Treevan 🇦🇺

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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I'd probably search the Whirlpool forums for similar threads. If they have no guarantee on quality of service, then shitty service is probably enough.

    I use Aldi because Telstra, thanks to their dominance is the only one that works well enough. The phone also plays a big part in it, I run Graphene on the 'a' models (plus other cheaper phones prior), and other people I work with can get better reception than I, using the same provider but with their flagship phones. Next time you buy a phone, see if you can review the modem in it.

    And to top that off, I get no reception at all where I live. Besides the fucking annoyance of getting 'text message' verifications which drive me up the wall, not having the phone working gets quite relaxing after a while. I turned off wi-fi calling when my phone finally had it because the shock of it ringing was too much.



  • I joined their XMPP server last night and let poVoq know. They assumed it was version disparity but can't update till later in holidays.

    I checked comments and some other versions/instances were still posting in so it could be our end too.

    Can't really troubleshoot until the version is updated.

    Cheers for having a look.

    Edit: Saw Five's reply to your slrpnk account. Seems like a stalemate for now.

    Edit 2: I can see your aussie.zone post to slrpnk meta, but if I go through webpage, it's invisible.



  • I know you've worked it out now but here is my own personal take.

    I'm not subscribed to any aussie.zone communities. I just use 'Local' and 'New' ('New Comments' also helps) to browse them all in one go after first looking at 'Home' in Voyager.

    It's why instance shopping by interest is important for some, using 'Local' becomes your community. Mastodon is similar, you join an instance that is related to you and 'Local' becomes another browsing tool. I am on aus.social so every now and again I use 'Local' to find posts from Aussies that weren't hashtagged properly (knowing full well there are other australian instances that I'm missing).

    If you were on lemmy.world, 'Local' would be waste. Too many posts.




  • Very cool. It's nice to see original content.

    They took the tree down and then drilled the stump? Just spouting on the pieces? Shouldn't come too much. Eucalyptus is another species that also gives it a good crack after cutting.

    Usually when we do Privet you can throw the pieces wherever but during the La Nina we had to work through rain constantly and had heaps of cut small-leaved Privet pieces take root.

    We took ownership of an old piano and inside was a bag of DDT and Camphor.


  • are more likely than not killed by those seeking to enhance views and, accordingly, property values.

    When there are no water views, the next reason is "leaves", then "property damage" from branches, roots, leaves in gutters, "bird poo", "solar panels", "insects", "sap", "don't like the look of it", "gets in the way of my mower" and/or "it's killing the grass", the list goes on....

    These are all paraphrased complaints about trees. It's a hyper-common thing that trees are intentionally killed in the urban landscape. Unintentionally is usually ringbarking by whippersnippers and that kills just as many, if not more. Shame that well-treed suburbs actually increase property values but then removed of individuals do their best to ruin that, it's probably the main character syndrome.

    The novelist and celebrated nature writer James Bradley says the “hatred of trees” is a settler-colonial legacy of the desire to impose order on the natural landscape and a symptom of increased alienation from nature.

    “Trees have helped shape and sustain human cultures for hundreds of thousands of years. Many Indigenous cultures recognise this with systems of reciprocity that connect them to trees, within which trees are not just living beings, but actually relatives or kin. That connection has been disrupted by the processes of extraction that have seen most of the world’s forests cleared, and the hostility to trees you hear when people complain about their messiness, or them blocking their view,” he says.

    “The more science learns about trees, the more we realise that even though they exist upon quite different timescales to humans, they are beings, with the ability to communicate and learn. And that they aren’t just good for the environment, they’re good for us, and just being around them makes us calmer, improves our mood, and makes us feel more connected to the world around us.”