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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    18·
    29 days ago

    I. Am. Done.

    With work for the year. Out of office on, notifications off. Yeeeahhh. Now to clean up and get packed for a wee getaway.

    I am thinking of deleting all social apps for a few weeks. I suspect I will keep jerboa but going to try to have less screen time for a bit. If I don’t catch has then have a good one 🍻🍻🍻

  • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    13·
    29 days ago

    Also, I’m not gonna make it to midnight tonight. Would someone else mind doing the thread please? I’ll be back in action tomorrow night ♥️

  • Nath@aussie.zone
    12·
    29 days ago

    Buying an eGift Card for Christmas:
    Nath: ‘Hey Woolies, I wish to purchase a gift card on your site, but want to delay the gift until Christmas morning. Can this be done?’
    Woolies: ‘Of course not. If you buy a gift card at 2am, we send a text message to your recipient at 2am. They clearly want this gift right now!’

    I’m not going crazy, right? It’s a super obvious thing when buying a gift card that the person buying the gift would want to specify a delivery date/time as well as a recipient yeah? I told my work colleague and he reckons I’m an edge case. Most customers would want the gift sent immediately. Even if I wanted it same-day, I’d want the option to send it during waking hours.

    • indisin@aussie.zone
      4·
      29 days ago

      If you’re bored try chatting with their online support as a side task and raise this as an issue. They’ll stay typing away as long as you keep talking.

      My most recent one was asking them to disable 2FA on my woolies account because it doesn’t keep my devices logged in. I mean NetBank doesn’t have 2FA yet I need my mobile any time either one of us logs in to woolies? Like I really don’t care if someone can see that I cook too many curries at my address. Support person spent about 45 mins with me (I gave them positive feedback, but no they can’t fix my account’s 2FA everytime or remove 2FA altogether).

      You might get them to raise a feature request for you?

      Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?

      • Pilk@aussie.zone
        7·
        29 days ago

        The 2FA on the Oporto app is obscene. You’re logged out every time you launch it, need to enter a text message code to log back in, you get a text and email saying you logged in. Bro I was checking for cheap chicken strips and chips, not accessing the nuclear codes.

        • indisin@aussie.zone
          4·
          29 days ago

          As someone who is in tech this made me actually laugh. That’s absolutely utterly ridiculous, but I understand why those engineers were forced to should implement that.

          • Pilk@aussie.zone
            4·
            29 days ago

            I’m no longer working but my background is tech too, I think it’s because they have a “save this card for next time” so there’s a bit extra needed to for the payment gateway to let you *store card tokens. I suspect they’ve gone a bit beyond the basic requirements though…

            • indisin@aussie.zone
              1·
              29 days ago

              Yeah that’ll be why (for ref I’ve actually architected and built something similar to what you’re referring to for a product you may have used). What they’ve done is still over kill though. The first thing someone should’ve asked is “do we really need this feature?”.

              None of my cards are saved by a site when an out of the box Google solution does the same thing backed with biometrics. That app can’t compete in that feature space and only exposes users to security risks. I’m betting that costs them millions of dollars to implement and then has cost at least a million to maintain so far all for something to expedite a payment process that could already be expedited whilst also introducing tons risk on their side and a degraded and frustrating user experience.

      • Nath@aussie.zone
        4·
        29 days ago

        Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?

        Alas, the promotion I was making use of ends on Dec 20. So that method won’t work. It’s a good idea, though.

        Not sure how such a site would handle payments for the gift cards, though? I sure wouldn’t want to be collecting credit card details and passing them through to Woolies via some API. Any API they have (if they have one) is unlikely to accept payments. It sounds like it’d be less work to make a competing egift card site.

        • indisin@aussie.zone
          4·
          29 days ago

          Think a little more grey.

          Woolies will not have an API for this, therefore you have two options, you could do both.

          a) Schedule the payment from their card (encryption is easy) and charge a % processing fee, declined payments are charged at y% and no gift card is distributed.

          b) Take the payment immediately and hold it in an offshore companies account with one of your subsidiary companies. Sched the payment from that account.

          You could offer both, but with b) you get the fun of having their money in your third cousin’s business account in Belize to turn that $100 gift card for their gran into $200 before buying buying the gift card and distributing it on time.

          If that fails your third cousin’s company can go bankrupt I guess. Shame for them, I’m ure they’ll land on their feet in their next company.

          On the implementation, any website can be scraped / populated with bare basics, so you’d just have to set up a schedule to actually do that to be a legit business without needing to have to get buy in from stores on accepting your special new fooCard.

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
      4·
      29 days ago

      I’m with you on this one - have bought makeup gift cards before and they only had the option of sending when you buy them, too. Very annoying!

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      4·
      29 days ago

      Nah agreed with you. Did a click and collect from Dans for Friday. They sent the text to the person on Wednesday that their delivery was

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    12·
    29 days ago

    Geelong trip was interesting.

    I am not going to make such a trip to see the husband’s cousins again. I invited them to the gallery and the cafe there, my treat. It’s a small place in lovely environs.

    The train was cool , fast and efficient.

    I meet up and they said there is no parking anyway so let’s go to el cheapo shopping mall instead. Even with a denim jacket on I felt over dressed and out of place.

    I gave the lovely b’day gift , which was the reason behind the visit. She loved it all.

    We had sandwiches at the mall , they paid for themselves, they complained about the price even tho it was super cheap.

    After some shopping they took me back to the train station. 🫥

    I walked to gallery and gardens, which were beautiful.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        6·
        29 days ago

        you’ve seen one tacky westfield you’ve seen them all

        i’m not a snob, i don’t mind shops, but not as a social meeting I travel to. Shops to me are utilitarian.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      29 days ago

      Those lions, there are a pair, are pretty big and grand and like the lions you see at many of the famous libraries and galleries around the world.

      The painting really interested me, it’s from the mid 1850s, of a meeting between two men going to the gold fields and a small clan of Aborigines. The Aborigines are wearing possum cloaks with painted markings. They are carrying bags with all their tools and weapons.

      The soil is so red, which is just like it is around Geelong, not much grass and the trees are sparse. There are black boy grass trees, which used to be common in western Vic. You can see the Youyangs in the background.

      The sculpture is of Ruth, a biblical character.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    11·
    30 days ago

    Nearly slapped a pixel out of a womans hand on the train today. I often drive out catch the vline in cause its a shit tone more comfortable, and its easy to nap (as a ton of people do). Got woken up by a lady talking/half shouting down the phone about some project plan, but she ends the call with “sorry, your breaking up! I’ll see you in 15 minutes anyway”. Mother fucker are you serious?! have SOME consideration. even if people around you werent asleep! your gonna see them in 15 minutes anyway.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
        6·
        30 days ago

        LMAO hope shes important enough to easily replace her phone. Theres a lot of derros on the vlines who dont share my patience. I’ve seen a woman nearly attacked for being on a teams meeting on the quiet carriage.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    29 days ago

    The director told me today she’s resigning, and that there’s a wave of resignations coming from everyone else.

    It was so good until the new owners took over.

    Been talking to the people who have been here for ages. They’re absolutely shattered. It was apparently amazing before.

    Bad timing I guess.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    11·
    29 days ago

    Made it to the bellarine.

    Chillos growing quickly which is good. Hoping for dem mini-jungle vibes soon. Not sure why the top right ones (thai) are happier than the rest, hope they’re not crosses. Habs at the front seem uniform-ish.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      4·
      29 days ago

      I have a jalepeno that miraculously managed to survive the winter after being planted in a terribly harsh, dry spot last year. It is about the size of those plants, and currently has two chiles on it!

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
          5·
          29 days ago

          I suspect it is putting all of it’s life energy into these chillies before it dies. I did give it some fertilizer & extra water, but it is in a brutally exposed spot, in full sun right next to the footpath. I only planted it because it was an extra seedling and I figured I’d give it a chance - I guess it’s taking it’s chance and doing everything it can with it.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    10·
    30 days ago

    yay, day trip by train to Geelong today. I’m wearing comfy clothes, have books to read but do not have Ted in a catpack.

    decisions, cardigan or denim jacket 🤔 crocodile or leopard earrings 🤔

  • 00Steve@aussie.zone
    10·
    29 days ago

    Im so desperate for Friday to get here and to finally have some days off!! Have been doing 60-65 hour weeks at work for over a month now and on the weekends ive been up ladders installing picture rails and setting up all sorts of stuff for the photography business we are starting for my partner. So to say im exhausted would not even scratch the surface haha and i really need to get back to my hobbies and proper routine before my mental health suffers immensely!!

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      2·
      29 days ago

      Hey man, good to see you around, been wondering what you were up to - sounds insanely hectic! Definitely bring on that break, I hope it’s a decent amount of time so you can recover and get back on track.

      • 00Steve@aussie.zone
        2·
        7 days ago

        Thanks :)

        The break wasnt long enough but work is less crazy and im getting stuck into organising everything i need to start Adventure Racing training so im feeling a bit refreshed and excited :)

      • 00Steve@aussie.zone
        2·
        7 days ago

        Thanks :) Going to pick up an amazing mountain bike on the weekend to start training for Adventure racing this year :)

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    30 days ago

    It has been about 5 months since I’ve had a night of sleep where it haven’t woken up at least twice.

    I would kill for a full night’s sleep.

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
      3·
      30 days ago

      Take this with a grain of alt because sleeping is my superpower usually, but lately I’ve been running one of those 8 hour relax loops on youtube (mindAmend is the channel I’m using most - IDK about the actual life changes benefits of isochronic tones and the rest but I find his stuff restful) and when I wake up, I find my mind latches on the noise goes, ah yeah that’s that music and just settles back down.