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@gtwilson The semi-government owned telco, Telstra, is responsible for the remaining phone booths. In most cases they're found outside or near railway stations & post offices. In the case of most PO ones, they incorporate a Telstra high-speed wi-fi hotspot called Telstra Air which can be used by anyone who uses Telstra/BigPond (aka BigPong) for their broadband supplier and has Telstra Air set up on their home broadband. International users who have Fon accounts can also access these booths.

Telstra Air users have their wi-fi routers automatically configured to add Telstra Air & Fon public hotspots to their routers.
Any data used by such Telstra Air connections are billed to your home broadband allowance, in my case a ridiculously high 1.2 TB per month.

So, as a Telstra Air user, I can park myself near any Air hotspot, be it a public phone booth or another user's router & access broadband via their router at no data allowance cost to said other user.

// @matigo @streakmachine

The best treatment for my back pain is ice or cold packs. the current one I'm using is a rubber hot water bottle left in the freezer long enough for ice crystals to form inside.
Failing that, I have some gel-type ice packs.

@streakmachine Baseballbat Cankersore.

Can't sleep. 2:40 am. Back pain, a little better than it was 6 hours ago. Improvement agonisingly slow.

Found a pic online of the GE calculator my sister & I used in 1975-76.

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An average single person household (without swimming pool) in this area averages 8.2 kWh per day of electrical use per day in Autumn.
My average use since switching to a different energy retailer in late February has been 4.4 kWh, and the solar panels started working 26 days ago.

Solar provider sent an email explaining how to set up the inverter's dat-logging wifi thingie. It was a short YouTube video that was easy to follow as the computer they demonstrated it on was a Mac using the Firefox browser.
Quite unnecessary in my case as the installers set it up for me on the day of installation.
Shouldn't be too long now before a grid feed-in tariff is established with the power retailer, the solar providers sent them the info about 15 hours ago (after initially sending said info to the wrong retailer).

@larand In my last two years of high school (1975-76) pocket calculators were optional & recommended but slide rules were compulsory. Late in '75 the Physics class paid a visit to a regional university where the physics lab had a punch-card computer of some unspecified sort.
Ours was "big" school for that rural area, around 600 students.

// @gtwilson @tewha

@streakmachine I only use Facebook for Men’s Shed stuff, I use an iOS app called Friendly for that. Today I was playing with its settings & discovered it could handle my Twitter & YouTube accounts as well as several others I refuse to use.

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