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Niall Ginsbourg
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De-Xitter'd - posting mix of #Auspol & tech/dev stuff.
Owner of MOBILEWARES P/L- Dad, Freelance .NET/MAUI/UWP dev, UX guy, Solution Architect. Opinions are not necessarily that of my employer. Self employed. oh wait..
Stats from current Firefox browser which I use most of the time, however upgraded my PC a couple of years ago and use other devices when traveling. Have been 'Ordling daily for ~4 years now.
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Watched 1 episode, it was a good concept but struggled to want to watch more over other choices. However, Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul most definitely in top 10 best tv series of all time and a must see - Seehorn is great in Better Call Saul too.
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Anyhow delivery guy actually wasn't the cause this time (for a change).
Anyhow definitely /rant now.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
And just to make things worse - Australia Post basically reset/wiped all our delivery preferences for our address for some completely unknown reason. Didn't get notifications of arrival and they removed our 'leave anyway' preference for parcels too. I have gone in and set it all up again. 🤬
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Note: No issue with battery. According to App and doorbell/chime status lights everything was apparently connected correctly to Wifi & I can see it's connected on router too.
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
thanks - will add in this in. Interested to compare this to the OpenNEM spot pricing.
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The notion that Chris Bowen should be president of COP31 is even more f*cking ludicrous. Clearly he will be representing the 'fossil fuel lobbyists' instead of representing 'the environment'.
Surely there is someone out there more deserving.

#auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Turkey to host Cop31 climate conference after Australia drops push to hold it in Adelaide
Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australian climate change minister Chris Bowen expected to lead the negotiations
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Not sure about other carriers, but my parents are both on TPG ^ they received notifications about this as early as June. (so it wasn't only 1 month notice). They sent follow up notification in Oct too. It's a tech limitation with how roaming works and certain very old phones - not a carrier fault.
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm old enough to remember ALP's 'Future Gas Strategy', Vic Labor's reversal on Gas phaseout and ALP's Woodside Energy's North West Gas Shelf 2070 extension. 🤔
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
..unfortunately on that front they are 100% correct (just look at the US). There's only one winner here by dumping Net Zero, the fossil fuel companies & everyone else loses. I'd love to say ALP are offering the opposite, but they've just found a way to pretend they are doing Net Zero.
We're f*cked.
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If you get the urge to test/review one of these (there are a bunch of similar ones on AliXpress). It claims they are specifically designed to work with Apple Find My network (so also don't work with Android) wonder if Apple have allowed this or they are hijacking the protocol. They are way cheaper.
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
All (8) of our Tags needed battery replacements which was a big pitb given we had some of them inside waterproof cases with fiddly screws. Being able to wirelessly recharge them would have been really handy - pity Apples can't do that.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I need to check, keep getting ads for these on Facebook too. This person claimed it worked with the Apple Tag protocol - but I am somewhat dubious as had thought it was a closed ecosystem only available to Apple made tags.
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM