[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Have the same thing in Australia. Not passport but I returned after years overseas and I think I was applying for a tax file number (or bank account, or both!)

I was just really lucky my father had an old family friend who wss a teacher to sign the paperwork

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Frankly, I think that given the scenario, pre-positioning a tank in that situation probably demonstrates a considerable amount of foresight.

    That sounds SUSPICIOUSLY like something a JAG defense lawyer might say

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Those numbers don’t add up. How are they worth ten times face value? Is bluey that popular?

    Either that article or maybe another one I read says the coins are being traded at ten times their face value by collectors so yeah, maths seems right.

    Like of lot of this kids stuff it's popular, look at how much to those bloody "free" Woolworths(?) little plastic groceries they give away from time to time go for!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What WERE their findings though? I read that link and 80% of it was talking about the "history of Venezuela’s elections"

    Only relevant bit was 5 people went to a few poling stations each and they didn't see anything odd and people seemed to be happy to vote. I didn't see them claim to have done anything that could be considered proving the elections were fair one way or another, other than no obvious fraud at the polling stations themselves.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I tossed it onto a old PC that was struggling with windows a few months ago. It was just a Plex machine and suddenly everything is running faster, easier to use, my wife even commented that she could browse Plex faster than before and videos loaded quickly...

    Good gateway drug for Linux really.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Few steps missing, the squirming, the unexpected discovery it is twice the weight you thought it was, the pointy hooves and contact with various fleshy parts of your anatomy and catching the bloody thing in the first place.

    Honestly from a lamb-over-the-wall perspective this is very much "draw the rest of the owl"

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I stufferd a store in for my players to shop (Foundry) because it had been a while, and just grabbed a pre-built one and tossed it in...

    they spent the night planning and implementing a massive heist because one item cost too much for them to afford and they wanted it..... I had NOTHING for this (half the players beliefs on the shopkeeper, how they worked and how they could be robbed was based on some crappy random generated name and they had made "assumptions"...)

    Found out later they thought I planned it all

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Fidonet all the way initially (At the time it was faster to write your terminal program than to load it off tape every time you started the computer. Was only like 5 lines.)

    But the with the "Internet" I was the first (I think, never saw any others) to write and release a Windows 3.1 program for Finger

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ok wow didn't realise it was that wide spread. These were just some locals talking about stuff and he was proud they had gotton a good deal on seconds sweets. Feeding left over stuff, bread, cakes, seemed common place.

    I was horrified about the plastic but seems to be pretty normal!

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    My wife consumes whatever media I throw at our Plex server and I'd like to stick with it (The tv's + set top boxes/remote controls are all easy for her to use and stream Plex fine)

    I'd grabbed an old work PC I replaced years ago, Windows 10, and tossed a Plex server on it and it's worked for a long time but recently despite being used for NOTHING but Plex, its bloated itself like most Windows machines and I found Cortana taking 90% CPU (despite being disabled via registry) and some updates failing over and over.

    I'd like to replace it (the software) but really no idea where to start, even the most helpful sites are just "use your favorite Unix then install Plex" or "Here are 56 perfect versions of Unix to install for your Plex server"

    Honestly I use it for nothing except Plex, is there something easy enough I could look at?

     

    Had a great deal of fun with my Walstad

    Earlier photo

    Current look, some plants moved over to the left, some of the “bamboo” removed since it just lost all leaves and turned into sticks with a crown of leaves sticking out of the water (Bamboo? whatever the heck it was, just called Bamboo by the store, I have issues buying plants since we are a bit remote)

    Definitely wouldn’t get the Swordtails for the next tank, I just wanted something orange to offset nicely against the green, but they pop out babies every few minutes it seems. I only started with 4 or 5

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