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- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 1 day ago:
Maybe post an issue report on their github. The queue function does work on desktop at least (the web client), but I don’t bother with playlists.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 days ago:
There’s a player queue functionality (which works kind of like a playlist) but I don’t think it transfers across devices. But you can at least queue up a bunch of tracks on a device.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 3 days ago:
Audiobookshelf also supports podcasts (and ebooks, but I haven’t tested that).
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 days ago:
Morrowind. Although it’s more like play a few hundred hours every five years for me.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
Yep, awaiting orders from his owner, Peter Thiel.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
And Trump will take credit for the good policies that Biden implemented, if he manages to not fuck it up.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
The whole thing is going to look fucking stupid once EVs take off. Although I bet Trump will do everything to slow that once elected (even with Musk in his ear).
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
It’s always projection with conservatives.
What is actually embarrassing is that the US elected Reagan, twice, then G.W Bush, twice, and now Donald Trump, twice.
As the great scholar Bush once said:
There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
I wonder if the types affect the chance of a reaction for some people or in general
Yeah, it does affect the type of severe reaction. AstraZenica had TTS, and with Moderna/Pfizer it’s pericarditis/myocarditis.
Chances of it happening are very low for both vaccine types, but when you administer millions of doses, some minority are going to be affected.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
None of the major vaccines for COVID are an attenuated virus to be clear, although some vaccines are made like that (usually older ones).
- Comment on Major Centrelink payment update for millions following ‘landmark investment’ 1 week ago:
Good on them, I assume it was years of LNP attrition that it had gotten this bad ? But happy to be corrected if my assumption was incorrect ?
From the article:
The government said its “landmark investment” in 3,000 extra staff was delivering major improvements for all Aussies.
But also I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the senior public servants appointed by the Coalition pushed them to slow down processing. Because, as we saw with Robodebt, the Coalition want to punish poor people as much as possible.
- Comment on University to cut 137 academics due to $35m drop in international student enrolments 2 weeks ago:
There are also concerns about the relationship between the consultancy firm hired to oversee the restructure, KordaMentha, and the interim UOW boss.
KordaMentha was contracted to review UOW operations and people and culture in May.
In June the university appointed KordaMentha partner John Dewar as interim VC on a 12-month contract.
“We have essentially got a temporary fly-in, fly-out vice chancellor who is a partner in the firm that the university he runs has contracted to review the operations of the university,” said Dr Cahill.
Quite sus. Also, John Dewar is this guy if you want a laugh.
- University to cut 137 academics due to $35m drop in international student enrolmentswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Sydney marathon joins likes of New York, London and Tokyo as ‘major’ event 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t say in the article, but this article claims that you can qualify to the Olympics by placing top 5 in a World Athletics rated platinum label event. Since Sydney Marathon became a Platinum Label event in 2022 , you could already qualify to the Olympics through that race.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Customers suddenly find their new phones can't make calls or send texts 2 weeks ago:
They gave minimal warning about the emergency calling issue, and only a few weeks warning on the fact that “non-compliant” devices would be outright blocked (and each network has their own method on deciding on what is or isn’t compliant).
And even the requirement for VoLTE support wasn’t communicated early on.
Nevertheless, I agree that 3g needs to go just that it’s been characterised by poor communication and heavy handedness.
- Comment on University graduates to save $5,500, on average, in Albanese plan to wipe 20% of student debt 2 weeks ago:
One of the rare cases where that is a good thing. On the other hand, we also seem to be reigniting the abortion fight based on the US.
- Comment on Customers suddenly find their new phones can't make calls or send texts 2 weeks ago:
All if the examples of blocking appear to be from Optus in the article. And anecdotally they seem to have been the most heavy handed with this. So while there might be further blocking over time on the other networks, I’d start by switching to the Vodafone or Telstra networks if you end up blocked by Optus.
- University graduates to save $5,500, on average, in Albanese plan to wipe 20% of student debtwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 3 weeks ago:
I would expect it to be the same as now with pricing dependent on the ISP. You’ll likely still have to do the 6 months / 12 months churn to get the best deal.
- No-fault evictions banned and break-lease fees capped under sweeping reforms in Victoriawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- A thousand Australian university jobs are at risk. Who’s to blame for the dire financial state?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
eureka explained it well, but my slighter broader definition is:
- Anti-vaxxer and other single-issue conspiracy parties
- Religious right parties
- Nazis
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
Just make sure you put Labor ahead of the LNP and cooker parties since they will be objectively worse. But otherwise, agreed.
- ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdownwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 37 comments
- Unearthed: the interview that reveals answer to abortion question David Crisafulli has dodged more than 132 timeswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Origin snaps up pioneering Solar Quotes business, exits rooftop PV installation 4 weeks ago:
do people really use it in every day speech?
Probably not, but it’s a common term in the industry, at least in Australia.
- ‘Trust me’: ‘pro-life’ Queensland LNP candidate hints at post-election push to change abortion lawswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 5 weeks ago:
The Liberal frontbencher Ben Hood, who introduced the bill, says the woman’s right to end a pregnancy is kept because the pregnancy ends when the baby is born. “The innovation of this bill is that it allows a mother to end her pregnancy throughout all nine months and indeed, right up to birth,” he says.
That’s some mental gymnastics to come up with that logic. And unsurprisingly, from the supposed “moderate” branch of the Coalition.
- Comment on David Crisafulli vows to repeal ban on developer donations and ditch ‘corrupt’ full preferential voting system 5 weeks ago:
Also, does he mean moving to optional preferential or going to a FPTP system? Frankly, fuck both ideas but FPTP would be the worst.