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- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago:
They’re passing the slavings onto the consumer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
That’s no BIOS. That’s systemd.
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Albert Albanese is the name of Australia’s prime minister.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Mine is literally older than YouTube.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Yep. It’s the capacity.
Anyone can cap the charging speed by using a garbage $2 700mA charger.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been runnnng GrapheneOS with charge capped at 80%. Phone has not emulated thermite.
I haven’t found any discussion about the battery issues at GrapheneOS yet.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks ago:
Oh, was it $452? They didn’t email a confirmation and I forgot to screenshot it.
Can someone screenshot it? That would be great.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks ago:
Because children can die in a fire, I guess.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks ago:
I would asssume a “cycle” is a 100% drop. Mine is capped to 80% charge and I assume it ticks up 4 cycles for every 5 charges from zero.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks ago:
In Australia, one option is a cash refund for more than what I paid for the phone when new.
- Comment on Australian taxpayers on the hook to pay Chevron more than $500 million to clean up oil wells 3 weeks ago:
Nationalise the liability and privatise the profits. That’s the way of the capitalist.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 4 weeks ago:
I swear I’ve bought stuff at Costco before that was 1.3608kg.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 4 weeks ago:
It’s right there in the article.
over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 4 weeks ago:
over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
This is the most American thing ever. Taking a rounded number (1800km), converting it to customary units then converting it back again with rounding error.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 4 weeks ago:
I’d send them a pic of my hairy bollocks as proof.
- Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023. 4 weeks ago:
ANCAP shits me.
The side impact test is done at 1600kg. A small < 1000kg car is expected to take this kind of hit, while these stupid monster trucks don’t even have to punch half their weight.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 4 weeks ago:
VHS player
VCR.
It stands for Video Cassette Recorder.
Who’s forgetting now?
- Comment on How to use a domain I own to self-host services? 4 weeks ago:
The educational route I took was Hurricane Electric’s free IPv6 online course. It taught me a bunch of networking principles. When you finish the course (and get “sage” status), you get free lifetime DNS access. This includes dynamic DNS that automatically updates when your IP address changes.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
This sounds like a way to cause an outbreak of Corvid-19.
- Comment on YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list 5 weeks ago:
Ahh yes, the brainrot section.