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- Comment on Menthol cigarettes banned and every stick to hold a warning 2 hours ago:
I can tell you the pictures on pouches do nothing to deter me.
I get your point, but it’s less about people that are already addicted, but reducing the number of new people taking up the habit. And if even a small proportion of smokers quit due to the imagery, that’s still a win in terms of public health outcomes.
- Comment on US tech companies joins winemakers, film studios and drug companies in urging Donald Trump to target Australia 20 hours ago:
Among the examples listed was the GST applied to the sale of imported services and digital products to Australian consumers.
Blame the Coalition for this one. Although the fact tech companies are now throwing a tantrum over it makes me less inclined to care.
- Dutton refuses to rule out ABC cuts and repeatedly declines meeting with chair Kim Williams, sources saywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 20 hours ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
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Poor infrastructure in many of these communities, and no way to get to larger towns and cities without a car. So you’re stuck with crappy chain stores and terrible quality food, harming your health. And it’s boring, because it can’t support many kinds of entertainment.
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Smaller communities tend to skew towards conservatives, and there’s little way to escape from it (due to the distances and the lack of high speed rail). So expect more religiosity, more discrimination, and politicians that are even shittier than the average.
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- Two may be company, but for a rising number of Australians, three (or more) isn’t a crowdwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.
calibre-webis technically not Calibre and is written and maintained by different people, although it does use the Calibre database (and I believe it must be created with desktop Calibre initially). But it’s a good option and I highly recommend it. - Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
you just load your books from Calibre (or right through USB if you’re hardcore for some reason) and you’re basically off to the races.
There’s also an OPDS server option with
calibre-webthat you can use to load books from if you’re usingkoreader.You can also use the Kobo server replacement option with
calibre-webalthough I personally couldn’t get it to work at the time I tried it. But this will give you a sync option that works like the official Kobo server which is quite nice. - Expect a lot of talk about Australia’s deficit, but remember the golden rule: budgets are always about choices | Greg Jerichowww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50 3 weeks ago:
Besides, if the million kids currently in private education suddenly turned up at their local schools tomorrow to enroll in the public system, they would totally break it.
You phase it out gradually, not immediately cut it in one go.
- “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteerwww.betootaadvocate.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Cancelled Sega Neptune Rises From The Dead, Gets Its Own Promo Video 3 weeks ago:
Astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
The headphone port on the Model 1 was so ahead of its time. Although I was stuck without an extension chord for my Koss Porta Pros (so couldn’t actually use it), it was my first taste of relatively high quality sound.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
The Sega Saturn, especially the Japan version: Image
Although I never owned this version myself, I recently picked up an 8bitdo replica controller (M30 bluetooth) of the Japan controller and it looks and feels great.
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 4 weeks ago:
The ordering of how right wing they are matters. That’s the whole point of preferential voting.
If you abstain from ranking all candidates, you are acting the same as US voters claiming that “both sides are the same” and then not voting, particularly if your preferred minor candidate(s) doesn’t have a chance of winning in your electorate.
- The Coalition’s attack on the climate authority is a cynical attempt to put ideology over facts – it must be called out | Kylea Tinkwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 5 weeks ago:
That’s a wasted vote, and not an option in the federal elections. It’s just as important to keep the extreme right-wing Liberal and National parties from power, as it is to preference the better minor parties (make sure to investigate as some minors and independents are extreme right-wing nutbags)>
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 33 comments
- Comment on Intel GVT-g - ArchWiki 5 weeks ago:
AMDGPU virtio native context is somewhat of an equivalent to the other options, although the pieces are not all available yet. Linux guest only as well.
And there’s Venus but that’s for Vulkan only (but a lot can be done with that alone on Linux guests).
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 5 weeks ago:
Mailrise combined with your apprise provider of your choice (I use gotify).
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Alshark - An epic retro space JRPG spanning a galaxy! (PC-98 Paradise) 5 weeks ago:
I love these obscure (outside of Japan) computers and consoles. It’s like being nostalgic for an era I didn’t experience myself.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
The other thing is that my libraries are alphabetical in Jellyfin, so “Anime” comes before “Kaiju”, and I truly can’t stand the idea that Godzilla gets sent to the back of the bus.
If you mean the order the libraries are listed in the web interface, you change that from “User settings” -> “Home”.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Plex is closed source and gradually being enshittified. You might not leave today, but you should have an exit plan.
- Comment on Does AI detect breast cancer better than doctors can? 5 weeks ago:
One issue I could see is using it not as a second opinion, but the only opinion. That doesn’t mean this shouldn’t be pursued, but the incentives toward laziness and cost-cutting are obvious.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
There’s also calibre-web for a self-hosted option with a web interface.
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 1 month ago:
btrbk works that way essentially. Takes read-only snapshots on a schedule, and uses btrfs send/receive to create backups.
There’s also snapraid-btrfs which uses snapshots to help minimise write hole issues with snapraid, by creating parity data from snapshots, rather than the raw filesystem.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 month ago:
Even just switching mobile voice standards is painful, as seen in Australia recently. In theory, you just need VoLTE support to use calling over 4G, but it turns out there is a bunch of other compatibility issues like emergency calling and carrier issues that complicate matters.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
Tokyo Xanadu draws from the typical Persona UI, setting and day to day gameplay (except the combat system).
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 1 month ago:
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Compressed swap (zram)
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Compiling large C++ programs with many threads
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Virtual machines
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Video encoding
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Many Firefox tabs
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Games
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