johnwicksdog

joined 2 months ago
[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

I've played Ker Nethalas and a little bit of Thousand Year Old Vampire. I enjoyed both of them, but in both cases I found myself using Obsidian and later foundry VTT to manage the game. I imagine for some people the goal might be to move away from a computer, and in which case, my experience may not apply.

My experience was positive, but I would like to explore some other games. Ideally something where the randomisation utilises playing cards rather than charts and dice (which was the case with KN). I know KN has cards you can buy, but for some reason they weren't appealing to me at the time. Perhaps incomplete or too expensive... I can't remember.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Ah that makes sense. thank yo

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Maybe there's more to it, but I really don't get the last note about Tidal: Essentially, if you use Tidal, you should know the CEO is has a large ego and is a crypto bro.

I'm sure he's very annoying, but I'm not inviting him to my house for dinner.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Re-inventing helicopters aside, is there any logic to renaming the international and domestic terminals to T1 and T2? I'm not from Brisbane, but it seems that current naming would be more informative.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

On Sydney, and regarding the estimates. We had to wait an hour since the marching started before where we stood even started moving. I too couldn't see the start or the end. I don't now how to measure the size of such a crowd, but 90k has to be an underestimation. The SCG has a capacity of 48k people, and I am familiar with tip-toeing out of that filled stadium. I've been to rallies (albeit 20 years ago) where the numbers were in the tens of thousands. All of those crowds felt trivial in comparison to the one at this march. 300k does seem to be a lot closer to the truth.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Not an expert either but I’ve been to rallies with a conservative estimate of 30k and this was easily several times larger from only what I could see.

The police actually asked people to stay put and await further instructions. Apparently their plan was to stagger the crowd back. But one people couldn’t progress north any further every one just turned back anyway. It was all quite orderly, thankfully.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for sharing. I loved your June list.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sorry, I’m struggling with this one. What is a BSF?

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I use authentik and like it. The learning curve isn’t that steep so not a lot of wasted investment if you decide to ditch it for something else. No password flow with webauthn is pretty cool.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yuck. What a dog act by a slimy company. Glad I took my banking elsewhere.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

Same here, I would rarely see a satellite and mostly only during dusk. Two nights ago I was participating in a star gazing activity as par of a birthday party and it's busy up there now

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

I use Aussie Broadband for on HFC, and their customer service team is beyond amazing and worth their price a few times over. I could not recommend another ISP in Australia as much as I would recommend Aussie.

Not only is the service team based in Australia, but they're knowledgeable and persistent. When I have an issue, they will call me back to check that everything is working correctly and you really feel the person you are talking to is invested in helping you. I'm able to talk to them about things like cgnat etc and they're all familiar with the technical aspects of their service to do what I need. I know if I were to call many of the other large ISPs, I wouldn't get much further than them telling me to turn my modem off and on again.

In fact (and in contrast), last year I had to deal with another famous Australian ISP because my roaming plan stopped working in London. After being escalated, I got someone from overseas on the phone who talked down to me, accused me of lying about my phone's configuration and claiming to be THE EXPERT OF ROAMING (despite being patently wrong about how ITU codes work). It was resolved two weeks later when said nameless ISP found the bug and fixed it for however many users.

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