I’m really sorry. I know how it is to live somewhere you hate.

Re the fridge, I used to live somewhere the kitchen was so small it didn’t account for a fridge (literally no place for even a bar fridge - not built to accommodate one) so I kept my fridge nearby in the lounge. If it turns out that the fridge just doesn’t fit you can get creative or you could use a buy nothing/swap site to get a smaller one just to last you for the 6 months.

(If you have the money you can be a little lenient on convenience/tinned/fast foods just until you get out of there, or cook one pot food. Snacks help greatly.)

I’m sure Givit would take the big fridge, and perhaps the drawers(?). You might get a tax discount for the donations too.

This might not be legal in Australia bc food safety but in Slav countries the washing machine is in the kitchen with hot plates sitting on top because of space and also that’s where the plumbing allows it to be.

And this is hypocritical because I am a packrat/clutterbug when space allows - but I definitely did have ways of storing things/things I would cook or ways of doing things that helped me manage in a small place. Hit me up if you want some tips.

Just focus on survival for now, you’re in a great position to move in with family and save up for a strong return. It’s a lot easier to tolerate a bad situation if there’s an end date in sight.

Edit: I also know that Diabetes Victoria does pickups of clothes and other stuff, and there was a thing I used where you could download a prepaid postage label and mail donations to the Iconic.

However if it’s too much hassle or you don’t have time just do whatever you have to do. I should have thought to tell you this stuff earlier

lol that’s all Greek to me but thanks, I’ve made a note to try and figure it out.

Basically it was my own lack of planning and consistency. I was too lazy or distracted to backup consistently, head full of whatever I was busy with, or gave/lent my backed-up-on-cd music collection to someone else I didn’t stay in contact with. Then my computer would get a virus or a component would break and that was it. Or I lost stuff in moves, or a hard drive I kept to try and salvage later got irreparably damaged in storage.

I still have some kept drives I might try to get data off when I figure out how to do it safely. I know there are a few ways of doing data recovery and I have at least once managed to get a computer going again with a bootable Linux usb just long enough to grab the important stuff. I’ve even used it to rescue scan and find viruses that hid from the AV. Another time I manually put the drive in a drive enclosure.

But with some it might still be risky. I know at least one forces you to enter your Microsoft password to log in (at least while in the computer) which I don’t want to do on a compromised device. I haven’t tried to see if the Linux usb can bypass that or if that’s guarded against. I’m also not sure if there’s any ‘protections’ against accessing data while the drive is out of the machine but I do know that stuff exists with some hard drives so we will see.

Anything I know about computers I had to teach myself, so despite trying to catch up there’s knowledge gaps and lack of experience with some things.

Idk the old drives aren’t urgent. I think for now I’ll focus on getting anything important and possibly time sensitive downloaded to local and then back it up to the hard drive I have, and the hard drives can wait til I have the brain space to deal with it.

The sad part is that reactions to vaccines are vanishingly rare but real. I’m wondering if this lady’s immune system had an unusually strong response and left her with some kind of autoimmune disease as a result. Fibromyalgia can be triggered after being sick with a virus and has been confirmed to be autoimmune.

But it is much better for vaccines to be mandatory to keep herd immunity for those that can’t have them and keep smallpox or polio from coming back. On the balance you just can’t afford to have it be optional.

Ironically the symptoms she’s describing sound like long covid which also gets ignored and denied support. It makes me wonder if her body did massively overreact to even the attenuated virus

I think I need to spend less time scrolling… it just sucks that Outside is hostile

Yeah I was surprised I even dared to go for it. I guess I hadn’t heard people saying it was hard so I wasn’t scared to try, and if it wasn’t good it was a skill issue so just try harder.

Thanks, I could use any tips. I’m still getting into the habit of backups and probably don’t know how to use a NAS.

I’ve got Google drive but my stuff is split over a few email addys and also I kinda don’t trust it not to fail :/

I’ve lost so much to crashes, been really slack. Sounds dumb because I managed to teach myself some stuff that’s more advanced and took a short course on computer repair trying to get up to speed. But due to a weird long term laziness I’m just not familiar or comfortable with the backup and restore processes which should be 101.

I feel like the internet has turned really shit and at some point it’ll be so user unfriendly that it’s barely usable. I miss past eras of it (well the ones I’m old enough to have known) and the niches I like of current day are the ones most similar to that. I want to go back.

Lemmy is like a cosy comforting old school forum.

I had a brain fart and thought you were joking that the DT was his son… even checked to see if you were talking to a mod.

I need more sleep

Happy birthday to the DT and your boy!

I feel like I should save and back up any pictures or music I want to keep onto a hard drive and maybe even have a few versions.

Annoyed that I haven’t done so already because it’s a complete no brainer but life has basically been survival mode for a very long time and any kind of organisation has fallen by the wayside. Even now it seems like a mammoth task.

Physical media just seems like a sensible way to go. I envy the people who are organised and disciplined enough to ‘go caveman’, and also the people who can wrangle Linux.

While going through saving old pictures to my computer I found some of my old art. Doxable so I won’t post it.

But how the hell is it better and more prolific than my art now? To be fair it was basically just copying pictures I liked but there’s some original stuff in there. And back then I didn’t have access to any of the resources I do now, no education on fundamentals other than some completely forgotten lessons as a kid, nothing. I didn’t know to do frames or shapes. I just did the contour lines and paid close attention to the space between them. The hands are a bit wonky but I drew hands wtf.

I guess it’s just elbow grease. Which I’m currently so very short on 😮‍💨

This is seriously concerning. What would have happened if it hadn’t made the news? Also squinting at the conscientious objection

I came at 12.01 and saw there was already a thread

I really hope not

I’ve just seen something about everyone getting age verified for social media, not just kids. Not sure if it’s a reliable source but it’s got me a bit worried. I really don’t want to link my government id to social media.

I might have to download all my pics just in case I don’t get let back in. Overwhelming prospect.

I think you get two free hard rubbish collections a year? Or am I making that up… maybe check with your council and use it as a backup option

This was still bugging me so I looked it up. Yeah that’s likely a universal remote (works on tvs dvd players and other things) which can also be synced to garage doors by the owner.

I think old mate possibly racked it from someone’s car.

What happens if you feed them Pop Rocks?

No worries, I don’t know if any of it is fact but you hear or read things.

I really hope you stay safe

The remote may be a generic one used to see if it opens garage doors to get into houses. The gloves, tools and more keys than one person could reasonably own do suggest break ins.

I know a neighbour had an intruder a few years ago and when they got arrested cops found the person had stolen his keys. So that’s probably it. They might take them intending to come back.

The socks may be used to tie the arm off for injecting, or a spare pair. But with the filters and syringes there it’s probably the former.

Baffled by the plug in light (is that what that is?) but maybe it’s hands free lighting that wouldn’t be too bright.

Perhaps the cops might like a look but not sure what they can do if nothing has happened yet.

Perhaps you might like to babysit a nice loud doggo for a little while til things are less sketchy.

Edit: Security camera is also a great idea if possible

All good, I think we’re starting to lose track of the pandemics

Edit: I am also tired and put the wrong strain 😴

Nah H1N1 is swine flu which fizzled out in 2009/2010 and is endemic now. I’m worried about the newer virulent strains like H7N3 and H7N9 that have been known to pass between birds and cats, and have a high mortality rate in cats.

Thankfully she’s an inside kitty already so hopefully it should be ok. I’ll be keeping an eye on the health of the maggies and other birds.