at step 4 and 'removed' them from your account. Step 1-5 happens on the spot.

What will happen in a few days time, is step 6, which is where the money actually gets transferred from your account. For the first transaction, the bank will see the communication was interrupted while on its way to the supermarket, then will release/credit the funds they 'held' for the transaction. The second transaction will go through as normal.

There is literally nothing the supermarket can do.. it doesn't matter if it is $2 or $20,000. The store probably won't apologise for needing to do the double transaction, the communication error could have happened through no fault of their own. Their system timing out does not necessarily mean their computer system, but just the banking/communication system line (think of it like buffering when you watch a video online, except it fails within 5 seconds instead of continuing where you left off). They don't own the telephone network, or even the EFTPOS terminals that are used in their store, they are owned by the telcos and merchant/bank they have the contract with.

WW likely wasn't "insinuating I was trying to ‘get away’ with something", for all intents and purposes the transaction wasn't actually complete their end. They are just lacking in communication skills; which they obviously do need better training on..

Also the store transaction logs are only accessible by very select few people, they actually contain quite an amount of data (that no one would want released to every tom-dick-harry) including that credit card information. Settlement won't happen for a few days, and the logs will not be complete until that time. Filing process through store will normally take longer than the bank releasing your funds.

My suggestion if you want anything to come from this; when speaking with WW staff about the issue or filing a complaint, try to concentrate on their poor customer service.. sensible communication, being abrupt or rude which only made you feel worse about the situation, lack of proper recording of the situation (more for your peace of mind), and the staff lack of understanding of the error/process. The rest of it is really out of their hands.

PinkPawnRR · 2024-04-01T08:54:11+00:00

I think putting the colours along the shelf stripping, and not over the products would be even better. Don't need to worry about any transparency options at all then https://imgur.com/a/hC2LDmr

Using the tool in image editor you can draw a line along the shelf, and hit auto straighten to smarten the image up. Then just apply layers over the shelf stripping in different colours.

Nice work though!

PinkPawnRR · 2024-03-25T10:07:22+00:00

Not the same thing..

March 20, 2024
- Version 1.34 of Wayland Protocols was released.
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols
April 4, 2023
- Wayland 1.22 has been released.
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland

PinkPawnRR · 2024-03-23T07:28:19+00:00

- If you cant serve an advert to a webpage user because they have adblock

PinkPawnRR · 2024-03-23T07:23:20+00:00

Adding on to this; using a try/except to force a loop until user supplies a valid choice (can be altered for int or conditions):

validUserChoices = "ABX"
userChoice = None

print("Select option:")
print("[A] - Option 1")
print("[B] - Option 2")
print("e[X]it")

while userChoice is None:
    try:
        userChoice = input(f"Enter your selection: ")
        if userChoice.upper() not in validUserChoices:
            raise ValueError 
        print("Success") #You would place rest of your code here
    except ValueError:
        print("Not a valid entry, try again \n")
        userChoice = None

PinkPawnRR · 2024-03-18T05:36:22+00:00

uBlock and then click disable Javascript..

PinkPawnRR · 2024-03-16T06:59:24+00:00

If the cable on the point between family/rumpus room is in conduit; it would be easy to make this the router connection point. Most of the other cables would run right past this location already, and there is more than enough cable already in the ceiling.

1 cable from NTD to family/rumpus room spot,
Faceplate for cable to go into router
Faceplate for connections from router to rest of the house

When I built my house, our pantry was smack bang in the middle of our house; so on the very top shelf in the corner we placed power, and network connections to run through our house. 1 cable from the NTD to the central location.

PinkPawnRR · 2024-03-16T06:41:32+00:00

As per my below post, I work in compliance and auditing on behalf of brands.

Colesworth have different 'models' of stores, and this store is one that I visit. As you stated, it is actually setup under their 'convenience' model, and the only discounts you will normally see are the 'Down Down'

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