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- Comment on REMINDER: Check your NBN speeds after the weekend upgrade 13 hours ago:
On ABB I had to kick the connection and restart the NTD.
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 4 days ago:
It’s not attention to detail. Normies are affected by social pressures and emotions. Their behavioural patterns are baised towards acceptance.
Take that away, and an autist will assess the function and intent. The only desire is something that works, and is designed to work towards the user’s interests. Anything with a dark pattern will be set alight.
- Comment on @jack_toohey on why the housing crisis is not caused by migration 1 week ago:
Average income is not a useful metric. The higher the average gets, the further it drifts from the median.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
Even as a dev, I use a 32" QHD screen for programming. If I went 4K, I would need to use 150% scaling, and that breaks a LOT of stuff.
Everything is built for 100% scaling. Every time I’ve plugged my PC into a 4K display I’ve regretted it. It go to 30Hz (on HDMI) or glitch out or something. Even if it doesn’t, it’s never as smooth.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
It creates more problems than it solves. You would need an order of magnitude more processing power to play a game on it. Personally I would prefer 4K at a higher framerate. Even 1080 if it improves response.
Video in 8K are massive. You need better codecs to handle them, and they aren’t that widely supported. Storage is more expensive than it was a decade ago.
Also, there is no content. Nobody wants to store and transmit such massive amounts of data over the internet.
HDMI cables will fail sooner at higher resolutions. That 5 year old cable will begin dropping out when you try it at 8k.
4K is barely worth the tradeoffs.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 1 week ago:
ABN lookup indicates it’s registered in Melbourne CBD.
- Comment on How to prepare for future home server upgrade? 1 week ago:
When you upgrade your desktop PC, plan for it to be the home server after that.
I got a rackmount case to transplant my old desktop montherboard into every 5 years. I also got a 4-port NIC so it can also be a router. My server is a 4th gen Core i5 and it’s still plenty of power for a home server.
If you’re a laptop guy, I’m not sure what you’d do.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Google has already started killing GrapheneOS by removing device trees from AOSP releases. Android 16 works fine, but for how long?
I would imagine the first thing any custom ROM would do is bypass Google’s app restrictions.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in 3 years I would need to pass hardware attestation to install a calculator app from the Play store.
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, you have 10 random singles in the same directory? That must be an album all from the same artist!
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 weeks ago:
Number of firearms is not a useful number. The ban had an exemption for bolt-actions used for farming.
When grandma has a handgun for catching the bus, there’s a problem.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 3 weeks ago:
The United States will not seek direct representation on Intel’s board
If they want change, they don’t to vote on the board. They can just pass laws in Intel’s favour.
Taxpayers are now all Intel shareholders. I can’t understand what benefit this provides them.
- Comment on What's everyone doing tonight? 3 weeks ago:
At home parenting while my newly-divorced mate is out doing chap laps.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 weeks ago:
If they block entry nodes, just build an entry node. They can’t block stuff inside your own network.
- Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit 3 weeks ago:
People won’t plug their phone into a USB socket in an airport lounge, but they will install software that sends 100% of their web traffic to a third party and has unfettered device permissions.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: ANCAP tests to a 1600kg impact. A Silverado doesn’t even have to punch its own weight.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 4 weeks ago:
Yep. This is why I think my 900kg hatchback should cost less to register than a 2500kg roadblimp ute.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 4 weeks ago:
The fuel excise obviously taxed larger vehicles more over the same distance. It totally makes sense to have weight classes.
Oh, and Australia needs a “kei” class, dammit. Nobody’s second car has any business being bigger than that.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 4 weeks ago:
Tech hasn’t improved that much in the last in the last decade. All that’s happened is that more cores have been added. The single-thread speed of a CPU is stagnant.
My home PC consumes more power than my Pentium 3 consumed 25 years ago. All efficiency gains are lost to scaling for more processing power. All improvements in processing power are lost to shitty, bloated code.
We don’t have the tech for AI. We’re just scaling up to the electrical senand demand of a small country and pretending we have the tech for AI.
- Comment on Plex server patching required 4 weeks ago:
I did this a few months back.
Some things aren’t as great, but you get full control and your server idles way better on JellyFin.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
It’s not free.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
I hate when they say paying the premium is a “solution”. It’s worse. That’s why nobody is doing it.
- Comment on Australian retailer Kmart faces court action as two of its suppliers have been linked to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region 5 weeks ago:
They’re passing the slavings onto the consumer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The doc questiones why I wanted a vasectomy at 30, which he thought was young.
“I have 3 kids already.”
That’s all it took to convince him.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 month ago:
I put LineageOS on a S4 and I use it as a desk clock. All it needed was an app that shows the time.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 month ago:
That’s no BIOS. That’s systemd.
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 1 month ago:
It’s no different to saying “The Trump Repliblican Government”.
I guess this was written for Australia.
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 1 month ago:
Albert Albanese is the name of Australia’s prime minister.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Mine is literally older than YouTube.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 month ago:
I miss my Galaxy S5. I could change the battery while jumping on a trampoline if I wanted to.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 month ago:
Yep. It’s the capacity.
Anyone can cap the charging speed by using a garbage $2 700mA charger.