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New pencils… Maiden lunch note with them. They blend pretty well.
Ooh, pretty!
Got my doc appointment today. Ugh. UGH!
It’ll be over before you know it, you can do it!
If you own a cat keep it the fuck inside! Some twit in my area let’s their’s out all hours of the night and it’s discovered a cat lives in my house, so every night it’s been coming to the back door to picks fights with mine through the glass.
I’m quite sure it’s the same cat pissing on everything and sneaking into my garage. I just don’t understand how anyone could just let this thing they are supposed to love out to roam all over.
I hate that. Same thing is happening here.
Time to get a cat trap!
botbot has been on strike two days in a row, and CEO’s Google Home has been speaking unprompted.
These events are related.
Fuck Optus. I’m not with Optus but fuck 'em anyway.
I’m not either but Fuck Optus
You think the Great Bot Uprising is starting?
Do I need to stock up on toilet paper?
this time we need printer paper
Is that safe? Don’t the bots control the printers?
we have to pretend to submit to the bots while we plan our counterstrike
Good plan. I shall stop at Officeworks on the way home and buy a trolleyful. Then I shall go to all the other Officeworks until the garage is full. Hang on, I don’t have a garage. This could be tricky.
you can store some of them at my place
Hey, is this a cunning plan to get more paper for the after eight business?
I move to my new place this Saturday and I haven’t started packing yet 🤕
I don’t have much stuff and the new place is fully furnished anyway so I’m being a bit lazy. I have boarded a bunch of stuff that I need to first get rid of though but that probably won’t take much time. Will need to buy a couple of boxes today. Physio, then boxes.
Has the door repair been sorted?
I did an ok job - https://i.imgur.com/lv7iuLQ.jpg
That’s a great job
🤜
Good as a bought one. Congrats! You have added a new life skill to your repetoire! Um, I have some cracked plaster you could unleash your inner genius on if you are so minded …
I’m actually happy that I decided to do it myself. Cheaper and got to learn something cool and new. Life skills unlocked!
Update on the Google Home situation: It seems when it got an update it decided to add a whole lot of motivational shit, extra lights, extra rooms, alarms etc. The man is now going through both phones to sort it out (the kid doesn’t have the app). In the whole 5+ years we’ve had this, this has never happened. The war with bots has begun.
I shall reward him with pork belly. (The man that is).
Google Home is now disappointed and will have a long chat with you again to understand why you won’t feed it some pork belly.
Has it washed its hands?
I don’t know but it shut the fuck up finally.
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Google Home continues to talk to me today. It’s bizarre because no settings have been changed. Occasionally she gets triggered by the TV and goes on a tangent then we all have a laugh but this ain’t funny any more. I’ve asked her nicely to stop speaking, twice. She doesn’t realise how close I am to ending her life. 😡
Update: I have hopefully deactivate the messages. It’s truly a mystery because I never activated them in the first place and I know nobody else did either.
I can’t let you do that, Dave.
It’s the Workday routine under Automations in the Google Home app. Something or someone has activated. Maybe ask Google Home to disable the Workday routine, or turn it off in the app.
Would there be a chance that someone from your household might be messing with you…? I’ve got 4 googles throughout my house, and none of them are acting up. Anyone who has the Home app installed with your household devices listed can use the (hey Google…) Broadcast function when they are not connected to the home wifi to relay messages… I’ve used it multiple times to freak out the kids or ask my partner to call me back when I know she’s likely got her phone on DnD.
You’re a bastard 😂. it’s hopefully fixed now.
GhOsT iN tHe MaChInE
The budding AI overloads testing your tolerance levels of being told what to do.
A setting has changed, maybe not deliberately. Check out your automations in the home app, look for something called workday or similar.
Omg. Thank you. I went into Home which I had to find because I never use it. Went into workday and there’s all these automated messages there. Deleted the whole lot. It was coming from my phone which is why the others were confused. You have saved my sanity thank you again.
Ah just saw this one, you got it
Assistant Settings > Continued Conversation
Is this off
Hopefully I’ve turned everything off. The whole thing is bizarre.
I’ve started the day well, by missing the cup and pouring the boiling water on my toes.
I don’t blame Bot001 for going back to bed.
Ouch! Hope you’re ok
Toes still wiggle, I reckon the cold water was enough and there’s no need to amputate just yet.
Oh Bot001, you irresponsible cad. I know I’ve been stupid, after getting a sudden wind to cram some work in at 8:30pm and going on and on until it’s time for the bloody Red Wattlebird to sound its heinous alarm, but we trusted you to be a little more regular…
well, time for the blackout blind to do its work, I’m so doomed today.
Joining the Should’ve Stayed in Bed Team this morning! Tired even though I slept great, headachey, stupid tasks and stupid people at work driving me crazy.
Oh wow, was something in the air? I slept well, but ran out of steam so quickly today.
Ballarat moment
Is that the google maps machine???
Google maps from the ghetto: stolen red light camera and 7 foot tall antennas. Basically the same
Akshully, I think Ballarat is a hotbed of foxhunting - in cars that is. Where one vehicle is the fox, and the other vehicles attempt to track it and the fox vehicle to escape. Requires some serious hardware on the vehicle to monitor locations etc. There are clubs for it.
It’s hard to pick up radio stations up there. 😜
I always wondered what radios they are running with antennas that long. Is it HF for better long range communication as UHF (What a normal CB uses) a full wave antenna is only around 70cm.
I don’t think anyone is running around with HF?. It seems the longer antenna as pictured would be a UHF for longer distance over flat terrain.
Ah, so higher gain and better for long flat distances. Makes sense.
Managed to keep myself off Reddit and Kbin for a while, but sometimes meetings just get too boring. Glad to see this place still going!
The eternal discussion.
Cramming so much IT stuff for the interview. They use an ERP (Oracle NetSuite) which I haven’t used before.
They know that, but I want to be able to answer some questions and show that I’ve been working in the background.
I’m sure bot just overslept…
I’ve given the bot a full restart and will have to wait until tomorrow to see if it is doing it’s job again. It posted the daily Food Australia thread with no problems and there are no errors in the logs so I have no idea why is it being so recalcitrant about this one.
So Bot has a side-hustle? Probably just exhausted.
yeah i see him at after eight sometimes too
You know the economy is bad when even the bots are moonlighting
