zurohki
@zurohki@aussie.zone
- Comment on Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average. 15 hours ago:
I mean, where I work we’ve hired every female applicant we’ve ever had and we’re still at around 98% male. I’m not sure what we could even do about it.
- Comment on Controllers... 4 days ago:
Why is it we send things by car and it’s a shipment, but we send things by ship and it’s cargo?
- Comment on New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debate 4 days ago:
- No existing nuclear industry. We can’t just send the people who built our last nuclear power plant to build another one, we don’t have any of those people.
- Massive amounts of space and tons of sun year-round for solar
We do have a huge coal and gas industry looking to pay politicians to slow down the shift away from fossil fuels though, so the party that was trying to build new coal power plants last time they were in power is talking about nuclear while they’re in opposition. It isn’t about taking action, it’s about delaying renewables.
- Comment on Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching 2 weeks ago:
IIRC a bunch of distros moved to i586 or i686 as their minimum CPU version, which means packages get compiled with instructions that aren’t supported by 386 and 486 CPUs. So those 32-bit ISOs only work on relatively recent 32-bit chips and will crash on chips which are 30+ years old.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but manufacturers abuse that to deny liability regardless of what the cause of the failure actually was. So we have laws against just assigning liability to the user.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 5 weeks ago:
(arguably they should have just let the phones stop working instead of blocking them outright). The allowlist they used was missing hundreds of 4G capable phones and was missing just about every overseas model of phone
IIRC the issue is that phones must be able to dial 000 if there’s any mobile coverage at all. A bunch of VoLTE-capable phones either force 3G for 000 calls or aren’t compatible with Telstra’s custom VoLTE implementation, and there’s really no way for telcos to know these things.
There’s no way for the owner to know, either. A bunch of 4G+VoLTE phones in the wild that people think are fine either can’t call 000 or can’t call 000 on Telstra’s network. So a phone on Optus might work fine on Optus VoLTE, might call 000 fine on Optus VoLTE, but wouldn’t be able to call 000 if there was only Telstra network coverage.
And there’s no way for Optus to know which specific modem firmware your phone has, so even getting the same model phone and testing it isn’t a reliable solution.
- Comment on Me when my parents told me they first met in the summer of 1999 & started dating the following year and I did the math (dad - 1959, mom - 1984) 1 month ago:
Yeah… One of my great great grandmothers, nobody was ever allowed to know how old she was while she was alive. It was this weird mystery.
Turns out if you knew her age you could easily count backwards and work out that when she got married she was 13 years old and about four months pregnant.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 1 month ago:
Half of them will print the highest bandwidth regardless of the actual cable’s capabilities so that won’t help.
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s not happening. They’re desperate to push revenue per user up, so they keep hiking low speed prices to push people towards 100+ megabit plans.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age sold over 400,000 copies and sets a new player count record 3 months ago:
The foundry reminds me of Space Exploration’s industrial furnace and casting machines.
- Comment on Inquiry warns distrustful public wouldn’t accept COVID measures in future pandemic. 3 months ago:
don’t use masks, wait use masks
IIRC this one was about ensuring the supply of masks for medical staff early on before production ramped up.
- Comment on Churches Look Skyward for Energy Savings | Big federal subsidies drive a surge in solar installations on church rooftops 3 months ago:
That’s not the sort of power from above churches are supposed to believe in.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age sold over 400,000 copies and sets a new player count record 4 months ago:
Fulgora. It’s an experience.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age sold over 400,000 copies and sets a new player count record 4 months ago:
Just got to my first new planet.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 4 months ago:
IIRC different species of frogs make wildly different sounds, so all of the languages might just be what type of frog lives in that country.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 4 months ago:
Our lizard people see how much money their lizard people are making torturing their peasants and want to get in on the action. That’s why we have the push towards private health care.
- Comment on Emilia is asking real questions! 4 months ago:
- Comment on TikTok parent company Bytedance sets aside $1 Billion to cover future European data privacy fines as the Chinese company faces a barrage of lawsuits over its mishandling of children’s data 4 months ago:
If their response is to put aside money to pay the fine instead of actually stopping doing the illegal thing, the billion dollar fines are obviously still not big enough.
- Comment on Own Goal: Middle East war to hit oil price, so gas price, so electricity price 4 months ago:
Ugh, hydrogen.
Hydrogen vehicles are the magical combination of expensive to buy and expensive to run. They just get mothballed when trials are over and the funding runs out making the whole thing a waste of time and money.
Battery electric vehicles are cheap to run so they get used for whatever workload they can do, even if they can’t do the most demanding jobs yet. BEV bus can’t do the longest route all day? Put it on a shorter one. It’ll get used for something.
- Comment on Own Goal: Middle East war to hit oil price, so gas price, so electricity price 4 months ago:
Looks like only smaller ones so far. John Deere are launching some in 2026.
- Comment on What’s the easiest way to pull ~30mA from a USB 3 port without getting a warning from Windows? 4 months ago:
QC 2.0 is proprietary but it would probably still be identified as a device on a standard USB port. For $2 it’s probably worth giving one a try, anyway.
- Comment on What’s the easiest way to pull ~30mA from a USB 3 port without getting a warning from Windows? 4 months ago:
Looking at the PD spec I got the impression devices are supposed to pull the D+ pin up to a certain voltage, but I got lost partway through.
OP asked for the easiest way and deciphering the spec docs probably isn’t it.
- Comment on What’s the easiest way to pull ~30mA from a USB 3 port without getting a warning from Windows? 4 months ago:
One of the QC 2.0 type-A trigger boards?
www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006449224730.html
A picture of a PCB with a USB port, voltage selector and DC output
- Comment on YouTube Shorts are getting less short 4 months ago:
So they’re YouTube, but with no video controls. Awesome.
- Comment on Mahle CEO Arnd Franz says hydrogen will fail without fossil fuels 5 months ago:
IIRC, pumping hydrogen is only fast if the pump has a substantial rest between vehicles. Get a line of FCEVs wanting filled and you’re looking at filling times not much faster than charging a battery EV.
- Comment on Unsafe hand holding 5 months ago:
Uh, is that Uzaki-chan?
Haven’t been following the manga, I take it?
- Comment on What's the deal with lemmy.world today? 5 months ago:
Closed with this PR 15 hours ago.
- Comment on Telstra, Optus to delay 3G network closure amid public safety concerns 6 months ago:
No VoLTE, probably. A bunch of early 4G phones drop back to 3G to make voice calls.
- Comment on Telstra, Optus to delay 3G network closure amid public safety concerns 6 months ago:
TIL executives don’t have object permanence
- Comment on [News] Episodes of New Ranma 1/2 & DAN DA DAN Anime, 1st Mononoke Film Leaked Online 6 months ago:
The leaked material includes episodes 1, 3, and 4 of Ranma 1/2
