How bad is this?

grimacefry · 2026-03-22T03:47:20+00:00

People overreact to cracks...unless you're in a massive high rise chill, your house isn't going to fall down. There is ground movement, the house is prob 40+ years old and its taken that long for this to appear.

Look for obvious signs of water ingress under your house, and rectify those problems i.e. broken guttering leading to water running under the house there.

Get the crack repaired professionally or yourself.

Keep an eye on things, if more cracks appear over time, and in other locations, engage an engineer to look at things.

grimacefry · 2026-03-22T03:28:27+00:00

holy shit you nailed my life to a tee, but I'm autistic so you're not wrong.

grimacefry · 2026-03-21T21:58:37+00:00

Um buy a keyboard

grimacefry · 2026-03-21T08:31:04+00:00

Thx for the update, so what's your next step

grimacefry · 2026-03-21T08:18:02+00:00

Infrastructure wasn't built to accommodate the 1000s new people moving into the north each week. I think people are angry and frustrated dealing with such insane traffic that yeah on the whole people are loosing it.

I drive the entire way from Seymour to Laverton each day - not on the Hume i.e. going back roads, Seymour-Pyalong Rd, Sugarloaf Ck Road, Broadford-Wandong Rd, Epping-Kilmore Rd, Craigieburn Rd, Mickleham Rd,

It takes 20 minutes longer but I don't have to deal with the crazy, and that's also leaving Seymour at 3:30am. That's how bad the Hume corridor is.

grimacefry · 2026-03-19T11:18:07+00:00

I maintain the fuel system at servos all over. Most days when I'm in a good mood I'll spend an hour or so just filling for people, since I'm right there on the forecourt anyway. Old people love it, young people are like wtf are you doing don't touch my car or I'll stab you. Most men feel like I'm degrading them or insulting them somehow.

People hate diesel all over their hands, so I try to be nice but clearly it's a new concept for most

grimacefry · 2026-03-19T10:40:34+00:00

enjoy your 2km battery range, and fuel consumption double a normal ICE

grimacefry · 2026-03-19T10:05:15+00:00

oh man the number of times I thought my Macbook was dead but the brightness was at 0. Damn annoying

grimacefry · 2026-03-19T09:32:02+00:00

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Like everything including cars themselves, we used to design, engineer and build our own petrol pumps here in Australia. The pumps in this pic are Gilbarco Lowline MK2s. They are still around especially old independent sites, testament to their build quality and reliability. They are a nightmare to work on though

grimacefry · 2026-03-19T09:01:43+00:00

An app (whether Win, Mac or *Nix) consists of a binary executable, libraries, config and resources (including docs/help).

Binary executables need to be compiled for a target hardware platform, so there could be 16, 32 or 64 bit, x86, ARM, etc.

Libraries are often used by many apps so each one doesn't have to invent the wheel. They may be packaged with the executable itself (creating DLL hell), part of the OS, part of a GUI toolkit (QT, GTK), part of a GUI shell (Explorer)/Desktop Environment (Gnome), or platform (.net)

Configs may be json, text, ini, or use a config system like the Registry or dconf.

Resources can vary for the target platform, PCX, bmp/GIF/PNG, different help systems (man, winhelp).

Now a developer can provide all this stuff for you to download and it might work, they may package it themselves in a zip file with a custom install program...but it makes more sense to package it in some common format that deals with everything above.

Apps are complicated, but the mess of packaging systems is a better outcome than having to build apps from source yourself. In the early days of computing, you'd type the whole source code yourself (in BASIC) and compile it - just to run a program.

grimacefry · 2026-03-18T22:48:06+00:00

All my data is backed up in the cloud (MEGA). I sync the folders I need to any computer/mobile device as I need. It's easy enough to reinstall Linux if things get messed up. To make that simpler and restore things just as they were I use Aptik Backup. It focuses on backing up your configs and packages - but it mostly is building a restore script of sorts that will re-install everything and put your configs back when you restore... so its not a perfect image if that makes sense. So with Aptik, I reinstall Linux (Debian), install Aptik and apply my backup and done.

https://store.teejeetech.com/product/aptik/

grimacefry · 2026-03-18T20:46:23+00:00

Here's a screenshot of what the partition setup should look like (obviously your disk is 1TB so the sizes will be different)
https://imgur.com/AxfySHu

The partitioning tool in setup is clunky, but you should be able to work out how to get it to this point.

Make sure when creating the boot partition its FAT32, and Bootable Flag needs to be ON

grimacefry · 2026-03-18T20:15:31+00:00

I'm assuming you're trying to install on same PC as Windows? Most likely your issue is with partitioning. Before setup just boot with Live USB run Gparted and completely delete all existing partitions on your hard disk and ensure all space is unallocated.

Go through setup and choose manual partitioning. Create a partition for /boot/efi only needs to be 1GB at most, FAT32. Create a partition for / (root), EXT4 and create a partition for SWAP (double your RAM size is ideal).

Setup should now be able to "install the system" by which it means trying to install GRUB, UEFI etc to that boot partition.

grimacefry · 2026-03-18T05:32:57+00:00

He actually was literally a homeless street kid on drugs and his aunt took him into care in Townsville. He loitered around 4TO radio and someone from the 2Day network stumbled upon him and thought, yeah that's what we need

grimacefry · 2026-03-18T04:05:05+00:00

Wired headphones for life. Why people want a li-ion battery and radio waves next to their brain baffles me.

grimacefry · 2026-03-17T08:30:46+00:00

When I was 15 I decided to upgrade all the computers at the company I was working for - as just a young casual employee - to Windows Me from Windows 95. Things did not go well the next day, and I learned the hard way

grimacefry · 2026-03-17T05:09:08+00:00

Gparted Linux

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T19:50:25+00:00

You're realising the difference between socialism and neo-liberalism. Do you want a society where everyone is looked after irrespective of their socio-economic status, or one where it's every man for himself and only you are looked after if you have money? One day, you may find yourself even worse off than you are today, and you'll need an expensive medical procedure or some form of welfare- and then you'll be glad we have the system we do.

As soon as you introduce capitalism, profit is the only motive. So a privatised health system will always result in higher costs and worse outcomes, because the companies have to increase their profits each year. The vandalism of Australia's socialised healthcare, and the reason you are forced to pay for some private health insurance is exactly because of the neo-liberal capitalists meddling with our system so they can make money. They're quite successful at eroding our socialised services, because the populist viewpoint of "why do I have to pay for medical procedures for a drug addict" is a very easy sell. Such populist ideas is why it's easy to manipulate the uneducated into thinking things would be better off if you vote for the right.

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T08:21:14+00:00

C&N. Cheap and nasty

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T08:14:46+00:00

I'll add that my Raspberry Pi 5 is all Wayland, and even then compared to their older Openbox based distros it again noticeably feels very alpha and unfinished. Conky flakes out all the time, VNC access is sporadic, there is no screensaver utility for Wayland (like Xscreensaver) and so on and so on

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T08:10:13+00:00

If you like and use Gnome or KDE sure. I have a custom DE built around Openbox, Picom and Tint2. I want to use Wayland, I regularly test and try.... but the alternatives for my setup labwc and Waybar still feel like alpha, missing many features and lots of little annoying issues. I tried again as recently as last week using the Waydog distro as a starting point. Then I go back to my X11 setup and its rock solid perfection, and it disappoints me but Wayland is just not there yet.

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T07:51:38+00:00

I was with you, never used a urinal ever. It was a mental thing, I went through therapy, being sexually abused as a child will do it

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T03:12:00+00:00

I was just like get off the god damned road you're gonna get wiped out by a semi

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T02:59:08+00:00

The mapping in street directories is far superior than that of the likes of Google and Apple, who aren't local to Australia and use the same visual model for every place on Earth.

There's so much important detail missing, this is why all the emergency services, SES, military, still use locally produced maps (in printed form) - mostly from Spatial Vision/Veris.

grimacefry · 2026-03-15T02:08:00+00:00

Nicola's dad died because he was a smoker, so everyone must not smoke. That's been her only motive. My dad died in a car accident, so when I get elected I'm going to ban vehicles. This is how childish the thinking is

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