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They need to ban CoPilot, OpenAI, Apple Intelligence and all the other remora swimming around trying to get some tidbits of data.

The major parties won’t be happy about that!

We must be going to different stores on different days.

All the Local IGAs in my area employ single mums and more mature staff members. The only young employees I see are family members of the owners.

The big IGA in a nearby town employs the same demographics of staff members; they even have a professional Butcher on staff (and they have excellent value cuts of meat) (I used to deliver for a butcher when I was younger and have seen some dodgy butchers and some overpriced dodgy butchers and some excellent butchers.)

My front sprinklers are on the fritz. I had to water half of my front yard by hand! Oh well. I had to do the naturestrip anyway.

I’m out watering the garden at the moment.

Well, I am relocating and timing the sprinklers as necessary, patting the dog, listening to birdsong and drinking my morning coffee.

It’s Sunday and I am a Home Owner.

Avo Toast with accompaniments please chef.

There are other ways to source your hardware and tools. Discount Stores and Home/Mitre 10/Total Tools/Sydney Tools/etc are still around.

Wholesale material suppliers are often willing to sell Retail as long as you don’t waste their staffs time. The One True Monopsony (Amazon) also sell most of the stuff from Bunnings, cheaper.

Also AliExpress and Temu have most of the small consumables at a much competitive price. Just remember that some of it will be eWaste in a few months, but that goes for any electronics purchased from anywhere.

The main benefit of Bunnings is that they are open long hours and have lowest-common-denominator products that aren’t too overpriced Also, you buy a sausage made of sawdust and beef fat on the way out (very tasty, although not very healthy.)

Sorry. I am old and they will always be “Safeway” to me. I know that they are called Woolworths, but I can’t get that name into my head.

I started ignoring most of them recently. I unsubscribed from most of the podcasts and only listen to the remaining ones when I have exhausted all other entertainment.

I am still following some of the Apple Journalists on Mastodon, a lot of them are also very disappointed in the direction Apple is taking.

Personally, I am not in the market for any new computers because my current machines fulfil my needs. There is nothing in any manufacturers roadmap that interest me.

I am interested in repurposing some of my old hardware that functions perfectly but is no longer supported. I plan on installing Debian Linux on anything that can’t run Haiku, but I will keep a small partition of the original OS for any emergency firmware updates.

Yes they are; Because they small businesses, which actually pay their employees a living wage and don’t have the buying power of the big supermarkets.

Even then, all the IGA locals around me and larger IGAs on surrounding towns are still cheaper than Safeway and Coles.

It is very Not-The-Onion, though. It is very believable from a company from the state that bought us Joh Bielke-Peterson and Spud

I’m cleaning pigeon guano off solar panels and gutters tomorrow morning on the 2-storey roof. I don’t want to fall off.

Hopefully Sunday will be in solar-powered, air-conditioned comfort tomorrow at home, rather than solar-powered air-conditioned comfort of the local Trauma ward.