Hell yeah, mate! Especially when it’s Government mandated data harvesting!

eKaren at it again. (Insert “Won’t somebody please think of the children!!” Meme)

All the kids I know are simply laughing it off. It’s done absolutely nothing other than piss people off. But of course, as Australians tend to do, we roll over and take it.

When I say two servers I mean two VMs to get the system to work effectively.

From memory, the admin interface doesn’t get an SSL certificate issued to it. It perpetually stays HTTP. If you don’t set up another server as a reverse proxy, it won’t let you log in due to CORS issues. Add another server as a reverse proxy, and it’ll come good and let you log in.

Hopefully that makes sense?

I mean, my local Colesworth doesn’t really give a shit. I’ve seen people on the phone buying mass gift cards and had to step in because the staff just allow the purchases. I haven’t heard a warning over the PA/in-store radio for years now. YMMV but it’s still a problem around NW Sydney it seems.

Music production. And IT in general.

But specifically the music production; started off as “I’ll by FL Studio and muck around with it” to “I need ALL THE VSTs!”. I’ve sunk like $2500 into it in the last two months (which is a hell of a lot of money to me), and I keep buying shit for it.

Am I any good at it? Fuck no. But it’s not stopping me from keeping at it and buying shit I probably don’t need :P

And the IT stuff consists of rack-mount servers and Pi’s. I’ve sunk around $25k into it all over the last 12 years.

Yeah it’s an absolutely shitty predicament to be placed in.

My partner was lucky in the sense that she’s been given basically guaranteed shifts… but she’s off crook with the flu, which she caught from one of her clients. Which means she’s going to be up shit creek this fortnight money wise.

perhaps having some sort of “earnings bank”

There already is this feature in place for CLink recipients. It’s called “Working Credits”. But, you can only earn 48 “credits” (being dollars) per fortnight, up to a maximum bank of 1000 on JobSeeker. Source

Their example of how it works:

Janine is single, has no children and doesn’t earn an income. Over time, Janine has built up 1,000 Working Credits as part of her JobSeeker payments.

Janine starts a full time job earning $1,600 per fortnight. In the first fortnight the 1,000 Working Credits reduce the amount we count as income from $1,600 to $600. This means Janine gets some JobSeeker Payment that fortnight. Janine’s Working Credit balance is zero.

The next fortnight all of Janine’s income will count. This reduces Janine’s JobSeeker Payment to zero.

My partner went through this recently. She got a casual job (which is great), and used up all of her working credit for the fortnight. I think the amount you can “bank” is a bit too small IMO. Along with the amount you can earn before you’re cut off completely. With Cost of Living going through the roof, she’s finding that she has to cut back on food and other essentials because rent is getting ridiculous, shopping for food is getting ridiculous and yeah. Plus the risk of it being casual work, there’s no guarantee of shifts.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My disappointment is immeasurable… and my day is ruined.

B365 build here (2020 build).

• i7 9700
• MSI B365M PRO-VDH
• RX 5700 XT 8GB
• 32GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz (Yeah, it’s slowwww but it does what I need it to)
• 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe (boot drive, with TRIM disabled because otherwise it takes 5 minutes to boot)
• 860 QVO 1TB (Bulk Storage for music samples and work files, again with TRIM disabled due to boot times)

I’m going to miss Hackintoshing and (same as you) dual booting when they go full ARM-only. But I’ll probably still rock this build for at least the next 3 years before upgrading to a Mac Studio or a Mac Mini.

macOS on a Hackintosh. It’s stable AF, and I love it. Use it for work and music production. Then I dual boot Windows 10 for games.

I just set up Pixelfed myself. I’ve got it running on a 1GB Linode. Would definitely recommend at least 2GB RAM, because mine is using swap like there’s no tomorrow.

Processor wise, one core seems to be OK. My load averages are 0.11-ish.