Yeah might have to rely on them I guess. You’d think it be something simple to do, but nope.

I did like The Mountains of Mourning, but it felt a bit too local? It had a nice mystery/detective aspect to it

I think the person who made the page, made it in the late 90’s when they registered the domain, they probably only update the links and text 😅

Website last updated in 2016 should tell you all you need to know…

Haha yes I know. The books get recommended a lot over on r/printsf ( I really wish we had a community like this on lemmy), but I couldn’t get over the horrible romance novel type covers for a long time. Let us know what you think if you do read them!

They are definitely not literary or hard sci-fi, but I can’t deny they are very fun to read. Reminds me of watching Firefly in a way when it first released.

I may be asking the wrong crowd, but anyone know the easiest way to gift vbucks for Fortnite? I was looking at the digital gift cards from EB games, but it has a really convoluted way of redeeming them on Xbox, which I’m not sure a child knows how to do.

Elfhosted has a status page: https://status.elfhosted.com/ that includes the non elfhosted Torrentio.

According to the Torrentio dev their VPS has been blocked so they have to find new hosting: https://github.com/TheBeastLT/torrentio-scraper/issues/288

I’ve got an easynews usenet subscription I’m using as a backup.

Ah yeah that’s always the risk importing something that doesn’t officially ship or sell here. I’m guessing it’s to do with providing support and warranties with areas that it’s not officially sold?

Hope you find a solution, otherwise take a holiday to the US 😂

Wise has been very handy for me, being able to add different currencies and pay for things overseas. You’re right though, they may already know the freight forwarder addresses. Do they not have an international store? It’d be really annoying buying an upgradable laptop and not being able to get any of the upgrades!

Can you use a Wise or Revolut virtual card and pay in US currency?

Most brass instruments aren’t cheap! It’s why my parents were smart enough to rent the saxophone when I was in high school because they knew I wouldn’t stick with it 😅I think trumpets are also really loud when learning to play, RIP your neighbours ears 😂

That looks like it’s coming from Amazon UK according to the “Sold by” and “Ships from” section, so may take longer.

The two top review from Aus aren’t promising lol:

Doesn’t seem to work very well at all

The trumpet was my daughters only Christmas wish. It arrived damaged due to poor packaging. Placed into a satchel instead of being boxed. If we had time to find a replacement it would have been returned.

Are you wanting a toy or a musical instrument? Cheap musical instruments tend to be terrible actual instruments. Maybe try Amazon AU? Might be a bit more expensive than Ali express, but you’ll probably get it faster if it’s shipping from aussie

I’m actually doing a little less now. Been focusing on putting a few more small trees and more perennial herbs and veges so I’m not having to replace them every season.

I usually try to grow too many new things each year and sometimes end up not getting a lot of food out of it. I decided to focus on just a few types this year. Also a few more perennial flowers for the pollinators. Oh and not doing any tomatoes this time around has freed a lot of space!

Nice! What are you growing this year?

I converted another area of lawn to soil for planting, so now have even less grass to mow.

I did the the unthinkable this week and threw out a whole lot of the accumulated boxes from things we’ve bought in the last six years.

I remember thinking “Never know when I might need that again”. Well, I need the space instead now!

Also you know you’re getting older when you can appreciate a nice, sturdy cardboard box of quality

Sadly I don’t think my children would fall for it… I’ve tried the “Who can be quiet the longest” and it never worked!

Good luck whatever you decide! I’ve been looking on and off for awhile to replace our Prius, but there’s barely anything that grabs my interest locally that is 6+ seats, hybrid and with a lot of space. It’s either 10+ year old Nissan Serena’s or expensive late model Toyota Highlanders or Sante Fe’s and nothing in between here in the Waikato.

Any particular make/model you were thinking of getting?