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IT Consultant by day, gamer by night 🎮MTF trans 🏳️‍⚧️ | Sydney based | 420 🌿Matrix: @keshara:chat.blahaj.zoneSharkey: @keshara@blahaj.zonePixelfed: keshara@pix.blahaj.zone

Currently spending way too much time in World of Warcraft, Counter Strike 2, and absolutely obsessed with Sea of Stars.Always down to connect with fellow gamers and fediverse wanderers 👋

  • A fresh start, and I'm currently planning to make that happen.

    First step: Get promotion with pay bump [Done]

    Second step: Increase client hour utilisation with work to support an interstate move and be set up with strong income flow right from the start [Done]

    Third Step: Figure out where to live in the new city [In progress]

    Fourth step: Move [TODO]

  • By doing all the things

  • Thanks for the advice! Will definitely keep that in mind about street level

  • Thanks for the heads up on Preston! The more I look into the place, the less I want to live there lol

  • Ah thanks for the heads up on that!

  • Thankyou! From what I'm seeing online, Thornbury is definitely pulling ahead for me, and rental prices seem pretty reasonable (especially in comparison to here in Sydney lol)

  • Why avoid the west?

    And thanks! I'll continue to look around Coburg. Any opinions on Thornbury?

  • Hii everyone!

    I'm thinking of moving to Melbourne this year from Sydney, and I've just started doing my research into the different suburbs etc. to try and narrow down on places to live. I'm currently looking at Coburg, Thornbury or Preston.

    Any advice? Places to avoid, places to check out? Thankyou ☺️

  • Which bit?

    For CS2, especially around launch, this was advice fed to me multiple times on places like the linux gaming subreddit. And then also through my own experience of trying it out and comparing.

    Black Mesa, this was also just known within the Half Life and Linux gaming communities. Plus if you tried playing the native you would start to hit your first set of visual bugs within the first 5mins, switching to Proton solved basically every issue lol.

  • And just to add on to this, CS2 has been shown to perform better under Proton than running it natively.

    And yes I know before anyone points it out that VAC doesn't work under Proton, but you can still try it out on a private no VAC server. Or, the way some people were doing it around the time CS2 launched (assuming this still works), installing Steam via Wine and then launching CS2 with Proton worked as well with VAC working.

    And another example of using Proton over the native version of a game would be Black Mesa, where it was always advised to run the game with Proton due to less bugs and far better performance.

  • Oh but he will find that mail

  • 41 posts by OP, only 4 comments on a 24 day old account..

    Yeah OP definitely needs a better hobby lol

  • Yeah this is pretty much smack on.

    I'm an IT Consultant that works 99% remote (occasionally in the office, but they are trying to get us in more), temp contractors I see tend to have the highest amount of freedom but lose on the job security, us permanent hires have to seek permission to travel and work, but have our job security.

    Then there are the client requirements as well, some demand on site consultants every day, others occasionally, then the majority in my experience are more than happy with pure remote work.

  • Yeah nice, I know the Himalayan, bullet proof bike lol.

    And yeah, I'm all too familiar with uncomfortable bikes haha, only ever been on sport bikes or dirt bikes (previous bike was a CBR600RR). I was thinking of potentially picking up a GSXR750 this time, but I wouldn't mind something a bit more upright. So for what I'm used to, the triple is a very comfortable bike lol

  • I haven't done this on a bike in sooo long! Unfortunately I'm between bikes atm, but thinking of picking up a street triple in the next few months. First thing I'll be doing is going for a 3 or 4 day ride.

    What do you ride?

  • Out of curiosity which device is this?

    For the accent colours, have you tried pinching your home screen > Wallpaper and style > Colour Pallete? This was changed for me aswell, but was able to switch it back.

    For the tint on the lockscreen, have you tried doing the same pinch > Wallpaper and style > Select the lock screen > Effect.

    As for the other stuff, were you using Goodlock before? If so, you may just need to open Goodlock again and update the apps in there. Or you will most likely solve your other issues through Goodlock?

  • We working at the same place are we?

    My company will start to give reminders 5 minutes beyond their arbitrary 'deadline', but will take months and months and months to sign off on a promotion..

  • I was going to say glamping as well haha! But I've been interested in going solo glamping. We're approaching the winter months where I am, so I'm thinking of booking these dome tents once summer starts approaching again to go star gazing and just unwind for about a week completely by myself.

    This is where I'm thinking: https://hideawaydomes.com.au/

  • Okay.. Want to elaborate on that?

  • I just did the 8.5 update on my S25. What about it do you not like?

  • Books @lemmy.world

    Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL how to get my first Android App running on my phone

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world

    My 2 GameBoys - Looking for advice

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world

    My small retro/gaming shelf

  • Transfem @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Starting to cool down here in Sydney

  • Transfem @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Reintroducing myself on new account.. Hii!