It’s not felt so much like panic buying to me as everyone trying to buy on the cheap day of the week to maximise savings causing massive lines.

Walked down the park today and the line for the nolla servo was round the block.

Yep, I came from QC 35 IIs and everything but the noise cancelling quality has felt the same or a downgrade 😔

Will admit the hinges on my QC ultra headphones have been pretty good.

The things that annoy me about them are:

Unable to switch off noise cancellation

The earphone cushions fell apart after 6 months

Custom button action can’t toggle an aware mode

On head play pause was buggy enough to turn the feature off

They semi regularly decide to reboot in the middle of calls and meetings

I’m assuming you are retail and not on the design / software side of things but if you have any power to pass the feedback up the chain plz do ❤️

I’ll second Mr Inbetween.

On point dialogue. You think you’re getting something different but it’s just an incredibly good slice of life. Was scrolling to make sure it was mentioned

You share a lot of my taste and made me check the peripheral but it was only one season like I thought.

Have you seen:

The expanse

Sense8

Ascension (3 ep mini series)

Impulse (jumper universe that felt a bit closer to the vibe of the books than the movie did)

Wayward Pines season one was also ok

medically fascinating

Wow, thought it was… Thanks for the info 😊

Cloud Atlas is my usual mention.

Favourite movie and it’s usually a fairly even split between people like myself who love it and people who think it’s garbage.

Not much middle ground

If you feel like you are about to sneeze but can’t quite manage it (and do want to), tilt your head upwards and look into a bright light.

This is where I’m at too. Mostly just to handle download processing in a better way, most of my searches are still manual but I’m trying to be ready for the chaptarr release.

Running calibre with some stuff to auto convert to kepub and calibre web for Kobo sync.

Finally getting around to setting up a reverse proxy this weekend.

Any good ways of getting the Kobo sync working externally?

Yep, safety net changes slightly each year but it’s usually based on the cost of a certain number of scripts.

This year it’s $1,694.00 for general patients and $277.20 for concession card holders.

When you hit it as a concession holder the cost becomes 0 and as general you get the concession card price for the rest of the year.

This will be the first year of my adult life where I won’t hit it which feels pretty amazing. One new drug lets me drop multiple existing ones and not get sick as often.

100% agree. Dental should be covered.

I don’t mind private health existing but it should only exist without all the bs policy to force you into it and without leeching off public funding through tax breaks and Medicare funding.

Bulk billing fortunately doesn’t impact me because I see a team at hospital outpatients for almost everything.

Fortunately PBS brings one of my speciality meds down to affordability from a few hundo K per year.

My big gripe at the moment is ndss funding for CGM sensors is non-existent if you aren’t type 1. So it’s ~100 per fortnight if you want good glucose monitoring but have some non type 1 need for them.

For comparison…

In Aus I’m paying ~$32 for 25 pens

I recommend kangaroo.

Good lean source of protein. Don’t overcook it though

Weird cultural quirk I know… And Bunnings mandate it.

Honestly at this point we think the slice of bread is a backwards eastern states custom 😄

The one I have has an integrated net. 👍🏼

Yeah the true power of PBS bulk purchasing is amazing. There’s no way the government pays the advertised full price of my drugs.

Probably not even a tenth of it. Thanks to PBS I can afford to not die young. Pretty sure the vast majority of Aussies would agree the US should fuck right off before we consider changing it.

Just gotta come over to Perth 😄