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  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
    13·
    5 days ago

    Painted by my maternal grandmother (passed away ~25 years ago). View from their beachside Queenslander, looking past their old frangipani across Deception Bay to Bribie Island, QLD.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    11·
    5 days ago

    My MIL started painting this the day she retired

    This doesn’t look like much but it’s sentimental. My FIL was also quite the artist and he was working on this when he died and never got to finish it. It was of a man with an umbrella and a small boy on a very windy day

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
    10·
    5 days ago

    I’ll post one more, this is the work of Emma Sheldrake, I’m not sure where she is based but I think we discovered her art at Manyung gallery many years ago.

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
    12·
    5 days ago

    My favourite painting in the house. It was a gift and I can’t really read the artist signature so I know nothing about it and that’s fine by me.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
    8·
    5 days ago

    Had a lovely day at the beach in Torquay today with some friends. Got a good dose of sun and pummelling waves, great dinner afterwards and watched the sunset before driving home. Content but I’m exhausted.

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    12·
    5 days ago

    No painters in my family but my great aunt did this tapestry which now hangs on my study wall:

    Picture

    I can’t remember which building it is.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    11·
    5 days ago

    not really artistic but something interesting I’ve had for a long time, a hand painted framed tile

    it very much uses the same symbology as soviet posters and every single idea in this pic is a lie . I look at it every now and then and think about it. I wonder if the soviets believed it.

    pretty sure 1985 was during the Soviet Afghan War

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    13·
    5 days ago

    Doing this tech support for old people really goes to show how hard phones and apps actually are to use.

    Features are hidden behind things like long taps. Tapping on someone’s profile photo brings up stories instead of their profile. A person’s Facebook profile looms different to their messenger profile.

    And maybe it’s because I’ve never owned an iphone but I don’t find them initiative at all. There are times I can’t figure out how to exit out of something or how to bring a screen back up compared to all the android phones I’ve had

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      I hate iPhones and apple products. My first apple product was a second hand iPhone and I found it so hard. Next phone was android and I’ve never looked back. Android feels more like a PC interface, and I find it waaaaay more intuitive than iOS. Maybe in dumb, but iOS is so hard for me to use.

      Besides, I really like the customisation of Android, it’s feels more mine.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        6·
        5 days ago

        I hate apple tv with a passion. If people are foolish they install all their other apps, ie, tv stations, onto apple and then they have to go thru extra layers of button pushing on apple to just watch a netflix or abc show or movie. Also, the apple remote is the worst, it requires great manual dexterity and precision to select anything .

        I’m very good with tech, I read instructions carefully, I look up the faqs as well. I just hate useless tech for the sake of tech. I keep it simple.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        3·
        5 days ago

        I fell like IOS is almost too simplied, like they’ve taken too many options away from you. And there is too little contrast between elements to interact with.

        It looks nice because it’s almost like looking at a blank white screen, but you see what a problem it is when someone unfamiliar with technology goes to use it

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
      7·
      5 days ago

      The other thing is signing up / logging in for various things and the many many hoops you have to jump through sometimes. They get frustrated and quickly. I always point out to the p’s that there’s no point getting frustrated at inanimate things, take a breath, someone else has likely had the same problem, and we’ll work it out.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        3·
        5 days ago

        Like people creating icloud accounts they forget the password for and Microsoft’s constant badgering about its services.

        There needs to be an EU style law exported to the rest of the world that you need to be able to setup and operate a device without any type of account or registration and without the nag factor to do so

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      5·
      5 days ago

      The problem is most buyers of phones and tvs don’t realise they aren’t buying a phone or tv, they are buying a device with many many functions .

      The stereos of the 80s that had a hundred functions still had simple on off switches , basic functions were simple, and few people used the hundred functions. The buttons were just a selling point.

      Now you need to go through hoops to use a phone or tv for the simplest function and if people are anything like my husband they love to add gadgets and extra layers of functions, making it even harder. It’s nearly impossible to ignore the hundred buttons.

      They just want to call someone up, to answer a call or watch their favourite tv show. And that’s how I would teach it. Just the most basic uses they want, then when they are familiar with that then maybe add some more functions.

  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
    11·
    5 days ago

    So my dad’s got Parkinson’s and I thought I’d set up Assistive Access on his iPhone as he’s currently struggling to use the basic functions on his phone, eg. Messaging, email, phone etc… Man. It sucks absolute balls. Crashing randomly, scroll stuttering like it’s 2010…worst implementation of accessibility I’ve seen. If he had an Android I could just set up a custom launcher to do all this with no issue… daaaaaaaaaaaaaah

    • Cendana@aussie.zone
      3·
      5 days ago

      I found that many OS releases (not just iOS, but Windows as well, and Android to some extent) have been more buggy in the recent years.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    8·
    5 days ago

    This is gonna sound odd but I don’t care. Whenever I start a new book I like to match it to the seasons. For example, if the book is set in a hot climate then I’ll read it in summer. Cold climate book then I’ll read it in winter.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    My great-grandmother, Reta Sullivan, painted this in 1998. It’s a shack on Brighton Beach (as she wrote on the back of it).

    I got this when she passed away and we were deciding where her belongings should go. I also got one of her camphor wood chests, which is where I store my linen and towels now.

    Brighton

    Posting in response to the proposed art thread that CEO and UMG were discussing below :)

    Edit: spelled her name wrong, fuck me

    • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
      9·
      5 days ago

      Mine is worse, LOL (since I didn’t participate in yesterday cutlery drawers):

      Mountains in Nepal

      Not an artist I’m related to, but I saw a photo in a meeting and the photographer sent me a copy. They took this while trekking in Nepal. It’s been post-processed a few times over the years by the photographer. The other is a Matisse print: Empotés jusqu’aux constellations.

      They’re currently mounted a little further indoors now.