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#3490920 14-May-2026 15:23

gzt: Teabags with non-compostable or resistant to compost components. Coincidentally none of that stuff goes down a waste disposer.

Surely there is some simple way to keep the tag convenience without making it non-compostable. The teabag material itself is relatively robust. Make the string and tag out of the same stuff why don't you..

I can think of reasons why not. I don't think it would be terribly hard to engineer something from that similar material. Anyway, I will change my brand if I ever get through this box of 100..

Made the mistake of putting tea bags down the waste disposer - lead to a stringy, spaghetti like blockage in the drain!

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#3490921 14-May-2026 15:25

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#3490931 14-May-2026 15:55

Save the planet :) Use loose tea and a teapot which is all I use because I hate that the manufactured material of the bag is soaking in my water with who knows what other manufacturing chemicals washing off it.

Love my WAGH BAKRI tea in the 1kg container which I then use for storing legumes. Use a small personal teapot enough for a cup and a bit. Sling a tea towel over it so it brews better and enjoy the difference.

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#3490948 14-May-2026 17:10

Good idea. I'll get one of those metal teabags things with a chain...

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#3490956 14-May-2026 17:35

Rotating a document on adobe acrobat is now a premium feature - not available in the free version. I have the paid for version at work and I had free at home. I've since deleted it at home.

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#3490959 14-May-2026 17:56

Behodar:

I suspect the shipping will be a dealbreaker!

Pickup only from Dubai South 😉

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#3491061 14-May-2026 21:49

gzt: Good idea. I'll get one of those metal teabags things with a chain...

think about this: (more convinient and better control than a chain, forget the small sizes since tea leaves need space to "breathe" and I use the bigger one as an easy removable „bouquet garni“ for herbs including bay leaves, i.e. in soups)

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#3491067 14-May-2026 22:05

I have one of those type used for mint tea from the garden. Ideal, but too long for my preferred winter sippy cup ; ). Dunno why I didn't think of loose leaf standard tea in the first place.. probably the cup thing..

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#3491302 15-May-2026 19:45

"Hi, I'm Copilot. How can I help?"

You can't, you jumped-up Clippy. Kindly eff right the hell off.

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#3491525 16-May-2026 15:09

Journeyman:

"Hi, I'm Copilot. How can I help?"

You can't, you jumped-up Clippy. Kindly eff right the hell off.

Clippy's single best use? As an optical drive unjammer.

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#3491526 16-May-2026 15:20

Windows file move dialog estimated times annoy me.

"More than a day" is not very helpful when I want to know if it will be done by next weekend or not.

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#3491693 17-May-2026 09:50

The Preferred Initiator Direct Debit model that is apparently in place in the NZ banking industry.

Essentially a preferred initiator doesn’t have to provide an authority form signed by the customer before taking a payment. These preferred initiators are organisations such as electricity and gas companies, councils and phone and broadband companies. It seems some are not doing sufficient checks to confirm the account number they receive actually belongs to the individual or company that has provided it to them. Fraudsters are exploiting this and innocent people are getting fleeced.

A couple of examples:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360979532/every-crook-will-try-it-loophole-used-syphon-thousands-bank-account

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360976042/mans-shock-thousands-withdrawn-company-he-wasnt-customer

I'm a reasonably frequent poster in the media mess-ups thread but props to Stuff for exposing this.

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#3491811 17-May-2026 12:49

ASB banking app on IOS. Where is the Logout button? They keep 'improving' the App and have made its impossible to log out. I’ve gone through all the menu items. Surely common sense demands that a log out button should be obvious. It’s not as if there’s not enough blank space to include it.

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#3491867 17-May-2026 14:04

Eva888:

ASB banking app on IOS. Where is the Logout button? They keep 'improving' the App and have made its impossible to log out. I’ve gone through all the menu items. Surely common sense demands that a log out button should be obvious. It’s not as if there’s not enough blank space to include it.

It's on the menu where your profile picture or first initial is (top left corner). But it's true they don't really want you to be logging out (preferring auto locking the app when switching away) as they're using the app as the preferred 2nd factor for web logins/etc.

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#3492117 17-May-2026 20:55

snj:

Eva888:

ASB banking app on IOS. Where is the Logout button? They keep 'improving' the App and have made its impossible to log out. I’ve gone through all the menu items. Surely common sense demands that a log out button should be obvious. It’s not as if there’s not enough blank space to include it.

It's on the menu where your profile picture or first initial is (top left corner). But it's true they don't really want you to be logging out (preferring auto locking the app when switching away) as they're using the app as the preferred 2nd factor for web logins/etc.

Thanks. Don’t really understand how this works and is strange to me. So am I safe just moving out of the app without logging out?

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