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| Wednesday, 10 June 2026 | Dereel | Images for 10 June 2026 |
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Ha ha, only joking
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Topic: technology, opinion | Link here |
Unexpected email from Aussie Broadband this morning:
Recently, we sent you an email about changes to your NBN 25Mbps/5Mbps Unlimited ($75) plan(s).
Please disregard these changes, this was an error.
Your NBN 25Mbps/5Mbps plan(s) will not be changing from 1 July 2026.
And that after all the problems I had updating my system! Can they maybe allow me to try out the current “plan” and then return to the old legacy plan if I don't like it? Called up Aussie and spoke to Hayden. No, that won't work, as I expected, though it would have been in their interest. So the upgrade test would cost me $164 in the first year and $144 from then on. Not interesting for me, so it's all off again.
Now if the had only told me that last week.
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Still more broken symlinks
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Topic: technology, opinion | Link here |
Wanted to save mail this evening while on teevee. ~/Mail/foo doesn't exist. In fact, ~/Mail doesn't exist. It should have been a link to eureka:/home/grog/Mail, but it was just gone.
What's behind all this?
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How many lentils?
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Topic: food and drink, opinion | Link here |
Linsensuppe (lentil soup) for dinner tonight. We had cooked it a while back and froze it in 350 g portions, to which I had written “2 portions”.
But it looked so little, and I had written in the recipe
On 26 June 2024 I established that 700 g is too little for the two of us. Currently we're aiming for 800 g.
Oh. That was supposed to be a single portion. But even a second only ended up weighing 670 g. A third? Too much, even for the serving pot. In the end I put half back and ended up with 890 g. And we ate it all!
| Thursday, 11 June 2026 | Dereel | Images for 11 June 2026 |
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Feijoa
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Topic: food and drink, opinion | Link here |
Paul Donaghy came by on Tuesday and brought a box of strange fruits:
What are they? Paul had said that they were pineapple guavas, which prove to not be guavas at all, and better known as feijoas. Tried one today:
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Somehow not my style, boring. Yvonne tried later and came to the same conclusion. About the most interesting thing about the plant are the flowers, here from Wikipedia:
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KardiaMobile: in ΛΑΛΑΛΑΝΔ
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Topic: health, technology, language, opinion | Link here |
Yvonne came in yesterday morning: her KardiaMobile 6L was not responding.
How I hate this thing! A mobile phone app that is so vague that I didn't know if it was telling the truth or not. In principle it sounded like a dead battery, but the app wasn't saying so. How about the one on my phone? No, the battery must be OK: my phone showed that it was “paired”. How about “unpair”ing it? Worked, of course, and a vague Bluetooth scan couldn't find it.
OK, check the easily removable battery:
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How many cardiac patients even have the tools to remove the cover? But yes, the battery was very dead: instead of an initial 3.2 V it only had 2.3 V.
I've been here before. KardiaMobile claim that the battery will last for “a couple of years with 4 or 5 readings a day”. This battery must be the one that was inserted 18 months ago, during which time I would estimate that it has been used between 1 and 2 times a day. So their claims are incorrect.
I wouldn't have mentioned this except for the fact that this was the last of 5 CR2016 batteries (all of which, I suspect, went into this device), and I had to order more. And today I get a message from eBay:
4 10-06-2026 To groggyhimself@lemis no.reply@ebay.com ( 56) There are product safety concerns with the item you purchased
Is that kosher? Yes, it came from eBay relating to the batteries, and pointing to this official recall. Yes, correct battery type and maker, and the image matches. But it relates only to batteries made between
And Kardia in Λαλαλανδ? They confuse the Greek letters Α (alpha) and Λ (lambda). The closest example of this confusion that I can get is ΛΑΛΑΛΑΝΔ (more legible as Λαλαλανδ), which transliterates to “Lalaland”.
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Videos from TV5mondeplus
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Topic: multimedia, technology, opinion | Link here |
We're watching an old favourite, « Le château des oliviers » on TV at the moment. Or we're trying to. The image quality is pretty terrible, and there are no subtitles. I in particular have difficulty with French films, and I really need the subtitles.
Where else can I find the series? Google Gemini pointed me to TV5mondeplus, and yes, they found it for me. And they even promised free downloads, just what I'm looking for.
But even normal replay failed: the display just hung. Spent an inordinate amount of time today investigating, including signing up for membership, which took forever. Finally I got a response:
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I signed up in French, but got a reply in mixed English and German. Why German? My guess is that they're still using ancient geolocations based on my IP address, which has been in Australia for years.
But it didn't help. I discovered that things worked marginally better on Chromium, though it still hung, and on Microsoft Edge on distress it continued running at a snail's pace, though it did have valid subtitles.
How about—oh horror!—a mobile phone? Installed their app, which seemed to work some of the time. And the display ran at normal speed. But that's a tiny image! Where's the “download” facility that they claim? I couldn't find it.
Once again, ask the twins.
(on mobile phone) Accessing Offline Content: Once downloaded, the videos are stored securely within the app's sandboxed data environment and can be accessed under your profile/favorites menu without an active internet connection.Note on Desktop: There is no official way to download a local video file (like an .mp4 or .mkv) directly from the tv5mondeplus.com web browser interface. The browser version uses standard digital rights management (DRM) to prevent direct caching or extraction of raw stream data to your local storage.
So the only way to download the videos makes them useless! What are these people thinking?
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