Psiczar
@Psiczar@aussie.zone
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 3 months ago:
England’s average temperature is much lower than most parts of Australia. Your population is more than double Australia’s, in a landmass significantly smaller than Australia. You live next to a continent of half a billion people who have to deal with extreme’s of cold. The Pound is worth nearly double the Australian dollar.
Given all the above, it is no surprise that double glazing is much cheaper to install in England than Australia. So most people here just put up with the 3-5mm panes of glass installed in their houses by default.
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 3 months ago:
The reasons our houses aren’t as well insulated comes down to climate and cost.
Climate, people don’t die from extreme temperatures here like they do in places like Europe and North America.
Cost, we don’t have the demand for better thermal protection so anyone who wants to improve their home has to pay.
I’m in the process of trying to improve my home atm. I’ve had the blow in insulation replaced with batts, I’m replacing the windows with double glazing and I am trying to seal all of the gaps and vents that let out the heat. It will cost me 10’s of thousands of dollars by the time I’m finished, but it will make our house comfortable without costing us a fortune when we are retired.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 4 months ago:
As an atheist I believe Jesus existed, I just don’t think he was the son of god or that he was resurrected.
It would have been far easier to start a religion around a real man with actual followers than if he was a figment of someone’s imagination.
- Comment on Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... 5 months ago:
It’s ridiculous. We are absolutely in the drivers seat to be a world leader in renewable energy and out of touch politicians want us to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in nuclear power stations like it’s the 1950s and we don’t have any other alternative.
Like every other government project there will a cost blowout, and it will overrun so by 2040 we’ll have a handful of half built nuclear reactors and the budget will be a couple hundred billion in the red.
We don’t have the expertise to build or run nuclear power stations, so we would have to import all of that knowledge and expertise until we can skill up. More money.
We have the landmass and the coastline to support solar, wind and wave generation. It will be far less complex, cheaper to build/maintain, we’ll be able to diversify energy sources and there is no toxic byproduct.
The Liberals fucked the NBN, fingers crossed they don’t fuck our energy future as well.
- Comment on There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? 7 months ago:
The media: the world is going to end, covid, expensive housing, war, climate change, death, destruction, doom.
Also the media: Australians are having fewer kids, mystery deepens.
- Comment on Would it be possible to run Pi-hole, Octoprint and Home Assistant on the same RPi 3 mod. B? 8 months ago:
Op was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 8 months ago:
Unfortunately cops have proven time and again that they aren’t good at preventing a crime, they’re only good at cleaning up after a crime has been committed.
- Comment on Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer 9 months ago:
Immich, is probably what you’re thinking of.
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 9 months ago:
I am using the default launcher and while I get ads for TV shows in the home screen, I do not get ads for third-party products like chicken wraps. I can also watch Youtube without getting third-party ads during or in-between videos. I assume given this is not BS, the ads are not being served from the same domain as the video.
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 9 months ago:
I run a Pihole, no ads.
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 9 months ago:
Been there done that. I prefer the Nvidia Shield, easier interface to navigate with a remote, I don’t have to login first, it rarely needs an update, no noisy fans, I don’t need to keep a physical keyboard connected to it, it’s way cheaper, I don’t need to mess around with codecs, and there aren’t a lot of unnecessary services and background applications hogging memory and cpu resources.
I get that most of this can be fixed or worked around on a htpc, but that’s effort I don’t have to spend on a Shield.
- Comment on Expensive school uniforms don't make kids better at maths, so why are schools so focused on them? 9 months ago:
Tell me you’re a parent without telling me you’re a parent.
Draconian? My kids wear a school polo over regular blue shorts and sneakers, public school isn’t like Hogwarts.
I’d much rather get them to wear that than fuck around making sure their favourite shirt is washed or having to buy some name brand shirt because the cool kids all have one.
- Comment on Expensive school uniforms don't make kids better at maths, so why are schools so focused on them? 9 months ago:
The flip side of the coin is, if parents buy cheaper uniforms they don’t have to buy more expensive, name brand clothes for their children. The school also avoids situations where kids with wealthy parents don’t bully kids from poorer families.
There is probably also an argument for it helping to build school or team spirit, unity etc etc
- Comment on Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage 10 months ago:
Nice! I need to get me one of these.
- Comment on Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage 10 months ago:
As opposed to what? What’s a big boy phone?
- Comment on Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely 10 months ago:
I’m constantly amazed at people who whine about Apple, if you don’t like their products or their business model, vote with your wallet and buy Android. Don’t try and hack the system, then bitch when they close the exploits. Apple aren’t the first to lockout compromised hardware and they won’t be the last.
- Comment on Canada to announce all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035 11 months ago:
I’d like to say better late than never, but in this case late may end up with the same result as never. Once the ice caps have melted, they can’t melt any further.
- Comment on AMD says overclocking blows a hidden fuse on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 to show if you've overclocked the chip, but it doesn't automatically void your CPU's warranty 11 months ago:
Do you even need to overclock a Threadripper?
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 11 months ago:
I’m confused how this is a win for consumers, it just seems like two companies arguing over who gets to rake in more money.
- Comment on Broadcom to lay off over 1,200 Bay Area tech workers following $69B VMware deal 11 months ago:
No surprises here, they gutted Symantec.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
Reincarnation. Unless we’re all in the matrix that’s the only thing I can imagine being remotely plausible.
Waking up in some paradise with all of our loved ones who died before us there is just absurd and I’m amazed so many people blindly accept it.
- Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying 1 year ago:
I much prefer Spotify, interface is definitely more intuitive than Apple Music.
- Comment on Icy Oceans Exist on Far-Off Moons. Why Aren’t They Frozen Solid? | Quanta Magazine 1 year ago:
Not an expert but I imagine it’s the ocean depth. If the atmosphere above determines the temperature, and the ice at the surface acts as an insulator, the deeper parts of the ocean don’t get cold enough to freeze.
- Comment on Can a company can itself Twitter now? 1 year ago:
No, because X would still own the Twitter name/brand/copyright.
- Comment on Apple reduces raises given to retail employees after weak iPhone quarter 1 year ago:
Of course the last quarter was weaker, a new iPhone is about to drop, people are waiting for that. Penalising retail employees is harsh given they can’t do much it.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
True, but we don’t have any practical alternatives for them.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
So stop making any technological advancement because of the potential impact of e-waste? Not saying it’s a bad thing but it will have have its own environmental implications. No new energy development, we have to rely on existing oil and nuclear technology rather than investing in making renewable energy sources cheaper and more efficient.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
Apparently it’s based on a plug invented in 1878, according to the BBC.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
Headphone jacks are a 19th century invention, if having them restricts innovation then I am all for removing them.
- Comment on What can I do to make this more secure? 1 year ago:
On your firewall block all IP addresses except Cloudlflare’s IP ranges
Configure Cloudflare’s firewall to block any connections from outside your home country.