Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @[email protected]OPM
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    710 months ago

    I’ve been putting a garden shed together, which I’ve never done before. It came flat packed, and the instructions are not as good as I’d hoped. It says to drill holes here and there and all over the place, and it’s not always clear to me where or what way around parts are.

    I am slowly and carefully doing it because you can’t un-drill a hole! I don’t exactly want holes all over my shed! I’ve already worked one one of the walls I had back to front, so lucky I didn’t drill that one until later.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      I put together our shed myself and it took me a couple of days. Ended up drilling around 200 holes plus rivets. Broke a couple drill bits in the process as well. They also get blunt after so many holes, so make sure you have spares!

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        310 months ago

        I’ve already broken one 😆 There’s a square pipe (is it still called a pipe if it’s square?) that I had to drill holes in, and snapped one off. Ended up hammering it through, so now it’s on the inside of the pipe 😆. Got my rivet in though, that’s what’s important.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      That reminds me I need to put the feet on the couch. With a drill. Also, I should buy a drill.

  • @[email protected]
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    410 months ago

    Couldn’t remember my password and didn’t have my email address entered to reset. Thought I’d lost this account forever.

    After much trial and error finally nailed it this morning and now it’s safely entered into bitwarden.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      310 months ago

      Welcome back! I hope we don’t end up losing regulars because they think the site is dead.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        If worst came to worst I’d have just reregistered with a new account. Would have been annoying to curate a new feed though.

        Out of interest, as an admin, can you reset user passwords?

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          310 months ago

          There’s nothing for admins in the UI, but since I have access to the database itself then probably the easiest way would be to add an email address. The problem is: how would I know you are the same person and not just trying to hijack an account? If there’s no email address on the account, I’m not sure if there’s any reasonable process to recover it without risking handing accounts to the wrong person.

  • @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    Phew! I thought Lemmy.nz was no more haha. Couldn’t log in anywhere for the last few days and thought it might have something to do with 19.2

    Just got the idea to search this community from Lemmy.com and saw the comment about having to re-login.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      210 months ago

      I hope they release an update to fix it. Lot’s of instances are on 0.19 now but a few large ones that make up a significant portion of users are not yet updated. It’s a massive issue when people can’t get onto the site but the fix is in their browser/app! Like you experienced, they won’t necessary know there is something they can do to fix it.

  • @Albatr0ss
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    310 months ago

    The cicadas are finally coming out here, love their chirps. Now it’s proper summer.

  • @Rincewindnz
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    210 months ago

    I’m on leave, but everyone has returned to work and have been needing to get in touch. It kinda ruins leave and I’m thinking I’ll come back to work early and recoup my time later in the year.

    Has been a cracker holidays though, especially this last week. Have loved connecting with my kids over new hobbies and interests.

    • ColonialSpore
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      310 months ago

      This past leave break, I deliberately didn’t check emails, answer text messages or phone calls (voice mail also disabled on network). It was awesome. Didn’t worry about anything. They should respect the fact you’re on leave, but there is always the idea they think you won’t mind if they ask a quick question.
      “Sorry to bother you while you’re on leave but…”

      Nah. Go silent.

      • @Rincewindnz
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        310 months ago

        Normally I do go silent, I made the fatal mistake this year of work not providing a work number, so have had people calling my personal number (sometimes a gamble). Also has sucked being in a fledgling managerial position and having a huge number of “issues” that have cropped up (starting a new service so haven’t quite got the infrastructure in place yet in terms of phones etc).

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      10 months ago

      When I’m on leave, I don’t check work stuff. If people kept hassling me when I was on leave, that totally doesn’t count.

      I’d also expect people not to contact me unless it was super urgent (and that shouldn’t happen, there should always be someone else who can fill in, and at least get it to a state that it can wait until you’re back). I’m lucky to work somewhere big enough for those processes, though.