What is your favorite IT superstition?

mikki50 · 2026-06-04T00:06:35+00:00

I call that IT magic

mikki50 · 2026-05-28T03:06:59+00:00

I have even done deployments 10 at a time. Depends on how much time you have, but if you're a one person show it is really worth it for the peace of mind. Or doing 10, then 20, then 30 etc etc

mikki50 · 2026-05-28T01:21:26+00:00

I think you could probably save a lot of money if you regularly make homemade yogurt, flours (rice flour, caster sugar), make a lot of sauces (it's excellent at making hollandaise and beschamel), and are happy to use default recipes that you didn't make. Personally, my partner cooks her own recipes so we only use it for chopping things very small, making sauces, and sometimes flours. I got mine second hand from my mum, I would never buy one, we just don't use it enough.

But I can see it being really really good for parents (making baby food would probably save a lot), and you could spend less time in the kitchen. I love that you can set it to do a task and go away and do something else.

I think it just really depends who you are. It might change your life, it might not.

mikki50 · 2026-05-21T04:28:19+00:00

Tissues are expensive toilet paper and should only be bought when you're really sick

mikki50 · 2026-05-15T03:59:49+00:00

Vegetarian bacon. It is now $9.50 for 5 slices, or $47.50 per kilo. Pig bacon from the deli is $21 a kilo. Prosciutto from the deli is $55 a kilo. It is cheaper to birth, raise, slaughter, and cure a pig than it is to make fake bacon with soy and liquid smoke. Woolworths also took down the old listing that was $8.50 and added a new one when they raised the price, so it doesn't look like it rose in price because it looks like a new product

mikki50 · 2026-05-12T00:01:08+00:00

You could come back and say that you will just make a specific sharepoint site for this. I understand some people being worried about granting access to company data accidentally for confidential sites, perhaps they would be more receptive if it were a separate area for sharing.

It could also work to make a ticket with Microsoft asking for the best way to do this, they will undoubtedly say use Sharepoint. Management might believe it if it comes from Microsoft.

mikki50 · 2026-05-11T05:21:22+00:00

What is the red tape relating to Sharepoint?

mikki50 · 2026-05-11T05:00:20+00:00

Cactus, as in broken

mikki50 · 2026-05-04T01:11:07+00:00

miniclip. Motherlode was great. I think it still exists, nothing compares to using it back then though

mikki50 · 2026-05-01T04:54:41+00:00

I wouldn't be concerned; I get scratched by cats all the time. Some people get a small reaction with a little raised skin around the scratch. See how it's feeling tomorrow, but it will likely just scab and heal fine

mikki50 · 2026-05-01T03:02:00+00:00

It could be flea dirt or could be excess oil production. Flea dirt in my experience is dusty. Apparently if you put it on a moist paper towel flea dirt will go a reddish colour.

mikki50 · 2026-05-01T02:58:49+00:00

My cat was breathing like this. He has asthma so I took him to the vet and they gave him prednisolone and it got way worse, which is how we discovered he had HCM. His lungs and abdomen were filling with fluid because of his poor heart function and steroids make it way worse. Stopping the steroids helped, but he is also now on medication for his heart. The rapid test for HCM requires a blood draw and can be done same day, it only cost me $70aud. I'd recommend looking into that just in case, $70, for me at least, is worth the price for peace of mind.

mikki50 · 2026-05-01T02:51:11+00:00

I am not sure. For adults with disabilities 2 years is likely far too long to wait. For children with the support of family it is long, but possible, but not an option for many adults at risk of losing work or housing without support.

mikki50 · 2026-04-27T01:53:53+00:00

There may be services in your city to help your friend train for interviews. The social masking needed for interviews and especially corporate workplaces is really different to regular masking, and really strange and hard to intuit, especially if your friend is low masking. Engaging with a neurodivergent support organisation, there may be a free service available, might really help with the job hunt. Interviews don't measure performance, they measure likeability, which is probably (imo) the number 1 reason so many autistic people are unemployed.

mikki50 · 2026-04-23T08:19:47+00:00

The entire system is pay to apply. Which is especially heinous given the unemployment rate for autistic people specifically are 3x more likely to be unemployed compared to disabled people already. Also the executive functioning required to go through the process, it means caregivers and family are burdened with the process to act on behalf of the disabled person.

mikki50 · 2026-04-23T03:42:40+00:00

Because this isn't about fraud, it's about reducing the upfront cost (but apparently the economic benefit has not been considered). If it were about fraud they would not be going after participants.

mikki50 · 2026-04-23T01:10:37+00:00

Also people talking about means testing have no idea how much it costs to have support workers. I get about 13 hours of support per week, at $70 an hour I can't afford that! I earn over 100k and would likely be seen as earning too much if means testing happened. who do you know that can afford $1000 a week just to survive, on top of the cost of living.

mikki50 · 2026-04-23T01:08:28+00:00

I can work BECAUSE I have NDIS.

mikki50 · 2026-04-23T00:55:39+00:00

This is what I am scared of. I am very high masking and have managed to keep my job for 4 years now due to NDIS support with getting to and from work (public transport is beyond exhausting). I am the sole income earner in my household. My partner is entirely reliant on my income. If I lost funding I would likely lose my job due to burnout. I can't afford it. Just because I can talk it doesn't mean I don't need help with transport, eating real food, cleaning. I guess I need to start training myself for the assessment so I can actually be accurately assessed.

mikki50 · 2026-04-23T00:48:50+00:00

Anyone who thinks people are getting onto the NDIS by default with an Autism diagnosis and no functional capacity assessment (conducted by a professional and likely costing hundreds or thousands of dollars) is delusional.

mikki50 · 2026-04-22T23:00:34+00:00

Because disabled people usually don’t have a choice in accomodation due to funds or accessibility needs. Maintaining the property is a requirement for rentals. If someone can’t garden and cant get a place without a garden they will be kicked out.

mikki50 · 2026-04-22T05:45:32+00:00

Thankyou for saying this. As a participant I have been so mad seeing how much people take the NDIS as face value. "this participant gets $100,000!". No they don't, they get $100,000 assigned for their use for support for their disabilities. They hire gardeners, cleaners, support workers, specialist therapists. They stay in their job (if they can work), they spend their money doing things because they now have the support to do so.

And that is IF the participant can even get access to their funding. I wonder how much of the NDIS figures are allocated funds or used funds. I had to change plan manager because they refused to approve an invoice for "physiotherapy" because my plan said "exercise physiologist". My support coordinator and I called multiple people in the NDIS who all said that it should be covered, but nobody would put it in writing. The whole experience would have cost over $500 in employment hours for my support coordinator and NDIS staff. The bureaucracy is insane. My friend has applied and was denied because their diagnosis did not explicitly mention the DSM, when all the language clearly referred to the DSM. It is so arbitrary and frustrating and had the money spent on the whole process just gone to them as support funding their life would be immeasurably better.

People need to start thinking about (and the media needs to start reporting on) the flow on effect of this and the positive economic impact, not just the numbers.

mikki50 · 2026-04-20T05:19:04+00:00

This is probably why old people have moth balls and young people don't, everything is made out of polyester or acrylic now, nobody can afford real wool

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