Shaun Ewing

A tech geek, cat dad, and a collector of PBXs and telephone systems going back decades. Also runs a global hobbyist telephone network called PhoneNet. 🏳️‍🌈

[Shaun Ewing @swewing]

@fictillius You don’t have to live in Burwood and pay $1200/week though.

We have a 4 bedroom house that’s 45 mins to the city on the metro and pay $790/week.

So yes the inner city is expensive but you don’t have to live there.

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@BeauGiles Switched to Outlook (already had work email in it). My personal email is self hosted but it does have Exchange ActiveSync support and worked straight away.

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I just switched back to iPhone after a year on Android and my only gripe so far is search in Mail.

Has it always been this bad? It’s totally useless. I can search for an email that’s literally on the screen and it won’t find it.

I wanted to use the native apps but nope.

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Time for couch kitty cuddles with the 15 year old (Hana). Let the long weekend begin.

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Atlassian is now sending fake scare emails about shadow services to upsell their products.

My “users” are doing nothing of the sort. It’s a personal org, I’m the only user.

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@_colourmeamused In my circles we either take turns paying (for those who I see regularly) or divide equally. I'm not going to scan a receipt and say you had 1/3 of that wine, 1/5 of the starter, etc - what BS.

If they're online weirdos go to a bistro where everyone just orders for themselves.

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@elijahwood @alamodrafthouse I couldn’t help but laugh last week at the pre-roll ads having both an ad for how to order F&B on your phone followed by another one to put your phone away.

There was nothing wrong with the old way of “I want x at the start and y halfway through”.

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With all the streaming services continuously raising prices we're going back to physical media for now.

For the cost of one streaming service each month we can add 10 movies to our collection.

Have over 1,000 movies in the garage that we're also unpacking and putting back out.

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@ewangibbs My Grandmother did in the 90s. She'd relax sipping espresso and reading the newspaper while I'd watch the planes.

At that time flying for us was once every few years.

When I got older I started drinking the espresso too and it became our thing.

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@polen_ball The fucker even corrects you if you say clanker.

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Good morning Europe and North America.

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@GergelyOrosz If you don't have time to write what you're emailing me I dont have time to read it.

Any AI written newsletter is an immediate unsubscribe.

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@_colourmeamused Sounds like Bluesky

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@LeadGenMatt All my subscriptions come out of a separate account with a nominal balance that will cover my expected debits.

It has several virtual cards and if they ever make cancellation hard I revoke the card.

Only in person or one off larger transactions get my primary accounts.

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Good morning Goople

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@DustyPee @stationmum101

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Icanhazcheezburger?

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@nuorz The Ritz Carlton in HK did the same to me. It was very civilised!

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@DominicDirupo Sculpture and architecture. I spent more time staring at the ceilings than the artworks!