• PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    6·
    8 hours ago

    Went out with Miniest today and she accidentally left her phone on the bus. That’s what I reckon anyway after I tracked it via “find my phone” and figured it was basically following the 513/514 bus route to Greensborough. Interesting seeing it moving around. Have secured it remotely, but luckily it’s a dirt cheap ZTE Optus prepaid phone and not something more expensive, why would anyone steal it lol. That’s why you don’t give your kids an expensive phone. She’s pretty upset but I’m like hey we’ll call lost property tomorrow, nothing we can do right now. It’s a good lesson to you to be more careful with things. Luckily it’s not an expensive lesson. She’s got the same haphazard mercurial nature as her father, but she’s a better learner! Elder’s like me, checks things several times and then checks again. There comes a time when I have to say to myself, “Right, I’ve got my keys, I’ve got my phone, I’ve got my purse” in order to break the cycle of obsessive checking.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I’m having a bit of a hunt around the house for stray micro SD cards. I got one of those Anbernic Gameboy SP style handhelds and I heard the SD cards they ship with aren’t great.

    No luck finding one so far, which is to be expected, but I’ve ordered one anyway. No analogue sticks on this thing so it will just be retro 2D games.

    The ROMs it shipped with have been decent and in English. Only one hasn’t worked but I’ll swap it out anyway.

    • Briongloid@aussie.zoneM
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I also have the RG35XX-SP, I have come to prefer the custom firmware MuOS which has an image for each Anbernic RGXX handheld. They have decent themes.

      Scrappy is a great MuOS app that gets all the box-art images, all you need is a free ScreenScraper account user/password.

      Depending on the size of your TF (microSD), there are rom sets on archive.org, like Tiny Best Set Go! & Done Set, I just downloaded the RetroAcheivements set from Archive which has a 128gb & 256gb option. RetroAcheivements is a cross-platform account you can get pop-up acheivements for most retro games when Wi-Fi is on.

      The Anbernic devices normally come with the Kioxia TF cards which aren’t as brittle as the no name ones, however the roms that Anbernic are sending pre-installed seem to have the biggest Nintendo games ommited. I just got my 4th Anbernic delivered yesterday. MuOS handles dual TF cards well, it’s common to have TF1 for just the OS & TF2 for the games/saves.

      I predominantly play RomHacks, Super MarioMon (GBA) by Alphard just came out the other day. Pokemon Unbound is great too.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      5·
      9 hours ago

      so many hugs

      have what you can 😊 toast is always good to eat with other food as the carbon absorbs any bad elements and is very settling

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Coming down with a sore throat. This is a big week trying to cram in the assignments that I procrastinated on last week. Hoping it doesn’t get worse. I already don’t feel capable of writing anything in my normal state

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    My Opa caught a black rat with the trap he uses for Indian Mynas 😂

    cute!

    I gave it some grape stalks lol. Of course it is a pest so he’s gonna gas it with the car exhaust tomorrow. Sad but necessary. I told him to wear gloves and whatnot, zoonotic diseases and all that. I hate how cute it is though. I quadruple checked it wasn’t a bush rat - the tail length gives it away.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        Yup! Long black rat tail - their tails are longer than the length of their body.

        Bush rats have rather short tails, you can see in these pics how short it is compared to the body of the bush rat

        native Bush Rats

        Different species too, but same genus: Rattus fuscipes. Native to Australia.

        The black rat, Rattus rattus is, obviously, introduced/a pest species. Same with the Norway rat Rattus norvegicus

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    6·
    12 hours ago

    Ugh. Melbcat and I both took painkillers and spent the day in bed. I’m feeling sick and the pain has been unreal.