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- Comment on 16 hours ago:
There was a time that Dick Smith published a catalog like this. It was mostly supermarket products, and needed constant updating as companies outsourced overseas.
Just for my car, I can think of: Motor oil - Penrite instead of Valvoline Detailing - Bowden’s Own instead of Meguiar’s
I play baseball. It’s easy to avoid US products, as Japan and Canada make heaps of great stuff. You won’t find anything Australian though.
Most of Australia’s consumer money spent on US products goes to Facebook Amazon Netflix Google and Microsoft.
For tech, I guess Stan instead of Netflix?
I avoid most physical US products because they’re often not metric, and a pain to work with.
- Comment on Notice: failed container health check for example.org 16 hours ago:
Example.com recently had an issue where its traffic was found being routed to the wrong place (its traffic should get discarded).
I use it for email accounts on test data in environments with a live mail server configured. The point of this domain is that it doesn’t work.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 16 hours ago:
I’m fairly sure it’s all the antivirus, which in itself is a kernel rootkit. The whole laptop is getting replaced in a month so there’s not much point in fixinig it.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 day ago:
Yep. With active fans.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 day ago:
I fired up procexp and found nessus scanning every file on my drive. I found the SentinelOne had written 10GB of logs since start. I found some bullshit dell service was slamming the CPU. It’s all shit that my company put there.
I found that it adds an extra 7 minutes to a 12 minute build when I compile my project, compared to doing it on WSL. The Windows bloat is insane.
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 1 day ago:
Can we use the same logic for motorscooters?
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 day ago:
Linux doesn’t waste RAM. All unused RAM becomes a disk read cache, but remains available on demand.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 days ago:
I have 32GB on my Windows PC and it can’t do three at once.
Running the backend (java) and the frontend (react native) in intellij uses 29GB RAM, so I must run Android on real hardware over ADB+USB. Running an android simulator pushes it over the edge.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 days ago:
I upgraded mine from 16GB to 32GB two years ago beacuse RAM was cheap. I didn’t really need it, and have probably never hit 16GB usage anyway.
Meanwhile my work Windows laptop uses 16GB at idle after first login.
Windows has always been wasteful computing, and everyone just pays for it.
- Comment on Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks 2 days ago:
I’ll consider it modern when it supports HTTP/2 (which I think it does now) and IPv6.
I have no idea how you can build a brand new website on IPv4 in ${CURRENT_YEAR}.
- Comment on How to Use Local IP for Services when at Home? 4 days ago:
This is how I do it. No VPN. No NAT nonsense. You can open an IPv6 address to the public internet and nobody is going to stumble across it. You don’t even disclose your address to servers you connect to.
100% of shady connections come from bots scanning address space on IPv4.
- Comment on ‘Black Mirror’ episode comes to life in alleged $66 million crypto theft attempt 6 days ago:
Data is stored on a hard disk. You can steal those.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
I don’t get how a single person would have that much data. I fit my whole life from the first shot I took on a digital camera in 2001… Onto a 4TB drive.
…and even then, two thirds of it is just pirates movies.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
The fedora wearing nerds are ones with 244Hz ultrawide 4k HDR monitors.
What you’re describing is everyone who just wants to watch a TV show comfortably on their sofa. You could swap any TV for a base-model TCL the same size and they won’t notice.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
It actually made it worse.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
It’s the next 3D.
They try to expand in all dimensions. Bigger panels. Higher res. Higher bit depth. Increased contrast ratios. Stereoscopics. Higher refresh rates.
Yet to find a real world use for anything over a 65" QHD at 60Hz 8bpp.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 2 weeks ago:
I deliberately have not used docker at home to avoid complications. Almost every program is in a debian/apt repo, and I only install frontends that run on LAMP. I think I only have 2 or 3 apps that require manual maintenance (apart from running “apt upgrade”). NextCloud is 90% of the butthurt.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 weeks ago:
ActivityHub Dixelfed FedTube
- Comment on Fujifilm reportedly working on 180MP medium format camera 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I want to waste 40MB per photo.
- Comment on Four-year-old boy dies after car crashes into shopping centre in Canberra 3 weeks ago:
We need fo start banning auto transmissions.
- Comment on The old icons were better 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny how icons back then were rendered with the detail of a renaissance painting, and now that we have hidpi displays, they are designed like they have to render in EGA.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 4 weeks ago:
A “per user” graph is not indiciative of the number of users, or any change in that metric. You cannot use this graph to determine any effect of the total user count.
- Comment on LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. 4 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right! Would you like me to suggest alternative tones for LLMs?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 5 weeks ago:
It’s been named “Microsoft Office” since 1990. Way to piss 35 years of brand recognition up a wall.
- Comment on Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world. 1 month ago:
I would expect 8 of those 9 to be straight-up nubbed. Not worth the effort.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 month ago:
There’s an old Monty Python sketch that comes to mind when people ask a librarian for a book that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 month ago:
I eventually figured out that the Libre Freesytle 2 will significantly underread if you sleep on it. I would recommend doing a finger prick test before acting upon what a CGM tells you to do.
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 1 month ago:
So they can’t just write some probe code? It really can’t be that hard to determine if there’s support.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 month ago:
Rego is weight-based, but it’s utterly fucked.
My 900kg hatchback costs $149 more to register than a 2-tonne ute out in the country.
In the city, the rego difference is $1.10.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 month ago:
We should charge rego by weight and volume. We should measure safety by damage inflicted, not damage deflected.