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- Submitted 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 1 week ago:
I’d argue that large parts of Lower Decks is as well honestly. Especially episodes where the main characters are busy with ship duties while the senior officers are off doing typical Star Trek plot stuff.
- Comment on Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart 1 week ago:
To the left? Good.
- Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me? 2 weeks ago:
Y’all have first past the post / winner takes all, don’t you? There was a vote recently and “labor” won from what I’m reading?
Others have answered you that we have preferential voting, but I’m still really confused about why you’re asking in this way? It makes if sound like FPTP would have stopped them from getting elected, and preferential would have prevented it.
As for what’s going on, Dutton, the leader of the Coalition, and members of that group of parties associated themselves with Trump, who’s really unpopular here. They also provided literally no policies to genuinely help with the cost of living issues people are facing, instead engaging in culture wars stuff. We have mandatory voting here as well, you can’t just sit it out, so it makes the sort of apathy+populism that has gotten Trump elected not possible. The silent majority of voters rejected Dutton and the only other major choice was Labor.
- Comment on 8BitDo Ultimate 2 is getting full Steam Input support for more buttons 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I end up programming them with the Ultimate Software, usually to the stick buttons, but it would be nice to set them to stuff like bringing up the Steam Keyboard. There’s already a switch on the back of those so you could have a Steam Input mode and a Ultimate Software mode easily.
- Comment on Valve’s Proton, the reason most Steam Deck games work, has a version 10.0 beta to try 2 weeks ago:
Valve also contribute heavily upstream into the Wine project, but there are some fixes which “couldn’t” be upstreamed until v10. As well, the most recent Linux kernel has added some changes which specifically help with Wine and gaming.
- Comment on I wonder what the specs are on the technology that disables shopping cart wheels 2 weeks ago:
I use this constantly by the way heh
- Comment on I wonder what the specs are on the technology that disables shopping cart wheels 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 3 weeks ago:
Does Microsoft own Discord?
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 weeks ago:
It’s the uneducated or intellect impaired that should be reined in.
Are you aware that this genuinely sounds like some nazi shit? Let’s maybe not start controlling what the “intellect impaired” can do with their lives…
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy is not an anonymous community, it’s pseudonymous. It also doesn’t take a literary genius, merely someone with a healthy amount of empathy, to understand that treating someone with hatred for an immutable characteristic is bigoted and wrong. I don’t believe that to be an outrageous opinion.
Perhaps it is you that is mediocre and petty.
- Comment on Neverway is a horror RPG Stardew Valley from one of the artists behind Celeste 5 weeks ago:
Have you never recommended a game to someone by referencing a game they know that it’s similar too?
- Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000 5 weeks ago:
Response time does not equal time to write an email.
- Comment on Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling” 5 weeks ago:
YouTube no longer allows any reference to gambling sites or applications “not certified by Google.”
It’s literally on the Play Store, rated at M.
- Comment on China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery 5 weeks ago:
So is HDMI? Smaller connectors aren’t always better, and it’s not like it’s SCART size or something.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 1 month ago:
Except, that’s not really the definition of a protest vote. An actual protest vote is drawing a massive dick on your ballot.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 1 month ago:
Are 4th or even 3rd preferences ever counted?
What? Yes, they are counted incredibly often, if not always. For an example, here’s the preference flow for the Division of Melbourne in 2022:
They were still counted even when Adam Bandt won in the fourth round. If you don’t think the parties look at the rest of that flow, at which voters they might need to court to win next time, at what candidates might stand the best chance in a seat, than you’re stark-raving mad.
…but I just wish Australian politics wasn’t about picking a tribe that you’re going to line up behind and was more focused on policy and representation.
I think the Murdoch media, and by extension Fairfax now, and every other major outlet, pushes a narrative about that sort of tribalism. But out in the real world, from what I’ve seen, that’s just not the case. The biggest example of this is media and polling pushing a two-party preferred system when we live in a preferential one. Major media isn’t daring to talk about the fairly likely outcome that we end up with a minority government. Something I personally feel is the best outcome for representing Australia equally.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 1 month ago:
Of course you can develop your own decision on how to vote but this sounds frustratingly similar to the protest voters from the US election.
It is quite literally impossible for those protest voters to exist under our voting system in Australia. Both because we have mandatory, as well as preferential, voting.
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 1 month ago:
I think saying, essentially “Labor is to the left of the LNP” is kind of a given, and a moot point then. Albo’s Labor have been pushing further right than ever before. A dose of minority government would do them well.
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 1 month ago:
I feel the exact opposite tbh, that Labor is closer to the Liberals (not the Coalition as a whole) than the Greens.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
I think in that regard, Lemmy is a forum software just like vBulletin or Discourse is. However, I would really like to see a flat forum with federation.
- Comment on Close to 500k Australians could have missed out on savings at the pharmacy [from the PBS Safety Net] 1 month ago:
The thing is, that prescription history is still saved as far as I’m aware, you just don’t have access to it without a MyHealthRecord. That’s, no offence, kind of the misconception a lot of folks had about MHR. All that data is collected about you either way and already had been for years.
The other thing about it people got shitty about is that when a child turns 14 their parent loses access to their MHR. However, that’s just in line with the rest of our medicare rules that mean a 14yo can access healthcare privately and independently.
- Comment on Close to 500k Australians could have missed out on savings at the pharmacy [from the PBS Safety Net] 1 month ago:
The way the form is set out, it’s supposed to be hand written, with fields about the medicine, the pharmacist that dispensed it, the date, and it’s cost. Instead most pharmacists will just use the copy of the prescription label that gets printed out, because that includes all the above details. Here’s the form in question: www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/pb240
You also have seperate forms for the actual application, which must be done by a pharmacist: www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/pb241
As well as a whole form to claim a refund if you didn’t get a medication for the safety net cost (either free for concession, or the reduced concession charge for general patients): www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/pb132
If the system were digitised none of these forms would need to exist. Keeping in mind that this data already is in a centralised system. I can go to myhealthrecord and see a list of all the scripts I’ve had filled and when. The only info it’s missing is how much I’ve paid, as pharmacies often subsidise the rate a bit. I pay $6.90 for my scripts instead of $7.70, and the safety net is based off real cost you’ve paid.
Anyway, sorry for the info dump, just something I’ve been frustrated with since I started interacting with this system.
- Comment on Close to 500k Australians could have missed out on savings at the pharmacy [from the PBS Safety Net] 1 month ago:
This is so true. I use a single pharmacy, which offer to handle all of the paperwork, so I don’t miss out. But if there’s a shortage of something and they’re out, I just miss out on that script fill by going elsewhere. I could grab a sticker from that pharmacy and take it back to mine but that’s too much mental load honestly.
- Comment on Pets hate the vet clinic and groomer because they smell the combined terror/anger of a thousand other animals who've been poked and prodded in that room 1 month ago:
Hell, even I can smell that there’s been a million other dogs through there, I can’t even imagine what it’s like with a way more sensitive snout!
- Comment on Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton 2 months ago:
Oh yea, Baikal is incredibly light and they do publish an arm docker image. You could absolutely tun a bunch of other services off the same SBC if it’s a RPi4 or stronger.
- Comment on Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s E2EE, because it uses open standards, bur you could self-host (including on a VPS if that’s easier) a Baikal server. It does contact sync as well, using the CalDAV and CardDAV standards.
- Comment on Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases 2 months ago:
So you’ll put Labor below One Nation?
- Comment on Prime ministers' heads severed and stolen from bronze statues in Ballarat 2 months ago:
I’m not accusing anyone, I’m in favour of both this and last year’s actions in support of ending Invasion Day. If anyone thinks that some statue’s being desecrated as a form of protest is too far, they’re part of the bloody problem. We’re so uncomfortable being inconvenienced in any way, shape or form in this country.
